Florian Cramer: What is the Internet?

Global Networking
http:// is always related to the World Wide Web
ARPANET before Internet (Military)
Traceroute.com
Bordercheck.org
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media
Modularity
Ubu.com
Zero’s & One's

EXPLORATION- LINES

FLORIAN
CRAMER

CANON?
WHAT CANON?

Class 2 General theory: Canon? What Canon?

Canon:

Norm
Standard
Art
Civilization
Progress
Europe
Western

Renaissance XV-XVI

Revival
Being classic: Greece and Rome
Aemulatio: Re-Creaction
Argutezza: Inventiveness


Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1486
Medici Venus, ca 100
Michelangelo, David, 1501-3
Hermes and Dionysus, ca 340 BC

Classical culture in the renaissance already stood for civilization
Artist started copying work of their examples, but they tried to surpass them. They wanted to show that they are better than their classics.
Venus (Sandro Botticelli) arose from the sea when the testicles of the enemies hit the surface of the water. She arose from the foam.

Neoclassicicsm XVIII

Classic
Academic
Tradition
Institution
Discipline
Training

XIX

Collective identities: nation
Personal identities: feeling
National heritage: middle ages
authenticity: romanticism
restyling art history: baroque
continuin art history: from realism to abstraction


Middle ages VI - XIV

Romanesque VI - XII
St-Sernin, Toulouse, XI
Gothic XII - XIV
Eyck Brethrn, Ghent Altar Piece

Romanticiscm
Caspar David Friedrich
The wanderer above the mist, 1817

Realism
Gustave Courbet, A Burial at Ornans, 1850

Expressionism
Edvard Munch

In Sum

Classical antiquity
Middle ages
Renaissance
Baroque
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
Realism
Impressionism
Expressionism

Deconstruction XX

Cubism
Pablo Picasso, Three Women

Abstraction
Piet Mondrian Composition with red, blue and yellow

Canon contested

Repsresention
Progress dismissed
Dekolonizaliation
Globalization
Migration
Postmodernism
Great stories debunked
End of art

Kerry James Marshal
Lost Boys: Aka Black Johnny, 1994