the campaign
Hello! My fund raising campaign is about raising the capital to enable a research project at the Glasgow School of Art. A place at the Art School has been awarded to me for the session 2011-2012, with the support of the staff on the MRes Creative Practices course.
the research
You will be helping to fund research whose aims
will be to establish what, if anything, computers can
offer art in a post-digital world, and whether the question of authenticity can
be satisfied by applying a set of conditions or theory. To answer this question
I'll have to gather a history of computer generated art, and the
practitioners who made it - the 1950s pioneers of self authored generative
systems and variables, mechanical devices and analogue machines. I'll make this information available to all funders as a PDF document, complete with it's rich bibliography.
It will then
be possible to ascertain whether this form of art acts as a precursor to the
work of the early computer artists who followed, and if software has the
ability to express concepts that may not be possible with other media. Can
programming a computer to undertake creative instructions merge artistic
subjectivity with technical form - or will digital art forever be without aura?
In our post-digital future, is it no longer necessary or even desirable to be
able to render art as a final tangible artefact with presence or uniqueness?
what I need & what you get
For the first year of research I'll need £2000, or about $3500. With these funds I can embark on a taught programme of research methods including the critical analysis of qualitative and quantatative material allowing me to integrate the rigorous traditions of academic research with the inventiveness of creative practices.
With these skills, I can move forward to examine computer art with a view to critiquing, extracting and applying the most relevant research enquiries and outcomes.
For £10 I will give you a PDF copy of my research findings. £50 will get you a bound hard copy of my research results. £100 will buy you a hard copy and an annual update, via email, of my progress. If you would like to donate £500, I will correspond with you directly 3 times per year, making available all my findings, notes and photographs of any art works I've made which have been influenced by my research findings. If you are kind enough to donate £1000, all of the above will be yours, but I will also gift you an original art work, authored by the results of my research.
other ways you can help
Please get the word out and make some noise about my campaign. Sharing my details with friends, collegues and family you think may be interested, could help tremendously.
Thank you,
Andy x