INSIDE ‘STRANGE RULES’ → An exploration of Protocol Art at Palazzo Diedo by Primavera De Filippi @yaoeo
Protocol Art starts with an idea: what if the artwork isn't the object, but the system that produces it? Strange Rules, on view at Palazzo Diedo in Venice, is an exhibition that frames this as a movement in its own right, gathering works by Harold Cohen, @trevorpaglen, @hollyherndon and @matdryhurst, @_terra0, Fabien Giraud, and others who have handed creative agency to systems, networks, and code.
We're sharing an essay written by one of the artists in the show, Primavera De Filippi, that traces the lineage behind Protocol Art and asks what it really means to be an author when the work keeps making itself long after you've left the room.
↓ Read an excerpt below.
Several years ago, @CemFDagdelen and I tried to define an emerging mode of creative production as Mechanism Art.
Happy to see the art of rules and mechanisms taking space in canonical spaces like Biennale (under the umbrella of Protocol Art) ⚙️
Long Live Mechanism Art!
one of the things i'm most proud of from last year is this: @_terra0 in conversation with Paul North and Paul Reitter, who recently published their translation of Capital Vol. 1. We discuss technology, value, nature and capital. Available at https://t.co/K4Sq2QpVON
GM from Saskia Draxler!
Beginning 2018 Christian Nagel and I attended the soft opening of https://t.co/eYzBUSlVbo in Berlin, where Paul Seidler and Paul Kolling introduced their @_terra0 project.
@MagicForestLand@DuaneKing it's on the upper border of the forest. The edge of Reesdorf, a really small village, is less than 1 km away, so it's probably still hunting territory for the village cats.
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