artć + societate / arts + society #38, 2011 20 lei / 11 €, 14 USD - idea
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¬ De ce a fost invitat Restaurantul Instructables sæ participe tocmai la aceastæ<br />
expoziflie de artæ?<br />
√ Cred cæ a existat un interes comun legat de abordarea ideilor de ospitalitate øi<br />
auctorialitate. Pentru curatorul expozifliei, Leo Delfgaauw, øi pentru coordonatorul<br />
Maaike Gottschal, restaurantul, pe lîngæ funcflia sa de loc în care se mænîncæ øi se bea,<br />
trebuia sæ creeze posibilitatea dezbaterii øi a schimbului øi sæ facæ oamenii sæ se simtæ<br />
bine-venifli. În fond, titlul expozifliei era Casa de oaspefli. Orice restaurant, chiar øi ca<br />
metaforæ, exprimæ ideea de ospitalitate øi de ajutare a celuilalt. În cadrul Restaurantului<br />
Instructables, aceastæ funcflie e dusæ la un alt nivel, întrucît servim, aproape literal,<br />
ideile altora. Acesta este øi motivul pentru care devine interesant sæ participi la<br />
o expoziflie de artæ în care auctorialitatea individualæ are o asemenea însemnætate. A<br />
existat, evident, un mare contrast între obiectele din cadrul expozifliei øi cele din restaurant.<br />
Discuflia legatæ de open-source pune în practicæ un set diferit de paradigme øi<br />
un vocabular diferit pentru a-øi exprima activitæflile læuntrice. Nu existæ intruøi øi nici<br />
o distincflie claræ între oaspete øi gazdæ. Individul existæ în transparenflæ. Vizibilitatea<br />
devine o funcflie a colectivului, iar imedierea cunoøtinflelor individuale o funcflie a expresiei<br />
colective. Desigur, acestea sînt cuvinte mari în comparaflie cu relativa simplitate<br />
a restaurantului ca atare, dar tocmai asta e ideea. Trebuie sæ amestecæm limbile pentru<br />
a încerca sæ înflelegem cum realitatea digitalæ modificæ felul în care lucræm øi<br />
træim. Fricfliunea dintre restaurant øi expoziflia de artæ e importantæ øi nu trebuie ignoratæ.<br />
Ea întruchipeazæ paradoxul design/artæ. A fost un lucru inteligent din partea lui<br />
Leo Delgaauw øi Maaike Gottschal sæ aducæ un restaurant în expoziflie, dar a fost øi<br />
un risc. Arta øi designul nu merg întotdeauna bine împreunæ.<br />
¬ Ce-ar fi de spus despre contextul local?<br />
√ Una dintre ideile puternice din spatele restaurantului e cæ acesta e adoptat de<br />
o comunitate de autori implicafli. Problema e cæ acest lucru ræmîne ceva foarte abstract<br />
dacæ aceøti autori træiesc în cealaltæ parte a lumii øi nu au posibilitatea de-a vizita restaurantul.<br />
Aøadar, la Rotterdam am conectat aceastæ perspectivæ globalæ asupra informafliei<br />
cu o abordare localæ. Am încurajat oamenii din cartierul Afrikaanderwijk sæ-øi<br />
încarce pe instructables.com refletele øi instrucfliunile preferate. Aøadar, în ciuda intenfliei<br />
noastre, am început sæ încærcæm informaflii pe internet øi le-am activat de îndatæ în<br />
restaurant. Ca urmare, publicul sau oaspeflii au constat într-un amestec radical de<br />
iubitori de artæ øi localnici care doreau sæ înfulece ceva. Într-un fel, toatæ lumea a<br />
simflit cæ aparfline acelui loc. Øi chiar aøa era.<br />
Instructables este un site specializat în proiecte D.I.Y. create øi încærcate de utilizatori (HYPERLINK<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-it-yourself), unde alfli utilizatori pot comenta øi evalua calitatea. Un instructable<br />
este un ghid pas-cu-pas care aratæ cum ai creat sau ai fæcut ceva. Site-ul a fost creat de Eric Wilhelm<br />
(HYPERLINK http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eric_Wilhelm&action=edit&redlink=1), inginer<br />
mecanic, øi a fost lansat în august <strong>20</strong>05. Astæzi, are aproape 2 milioane de membri. Instructables stimuleazæ<br />
colaborarea pas cu pas în vederea construirii unei multitudini de proiecte. Utilizatorii posteazæ instrucfliuni<br />
vizînd proiectele lor, de obicei însoflite de materiale vizuale, øi apoi interacflioneazæ prin intermediul secfliunii<br />
de comentarii de dedesubtul tuturor ghidurilor, precum øi în cadrul forumurilor dedicate. Restaurantul<br />
Instructables este o inifliativæ independentæ a doi membri Instructables, Arne Hendriks øi Bas van Abel.<br />
Traducere de Alex Moldovan<br />
scena<br />
and the coordinator Maaike Gottschal the restaurant, apart form its<br />
function as a place to eat and drink, needed to be a facility for<br />
debate and exchange, and it needed to create a sense of welcome.<br />
Afterall the title of the exhibition was Guesthouse. Any restaurant,<br />
even as a metaphor, expresses the <strong>idea</strong> of hospitality and the facilitation<br />
of the other. In the Instructables Restaurant this function is<br />
taken to another level because we serve, quite literally, the <strong>idea</strong>s<br />
of others. This is also why it becomes interesting to participate in an<br />
art exhibition where individual authorship is of such importance.<br />
There was obviously a big contrast between the products in the exhibition<br />
and the products in the restaurant. The open-source discussion<br />
applies a different set of paradigms and a different vocabulary<br />
to express its inner workings. There are no outsiders and there is no<br />
clear distinction between guest and host. The individual exists within<br />
a transparency. Visibility becomes a function of the collective, and<br />
the immediation of individual knowledge a function of collective<br />
expression. Obviously these are big words compared to the relative<br />
simplicity of the restaurant itself but that’s precisely the point.<br />
We need to mix-up languages to try to understand how digital reality<br />
is changing the way we work and live. The friction between the<br />
restaurant and the art exhibition is an important one, and one that<br />
should not be ignored. It embodies the design/art paradox.<br />
It was smart of Leo Delgaauw and Maaike Gottschal to bring a<br />
restaurant to the exhibition but it was also a risk. Art and design<br />
don’t always work well together.<br />
¬ What about the local context?<br />
√ One of the strong <strong>idea</strong>s behind the restaurant is that it gets<br />
adopted by a community of involved authors. The problem is that<br />
this remains very abstract if these authors live on the other side<br />
of the world and are not in a position to visit the restaurant.<br />
So in Rotterdam we connected this global view on information with<br />
a local approach. We encouraged people from the neighborhood<br />
Afrikaanderwijk to upload their favorite recipes and instructions to<br />
instructables.com. So despite ourselves we started to feed information<br />
back into the web, and immediately activated it in the restaurant.<br />
As a result the public, or guests, consisted of a radical mix of<br />
art lovers and locals looking for a bite to eat. Somehow everybody<br />
felt like they belonged there. And they did.<br />
Instructables is a website specializing in user-created and uploaded<br />
(HYPERLINK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-it-yourself), do-ityourself<br />
projects, which other users can comment on and rate for<br />
quality. An instructable is a step-by-step guide showing how you<br />
made or did something. The website was created by (HYPERLINK<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eric_Wilhelm&action=<br />
edit&redlink=1), Eric Wilhelm, a mechanical engineer, and it was<br />
launched in August <strong>20</strong>05. Today it has close to 2 million members.<br />
Instructables stimulates step-by-step collaboration to build a variety<br />
of projects. Users post instructions to their projects, usually accompanied<br />
by visual aids, and then interact through comment sections<br />
below each instructable, as well as in topic forums. The Instructables<br />
Restaurant is an independent initiative of two Instructables members,<br />
Arne Hendriks and Bas van Abel.<br />
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