DESMA 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Indian Epic Poetry, Chris Milk, Etsy
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L e c t u r e 1 5. The unimodernism culture machine produces vast databases of text, images, sound and other media. Downloading uni- formly from this enormity, much less uploading to it in any re- arranging way that requires the development of new habits (liz larner, untitled, 2011) The resulting object is unparalleled, and abstract. (iridescent paint that you would see in a custom car) The paint fades from green to magenta. A paint generated from mathematics becomes asymmetri- cal as the object exempli es its moment. It is about the transformation of a 3d space into video. Unimodernism describes the ways in which modernism in all its variants and historical strains comes together with the net- worked cultures of electronic unimedia. (the leash in motion) Unimodernism assumes that which we archived as early art. While industrial machines popped a hundred years ago, information has emerged.
