Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Aesthetic Compass by Charles Tucker


The goal of this site is to establish a work-space that presents a record of my work with Saul Ostrow (and eventually others) as we continue to develop an alternative idea for artistic research as a means of knowledge production. The following texts and images will provide a platform for dissemination and discussion via this broader forum.

Project Summary

The proposition concerning art as a knowledge and research based practice that guides this project, is premised on an ongoing dialogue between Charles Tucker and Saul Ostrow concerning “art” as an emergent subject; a signifier without a fixed signified. These dialogues center on the terms by which a series of rhetorical object may be mapped/constructed. This term: rhetorical object, which we prefer to relational aesthetics, is not one of our invention but used by Victor Margolin in his discussion of the Russian productivists. 
Less interested in merging art and design (and therefore art into life) the Productivist were concerned with the idea of modeling everyday life by producing a series of propositions that took aesthetics and semiotics as their organizing principles and everyday objects as their material form. Our dialogues at Banff will concern the method and objectives of artistic research, the specifics of the form(s) of presentation and documentation this project will take have not yet to been determined.

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1 Comments:

Blogger Marc Tomko said...

I would love to see those curvy lines mingling in a rotating 3D visualization. They need that subtle motion to be comprehensible. You should have one of your digitally inclined colleagues assist in your mission. I know a guy.

February 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM  

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