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Why is everyone missing the point? Yea sure this doesn't accurately determine whether a picture is original. Of course it's not practical. Of course you would n
by jules 11y ago
Why is everyone missing the point? Yea sure this doesn't accurately determine whether a picture is original. Of course it's not practical. Of course you would not buy this. That isn't the point. This project is itself art.
- cortesoft 11y agoThis is kind of amusing reading a bunch of engineers try to apply engineering thinking to art.
- VLM 11y agoI think they're "playing along" and trying to make a piece of performance art about people not recognizing performance art or art criticism, a statement against lack of artistic creativity, or whatever.
- Sanddancer 11y agoIt's art, but is it /good/ art? Its intent is to draw attention to some rather crappy laws being proposed and/or implemented, but the project's implementation instead brings discussion as to how even items photographed thousands or millions of times can show new facets based on one photographer. Is the banal art? This project would have been better had it used much more digital processing to censor a random person, a random building, etc. That would have led to a much better discussion on the issue of copyrighting buildings.
- jules 11y agoI enjoyed the idea, particularly around the observation that thousands of people are photographing the same statue when you can just look up a much better picture on the internet. I saw the censorship angle as a sidenote, and a warning that tools developed for one purpose (in this case the retractable button) can be re-purposed as tools for oppression. It's better art than most. I don't see the need to be hypercritical of it.
- nosuchthing 11y agoSomewhat pertinent on Camera/Art/Tech/Internet projects: A camera that prints out a description of the scene captured. http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/ http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
- hrnnnnnn 11y agoI love this and I want one.