22.10.2003 . LECTURE. FOOLISH AT NUMERIC ERA (Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France)

The FOOLISH AT NUMERIC ERA
Gregory Chatonsky and Madeleine Aktypi on October 22, 2003 A Gaite Lyrique (70, street Reaumur F-75003 Paris Tel.:06 88 76 83 45)

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"There are something to see, but nothing.To give its assent to this nothing requires an infinite effort, to thwart interpretation, an asceticism against the judicious one."
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Flora danica, Galilee ed., 1997

Ambivalence:the loss of signifiance does not go without an infinite request for meaning. Everywhere, in the media and the private discussions, one does not cease speaking to us about the loss of the signifiance and the values, the fracture of the social bonds, the end of the great accounts, the completion of philosophy and the art, of died of god and of crowned.

Perhaps it is now in a university conference that one asks, challenges, requires, "to create signifiance at the numerical era".But that hides behind this injunction of the common signifiance (doxa)?This is not the art (numerical for example) which is conceived like carrier of signifiance?signifiance you have says:revealing of the truth by the beautiful one?

But at the era of numerical, on the network, there is perhaps a surplus rather than a lack of signifiance;there is perhaps too much signifiance, of the signifiance already created, in our tree structures and our data bases.Too many intentional signifiances of the designer which wants to communicate, to transmit a message.Too much signifiance in our existences which we weave of all the justifications.If the advertising executives create indeed smell, the artists must encase the step?

Perhaps would be time of:
1/To re-examine, select, choose, sort, analyze the signifiance available and not to seek to still create obligatorily signifiance (in excess) or a meta-language of navigation.

2/Keep place with foolish i.e. with the remainder, with what does not make object of preliminary division, with what is in extreme cases of the insensible.On could speak about disagreement or an attention given to the poverty of tiny phenomena.

3/To expose the aesthetic strategies of numerical works which leave a place to new, i.e. with what is not (still) signifiance.

4/Confront the certainty which accompanies the signifiance-like-value with the interactive situation where work realizes in a posteriori which is not critical any more but performative.

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