Yesterday, I was at the exhibition and debate organised by Imal around art and game. I had the opportunity to try out selected works as the famous painstation (still remember it, everybody heard me screaming), ElectroPlancton of Toshio Iwai (very poetical and with a good range of possibilities, i wasn’t very attracted at the first impression but it really surprised me by its purity) and The social ladder of Walter Langelaar (a bit too trashy for me, can’t stand to keep the headphones and didn’t arrive to kill anybody…). Unfortunately, i did’nt try Fijuu 2 but I didn’t felt very attracted by the interface even if the goal is interesting.
http://www.imal.org/Art+Game/expo/fr/main.html
The debate of the evening was about digital art and culture in Belgium. It was introduce by Regine Debatty who did present us her weblog: We make money not art. She is actually a reference for the new media world and you can spend days by reading her blog. By new media art, she hears all artwork dealing with technology, not only computer but also biotechnology, nanotechnology,… and i really wonder how this name (new media art) will evolve. Will it continue to include digital video in the future, by example? Performance, installation and video which where new media art in the the 20th c. are already out of it. And if digital video is use to make wildlife movie, can we still talk about new media art or technology? If experimental creations are re-used by technological enterprises, is it still art? I’m very curious about the limits of those categories and definitions. Let’s see in few years…
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
The introduction of Regine was followed by a kind of confrontation between the representatives of digital culture in the french part of Belgium (director of Imal and teachers from ERG and ENSAV) and the representatives of the minister of culture and the french community. The result was quite pathetic but we can say that the representative of the minister was very honest. I won’t say a word about the difference of budget for experimental media between the VAF and the french community but it’is still time to move in…
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