- Recursive Futility / futile loops
- make me the misguided machine, art as experience
- also see FutilityAsFreedom , which is related
RePlaced / Transformations
MichaelSailstorfer
self-consuming cycles of futility using vernacular of construction (misapply/ futility)
GordonMattaClark
interventionist in an exciting gutsy way (physical gap, art as life experience)
Inversion House
"Havel and Ruck will create a 
large funnel-like vortex beginning from the west wall adjacent to Montrose Blvd. The exterior skin of the houses will be peeled off and used to create the narrowing spiral as it progresses eastward through the small central hallway connecting the two buildings and exiting through a small hole into an adjacent courtyard." -art league houston
SimonStarling
""British-born, Berlin-based artist Simon Starling's sculptures - an Eames chair made out of a Marin Sausalito bicycle; a Fiat built in Turin, driven to Poland, and reconfigured with Polish parts - arrive as the final outcomes of processes that encompass research, travel, and seemingly absurd personal initiative..."
Neal Stephenson
"The gold that paid for a pound of Malaber pepper was melted and fused with the gold that paid for a boat-load of North Sea herring, and all of it was simply gold, bearing no trace or smell of the fish or spice that had fetched it." p. 676, Quicksilver, Volume One of the Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson.
Ayse Erkmen, Shipped Ships
see RePlaced : "Shipped Ships by Ayse Erkmen brings a ferry from Shingu, Venice, and Istanbul respectively to Frankfurt on container ships. In accordance with the Turkish artist's concept, the boats with their original crews provide the public with ferry service on routes on the Main River for four weeks in May."
HansSchabus
a disorienting false gallery complex and a model
Florian Slotowa
''see RePlaced : renders his own posessions useless as art objects"
Paul Ramirez Jonas, Dictionary, 1989
Every page of an English-Spanish Dictionary has been cut, rolled, filled with gunpowder, and outfitted with a fuse. Nothing is lost - the object has been merely transformed.
Gotcha - Recursive Loops
Limericks in Gotcha
There was an old lady of Crewe
Whose limericks stopped at line twoThere was an old man from Verdun
- Gardner, Martin. 1982. aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight. W.H. Freeman & Company. p. 6
Self-referencing reference
"In the index of Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces, by Paul R. Halmos, there is an entry: "Hochschild, G.P. 198." Hoschschild is nowhere mentioned in the book except in this entry, which is on page 198."
- Gardner, Martin. 1982. aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight. W.H. Freeman & Company. p. 6
Participatory Action Research
"Essentially Participatory Action Research (PAR) is research which involves all relevant parties in actively examining together current action (which they experience as problematic) in order to change and improve it. They do this by critically reflecting on the historical, political, cultural, economic, geographic and other contexts which make sense of it. � Participatory action research is not just research which is hoped will be followed by action. It is action which is researched, changed and re-researched, within the research process by participants. Nor is it simply an exotic variant of consultation. Instead, it aims to be active co-research, by and for those to be helped. Nor can it be used by one group of people to get another group of people to do what is thought best for them - whether that is to implement a central policy or an organisational or service change. Instead it tries to be a genuinely democratic or non-coercive process whereby those to be helped, determine the purposes and outcomes of their own inquiry." - Wadsworth, Y. (1998) What is Participatory Action Research? (
Polaroids of Polaroids
?FISKUR (fish)?, 2004. 15 Polaroids placed in a row close to the floor. Each time someone took a look at the photos at the opening, another picture was shot and hung up beside the others. By Darri Lorenzen.
Robert Weshcler
Futile Loops
Paul Ramirez Jonas
"I woke up at Dawn and drove as far west as I could. Sunset found me on a straight, flat, east-west highway on the midwest. I made a video of my car rushing to meet the sun in a vain attempt at making the day last forever. The recorded sunset is one minute longer than if I had stood still."
?SelfDestroying
Zizek, Parallax View II
"the constitutive non-coincidence of a thing with itself..."
Carlos Bunga
knocks down cardboard structures by cutting them at key points and jumping at the walls from within. Miguel Amado, p. 25, contemporary, 2121, no 87, 2006
DmCraft
ElizabethDemaray
Elizabeth Demaray misapplies the craft of upholstery and knitting to cover stones, warm trees, and even knit a cozy for a missle. She refers to these projects as "innapropriate caregiving." She created an apollo pod out of pillows, insulation, duct tape, and other stuff you can find around your house, and designed surrogate shelters for homeless hermit crabs. I'm not sure if her nonsensical solutions for non-problems carry a deeper meaning, but they sure make me feel good.
DarioEscobar
Can "an indiscriminate mixture of signs" constitute a futile loop?...
Dario Robleto
Chairs made from ground bones
MisApply
Parfyme
The Office of the Future, by Parfyme
"Copenhagen is full of empty offices. At the same time, there is a severe lack of places to live, and so on. It's pretty stupid. Fortunately, it's easy to do something about it. If there's going to be offices everywhere, then we can just decide for ourselves what an office is. So we have taken over a space which is now being rebuilt as the office of the future. "
Mike Bouchet
''Bouchet has commented that his works often "come out of an 'attempt' at something... I like the gesture of deliberately failing at something." -PS1 Greater New York 2005 Book, p. 84
DmPlankedMechanical
Bernie Lubel
Interactive wood machines
"Pumping the bellows in one room briefly animates latex bags & sticks in another. Names of parts, commentary and instructions are stamped into the wood.
This installation was an effort to resolve questions concerning the origins of life. How, if everything has a cause, can there ever be a beginning?"
Tinguely
Tinguely creates mechanical works in which the mechanism is not the actuater for a piece, but the piece itself. One work is a machine that destroys itself.
Matthew Ronay
With paint, glue, a band saw, and a high-powered sander, Matthew Ronay transforms medium density fiberboard (MDF) into colorful sculptural tableau...Increasingly, Ronay's Tinker Toys brim with blood, guts, and bodily fluids. For instance, earlier installations that included buttered pancakes and a detached leg with sheet music spinning from its toe (70's Funk Concert Model), argyle socks caught between a hot dog and a gasoline can (Five-Headed Cock In Drag)...
"The work definitely does not illustrate ideas. At least not explicitly concrete ones. It elicits a response. If someone is lazy they would misunderstand the setup as nonsensical or a non sequitur. Instead, what is offered is a chance to create something revealing out of something that is trying to lose its self-consciousness."
Chris Dobrowolski
"In a great deal of his previous work, Chris Dobrowolski has been dealing with history. Household appliances, often themselves junk-shop antiques, have been side-tracked, perverted into memory-machines. A fridge stands with a gutted tv on top of it, connected by extractor-fan tubing. Open the fridge door (of course it?s empty) and the tv spurts into life. Literally. Inside the screen a snowstorm envelops the toytown figures, while, dimly heard on the lowest-fi vinyl, military music plays Soviet marching songs. Through a sleight of hand, familiar objects are lightly, playfully transformed, and the mini-drama that results is one that keeps its charm despite the looming presence of its connotations: a melancholy deeply undercut by menace." -
"He told me he'd made an old car you could pedal and had some funny adventures with the police, and I imagined a hodgepodge. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The car is many things'an evocation of a particular landscape, a portion of a master raconteur?s tale, a museum piece, an ongoing vehicle for transcendence- but let's be sure to bring the literalists on board here: those bits of pipe and rubber are pretty.-Tangents"
Not Categorized
MarkManders
perhaps 88% and reality is a loop
JorgeLuisBorges
self referential fiction within fiction
DmImaginarySystems
BonnieCollura
system as a self-perpetuating useless loop - complex cosmology artist.
Recursively destructive code
Alex Mclean
http://www.grographics.com/wiki/index.php/DmSoftwareArt
Just cuz I love them
NedkoSolakov
GuyBenner
DukeAndBattersby
Motorway Loop
1996, offers the driver a chance to leave the motorway at a sign-posted exit and take a 360 degree bend which loops back to the motorway, rejoining it at the point where he left. -
My stuff
Some futile imagery
see http://www.grographics.com/wordpress/2006/11/26/futile-loop-imagery/
The pyrrhic victory
The object that is destroyed in its own making,
That which staves off the inevitable.
The lonely dutch boy with his finger in the dyke, who has to pee.
The suiciders paradox
GhanaThinkTank
MisguidedMachines
Tree-plywood-tree-plywood
Tree-plywood-plywood tree-plywood
DirtForNauru
LightbulbRobot
Matrix Map Start
Comments
Christiane Paul
Shockbot Corejulio by 5voltcore, http://www.5voltcore.com/). One thing to think about would be the effects produced by these recursive loops; they seem to be exercises in futility but at the same time they generate meaning and question the 'architectures' of life (in different ways). What are the strategies employed by works in this category and what is their respective outcome? (It obviously varies from work to work).