The aesthetic of molecular systems

"...biological research is interesting in a general sort of way, but what does it have to do with arts? Desconstruction of biological concepts is intriguing, but is it specifically important to the arts? (...) There is no way to scape the questions being raised about nature, life, sex, humanness, and the body(...) the new technologies also creat unprecedented opportunities. Notions that were once science fiction notions are now most acessible. Peer into the brains and hearts of yourself and others.
Change your sex.
Change your body.
Integrate bionic elements.
Clone yourself.
Create a new organism.
Enhance your intelligence, sex drive, life expectancy, mood, whatever! If these actions can be initiated for science, entertainment, or commerce, why not art?..." Stephen Wilson (Information Arts; Intersections of art, science and technology, 2002 p.88)
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/
http://www.genomicart.org/pn-intro.htm

Corpo [espaco][materia][vazio]

"... o corpo passou a ser muitas vezes o grande palco ou a grande tela de expressao, materializando comentarios sobre sexo, morte, religiao, decadencia e espiritualidade. Sua memoria torna-se um bem valioso e incomensuravel de riquezas afetivas que o artista oferece ao espectador com a cumplicidade e a intimidade de quem abre um diario.
Esse corpo eh um corpo mutante, virtualizado, simulacro das descobertas da ciencia, da solidao que assola a vida urbana, do cliche e da replica, do sentido que se instaura de sua propria ausencia, nos excessos de informacao que se espalham pelos espacos informatizados do mundo pos-industrial..."
Katia Canton ( Arte Contemporanea e corpo virtual, 2002 p.226)
http://www.momat.go.jp/english/
http://www.lorettalux.de/

Os simbolos sao apenas garrafas vazias

"... Quando Montaigne disse: "Connais-toi toi-meme" [conhece-te a ti mesmo], quis dizer que a unica abordagem util da vida eh conhecer a si mesmo. O que voce experimenta no exterior eh na verdade o que voce experimenta no interior. Eu tenho uma citacao [para voce] que se relaciona a essa ideia: "Nao gosto de cortar, gosto do cortador. Nao gosto de fazer, gosto do fazedor. Nao gosto do assunto, gosto do professor. Nao gosto da arte, gosto do artista..." Louise Bourgeois (picture) - Destruction of the father, Reconstruction of the father (p.307)


"...The artist builds around himself his own solitude , such is his fate (Ortega y Gasset). To paint is to decide for silence. While the discourse of religion – cult and ritual – undergoes demythologization, the "communicative rationality" (Habermas) becomes remythologized: the linguistic turn of modernity, fetishization of media-created discourse and images.
In art, one is not besides oneself, but remains simply and totally in communion with oneself. To be exiled even within one’s community (Kierkegaard, Ortega y Gasset) is to be separated from the mass – "my circumstance" - , from the "crowd that is untruth" (Kierkegard), it means to recover "the flesh of the world" (Merleau-Ponty), it is a transgression of modernism, logocentrism , logophilia, and the herd, a transgression of plurality that eradicates difference.
The leveling of pasts, uncontrollable multiplication, the copy of copies which allows neither original nor origin to exist (Deleuze), the "absolute fake" (Eco), are offsprings of a present without depth and a vacuum of memories: the eternal return asparodic (Deleuze), the modern and neo-modern age and its consummation as a self-perpetuating arrangement (Heidegger). The main value of a mass-production is rather iconographic than artistic, a charade of copies (Zimmer)..." Stefan Arteni - Otherwhere, otherwise
http://www.stefanarteni.net/writings/Shodo/Shodo.html

Janela da alma, espelho do mundo

"... a reflexao do olhar eh o espelho; a da alma, a Natureza; e a da Natureza, as artes. Essas reflexoes sao possiveis porque mundo, homem e arte sao feitos do mesmo estofo, dos quatro elementos (terra, agua, ar e fogo ou suas qualidades, seco, umido, frio e quente) e dos quatro humores (sangue, fleugma, bilis amarela e bilis negra), a relacao sendo especular e especulativa, porque tudo participa em tudo e tudo se relaciona com tudo, segundo as leis necessarias da simpatia e da antipatia. Materia, alma do mundo, espirito do mundo, firmamento e divindade estao intricamente vinculados, pois vincular eh o ato primordial de cada ser, e cada acao, a magia, as artes, a memoria e a ciencia nao sao senao o poder para fazer vinculos. {Nao divaguemos fora do espelho, nao saiamos do espelho} A alma especula com os olhos..."
Marilena Chaui - O Olhar
Imagem: Orpheu

Ura:arU Palindromes of Gary Hill

"The words are coming
Listen to them
Nothing surrounds them
They are open
They speak of nothing but themselves
With perfect reason
They sit like deer in a field
If I approach them too quickly
They fade into the quick of things"

Gary Hill - Happenstance
http://www.pucsp.br/pos/cos/interlab/arlindo/

L'art Brut- Obsession WithWildWords

Genuine
Lost Memory
Weird Mind
Boundaries of consciousness

But what is the right state of consciousness?
The written word is the easiest way to be understood?

Eu preciso destas palavras; fracas e inconsolaveis. Eu poderia falar e falar, infinitamente!Palavra dita e bendita, maldita talvez! Compreensao? Eu sou, tu es, ele eh, nos somos. Estou aqui, meu corpo, limites de um estado estatico.
Amor de perdicao?
落ちる。鏡の中に落ちる。。。我々はどこに落ちるのか。
鏡の空間はどこにあるのか。我々はどこにいるのだろうか。

Drawing: Kunizo Matsumoto
http://www.shiseido.co.jp/house-of-shiseido/html/exhibition.htm

Ergodicwords?

You need some concentration to understand what is written. What you see is not what you see as Frank Stella had told in the 60's.
You may agree to play this game to comprehend the signifier and the signified, they are inseparable between body and soul, body and mind...
What is written is just some signs of the mutable consciousness in this fast-food worldwidewords
Wherever you go, try to read your tiny words. The reflection of what you see/read in this miserable mirror should shut down your eyes deeply and you may find yourself in the Cocteau's hell and looking for Euridice.
Watch out! Don't look in my eyes.
Mirror>mire usted>sine qua non<> Now, open your eyes, as Tarkovsky said; "Have we courage to face our inner self, the truth?"

Amorphous-Metamorphosis-Hybrid-Identity-My word has seventeen fingers; [infiniteemptiness] [faceyouinmymirror][amorphousidentity] [wildplantswiseair] One finger point at my navel, it's just me! My own words, stupid words, wrong words, crosswords, game of words...
As I cry, as I need wings and fly in the deep blue ocean of ideas.

As I beg, I need to be lost and find myself in my dreams...

http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/2005/08/12/clarifying-ergodic-and-cybertext/