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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
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4 Comments:
Well, it's up to him whether he wants to reply to his critics or not but I don't see the point. Anyone who doesn't like what he's doing can get lost! Er, satiate their artistic needs elsewhere ;-) Although yes, there can be propaganda value in keeping a controversy going.
@guido, I'd say code can be art when it's well written. Doesn't matter if the only audience is a few other programmers most of whom wont appreciate what they're seeing anyway. As for code which produces images, I suspect most people are more interested in the images than the code.
I'm beginning to think that art can be all things to all people. You seem to see it in a more aggressive way than me.
The loss of the bohemian individual making art is interesting. Art collaborations can work very well but I doubt if a collaboration would improve on, or even come close, to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. Indeed, if you accept the restorers as collaborators, some think the restorations screwed up the master's work!
1/05/2007 12:04 PM
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1/05/2007 4:29 PM
Philip, I a m not making critics to a specific technique some artist can have as a tool for own expression. I am not even opening a debate in favor or against specific works of art. I use to understand art as a reflection over reality and/even over the proposals of "Art" itself. But despite such a “proposition” I hope haven't given the impression that I am against art that don’t challenges the viewer. Isn´t that contradictory? Not at all since I consider that subjectivity (still) has an important rule on art creation when experiencing one another’s “truth” – although artists do not create art based on truth - but mainly based on. passions. For me Art has the proposal to change something – including the visual reference to what is right or not, to what is beautiful or not – to change not merely our aesthetic attitudes, but mainly our lives.
I am sure anyone touched by art, music, dance, or literature, has a special aesthetic experience tinged by the prick of the conscience -the moments when their assumptions were overturned. I believe that art through perpetual challenge and shock will lead to the progressive humanization of individuals and society. But I should not be taken to indicate that non-challenging forms of artistic activity do not count. The most naive thing about us (artists) today, is that we think only some of us can make sense of the world. If we are really honest with ourselves we would see that nothing makes any sense. .
An art critic once wrote that if art is whatever an artist says it is, then it can be nothing else. At a time when there would seem to be little consensuses about what art is, or what it’s for, the consequences for our understanding of aesthetical and technological limits are note enough of its importance, both to art and to people. This guideline for judging art may not be as affective for everyone; however, for me it has seemed to allow the most subjectivity to come into play in judging a work of art. This is important because I believe, and will always hold as a belief, that art, no matter what the form, is subjective. Art, music, dance, literature, cinema, theatre are not sciences even though there are those who will find a scientific equation to explain how each one works. The core, the roots of each, in my opinion, comes from the subjective and personal aspect of human beings. Without this aspect, art, music, and literature seem to me like signs of meaningless.
1/05/2007 4:59 PM
Hi Guido,
"art is whatever an artist says it is"
The better artists are usually correct. If I don't appreciate it, that's my loss :-). As you say, this is a matter of individual subjectivity and judgement.
"signs of meaningless"
One theory of art is that it's a luxury, ie. not necessary for physical survival. In that sense, art is meaningless.
1/06/2007 11:57 AM
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