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Title: Bill Ivey - Arts. Inc. - 4
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Started 3 months ago (2008-08-30 05:24:00)  by clong
Arts. Inc. On some level I agree with one of Ivey’s essential premises: that the “I’m an artist, dammit, and I create art, which is good for you, so you should help pay for it whether you like it or not” argument has limited effectiveness. We do need to be rethinking the fundamental basis for our argument that a healthy, vibrant arts community is good for America. I also am completely...
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Started 3 months ago (2008-08-30 13:50:00)  by PolarisDiB
However, with digital encoding, practically anything can be saved for very cheap. I am generally a critic, and do feel that some art is better than others, and that some art needn't be appreciated merely because it's art, but it's fascinating the way in which trash can be used effectively in the future. All of that bad art that is saved could easily be in the next post-Fluxus ...
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Started 3 months ago (2008-08-30 15:37:00)  by clong
Good points. I think there is plenty of stuff out there that is called "art" that has little or no redeeming quality... Several times as I was reading Ivey's book I thought about Theodore Sturgeon's famous comment: upon be confronted by an English professor who asserted that ninety percent of science fiction is crap, Sturgeon thought for a moment, and then replied that "ninety percent of ...
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Bill Ivey - Arts. Inc. - 4
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Good points. I think there is plenty of stuff out there that is called &quot;art&quot; that has little or no redeeming quality... Several times as I was reading Ivey's book I thought about Theodore Sturgeon's famous comment: upon be confronted by an English professor who asserted that ninety percent of science fiction is crap, Sturgeon thought for a moment, and then replied that &quot;ninety percent of everything is...
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Bill Ivey - Arts. Inc. - 4
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However, with digital encoding, practically anything can be saved for very cheap. I am generally a critic, and do feel that some art is better than others, and that some art needn't be appreciated merely because it's art, but it's fascinating the way in which trash can be used effectively in the future. All of that bad art that is saved could easily be in the next post-Fluxus exposition. --PolarisDiB _________________ My house...