"All technology must move toward the way things were before humanity began changing them: identification with nature in the manner of operation, complete mystery.
Art, once so elegant, has been transformed by representation into an object, cluttered and confused not only by operating systems and applications, its once-accepted inherited discourse, but by the words and the theories used to prescribe its very being. these prescriptions are themselves shrouded in a language that, disconnected from the world as it is, is no longer
useful. To recapture that connection, it is necessary to find and use a tool that will leave no traces, that, in other words, will allow an unmediated relationship with the thing in itself.
The problem is more serious: we must dispense with computers altogether and get used to working with tools. It can be put this way too: find ways of using computers as though they were tools, ie, so that they leave no traces. That's precisely what our computers, video cameras, amplifiers, web-servers, projectors, cameras, mobile phones, etc., and even the internet, are: things to be used which don't necessarily determine the nature of what is done."
Martin John Callanan
Callanan began a project where he wanted to see what was going on in the world so he took the covers of newspapers and magazines from across the world and posts them daily on a webpage. I think this is a really awesome idea and its an interesting concept to be able to see all of this at once. Literally scrolling through pages of headlines all at once is a great way to be able to compare what really matters all the way in Israel or China. Its a great feeling to know that its possible to know whats going on across the world as well through a few major images and some text, which isn't even being read. The images tell you what important.
Callanan strikes an interesting conversation from his quote on top as well about how the internet takes away from art, yet he is using it as a tool to show his art. Pretty ironic and interesting ... definitely something to think about.
~B~