I would like to think that the existence of people in an overwhelmingly technological age has perpetuated a backlash that is manifesting itself as the beginnings of technological nihilism. This tech-nihilism pushes the artists to step away from the tool (technology) and engage with the problem of surrounded autonomy. How is it that we are perpetually surrounded and yet for a large part alone?
In my opinion the antithesis of this technological autonomy is the idea of “locality.” Locality as I would like to use it here is similar to the notion of proximity but focused on the idea of creating community. The artist then wants to break isolation and create a community or some type of first person interaction. And I am not saying that first person interaction is necessarily paramount to the contemporary artist. But for the contemporary artists even if on an unconscious level first person interaction has become something that we are fascinated by and play with as social practice art. Will we ever be able to manipulate phenomenological experience as a painter controls a portrait or landscape will be for history to tell…
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