People are always flipping tables about what fits into each hazy semantic category. It's like asking whether figure skating is a sport.
But at the very least I want to say that "interactivity = not art" only holds absolutely if you're willing to discount a lot of "art" recognized by massively endowed museums.
It's a bit of an appeal to authority, in a sense, but these definitions are only made up by people to begin with. And some people out there are willing to dump millions of dollars to proclaim these objects as art.
/preaching to the choir?
It seems that we've reduced the problem to a matter of semantics (no, literally, as in semantics). Are cheesecakes cakes? When does a color stop being red?
I'm more interested in the discussion we could have once people agreed on the definition of art, if they could ever.
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Date: 2012-07-16 07:20 pm (UTC)But at the very least I want to say that "interactivity = not art" only holds absolutely if you're willing to discount a lot of "art" recognized by massively endowed museums.
It's a bit of an appeal to authority, in a sense, but these definitions are only made up by people to begin with. And some people out there are willing to dump millions of dollars to proclaim these objects as art.
/preaching to the choir?
It seems that we've reduced the problem to a matter of semantics (no, literally, as in semantics). Are cheesecakes cakes? When does a color stop being red?
I'm more interested in the discussion we could have once people agreed on the definition of art, if they could ever.