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navigational art

Did anyone read David Joselit's piece in Artforum on Navigational Art?

"This experience of straddling two or more locations simultaneously has caused the negotiation of both physical and virtual worlds to become increasingly disembodied, and, as with any cultural shift, this transformation has produced new opportunities for art. "Navigation" now describes how we move, and the term, given its dual associations with sea voyages and Internet surfing, perfectly captures the elision of physicality and virtuality. Beyond generating novel aesthetic responses, the experience of navigable space has led to a reconsideration, both among artists and art historians, of more literally territorial ecologies, particularly those of Land art. What is distinctive in "navigational" art, which encompasses not only Internet art but also much recent painting and sculpture, is not simply the association of virtuality with presence—which is implicit in any site-specific practice—but their confusion."

Klunky name-interesting subject...

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