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the ART of WORK
By: Jeff Instone
the ART of WORK—
the ART of WORK is a serial of commonplace operations set to order :
and if IDEAS are no more than a set of operations then the primary value of the artwork lies in being made [then unmade] in “real time” on a screen or on a network of screens :
—is the WORK of ART
Jeff Instone
A more extinguished than distinguished text artist
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Jeff Instone, 'That suitable vagueness…', AppleScript Cocoa Application, 2009. Photo: n/a. Courtesy: n/a. From an automated sequence of on-screen text transfers
# 1 [11 December 2009]
the ART of WORK—
STATEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION regarding the making of PROCESS CONSCIOUS artworks
The ART of WORK lies in the fact that it is at base a commonplace operation set to order
—the manipulation of the minimum achieving control of the maximum—
The MACHINE is represented as a succession of tasks and the STORY as a serial of unfolding acts .
If IDEAS are no more than a set of operations then the primary value of the work lies
in being made then unmade in “real time” on a screen or on a network of screens .
is the WORK of ART
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jeff, can you give me any details as to why you use text within your practice?
posted on 2009-12-11 by andrew martyn sugars