OuViePo’s constraints are not invented ex nihilo. Each one is linked to an actual artistic practice, a documented gesture, a work that showed it was possible. Here are some of the artists who made all of this imaginable. It all…
Tag: Contemporary Art
Under the Hood: The Database and the Constraint Generator
The OuViePo generator works like a real digital exquisite corpse: parameters are drawn at random first, then the system finds the matching constraint. A look at the technical architecture.
Constraint as a Tool for Freedom
Why give yourself rules to create? The OuViePo constraint belongs to a long tradition: from Fluxus to George Brecht’s Event Scores, from the exquisite corpse to Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures.
OuViePo, Birth of a Workshop for Potential Life
OuViePo was born from three sentences. The first, by Robert Filliou: “Art is what makes life more interesting than art.” The second, by Joseph Beuys: “Jeder Mensch ist ein Kunstler“, every human being is an artist. The third, from the…