Music Videos for Abandoned Art Galleries

In a recent issue of Artforum, video artists whined that the average person, with magical user-generated content, is collectively, in online social media, usurping the fields of film experimentation, cultural deconstruction, and art rebellion.

At issue: the music video, art film, visual media installation.

Collage. Cut up. Repetition. Pop iconography. Anti-consumerism. Malfunction. Noncommercial intent. Copy and paste. Mix and mash. Absurdity. Anarchy. Mundane/sublime. Default settings for anti-art.

What used to be avant garde provinces and techniques are now overtaken by the unwashed masses, doing it because they're bored, not even intending to produce art or innovation.

Shall we weep and mourn our loss of privilege and power?

Shall we give up and say there are no more video frontiers, thanks to YouTube?

When did artists suddenly begin to lag behind the fans, and whose fault is this, if it indeed be true? What lament is going to turn things around for us? Or do we need action?

Sonic Notice: If you make computer/electronic music, and also music videos, even what are known as installations and multi media minstrel tra la las, then…

I'd like to look at and listen to (see and hear) what you're doing.

The "read" in this "thread" is this: my eyes and ears are tuned into you if you know what I almost mean.

Dada is the official artform of anarchy. Only extreme art is real. Imitation is lost and forgotten before it begins to exist. Xenakis: "I exist only when doing something new."



Ping me.