STREAMLINE PROJECT
A societal proposal:
What I see as the natural progression of the fine arts is a consolidation and streamlining of creative concepts via the web. These concepts would be extracted from a vast pool of the world population and then used as project material on a large scale with input from selected experts in a variety of the major sciences.
This process would allow all mankind a tangible creative outlet that could be realized within a collective scheme. All humans have creative thoughts, fragments of thoughts or outright innovation which come in waves that could be gathered, fine tuned and streamlined towards a legitimate project.
The proposal is to position a site where any individual at any time can deposit creative information which would be collected and stored in a data base which would function as a filter that would sort material into categories of relevance.
The essence of the creative information would be made accessible to a select panel of qualified representatives of the major sciences for review.
At this point, an aesthetic project(s) could be set into place based on information compiled and then could be split into branch projects and handed off to workers/artists for refinement.
The showcasing of these grand scale projects could be held on an annual basis.
Those participants who submitted ideas/concepts that are used as core material or even substantial supporting material could be included in the production process of the work(s).
The content of these artworks/projects may be beneficial to society by way of scaling back redundancy, obsolete content and the pit falls of going down blind alleys due to lack of information , misinformation or going over ground already well trodden.
This project description is only a rudimentary draft set forth as a template for further discourse.
Cory Arcangel in a discourse with Dara Birnbaum in Artforum 3/09 asks: “…where is art left when everyone is a producer?” and “If everyone is a producer now, then we have a data- archiving problem – meaning that we do not know where, or how, to look for accurate information.”
Tags: accumulative art, art philosophy, art theory, Artforum, Cory arcangel, Dara Birnbaum, generative art
