> 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 th

> 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.