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It'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 i
by Sanddancer 11y ago
It'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.