{"id":8089,"date":"2012-06-08T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T21:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/pasta-and-vinegar\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:57:57","slug":"these-new-aestheticians-were-a-bit-too-literal-werent-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2012\/06\/08\/these-new-aestheticians-were-a-bit-too-literal-werent-they\/","title":{"rendered":"These new aestheticians were a bit too literal, weren\u2019t they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/pasta-and-vinegar\/files\/2012\/06\/7248930124_c6a03e40c1_b.jpeg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/pasta-and-vinegar\/files\/2012\/06\/7248930124_c6a03e40c1_b.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"7248930124_c6a03e40c1_b\" width=\"500\"class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5836\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Why do I blog this?<\/b> Probably because this encounter with a weird table, whose shape has been generated by a computer program, seem to exemplify the excess or the mere simplicity of adopting this approach in design\/art. We&#8217;ll probably see more and more things like that.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this signal can also be connected with some of the insights Regine brought up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/2011\/11\/err-a-conversation-with-jeremy.php\">her interview with Jeremy Hutchison<\/a>. This artist contacted a bunch of manufacturers around the world asking them to produce an item which had to be imperfect, come with an intentional error. In this blogpost, i was fascinated by this part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I got a frantic call in the middle of the night: Waleed was at the customs port. The authorities had seized the ball. When he explained than an Englishman had ordered a ball with errors, all hell broke loose. They said it was illegal to fabricate incorrect products, and they would revoke his company&#8217;s trading licence. I explained that this product wasn&#8217;t incorrect since it was exactly what I&#8217;d ordered. Days passed: nothing. Lost in the bureaucracy of Pakistani customs, I eventually got through to the high commissioner in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>She was very apologetic, and explained that 20kg of heroin had recently passed under the radar at Sialkot customs. So everyone was feeling a bit paranoid. She issued a document stating that &#8220;the sculpture\/artwork looks like a football but in fact is not a football and primarily this object is not for using as a football but is an artwork.&#8221; But it was too late: someone had destroyed the ball, and it disappeared without a trace. I never quite found out who.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The intentional creation of failed object and the influence they can have on people or organization&#8217;s behavior is always a fascinating research avenue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=lpv1CvL4WG4:GIVaz-Z1Sl8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=lpv1CvL4WG4:GIVaz-Z1Sl8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=lpv1CvL4WG4:GIVaz-Z1Sl8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?i=lpv1CvL4WG4:GIVaz-Z1Sl8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/NicolasNova\/~4\/lpv1CvL4WG4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I blog this? 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