when i was at art school, one day my friend Gary Brunt wondered why there
weren't any punch ups in front of the coffee machine over art...
why did no one feel passionately any more about the aesthetics involved?
Matt Locke wrote:
>and maybe this is because the vocabularies that have developed around media
>arts practise are too (to use patrick's phrase) societal for the
>mainstream, who prefer to locate art wholly within its own, hermetic context.
absolutely. These 'societal vocabularies' can be hermetic themselves, and
have their own agendas designed to keep media art practice outside of the
mainstream. After all, i thought activist art is *supposed* to be
challenging the mainstream?
trying to communicate about aesthetics within the hermetic world of digital
arts is where the real feeling lies. The mainstream are quite happy to
exploit this as soon as its practices become clear enough for them to
understand. They just don't get it yet. I wonder why?
best~
Sarah
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www.content-type.org.uk
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