A manifesto for global art [email_address] Katowice 21 November 2008

Global Art What is it ? Who does it ? Do we need it ?

What is it ?

Who does it ?

Do we need it ?

Not on Wikipedia Not communication art Not space art Not planetary art Not network art Not satellite art But related to all the above

What is it ? Art that reflects and promotes a planetary sensibility Change of scale (we are all globalized by carrying a cellular phone) Accelerating environmental awareness (the new ground of human experience) Continental imagination (Europe as an intermediate step for global community) Everyware (immersed in a single data environment) Ubiquity and simultaneity, a transcultural condition

Art that reflects and promotes a planetary sensibility

Change of scale (we are all globalized by carrying a cellular phone)

Accelerating environmental awareness (the new ground of human experience)

Continental imagination (Europe as an intermediate step for global community)

Everyware (immersed in a single data environment)

Ubiquity and simultaneity, a transcultural condition

7 Big Questions What is the influence of globalization on art ? How is globalization represented in art and in popular culture ? Did globalization initiate new genres ? Is there such a thing as a global sensibility? How can the local reflect the global ? Is global art socially and politically conscious? What new paradigm is reflected in global art?

What is the influence of globalization on art ?

How is globalization represented in art and in popular culture ?

Did globalization initiate new genres ?

Is there such a thing as a global sensibility?

How can the local reflect the global ?

Is global art socially and politically conscious?

What new paradigm is reflected in global art?

Great variety Earth as artform (land art, etc.) Global spectacle (object of contemplation) Global connections Glocal contractions Interlocal interactions Etc..

Earth as artform (land art, etc.)

Global spectacle (object of contemplation)

Global connections

Glocal contractions

Interlocal interactions

Etc..

Marshall McLuhan The planet and Nature were obsolesced by Sputnik in October, 1957, and have become art form also. Sputnik saw the birth of ecology, and Art replacing Nature (1974).

The planet and Nature were obsolesced by Sputnik in October, 1957, and have become art form also. Sputnik saw the birth of ecology, and Art replacing Nature (1974).

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

La Terre vue du ciel

Historical Overview ( the split of global art from communications arts ) 1914: F.T. Marinetti uses a telephone in a pre-multimedia performance at the Doré Gallery, London. 1922: László Moholy-Nagy produces his "Telephone Paintings". 1963: Nam June Paik: "Electronic Television". 1968: "Art by Telephone", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 1969: "Wipe Cycle" 1970: Gordon Mumma: "Conspiracy 8" 1973: Elvis Presley: Aloha From Hawaii via satellite - First music concert broadcast live via satellite around the world. On December 29, 1976, with the support of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Douglas Davis performs "Seven Thoughts" in the empty Houston Astrodome Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz: Satellite Arts Project - two groups of dancers are interacting at two different locations, three thousand miles apart.

1914: F.T. Marinetti uses a telephone in a pre-multimedia performance at the Doré Gallery, London.

1922: László Moholy-Nagy produces his "Telephone Paintings".

1963: Nam June Paik: "Electronic Television".

1968: "Art by Telephone", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

1969: "Wipe Cycle"

1970: Gordon Mumma: "Conspiracy 8"

1973: Elvis Presley: Aloha From Hawaii via satellite - First music concert broadcast live via satellite around the world.

On December 29, 1976, with the support of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Douglas Davis performs "Seven Thoughts" in the empty Houston Astrodome

Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz: Satellite Arts Project - two groups of dancers are interacting at two different locations, three thousand miles apart.

Satellite Arts Project Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz (1977)

Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz (1977)

July 1977: Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik and Douglas Davis perform live at Documenta 6 and are broadcast by West German TV to many countries, including the USSR. 1977: "Send/Receive", organised by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp in New York, and by Sharon Grace and Carl Eugene Loeffler in San Francisco. ("le projet [...] utilisait un satellite pour une transmission interactive de quinze heures reliant les deux villes)" 1977: "WorldPool" collaboration (Robert Adrian, Norman White). 1978: Open Space Gallery in Victoria, Canada, conducts several live Slow-Scan video transmissions with other groups of artists in New York City, Memphis, Toronto, Oakland, Vancouver, San Diego and San Francisco. 1979: Audio Scene 79 at Modern Art Galerie, Vienna 1980: "Artists' Use of Telecommunications Conference", Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (curated by Carl Eugene Loeffler). Galloway/Rabinowitz: "Hole in Space", New York-Los Angeles video link. 1982: "The World in 24 Hours", by Robert Adrian, Ars Electronica, Linz "Levittown", Utrecht, by Tom Klinkowstein. "Telesky", Australia, by Eric Gidney. "La Bourse de l'imaginaire", by Fred Forest, Paris ("projet réunissant la télématique, la télévision, la radio et le téléphone"). In 1983 several authors in various countries were working on an interactive "planetary fairy-tale" as part of Roy Ascott's project "La Plissure du Texte". Visitors to the exhibition Electra, which was organized at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1983, were able to witness the production of a text on screens connected to the authors' computer terminals.

July 1977: Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik and Douglas Davis perform live at Documenta 6 and are broadcast by West German TV to many countries, including the USSR.

1977: "Send/Receive", organised by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp in New York, and by Sharon Grace and Carl Eugene Loeffler in San Francisco. ("le projet [...] utilisait un satellite pour une transmission interactive de quinze heures reliant les deux villes)"

1977: "WorldPool" collaboration (Robert Adrian, Norman White).

1978: Open Space Gallery in Victoria, Canada, conducts several live Slow-Scan video transmissions with other groups of artists in New York City, Memphis, Toronto, Oakland, Vancouver, San Diego and San Francisco.

1979: Audio Scene 79 at Modern Art Galerie, Vienna

1980: "Artists' Use of Telecommunications Conference", Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (curated by Carl Eugene Loeffler).

Galloway/Rabinowitz: "Hole in Space", New York-Los Angeles video link.

1982: "The World in 24 Hours", by Robert Adrian, Ars Electronica, Linz

"Levittown", Utrecht, by Tom Klinkowstein.

"Telesky", Australia, by Eric Gidney.

"La Bourse de l'imaginaire", by Fred Forest, Paris ("projet réunissant la télématique, la télévision, la radio et le téléphone").

In 1983 several authors in various countries were working on an interactive "planetary fairy-tale" as part of Roy Ascott's project "La Plissure du Texte". Visitors to the exhibition Electra, which was organized at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1983, were able to witness the production of a text on screens connected to the authors' computer terminals.

La plissure du texte (1983)

Tom Klinkowstein Joining McDonalds of the world via videoconference (1984)

Joining McDonalds of the world via videoconference

(1984)

Joe Davis Red Ruby Falls (project 1984)

Jean-Marc Philippe Message à l’univers (1986 -)

Message à l’univers (1986 -)

Stéphan Barron Le bleu du ciel (1994-2000) Tourcoing -Toulon and Paris-Munich Le Jour et la nuit (1995 - Adelaide-Paris) Ozone 1999

Le bleu du ciel (1994-2000) Tourcoing -Toulon and Paris-Munich

Fred Forest

Le centre du monde (Fred Forest 1999)

Philippe Boissonnet Territoires (peau)ssibles (2003-2004)

Territoires (peau)ssibles (2003-2004)

La conscience des limites Gaia, 1992 Galileo, 1993

Ingo G ünther World processor (1998-2006)

World processor (1998-2006)

Sensorium The Japanese concepts of "I (myself)" and "human being" reflect the essential and ambivalent "network-like" nature of our being. The Japanese "I" ("jibun") implies the existence only within a relational context, one that comprises both the relational aspects within myself and the holonic and relational structure of the universe.

Stelarc Ping Body

During the Ping Body performances, what is being considered is a body moving not to the promptings of another body in another place, but rather to Internet activity itself - the body's proprioception and musculature stimulated not by its internal nervous system but by the external ebb and flow of data."

During the Ping Body performances, what is being considered is a body moving not to the promptings of another body in another place, but rather to Internet activity itself - the body's proprioception and musculature stimulated not by its internal nervous system but by the external ebb and flow of data."

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Alzado Vectorial Mexico City 1999-2000

Lorella Abenavoli Le Souffle de la Terre (1996-2002) Nox Mater with Nicolas Reeves 2007

Maurice Benayoun Cosmo- Polis Beijing 2007

Cosmo-

Polis

Beijing

2007

Emotional Traffic 2005

TRANSINTERACTIVITY

Example Sites – Initial Installation Examples: BCE Place or Eaton Center, Toronto

Galleria Vittorio Emannuelle II in Milan

Eaton Center - Toronto Eaton Gallery Toronto People will approach a large screen onto which a live, life-size, remote image is projected.

Eaton Center - Toronto People in one place will see and hear the distant persons as if they were physically present.

Eaton Center - Toronto The distant surroundings will appear to be a natural continuation of the local space

Eaton Center - Toronto

Why do we need this category ? It invites patrons and the general public to graduate mentally and socially to the global scale It recognizes a visible trend in artistic activities It can communicate global emotions It may improve attitudes towards the environment It functions homeopathically

It invites patrons and the general public to graduate mentally and socially to the global scale

It recognizes a visible trend in artistic activities

It can communicate global emotions

It may improve attitudes towards the environment

It functions homeopathically

Feeding global emotions

In the electric age, we wear all mankind as our skin