ART 2.0 PART 2(.0)

Yale’s School of Art debuted their official website today. See it here.

It is a wiki.  The website itself is a continually morphing vision of the art students, faculty and alumni.  It’s an of-the-moment ode to contemporary expression, community and communications today. It ain’t pretty. And it ain’t beautiful. But it’s a socialist formation of our world today. I mean, students can change it’s appearance in boxer shorts by their bedside. 

By choosing to “wiki-fy” Yale is giving each community member a piece of authorship. Crowdsourcing the site allows for individual voices to sway the site.  Gutsy? yep. Making for an ever-evolving voice swaying to-and-fro by way of tech-art.

imagine.

what if a piece of art created generations ago had been adapted every year, every other year, every other decade from then until now. Perhaps it’d look a bit like Raphael Rozendaal’s digitized version of Modrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943). 

the original. the digitized.

Modrian’s original Broadway Boogie Woogie was intended to capture the Boogie Woogie sound and presence of New York City he loved so much. He had escaped the war by taking refuge in the states.  The vibrancy of the city, the vaudevillian underground, the beat and tempo, the grid, the grind and the grit of the city moved Modrian. It was escapism extreme.  He could take the energies from European exodus and manifest them into works that exuded motion.

However, Rozendaal’s version speaks a bit more to today’s audience by transforming Modrian’s work into lo-fi movement. Speaking to the Pac-Man generation, Rozendaal pokes fun at Modrian’s masterpiece and yet, somehow, brings it to life in a far more relevant way…  

see more of Rozendaal’s work here: www.vaiavanti.com

see a show he and like-minded tech-artists are in: www.byobworldwide.com