"New-Method" No. 14
We introduce the email bulletin "New-Method" No. 14 with our works and
guest contributions. This issue features Toshihiko Furuya, a
contemporary artist, art critic and philosophy researcher, who has now
held a solo exhibition "aperiodic crystals" at 20202. He will
hold a talk event titled "Method and Product" on 17th of this month
with Hideki Nakazawa for the guest speaker.
[Contribution]
Method and Product
Toshihiko Furuya (Contemporary Artist, Art Critic, Philosophy
Researcher)
It is not ourselves who initiated method art with Oldowan tools
produced by Lithic reduction. We call ourselves Homo sapiens, but
it is a difference species within the same genus, what we call Homo
habilis, who started production of the Oldowan tools. We had not
yet been there at the time.
Since method art is extension of the body, its product belongs to the
very producer. Now, however, we have been convinced that we own
all the products left by method art in the past. Indeed,
possession of the stone tool did not occur immediately after its
production.
Possession of the product was a twofold deviation from constant use of
tools. Deviance had been always taking place in unintended ways.
A representative case is the fossil, which is left as remnants of
routine rather than intentional accumulation. Be it intentional
or not, however, being-left-present is the common way of the first
deviation. Early Oldowan tools have been left present in this way.
Then fossils are discovered another time. Things to become the
fossil are also discovered. Bodies are discovered as traces of
life, eventually products too. Here we have the second deviation.
The fossil is possessed, and things to become the fossil are possessed
and processed. Then they possess Oldowan tools.
Still, it is not ourselves either who initiated possession as such.
Speaking of what we have done in the end, we have only inherited method
art from other species. Possibly we could at most reduce the
products into method art. Even now the basic facts have not
changed concerning this.
It was not ourselves who initiated production that presupposes
possession. Originally we could only manage to use the
product. No matter how sophisticated the use is, it cannot be
decisive. It is very recently when we finally came to catch up
the predecessors concerning possession. Also it came about only
after going through a very long way around.
Meanwhile products and remnants of routine have proliferated without
limit, and things being-left-present have surrounded us. The
ability to which we have attained has equipped much diversity due to
twists and turns in the long way around, but it can be hardly said that
we have acquired the essential way of possession. What we have
arrived at is at most possession as being unconscious submission to
waste, with which we have managed to only maintain the decisively
submissive five thousand years while being possessed and disposed
through possession.
Only what we exceed the predecessors must be this fact alone that we
dispose ourselves every single time and throw out the product to the
state where we are never troubled by the producer. But it does
not mean that we can manage to escape from the product. We feel
we dispose the product as freely as we intend, but in fact it is the
product that has freely consumed us and kept expanding itself.
[Web Works of the New-Methodicists]
- Takahiro Hirama
"The Young Ladies of Avignon" is the work that Pablo Picasso produced
http://hrmtkhr.web.fc2.com/new-method/014_e.html
"The Young Ladies of Avignon" is a painting by French painter Pablo
Picasso(1881-1973), dated 1907.
It has been possessed by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Shogo Baba
Ascending Order Sort No. 6 "Insertion Sort"
http://7x7whitebell.net/new-method/shogobaba/014_e.html
Insertion Sort is a sort method comparing adjoining numbers as Bubble
Sort and Gnome Sort do. The reason of using adjoing numbers for
comparing and swapping is that our intuition knows the method.
Incidentally, this particular case had an identical sort process with
Gnome Sort.
- Hideki Nakazawa
Source and Execution No. 74 - 77
http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/newmethod/b14/e.html
These four works share a common XHTML document, each with a different
stylesheet just like previous works. The XHTML document is
written to generate three kinds of 100 identical boxes, that is, 300
boxes in total. The stylesheet is written by inputting every 10
integers from 10 to 250 regularly for 25 numerical values which define
the background and three kinds of boxes. Appearance will change
along with balance between window size and magnification, and with the
language specifications of either Japanese or English.
[Information]
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http://hrmtkhr.web.fc2.com/
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[Editor's Note]
As a result of being absorbed into "Battles Without Honor and
Humanity"(Japanese YAKUZA movie,) I came to dress like this
http://instagr.am/p/Tx8Hk/ at Yuhei and Madoka Saito Bridal
Party. I wish you a happy holiday and a happy new year.
(Kaido)
Publisher
Takahiro Hirama @qwertyu1357
Shogo Baba @shogobaba
Hideki Nakazawa @nakaZAWAHIDEKI
Editor
Masaru Kaido @kaido1900
Bulletin "New-Method" No. 14 English Version
Published on Dec. 4, 2011