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The Performance of Contemporary Art [Part 2] by Adam MacHose

Adam MacHose

In part one, I wrote about a theme that has emerged in this column of the mercurial nature of artistic quality. i.e. one day this is good art; the next day that is good art. Even the eye of the beholder is fickle. I continued by identifying some trends among the professional artist community. In general, the traits listed were those of non-conformists because conformity is antithetical to individualistic creation. If one is expressing oneself, then one is not marching in formation. Expression of truth is inevitable because the human animal is not strong enough to suppress it indefinitely. Even a … Continue reading The Performance of Contemporary Art [Part 2] by Adam MacHose

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The Performance of Contemporary Art [Part 1] by Adam MacHose

Adam MacHose

What is a professional artist? That sort of word game can sometimes be trivial semantics. Or at best, a predictable Socratic inquiry that ends in “who can say?” But this question informs the way teachers advise students to enter the world as artists, so it’s important to form a basic answer, even if it is incomplete. The commonsense answer in American capitalist culture is something like ‘someone who earns an income from the sale of their art.’ In other words, an artist is a person running a small business who produces art objects marketed as such. By this definition, anyone … Continue reading The Performance of Contemporary Art [Part 1] by Adam MacHose

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Horror Paradise by Adam MacHose

Adam MacHose

Collective intelligence currently exists in the form of mobile devices, search engines, democratized content, and social media. A move from this current state to one where we are connected via implant would represent a dramatic shift in human condition, a grand unification into one unimaginably powerful cybernetic creature. This affects aesthetics in the medical sense. Would an implant network act like a sixth sense or utilize the usual five? Would these implants create a new connection between our mind and the outside world, or simply augment what we are seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling? I’ll pause here to acknowledge … Continue reading Horror Paradise by Adam MacHose