[rumori] new thread
Steev [rumori] new thread
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:08:45 -0700 (PDT) (00903146925, Pine.LNX.4.02.9808141103460.14860-100000ATflotsam.detritus.net)
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Boster, Bob wrote:
>Actually, I think if you include as art anyone who slaps paint on a
>canvas or picks up a guitar you'd have to say there's WAAAAY more people
>thinking of themselves in terms of medium than in terms of message.
absolutely! that's why i changed my mind halfway through my last message.
didnt you notice? ;)
>>So, to get back to the source of this thread, is Bruce Sterling saying
>>that if we live twice as long, most artists are going to be doing
>>that kind of work? That would be cool. But I don't know if I believe it.
>
>I think really what he's trying to get to is that in the narrative,
>there's no culture extant for a longer lifestyle humanity, and that one
>needs to be "realized" for same. And that in a case like that where the
>ontological shift precedes the cultural one, the way to get a hold of
>the appropriate "scene" is to make art that reveals the experience of
>the members of the "new" society. Sort of accumulate a new culture by
>making pieces focusing on the current experience.
sure. just like the "lack" of "American" art when Euros first started
moving to "America".
(i love quotation marks...)
smh
Steev Hise, Subversive Radical Hippy Hacker
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