Those ekphrastic samples were interesting, but having read a lot of both critical art analysis and ekphrastic poetry, I am finding a real need for not just "let us break down it's layers of meaning" but actually something more simple, possibly a simplicity more difficult to write than the discoursy variant:
What are you experiencing, how does it feel, and why is that important enough to write about?
Without even having seen the artwork described: "Dance choreography is processed into numbers which themselves, as you consider them, seem to dance. This raises the question of whether the computer is learning to dance without a body, or even can, which begins to feel like a blurry distinction the longer you spend involved with the piece."
My read on the lack of ekphrastic writing in digital, particularly NFT art is all about curatorship and framing. To write about a piece you have to contemplate that piece. There's very little contemplation time for digital pieces, as they are predominantly featured in feeds, as series, from profiles, and are usually generative and process-oriented even if they're not generative or processing art nor made with generative or processing algorithms.
You can't write ekphrastics about an Instagram page or SuperRare drop, is what I'm saying. You need the piece itself to stand on its own as a conversation amongst people, for a single person to be moved enough to feel they must write about it.
> You need the piece itself to stand on its own as a conversation amongst people, for a single person to be moved enough to feel they must write about it.
Those ekphrastic samples were interesting, but having read a lot of both critical art analysis and ekphrastic poetry, I am finding a real need for not just "let us break down it's layers of meaning" but actually something more simple, possibly a simplicity more difficult to write than the discoursy variant:
What are you experiencing, how does it feel, and why is that important enough to write about?
Without even having seen the artwork described: "Dance choreography is processed into numbers which themselves, as you consider them, seem to dance. This raises the question of whether the computer is learning to dance without a body, or even can, which begins to feel like a blurry distinction the longer you spend involved with the piece."
My read on the lack of ekphrastic writing in digital, particularly NFT art is all about curatorship and framing. To write about a piece you have to contemplate that piece. There's very little contemplation time for digital pieces, as they are predominantly featured in feeds, as series, from profiles, and are usually generative and process-oriented even if they're not generative or processing art nor made with generative or processing algorithms.
You can't write ekphrastics about an Instagram page or SuperRare drop, is what I'm saying. You need the piece itself to stand on its own as a conversation amongst people, for a single person to be moved enough to feel they must write about it.
> You need the piece itself to stand on its own as a conversation amongst people, for a single person to be moved enough to feel they must write about it.
I like this. Agreed!