More questions about the postion of the artist in an alienated network @Mez:
"Am interested in how you define 'concepts' + 'art'?" I think 'art' expresses something intangible, bigger and more incomprehensable and universal than human existence in a more or less tangible form, like for instance paint or stone or music or written words, whereas a concept as artistic expression merely magnifies the false and blasphemic claim of putting human existence as the sole governor of the universe, a trend started centuries ago and resulting in a extremely divided and alienated world where 'normal people' without the means or academic education needed, are left alone as a seperated non partaking consumer class @Rob: "No" How about people who are not connected to this networked world, the people who just keep talking, discussing with their family and smaller social circles not driven to the need to connect with the 'whole world ' although technically speaking it is made possibble by the intermet? Is the networked group not seperating those, by its very technical oriented way of exsisting? What happens when the internet is cut off likely to be happening more and more in the near future? What if you cannot afford to pay the bill for your connection? @Alan: " - while concepts might not be art per se, there's certainly an aesthetics at work -" Aesthetics is hardly a ground for something being art, there is beauty in everything once you learn how to see Concepts are, mostly, disconnecting the aesthetic experience from sensual experience leaving the receiver with nothing but her braincells to 'consume' it Thereby -again- leaving behind the 'unseperated whole' (Plotinus) and dividing it in seperate pieces to be placed in the producer-consumer chain, to be commodified again and again and again...... AA Andreas Maria Jacobs w: http://www.nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
