The Accident of Art ...or,...Our First Serious Post....

The Accident of Art by Paul Virilio/ Sylvére Lotringer

I happened to have borrowed this book from the library some time ago..but did not make the connection when we were talking about Virilio today..dir!

Here is a quote that could be relevant to us and our project here at ICYFG:

There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the "optically correct" is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. Instead, they've masked this failure with commercial success. This "accident" is provoking a reversal of values. In my view, this is positive: the accident reveals something important we would not otherwise know how to perceive.
-- Paul Virilio, The Accident of Art

You can read more about the book at Goodreads (a very nice nerdy-bookreaders website i would reccommend!);