mark mollé
@marmo.eth
Sharing a condensed version of a framework for communicating ideas in the age of Al-empowered creation. To make matters more memorable, the #IdeAction framework backronyms IDEA: inspiration, description, emotion, action. https://paragraph.xyz/@marmo/ideaction-an-intraconnected-framework-for-activating-ideation
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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️
@maybeimwasabi
Very interesting read. Were you thinking primarily of visual art (ai) when writing? How do you feel this format differs from a typical Artist’s statement?
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mark mollé
@marmo.eth
(b) apply to an artist’s entire practice and not on a work-by-work, text-by-text basis, whereas the IdeAction is piece-specific and (c) often to be written in very abstract, art-speak-y terms, whereas the IdeAction encourages dropping down Hayakawa’s ladder of abstraction.
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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️
@maybeimwasabi
c) I know what you mean - I wonder about this often and am afraid that it’s what turns off people from participating in art, going to museums etc. but then I think - the same goes for any profession, right? At a high enough level, it does become hard to understand or communicate certain concepts in a super simplified
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Maybe Im Wasabi〽️
@maybeimwasabi
..way. I’ve tried to experiment a bit here - on unknownwomen.xyz I created an FAQ style artist’s statement, intentionally for this reason. May have still overshot a bit with too much content…(not trying to advertise my work btw genuinely sharing something i’ve been thinking about ie simplification of language i
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mark mollé
@marmo.eth
This IdeAction framework attempts to encourage concrete, simple statements of inspiration, description, emotion, and action. I'm not doing it any service by waxing so philosophical in the margin (or where are we now? are we in the margin? are we besides the text on para graph? or are we elsewhere?)
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mark mollé
@marmo.eth
Prolix and paradoxical descriptions and opaque philosophical abstractions create a sense that there is deep and exclusive value deep beneath the textual surface. It's understood by an elite group of art-text producers and understood to convey value by art-world advisers and confirmed by monetary value assigned to works
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mark mollé
@marmo.eth
Yes, the question of specialized language transcends the arts, but it's especially acute in when we're dealing with aesthetic objects that not have some utility or figurative mimesis, so a vacuum opens in which to one may pour pure abstraction. As for perception, it increases the perception of value for Veblen goods.
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