Being Captain Swing

I find it hard to care about art wank. Art matters. Ideas matters. However, the elitist cliques, feuds, politics and ingrained cultural snobbery of the clever-clever art crowd are just appalling to me. Pointless mystification, naff satire and deconstruction … all so ridiculous, so inane. The one thing I admire about certain pseudo-Situationists though is their construction and use of collective identities. Whether is as Autonomous Astronauts or Luther Blissett, the more our data is mined, the more multiple-use name makes sense as a strategy. In a Web 2.0 world, we might all benefit from being Captain Swing or Taliesin.