Good Weather For Airstrikes

Gaia Theory & Inter-Net(work) Art

The Internet—a network of networks—is the fastest means of worldwide connectivity, the widest reaching form of communication, and the easiest means of real-time information sharing. The Internet ends the idea of the original and allows for the everywhere-ness of art. With the Internet almost anyone, anywhere, can create / view / download / share / and own art. However, one of the problems with Internet art, and the use of the Internet to share ideas, is that the Internet is only accessible to people with a computer and means to connect to the Internet. Everyone / everything / everywhere is still an unattainable utopia. In actuality, it is ou-topia (“no place”). This rules out a large proportion of the world’s population. It is further limited by that fact that information, such as this Website, is only accessible to an English speaking person. 

Thus, a universal art project involving everyone everywhere is still unattainable. However, this is only unattainable with the Internet. A hypothetical project, named Oxygen,could involve everyone, everywhere, regardless of their language, access (or lack of access) to an art institution, or the Internet. Oxygen would hold that at the exact moment a viewer finishes reading about it everyone alive who has ever breathed air is the work of art, and involved in the art, regardless of their knowledge, or lack of knowledge, of their participation in the piece. Imagining yourself, and the rest of humanity, at a particular point in time, involved in a work of art unifies the planet, if only for a moment.

Air: Nitrogen (N₂): 78.09%/Oxygen (O₂): 20.95%/Argon (Ar): 0.93%/Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 0.038%/Other (Neon (Ne), Helium (He), Krypton (Kr), Hydrogen (H₂), Xenon (Xe)

Art As An Idea

GoodWeatherForAirStrikes is interested in examining art as pure idea, not in the sense of being some definitive or original idea, but in the sense of being wholly an idea void of content or material.

It is interested in:

• The concept of the art idea; 
• Removing art from the institutional setting and arguing for the everything-ness and everywhere-ness of art; 
• Exploring the role of the Internet;
• Exploring the idea of the original.

It endeavours to explore art beyond the traditional notion of aesthetics by examining everyday mediums as art objects. In doing so, it is interested in the discourse of ideas and concepts that come with these new, yet highly unoriginal, mediums.