Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.

It’s the sound of failure: so much of modern art is the sound of things going out of

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In interviews, Araki has addressed the connections between his filmmaking style, ongoinginfluences of the punk movement, and thesomewhat limited opportunities for realizingradical/subversive intentions in a highly commercialized society. As he explained in a 1997interview, ". .. my sister became an accountant, my brother became a computer... See more

Here we see a really pivotal moment of change, when art must become something that does not make people uncomfortable, so that they will spend money. The kind of person who is expected to consume art is transformed in the mind of the producer. The people who might very possibly love being expanded by what they see are never given the chance.

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