Peter Halley-His Influence?

Hello,

I am a Ph.D student in art history and am interested in finding out the extent to which new media artists are or are not influenced by Peter Halley's Neo-Geo work. Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated! Please email [email protected].

Thanks very much!

Amy

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, Pall Thayer

You know, that's a really good question and I'm not sure that he's
necessarily viewed much as a significant influence. But I'm not
declaring that he isn't. Perhaps a more specific area within the
computer-based arts that would be worth looking at would be computer-
based generative work like you find at http://www.generative.net

best r.
Pall

On 4-Apr-07, at 6:41 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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> Hello,
>
> I am a Ph.D student in art history and am interested in finding out
> the extent to which new media artists are or are not influenced by
> Peter Halley's Neo-Geo work. Any thoughts or comments would be
> greatly appreciated! Please email [email protected].
>
> Thanks very much!
>
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, Geert Dekkers

Actually, I'd say that the influence was the other way round – and
not necessarily a computer-based influence as such because his work
partly predates the massive adoption of the personal computer. I see
his work as a ironic depiction of a purely rationalistic approach to
post-minimal abstract expressionism, where he uses flow modelling
icons to make his point. I'm a great admirer of Peter Halley ( http://
www.nznl.com/index.php?dag 050421 , and http://www.nznl.com/
index.php?dag 060401 ), but I think his work is much too painterly
and far too much about the art world to be of much interest to
contemporary computer-based art practitioners.

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On 5/04/2007, at 1:17 AM, Pall Thayer wrote:

> You know, that's a really good question and I'm not sure that he's
> necessarily viewed much as a significant influence. But I'm not
> declaring that he isn't. Perhaps a more specific area within the
> computer-based arts that would be worth looking at would be
> computer-based generative work like you find at http://
> www.generative.net
>
> best r.
> Pall
>
> On 4-Apr-07, at 6:41 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a Ph.D student in art history and am interested in finding
>> out the extent to which new media artists are or are not
>> influenced by Peter Halley's Neo-Geo work. Any thoughts or
>> comments would be greatly appreciated! Please email
>> [email protected].
>>
>> Thanks very much!
>>
>> Amy
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, M. River
, Pall Thayer

I don't understand this. Can you elaborate?

On 5-Apr-07, at 11:19 AM, M. River wrote:

> influence of Peter Halley in relation to net art
>
> http://www.peterhalley.com/ > http://www.robertlongo.com/
> http://www.peterhalley.com/ < http://jodi.org
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, M. River

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, M. River

In other words, it's a somewhat relative question and, for me, a somewhat odd question. “are new media artists influenced by Peter Halley's Neo-Geo work?” His work has more influence on new media art than say a door stop or the work of Longo but not as much as the work of Jodi or any new media artist who is not a painter from the 80s’ And if you are trying to shoehorn Halley’s work, which I am interested in and like, into new media beyond some stray thought like “it’s about circuts, cells or nodes”, then we might want to rethink that question.

, Erika Lincoln

Not influenced one bit. Although, constructivists yes. Is Halley?

, Geert Dekkers

Exactly


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On 5/04/2007, at 8:47 PM, M. River wrote:

> In other words, it's a somewhat relative question and, for me, a
> somewhat odd question. 'are new media artists influenced by Peter
> Halley's Neo-Geo work?