{"id":320,"date":"2008-06-16T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=320"},"modified":"2008-06-16T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T01:30:00","slug":"disappeared-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Disappeared Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Nothing<\/p>\n

Disappearing<\/a> should be an art form, a seductive way of leaving the world. I believe that part of disappearing is to disappear before you die, to disappear before you have run dry<\/a>, while you still have something to say…<\/em>
—Jean Baudrillard
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As Tim noted yesterday, the online images for the 2009<\/a> and 2010<\/a> editions of the Fractal Universe Calendar<\/a> have disappeared. <\/p>\n

Continuing their unbroken pattern of maximum secrecy, neither the current editor nor the publisher — Avalanche Publishing<\/a> — apparently feels the fractal community deserves any explanation for this sudden turn of events. The FUC folks certainly weren’t shy<\/a> about asking fractal artists<\/a> to go to the trouble of making and submitting work — even if those who administer the calendar will no longer go to the trouble of displaying<\/a> the contest’s winning images — and, of course, certainly can’t be bothered to explain the reasons for their abrupt change in policy. I suspect Tim’s speculation is on target. It’s a deliberate move designed to soften criticism<\/a> from guess who.<\/p>\n

So, isn’t it at least a little ironic<\/a> that the only current online source to showcase a number of the winning entries for the 2010 Fractal Universe Calendar Contest is — wait for it — Orbit Trap<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Yes. I know. It is tiring when the FUC’s myopic <\/a>critics just can’t grasp that the Fractal Universe Calendar is (to quote its website<\/a>) *not* a contest<\/em> — especially critics like Diane Cipollo<\/a> over at Bella Online<\/a>. She was more than jubilant (although probably supernaturally pre-influenced by Orbit Trap via a time traveling wormhole<\/a>) back in 2004 to be one of the town criers<\/a> for the 2006 edition of the Fractal Universe Calendar. Why she even seemed to be on a first-name basis with the editors for that year: Tina<\/a> and Linda<\/a>. And what was the title of her article<\/a>? As Condi Rice once said<\/a> — I believe the title was: <\/p>\n

Open Call for Fractal Universe Calendar Contest<\/strong><\/p>\n

No doubt OT’s former hecklers<\/a> will immediately begin armoring up<\/a> (in a strictly semi-rhetorical fashion<\/a>) and making plans for invading Cipollo’s comments section to verbally set her straight. I guess she didn’t get the talking points<\/a> memo. <\/p>\n

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And inquiring mind<\/a>s might be asking why Damien M. Jones<\/a> is pushing the Fractal Universe Calendar hot and heavy over on his Fractalus main page<\/a> — announcing first the submission deadline and now noting that submissions have closed. Is he merely a concerned citizen<\/a>? Perhaps, but an examination of the site shows the only fractal art contests announced and archived on Fractalus are those Jones hosts on his own server<\/a> and plays some part in administering<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tags:<\/strong> fractal<\/a>, fractals<\/a>, fractal art<\/a>, fractal art contest<\/a>, art criticism<\/a>, fractal universe calendar<\/a>, avalanche publishing<\/a>, disappeared art<\/a>, hypocritical hecklers<\/a>, damien m jones<\/a>, fractalus<\/a>, cruelanimal<\/a>, orbit trap<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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