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> "Nothing matters unless that shit works" applies to painting as well - the paint still has to stick to the canvas. Any artist with half a brain cell can get
by NAFV_P 13y ago
> "Nothing matters unless that shit works" applies to painting as well - the paint still has to stick to the canvas.
Any artist with half a brain cell can get round that conundrum, just sell the collector an empty canvas and then sell them a bullshit story that it is art.
> And plenty of coded "utter shit" gets heaps of recognition - like every middleman-creating user-disempowering "web 2.0" data silo.
Wait up, are you suggesting that every middleman-creating user-disempowering "web 2.0" data silo works well and has few known bugs?
- msutherl 13y ago> Any artist with half a brain cell can get round that conundrum, just sell the collector an empty canvas and then sell them a bullshit story that it is art. Evidently you have never tried to do this before.
- NAFV_P 13y ago> Evidently you have never tried to do this before. No I haven't tried this, I have better things to do, like working out how to use the POSIX library. But Lucio Fontano did something very similar, and it worked.
- smonff 13y agoLucio Fontana is nothing comparing to Piero Manzoni. He get through making an artwork featuring 90 tin can filled with 30g of his own shit. Please read the label that said Merda d'artista (artist shit) : Artist's Shit Contents 30 gr net Freshly preserved Produced and tinned in May 1961 Quoting Wikipedia : The cans were originally to be valued according to their equivalent weight in gold — $37 each in 1961 — with the price fluctuating according to the market. But the stuff is today shown in biggest museum, and one can has been sold $160300 in 2008.
- NAFV_P 13y agoI referenced Fontana specifically because he used to work with canvas. At least Piero was being honest about being dishonest (a common trait in post-modernist art).
- mindslight 13y agoWell sure, but in that case hasn't the medium shifted to the meta, and what has to work is the explanation itself? And certainly not. What I'm saying is that a piece of software functioning correctly does not preclude it from being "utter shit". And quite a lot of "utter shit" software (based on its foundations and purpose) is currently getting loads of recognition from VC money looking to become middlemen 2.0.
- NAFV_P 13y ago> Well sure, but in that case hasn't the medium shifted to the meta, and what has to work is the explanation itself? Who cares, the artist is getting off on the fact he just sold a blank canvas. That's the real meta (or mark), the art of the con (this is where the black arts have infiltrated the traditional arts). > What I'm saying is that a piece of software functioning correctly does not preclude it from being "utter shit". OK, so software that functions correctly can still be "utter shit", yeah I can roll with that. On many levels modern art is considered not to have a function, it is art for its own sake. This "utter shit" software that we are talking about still does something (useful I presume), whereas a blank canvas just takes up space.