Since I just won the… heh… Post-Graduate Dissertation on Games As Art Award for my entry in Ludumdare, I thought I’d come back to this topic once more.
To start it off, here’s some great ruminations on the subject, as animated by the Wallace & Grommit guy:
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Then we have this.
What exactly is the art here? Is it the plaque? The YouTube video it is sourced from? The “performance”? Or the comment about how technology has made us obsessed with documenting every moment of our completely unremarkable lives.
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At least the proliferation of small, cheap recording devices does have some redeeming uses.
Next is one of my all-time favorite street art pieces, Pixelator.
And speaking of street art… say what you want about Banksy, his art, his methods, or the obscene amount of money he’s been making; but you’ve got to hand it to someone who can get governmental entities to agree that maybe, just maybe, some vandalistic graffiti might be “legal art”. And not just legal, but worth protecting and repairing? Because once they’ve accepted that even one piece of graffiti could be “art”, it is no longer a black and white issue. It becomes a subjective value judgment. With every new piece, they have to ask themselves, “Is this art?” “Is this one worth keeping, or destroying?”
Yeah, that’s right. YOU CAN’T STOP ART, MOTHERFUCKERS!
Wahaha wonderful post. I just loved the claymation. What’s the name of it? I’d love to link it on my blog. It’s hilarious and represents so much of the jabber I’ve had to listen to in all my years in academia
Oh heck, found the video >.>
I’m a noob.