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I used to run a DA like website in 2005 and at one point had to categorize all uploadable art. The truth is art is in the eye of the beholder. There is no way t
by hparadiz 5y ago
I used to run a DA like website in 2005 and at one point had to categorize all uploadable art. The truth is art is in the eye of the beholder. There is no way to actually say something isn't art if someone sees anything as such.
- beardyw 5y ago100% agree. I think "the beholder" is what is often overlooked. Marcel Duchamp submitted a urinal as a piece of art (an act of provocation). > When explaining the purpose of his Readymade sculpture, Duchamp stated they are "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice." The important point is the involvement of a person. Computer generated art can't be art unless someone thinks it is.
- hparadiz 5y agoI actually think that if the intention of the original programmer is to say "anything created from this code is art no matter what it is" then it's basically impossible to say otherwise.
- cush 5y agoI feel like this discussion devolved into "what is art?", while completely missing my original thesis. Of course every image this app produces is art. But that's the point... art is infinitely broad, and the art that this app produces is trivially narrow. So this isn't an argument about art, but instead well-designed surveys. The only possible conclusion one can draw from this app isn't "what are people's art preferences?", but instead "what are people's drawn-in-ten-seconds-in-mspaint preferences?" The app would just as accurately gague people's art preferences if it presented only photos of shoes.