The Dump
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The Dump is a blog initiated in 2006 by the new media artist Maurice Benayoun
, about undone art projects.
This blog was probably the first to become a doctorate thesis in art by itself: Artistic Intentions at Work, Hypothesis for Committing Art Université Pantheon Sorbonne (December 6, 2008)
This PhD was directed by Prof. Anne-Marie Duguet
Jury : Prof. Hubertus von Amelunxen
, Louis Bec, artist, Prof. Derrick de Kerckhove
, and Prof. Jean da Silva
About the Dump Barbara Robertson writes in Computer Graphics World magazine : The Dump... "is a collection of his ideas. Hundreds of ideas. “Everyone can come and take them and do them if they want".(...) in December 2008 "Benayoun submitted “The Dump” as his PhD thesis and became, arguably, the first artist to use a blog to qualify for a doctorate degree". "Of all his work, “The Dump” is the simplest form of digital art, but also the most accessible and most interactive. It is neither virtual nor augmented reality, or perhaps it’s both, but with it, Benayoun might have created the newest of all new media. At least, for now."
The Dump – Recycling of Thoughts, a contemporary art exhibition curated by Agnieszka Kulazińska, presenting in May 2010,at Laznia Art Center (Gdansk
, Poland
) works by 9 artists inspired by The Dump Blog.
Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris. His work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.-Biography:Born in Mascara,...
, about undone art projects.
This blog was probably the first to become a doctorate thesis in art by itself: Artistic Intentions at Work, Hypothesis for Committing Art Université Pantheon Sorbonne (December 6, 2008)
This PhD was directed by Prof. Anne-Marie Duguet
Jury : Prof. Hubertus von Amelunxen
Hubertus von Amelunxen
Hubertus von Amelunxen is a professor at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, and the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee. He studied Roman, German, and Art History at Marburg and Paris and finished his Ph.D. in Roman Studies at the University of Mannheim...
, Louis Bec, artist, Prof. Derrick de Kerckhove
Derrick de Kerckhove
Derrick de Kerckhove is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, Canada...
, and Prof. Jean da Silva
PhD abstract
"By its very nature, the creative process has a hidden face: i.e. everything which the artist discards in both choice and conception of the work to be undertaken. This project aims to in[com]plement the creative process involved in the working out and selecting process by displaying visually and legibly that which constitutes the cluster of motivations, determinations and hesitations contained in the act of artistic creation. The Dump is the experimental form of this applied research, a methodical expression of intention, caught on the fly, before the work of art takes place or so it can take place." Maurice BenayounAbout the Dump Barbara Robertson writes in Computer Graphics World magazine : The Dump... "is a collection of his ideas. Hundreds of ideas. “Everyone can come and take them and do them if they want".(...) in December 2008 "Benayoun submitted “The Dump” as his PhD thesis and became, arguably, the first artist to use a blog to qualify for a doctorate degree". "Of all his work, “The Dump” is the simplest form of digital art, but also the most accessible and most interactive. It is neither virtual nor augmented reality, or perhaps it’s both, but with it, Benayoun might have created the newest of all new media. At least, for now."
The Dump – Recycling of Thoughts, a contemporary art exhibition curated by Agnieszka Kulazińska, presenting in May 2010,at Laznia Art Center (Gdansk
Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
) works by 9 artists inspired by The Dump Blog.
External links
- http://www.the-dump.netofficial Blog/creation by Maurice BenayounMaurice BenayounMaurice Benayoun is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris. His work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.-Biography:Born in Mascara,...
The Dump] - official Blog/open to public participation version of The Dump
- http://www.benayoun.comofficial Maurice BenayounMaurice BenayounMaurice Benayoun is a French pioneer new-media artist and theorist based in Paris. His work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale urban art installations and interactive exhibitions.-Biography:Born in Mascara,...
's web site] - http://www.cgw.com/Print.aspx?Page=/Publications/CGW/2009/Volume-32-Issue-4-Apr-2009-/Without-Bounds.aspx Without Bounds by Barbara Robertson in CGW volume 32 issue 4 April 2009]
- The Dump Recycling of Thoughts art exhibition by Agnieszka Kulazińska