Art as Resistance: Celant and the Neural Network of the Contemporary

Fatti principali

• Christian Caliandro is the author of the article.
• The article cites Germano Celant and his text 'Arte Povera. Notes for a Guerrilla War' from 1967.
• Caliandro describes the global system of contemporary art as a vast neural field.
• Art is seen as a code readable as a pattern of relationship between input and output.
• Time is considered a data flow in which past, present, and future are information packets.
• Each viewer is a processing node that transforms stimuli into emotional and/or cognitive output.
• Nostalgia is defined as a subroutine that recalls past data but produces neither experience nor consciousness.
• Caliandro contrasts 'androidized' art and 'human' or resistance art.
• Achrony is the variable that slows, accelerates, or stratifies the data flow.
• Celant stated that the artist is forced to produce a single object for the market and cannot modify the social structure.
• Arte Povera is described as engaged with contingency, event, the ahistorical, and the present.
• Caliandro teaches art history at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.
• Caliandro is a member of the scientific committee of Symbola Foundation for Italian Qualities.