MONDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2003

GENERAL DISCUSSION - PM

TRANSLATION

• Developing a correspondence prediction / modelling

WHERE ARTISTIC STRATEGIES ‘KICK-IN’

• Bottom up working methods
• Questioning scenarios
• How is ‘measurement’ applied?

WHAT PUSHES THINGS FORWARD?

AUTHORSHIP DEATH OF AUTHOR

• PERSISTENCE OF AUTHOR
• RECOGNITION / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  NOT ONLY THROUGH AUTHORSHIP

DO WE THROW OUT THE OLD?

BIO-ETHICS

ARE WE LOOKING FOR A NEW DISCOURSE?

• Are we looking for a hybrid methodology or convergent methodologies

WHAT ARE ISSUES AROUND SUPERFICIALITY

• What becomes superficial & decorative (especially when using technology)?
• Fetishising means
• Technology giving new opportunities for people to engage

STATUS OF TECHNOLOGY IS DETERMINED BY CONTEXT

ART APPROPRIATES SCIENCE
ART APPROPRIATES ART (but this is often uncontested)

WHAT IS ROLE OF BEAUTY

• Problematic & complicated and needs to be examined

DESIGN OF TOOLS

• Separate interface & application tools

VIRTUOSITY

• Where does it apply?
• Artists as software / technology innovators
• 
  IMBALANCE IN RECOGNITION

WHAT IS PEER REVIEW?

• How does it apply to the arts
• Generosity is acknowledgement

SCIENTIFIC KNOWEDGE / PUBLIC ARENA

• DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE
• SIMPLIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE

Scientists should be clear about when they are diverging / simplifying / allergising

PRESUMPTION THAT THERE ARE COMBATAN SPECIALISMS

NEED FOR PHILOSPHY CHALLENGE PRESUMED ‘TRUTH’