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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT CYCLE-LOGICAL ART

11 JANUARY 2006 01 MARCH 2006
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER

Ken Goldberg is an artist and professor Linda Weintraub is the author of Avant-
of engineering at UC Berkeley. He has Guardians: Textlets in Ecology and Art
also held visiting positions at the and the founder of ArtNow Publications.
MIT Media Lab, Art Center College of She served as director of the Edith C.
Design, and the San Francisco Art Blum Art Institute located in the Bard
Institute. College Campus where she originated
50 exhibitions and published over
In Too Close for Comfort, Goldberg 20 catalogues. Weintraub lectures
talked about privacy, free speech, frequently on art and its intersection
and the demonstrate project. Like with ecology.
oxygen, privacy is an odorless,
colorless substance usually taken for The term “cycle-logical” creates a
granted. It is deeply rooted in both linguistic link between recycling and
the personal and the social, evoking psychology. Cycle-logic means using
a range of human responses. Political cyclic logic that expands thinking
and technical developments have altered beyond current uses and end-point goals.
privacy’s ecosystem of expectations, Cycle-logic integrates recycling into
laws and behaviors. To expand the artistic decisions about which materials
dialogue on privacy, this event had set are mined, how they are fabricated,
out to demonstrate—to make visible— what uses they serve, when they are
concrete examples of privacy in discarded, and how they are reused. It
practice. simultaneously seeks methods of reuse
that assure the ability of ecosystems to
cope with stress, withstand adversity,
recover from disturbance, create
vitality, and invent their own recycling
strategies. In this manner, cycling
the earth’s limited materials becomes
equated with art creativity.

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