AS GLOSS, Kiss Babel Goodbye
Arthur Elsenaar and Taconis Stolk
ArtScience spans a large variety of topics, terms, jargon and definitions. With ease we talk about emergence, immersion, haptics, cymatics, modality, agency, the singularity, the BWO(*) to name a few and yet, do we really know what we know? What are the known knowns and foremost the known unknowns? Are we at all sure what it means? What artists and scientists make work on or about these topics? Do they at all talk the same language?
In this theoretical and extremely practical research project, we will work on bringing clarity to the confused world of ArtScience. AS GLOSS will become an online glossary of terms for ArtScience, so that AS can shine as never before and your work with it. Let’s KISS(**) and say babel goodbye.
Will this be boring? Yes!
Will this be useful / inspirational? Yes!
Will this make my life easier? Yes!
* Body Without Organs
** Keep It Simple Stupid
gloss 1
noun [ mass noun ]
1 shine or lustre on a smooth surface: hair with a healthy gloss.
2 [ in sing. ] a superficially attractive appearance or impression: beneath the gloss of success was a tragic private life.
verb [ with obj. ]
1 apply a glossy substance to.
2 (gloss over) try to conceal or disguise (something unfavourable) by treating it briefly or representing it misleadingly: the social costs of this growth are glossed over.
gloss 2
noun
a translation or explanation of a word or phrase.
• an explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase of a text
verb [ with obj. ]
provide an explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase for (a text, word, etc.).
• [ no obj. ] (gloss on/upon) archaic make comments, especially unfavourable ones, about (something).
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: alteration of the noun gloze, from Old French glose(see gloze), suggested by medieval Latin glossa ‘explanation of a difficult word’, from Greek glōssa ‘word needing explanation, language, tongue’.
