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Anything can make the cut at MOMA. The gigantic disaster of OLPC is enshrined as "art" there too: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/155757 https://www.moma.
by bigyabai 7mo ago
Anything can make the cut at MOMA. The gigantic disaster of OLPC is enshrined as "art" there too: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/155757 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/155757
- WillAdams 7mo agoIt was an interesting design, well-suited to the target audience and presents quite well in person (a co-worker bought two, one donated, the other for his personal use when hiking).
- bigyabai 7mo agoBy those qualifications we could very well nominate a Franklin machine for exhibit.
- WillAdams 7mo agoThe OLPC had innovative features developed by the designers --- what innovative features which were not copied did the Franklin have? To turn things back to where we started, can you find one article which criticizes MOMA for including an Apple Macintosh along with its Picasso?
- bigyabai 7mo agoFor what it's worth, I consider none of the aforementioned three devices to contain any artistic value whatsoever. The Apple II is an excellent computer, but entirely unjustifiable as an art exhibit. I stand by my original statement that anything can make it's way into MOMA regardless of whether or not it's art.
- WillAdams 7mo agoYour original statement was: >I mean, if you put a Mac or MacOS in a museum next to Picasso, that would make many people cry. Yet, MOMA has both a Mac and a Picasso, and you have not provided evidence of anyone feeling negatively about it other than yourself.
- razorbeamz 7mo agoIf you think that a Mac or an OLPC is not art, you have a very narrow definition of art.
- amelius 7mo agoThen the Franklin machine is also art.
- razorbeamz 7mo agoIt is.