Being Painting: Material & Force in the Event of Painting

[Painting, Media & Philosophy]

Apply this treatment of the effects of the synthesizer on sound to the treatment of digital medias on painting:

“By assembling modules, source elements, and elements for treating sound (oscillators, generators and transformers), by arranging micro-intervals, the synthesizer makes audible the sound process itself, the production of that process, and puts us in contact with still other elements beyond sound matter.  It unites disparate elements in the material, and transposes the parameters from one formula to another. The synthesizer, with its operation of consistency, has taken the place of the ground in a priori synthetic judgement: it’s synthesis is of the molecular and the cosmic, material and force, not form and matter.” - D&G

We could recreate this statement this way:

By assembling pixels, code, and elements for treating images/visual objects, by arranging micro-movements, digital media makes visual the painting process itself, the production of that process, and puts us in contact with still other elements beyond visual matter.

Painting, Media & Philosophy

"Ce qu'on appelle 'création', 'don', 'génie' artistiques renvoient en définitive à un jeu de forces, à un certain destin des pulsions" (Kofman, 1995, p. 102)

“The enigma of art is the very same as the enigma of "toute vie qui, depuis sa formation jusqu 'à la mort, est livrée au hasard des jeux deforces et de leur rencontre." Life itself is coincident with the artist whose work is realized in written essays, as in experience, through the individual life : "La vie de chaque individu est un des essais multiples que la vie, seule véritable artiste, réalise en son jeu" (Kofman, 1995, p. 102). Life, without any guarantor (the artist) or guarantees (a life beyond), consists of all that is joyous and with all that is “intolerable”.

Gestural Shock

The word “gesture” derives from the Latin words gestura, meaning “bearing,” “way of carrying” or “mode of action,” and gerere, the infinitive form, which means “to carry, to behave, to take on oneself, to take charge of, to perform or to accomplish.” According to The Oxford English Dictionary , gesture, as a noun, signifies “the manner of carrying the body,” “grace of manner,” “the employment of bodily movement,” “position,” “posture” or “attitude” and as a verb, “to order the attitudes of movements of (the body, oneself).”