[NewMusic] matmos lecture: the re-dematerialization of the art object

[Barry Threw]

I didn't see anyone else from this list there...or were you?

It was a pretty interesting dialog, the better parts of it were when it 
was more directly applied to Matmos' music.  Drew talked for about an 
hour non-stop, he certainly has fluency with the theory.  It was mostly 
about conceptual art, and the definition of the art-object to the grey 
area in between the actual work and the concepts behind it.

There was also some discussion of purely conceptual art.  As evidenced 
by the earlier Cage-Cellphone discussion, I normally call bullshit on 
that kind of thing, with a few exceptions.  However, the discussion here 
was about even more abstract works,  where there is no actual 
deliverable involved.  (driving down the highway from LA to LV at 90mph, 
a typewriter gets thrown out the window).

i wonder why it is even necessary to make conceptual art.  isn't just 
saying "I make conceptual art." enough.  am I now a meta-conceptual artist?

b

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