Uber Selects by William A. Brown
CREATED LIVE DURING AN AUCTION
Art is about to subsume the Federal Reserve.
Art is the new way of printing money.
We’re going to paint over it and include it
in pieces on the walls of our big house.
We’re tired of sliding door systems stealing our stuff to sell it.
So we’re just going to buy everything
we can get our hands on and whitewash it.
And sell it for a million dollars—
because we’re artists but not headless.
Don’t like industry but want its credit.
Beaten to death by it celebrating a miracle
parallel to a wall. Sliding doors can be mounted either on top of a track
below or be suspended
from a track above and some types ‘disappear’ in a wall when slid open.
About the author:
Thomas Osatchoff, together with family, is building a self-sustaining home near a waterfall. Recent poems have appeared in Abstract: Contemporary Expressions, Cold Mountain Review, Cutbank Literary Journal, and elsewhere.
In the artist’s words:
William A. Brown. From a new series entitled Paintings for a Robot, I’m proposing the use of film editing technologies to rapidly create merged images that will be made into paintings in the near future by robots. I was interested in creating images based on conventions from photography. I have no doubt that robots will be capable of creating high resolution paintings in the near future, meaning artists will be freed from the time consuming tedium of fine art painting. I consider myself a pioneer in the use of digital techniques to create “pre-paintings” that will be rendered by robots that have mastered the highly complex task of applying precisely mixed paint to a flat surface creating the kinds of images that have made painting, historically, the medium which has defined the visual imagination of our most brilliant artists. One advantage of generating paintings in this way is that you can use John Cage-inspired aleatory randomizing strategies, which is how the submitted works were created.
It’s all on my web site: Trying to Paint with a Camera Willi am A. Brown