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Artists of the future may not know that they are artists. If the
Internet continues to expand (and withstands the commercial impulse
to convert into some kind of interactive TV), collaborative and
modular digital art practices will continue. Most net users, gamers,
musicians and programmers will produce cultural artifacts, software,
digital accessories, game warez and music warez that they share
with each other both freely and for pay. Users will be both cultural
producers (artists) and consumers, readers and writers.
Most web sites contain hyperlinks to other sites, distributed throughout the site or in a "favorites" section. Each of these "favorite links" sections serves as a kind of gallery, re-mapping other web sites as its own contents. Every web site owner is thus a curator and a cultural critic, creating chains of meaning through association, comparison and juxtaposition, parts or whole of which can in turn serve as fodder for another web site's "gallery".
Artists will also become more like mad scientists and musicians, collaborating in laboratory-like conditions, mutating software to achieve unexpected results, morphing, jamming, riffing off one another and within feedback loops, in communicado with generative visual and audio software.
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Past Artist
Studio
Genius
Scandal generating
Invention
Masturbation
High profile wickedness
New York art market aspirations
Flirting with museums and galleries
Male ego overblown on itself
Individual
Art elite
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Future Artist
Bedroom or lab
Member of high status list
serv or collaboration
Beta testing
Playful mutation
Feedback loops
Untraceable mischief
Nomadic Hoboism
Flirting with reporters
Female ego overblown on fan mail
Flexible clusters
Public domain
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Fluidities:
Non linear thinking
Process driven evolution
Collage,
montage, hybrids
Playing
with rule systems
Fetishization
of aesthetics
Compulsive creativity
Compulsive deconstruction
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Anne-Marie Schleiner
San Jose, USA
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