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Good day SuperForesters,

We at SF have been working to offer more original content. A new weekly web series is in the works. Modern Art Chat is going to be a series of columns by SuperForester Julius concerning modern art. Every Monday a new work of art will be discussed.

But what do we mean by modern art and how did we get this idea anyway?

The art that we plan on covering here goes a bit beyond the MOMA (Museum Of Modern Art). Either because it’s artistic value is disputable or because the art can’t be exhibited.

“Can’t be exhibited”? What on Earth does that mean?

Well, a piece of street art can’t be hung in a museum simply because the essence would disappear. But this also applies to other art forms, such as internet art. Idea art.

I am going to talk about science in respect to art and yes I am going to talk about art that uses computers. The internet isn’t going to be absent either.
Let me illustrate all this with an example. Take a look at the header picture of this post. It has got an almost infinite number of complex mathematical shapes in it. It hasn’t been created by hand but by an algorithm (which has been created by hand actually). What sort of person is behind this creation? What’s his background? And why is it so interesting (to me)? These are the questions we’ll explore in future posts.

About a year ago, long before I joined SuperForest, I had a blog of my own: Casuquo. (Which is Latin for ‘in this case’.)

At Casuquo I posted daily about something that related modern art and popular culture in close ways. Though the subjects of the posts varied they had one thing in common. Each and every post represented a unique, original idea.

That’s basically where my fascination for modern art started. I witnessed the extreme width of the concept of art and the awesome things people did with it. And now I am here, at SuperForest, trying to spread that fascination for original ideas all over the world.

So check in every Monday and discuss the ideas with me in Monday Modern Art Chat.

SuperForester Julius