Father Mapple’s Commandments #1
My dear Globatron brethren and sistren, I have been thinking lately about the nature of law-giving. Anybody who has been around our temple for any time knows that this is a constant fascination for me. I have been meditating on how it is that such things operate, like the 10 commandments, The Code of Hammurabi, […]
Are you here? . . . Say what?
I heard a professor say, once, scolding a student: “Context, context, context.” Noam Chomsky, 1998?
Globatron’s Art Laws #11 – Art has no laws
If indeed everything is relative and there is no truth in art, art must have no laws. But the problem with stating this is that it becomes a law. If it is in the nature of artists to not conform and break the laws then in return will it be the nature of artists to […]
Globatron’s Art Laws #10 – There is no truth in art
Coming from a place of playful searching and now in retrospect accepting my ignorance in that search, I must say I have learned a lot from the Art Laws project. And as far as laws go I’ve always tried to break them in the practice of art. I think we all have. That is in […]
News from the Front – Akbar and Globatron to resume search for art’s laws.
Dear Globatron, In a recent interview I asked Byron King, founder of Globatron, how he felt about all the hateful emails he had received as a result of this Chicken Wire project. He responded, “Vikings didn’t sit around and cry because someone didn’t like them.” And I was not surprised when he explained later in […]
Globatron’s Art Laws #9 -All true art is digital
In a world overpopulated with objects and consumed with money, art should no longer be physical in nature. Art should be digital in order to remain true to itself, and to be removed from attaching itself to a value system consumed with selling and buying, and decorating. Most physical art objects can not escape the […]
Globatron Art Law #7 – Art is a process incompatible with conservative thinking.
Of course, we are taking this discussion of artistic principles into the realm of politics. check your emotions at the door, let’s have a clean fight, bump gloves and may the best artistic truth win. A.L.
On art -N- laws
I want to externalize some thoughts that have been developing through reading interviews and having conversations on this here lil’ blog and reflecting on daily activities, teaching, artmaking, world events, and reading. I suspect that there is a strong desire among most, if not all, of us to be involved in all the activities that […]
