14. JUNE 14

No Content: Contemplations on Software [Leegte] (Upstream Gallery)
Jan Robert Leegte artist talk 

What happens when an interest in architecture leads to an interest in internet surfing? How does this affect the way one approaches the internet?
What is the value of an experimental art practice that leads beyond a single discipline? What are the challenges of such a practice?
What was your favorite Jan Robert piece and why?
Would you have gotten the concepts Jan Robert discussed from the pieces themselves? Whould you have still gotten something out of the pieces, even without knowing their back-story? How so?
What was your prepared question?
What did he say that was applicable to your practice?

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The world we see with our eyes is just a reflection of a reality that we cannot quite grasp [Harvey] (Upstream Gallery)
Why not just make it all physical or all virtual? Why the mixture?
What is the value of exploring the liminal space between the physical and the "virtual"?
How would it have been different if the physical pieces were 3D printed resin instead of bronze cast objects?
What is the relationship between the virtual and the spiritual? What is immanence? What is transcendence?

What would have been lost by merely viewing online documentation of Jan Robert's installation? Of Aurelia Harvey's installation?

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Droog Store:
What did you make of it? Was it a plant shop? Garden supply store? Art gallery? Meeting space? Cafe? Garden?
How do you guess it will be layed out in 6 months? Totally reconfigured? Still about plants?
If you are focusing on concepts, will the physical instantiations of those concepts (the visual style) always look the same? Why or why not?
If you have an experimental design practice, what's to keep it from leading beyond design into art (or gardening)? How is art related to gardening?