neo-modermism

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> To return to the topic of new modernism. Of course we don't want to simpl=
y
> replay Mondrian and Klee on computer screens. The task of the new generat=
ion
> is to integrate the two paradigms of the twentieth century: (1) belief in
> science and rationality, emphasis on efficiency, basic forms, idealism an=
d
> heroic spirit of modernism; (2) skepticism, interest in "marginality" and
> "complexity," deconstructive strategies, baroque opaqueness and excess of
> post-modernism (1960s-). At this point all the features of the second par=
adigm
> became tired clich=E9s. Therefore a return to modernism is not a bad first =
step,
> as long as it is just a first step towards developing the new aesthetics =
for
> the new age.
> Lev Manovich - "Generation Flash"=20

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