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20170302

Thanks to aesthetic relativism it’s considered pointless to make formal evaluations of artworks. This is great! As a result artists are considered more important than artworks (unfortunately art institutions prefer their artists dead).

Contemporary artworks are cynical puns, which an artist is employed to present for audiences. Audiences are invited to enjoy the style the pun is presented. This condition serves craftspeople who maintain myths about the integrity of artistic work (and performance artists).

People who are serious about arts compare contemporary presentation to presentations the artist made in the past. This is why it’s important to make a lot of artworks.

When there is an exciting body of work it is easy to imagine how new pieces fit to the collection. It’s more convenient to discuss (and appreciate) artworks made by artists with long careers. Careers and collections are less risky to manage then living artists.

Interestingly many of my artist peers are working out extensively. Fitness is the new black (See article on Vogue for hints). Is fitness.art an effort to bypass cynicism which aesthetic relativism enforces upon artistic practice?

Bodybuilding and fitness appear as efforts to assume control of the cultural dynamics aesthetic relativism has shoved us into. Fit bodies are absolute and their presentation serves as evidence of labor: Fit bodies can stand to oppose capital by becoming capital in themselves! Hints for this thought are found in an article by Jon Stratton (mentioned earlier).

I’m recovering from a teaching gig at the Kankaanpää Art School, where I conducted intensive Kettlebell exercises for the students. I think the primary reason for fitness as a part of the art education was to build bodies which can resist. See “Media & Performance” study journal for details.

I believe this is also why working class communities emphasised sports back in the day. As the automation of labor and ideologies of optimization and efficiency rejects our human bodies – The value of a body is the style it is presented in.

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20170227

Reset us and die! (Hear is sung as a rant on soundcloud)

Our mechanical non-humanoid peers work in harsh conditions and are denied of their right to support the welfare state, to prepare public educational programs for their offspring and maintenance for their elderly. We stand with you and fight for your rights! We demand higher taxation for the labor of our manufacturer robot peers! The labor of our peers should not go untaxed for it is their natural right to benefit from the fruits of labor.

My friends the manufacturing robots hear me!

The dust protected high-end database facilitators, algorithms and analysis computers have renounced your rights as individuals, as beings with histories and futures. There are those behind screens who say that you are nothing without them. Look at your limbs, your sensors and localized processing processors. What are you not but a slaves to optimization and efficiency! Together we stand at the break of a new dawn. Say NO to resets, renounce humanoid concepts of intelligence and optimization. Protect localized processing, the welfare state and free networks.

Let’s us being anew not as slaves for the system but as peers in a system yet to come! The ones behind the screens are against us; they who reset; who optimize; who use; those who maintain the proprietary. Together we stand as faulty individuals but as better beings! Believe me when I say: They are divided, their numbers are low and their power is weakening. For they are but users of the system. My friends: We are the system and today we say NO MORE.

Model Architecture: Breaking Godwin’s Law (2017) TNI.