BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//icalevents.anmari.com//amr-events 3.0.9//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:STEIM X-WR-CALDESC:Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120908T164808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120911T085348Z UID:3775@http://steim.org URL:http://steim.org/event/think-tank-7-towards-a-hierarchy-of-electronic-arts/ SUMMARY:Think Tank #7 –\; Towards a Hierarchy of Electronic Arts? DESCRIPTION;ALTREP="http://steim.org/event/think-tank-7-towards-a-hierarchy -of-electronic-arts/":The Soundlings collective organizes regular meetings to discuss current topics of interest for the broader field of musicians\, producers\, and sound artists. Attendance is limited and by reservation. Se e below for this week’s discussion announcement:\nThink Tank #7 will featur e a premier of new work by Marcel Wierckx\, followed by an artist talk. The evening will continue with an open discourse about the topic of hierarchie s within the electronic arts.\nThere are several questions that\, as a crea tor of electronic art\, I struggle with at the onset of every new compositi on. Some of them are directly related to the project I am about to begin\, and these are usually answered in one way or another during the process of making the piece. Others are of such a universal nature\, and have such far -reaching implications for the very nature of the work I do\, that I must n ecessarily leave them unanswered. Some of these questions are: Does the pro cess of creation and presentation of electronic art necessarily imply a pow er relationship? Is electronic art necessarily ephemeral? Where in the hier archy of artistic genres would the humanists of the Renaissance have placed the electronic arts? This last question puzzled me immensely during the pa st few months while I was working on an audiovisual composition based on th e principles of the Northern Mannerist artists. These artists were only sec ondarily concerned with technique–their primary concern was to secure the i ntegrity of their art by being fully aware of the cultural value and presti ge of the work they were creating: the idea behind the work was the essence \, the technical realization was always subordinate to it. The hierarchy of genres to which painters adhered quite strictly for more than 400 years af ter the Renaissance provided a foundation for them to gauge the relative im portance of what they were working on. I ask: is it desirable\, or even fea sible\, for such a hierarchy to be considered in the electronic arts? What would such a hierarchy look like? What are the guiding principles that migh t lie behind our assessment of ‘important’ electronic art? What aspects of our craft might stand in the way of our being able to look at it from this perspective?\n- Marcel Wierckx\nThe discussion will take place at STEIM on the 12th of September at 19:00. The discussion is organized and moderated b y ‘Soundlings’ and as usual there will be a video stream.\nWe can only crea te a meaningful discussion with a limited amount of participants\, some of which will be announced later here\, but if you feel like you have somethin g important to add to the discussion please send a mail with your motivatio n to thinktank [AT] soundlings [DOT] com.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Soundlings collective organizes regula r meetings to discuss current topics of interest for the broader field of m usicians\, producers\, and sound artists. Attendance is limited and by rese rvation. See below for this week’s discussion announcement:

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Think T ank #7 will feature a premier of new work by Marcel Wierckx\, followed by an artist ta lk. The evening will continue with an open discourse about the topic of hie rarchies within the electronic arts.

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There are several question s that\, as a creator of electronic art\, I struggle with at the onset of e very new composition. Some of them are directly related to the project I am about to begin\, and these are usually answered in one way or another duri ng the process of making the piece. Others are of such a universal nature\, and have such far-reaching implications for the very nature of the work I do\, that I must necessarily leave them unanswered. Some of these questions are: Does the process of creation and presentation of electronic art necessarily imply a power relationship? Is electronic art necessarily e phemeral? Where in the hierarchy of artistic genres would the humanists of the Renaissance have placed the electronic arts? This last question puzzled me immensely during the past few months while I was working on an audiovis ual composition based on the principles of the Northern Mannerist artists. These artists were only secondarily concerned with technique–their primary concern was to secure the integrity of their art by being fully aware of th e cultural value and prestige of the work they were creating: the idea behi nd the work was the essence\, the technical realization was always subordin ate to it. The hierarchy of genres to which painters adhered quite strictly for more than 400 years after the Renaissance provided a foundation for th em to gauge the relative importance of what they were working on. I ask: is it desirable\, or even feasible\, for such a hierarchy to be considered in the electronic arts? What would such a hierarchy look like? What are the g uiding principles that might lie behind our assessment of ‘important’ elect ronic art? What aspects of our craft might stand in the way of our being ab le to look at it from this perspective?

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- Marcel Wierckx

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The discussion will take place at STEIM on the 12th of Septembe r at 19:00. The discussion is organized and moderated by ‘Soundlings’ and a s usual there will be a video stream.

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We can only create a meaningf ul discussion with a limited amount of participants\, some of which will be announced later here\, but if you feel like you have something important t o add to the discussion please send a mail with your motivation to thinktan k [AT] soundlings [DOT] com.

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