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Art, politics, marketing and appropriation

Posted in Images, Reading, Thinking, tagged , , , , , , on June 6, 2010 |

Angus Warhol (2010) Ron Diorio
Angus Warhol (2010) Ron Diorio

I have been toying with an essay about the meaning of Born in the USA which Bruce Springsteen can’t control.

However recently AT&T has created a better Christo than Christo and Marina Abramoviç was reported in Art Fag City to have complained:

The artist revealed that the exhibit wasn’t just a retrospective; it was a precedent for protecting the copyright of performance art works. “I was angry for fashion, I was angry for design, I was angry for MTV, I was angry for theater, for film, for mass media,” Marina boomed. She was angry for their plucking of images from the 70s, “changing the context” and the colors and using the unaccredited artist’s original idea to peddle products.

So shouldn’t we we all be able to appropriate any content?

Why should artists be able to appropriate politics, products or political messages and it not be deemed to be a reciprocal arrangement?

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Self-publish or be damned: why photographers are going it alone

Posted in Images, Making, Reading, Thinking, tagged , , on June 6, 2010 |

A devil's arcade 2008 Ron Diorio
A devil’s arcade (2008) Ron Diorio

Ah, two of my favorite things ‘zines and photography.

I will be publishing two new short photography collections “An army of Sarahs” and “Every corner has an angle” later his year.

From the Guardian:

Today, though, as this weekend’s event shows, zine culture seems to be the prime driving force behind the self-published photography book, with many being no more than pamphlets. Whether making an artist’s book or a zine, self-publishing is primarily to do with keeping control of your creative vision (the book doesn’t just illustrate the art, it is the art) and being able to operate outside the often prohibitively costly mainstream publishing houses. Ironically, the self-published book, which is produced in such limited editions, often becomes a collector’s item, and the price rises accordingly.

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I guess that says a lot about our clientele too

Posted in Reading, Thinking, tagged , , , , , on May 20, 2010 |

Sexting (2009) Ron Diorio
Sexting (2009) Ron Diorio

From the Art Newspaper

After inspecting the two works in question, Flynn said: “My assessment is that Whip Girl [2000] is acceptable, but I have some concerns about Tite Street [1990]. [It] appears to show a man having rear entry sex with a woman who is bent double and not wearing any knickers. Of course, this is not the appropriate place to have a debate about art versus pornography. It is my assessment that Tite Street should not be able to be clearly viewed from the street.”

The Little Black Gallery is not the only establishment currently displaying Carlos Clarke’s work. Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White owns the largest single collection of the controversial photographer’s work, and more than 30 of his large-scale images are prominently displayed in the chef’s restaurant Wheeler’s of St James’s. The explicit subject matter of the works has received a far more welcome reception here than in formerly bohemian Chelsea. Hostess Bea Jarrett told The Art Newspaper that not a single complaint about the photographs has been received in the two years since they have been on display. “I guess that says a lot about our clientele too,” she added.

I guess I know where I am having dinner next time I am in London.

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Mapplethorpe, there may never be an app for that …..

Posted in Images, Making, Reading, Thinking, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2010 |

Topless By Ron Diorio
Topless (2010) Ron Diorio

I can understand how product owners are eager to increase the number of payment points they have with potential customers via the i-family product line. As an artist I too am interested in seeking new lines of delivery and ways for collectors to buy acquire work. Apps open the possibility of portable interactive art works. However as some one who creates “visual content” I am extremely concerned that browsers and hardware remain open and that content, video and other visual formats be “allowed” to develop.

I am unquestionably disappointed that most major media thinkers haven’t yet addressed the freedom of expression aspects of Apple dictating no Flash or no bikinis (unless it is in Sports Illustrated) on our machines (actually I thought it was my machine after I bought it).

So I ask you how confident are you that given what we know about “their ” machines and “their” bikini preferences that Apple (or Google or Time Warner or Microsoft) as de-facto cultural filter would allow an app on the homoerotic work of Robert Mapplethorpe?

Worth a read:
Apple Scores Easy Points Against Flash, But Throws Debate on Openness Off the Rails from Create Digital Motion by Peter Kirn

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Out in the street

Posted in Reading, Thinking, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 18, 2010 |

The Guardian has an article on “street photography”: Why street photography is facing a moment of truth

From the article:

We live in an age of anxieties, both big and small, real and imagined.

Today, photography – and street photography in particular – is a contested sphere in which all our collective anxieties converge: terrorism, paedophilia, intrusion, surveillance. We insist on the right to privacy and, simultaneously, snap anything and everyone we see and everything we do – in public and in private – on mobile phones and digital cameras.

Slugger

Art shouldn’t need to be safe, taking risks should be part of what we are trying reach. For my own practice, I consider the challenge as part of the process. Confront the anxieties and work through it.

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