Heiko Recktenwald on Fri, 12 May 2000 01:50:52 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> MTAA interview etoy.CORPORATION |
> >We're influenced, Warhol and Beuys are very important to us. But it's not > >our discourse. We refuse the intellectualization of our discourse, it has > >to stay strong and clean. > > etoy's insistence that their work is entirely "new" and their disavowal of > connections is in fact just one of many ways in which they "connect > directly" to techno-art historical precedents. As for their dopey > dichotomy between intellectualism and "strong and clean" discourse, I > leave the precedents to your historical memory, but suggest setting your > time machine back 61 years. Are you shure, that they did mean a "dichotomy" the way you see it ? Maybe they just dont want the connotations, associated with "art". But why do they speak of Beuys and Warhol in this context ;-) ? _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold