what is art?
attempting to define
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what is art?
“Art is an institution to which we turn when we want to feel a shock of surprise. We feel this want because we sense that it is good for us once in a while to receive a healthy jolt. Otherwise we would so easily get stuck in a rut and could no longer adapt to the new demands that life is apt to make on us. The biological function of art, in other w
... See more“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
The more choices someone makes in a work’s creation, the more likely it is to be viewed as making art.
Lincoln Michel • Art Without Intention
“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need
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-from Brandon Stanton, Humans of NY
Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing
U-M Stamps School of Art & Design • Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing
almost everything mimics or remixes what already existed in culture (or what already exists on the internet). All those famous names of artists and writers you know were not constantly making original choices filled with divine inspiration denied to AI. Much like how Roger Federer won only 54% of points across all the professional matches he played... See more
Sorry Ted Chiang, humans aren't very original either
on AI art
First comes the awe: can you believe this? Look at this video of a man running backwards on a treadmill!
Then, the panic: given art's decidedly specific turn to "man in sweats running backwards on treadmill" motifs, will art as we know it become obsolete?
Absolutely not.
Culture, or Art, is the response to society. The deviation.
Then, the panic: given art's decidedly specific turn to "man in sweats running backwards on treadmill" motifs, will art as we know it become obsolete?
Absolutely not.
Culture, or Art, is the response to society. The deviation.
Alex Dobrenko` • Will AI Replace the Artist?
amazing piece on whether AI will replace the artist. the answer is no, of course not. why? because culture is smarter than we are.