1. Art requires people.
2. Art is things that are understood to be Art.
3. Art is a conscious or unconscious assignment of value.
4. Art is situated and is dependent upon creator and consumer.
5. Art is momentary, because situations and people are transient.

It having been a little while since my last entry on this journal, I thought I'd present for criticism some brief, untheoretical, basic musings on the topic of art. This should be amusing for any of you who've actually formally studied art theory (which I have not, in any way). In writing this entry I've literally just unfolded the mess inside my ( Read more... )

Something which has been on my mind lately is the question of whether it's in good taste to exploit the poetic potential of scientific and mathematical theories and terminology for some goal within a non-scientific domain, for example as an illustrative or complementary metaphor in a work of fiction, or as a descriptive basis for some idea in ( Read more... )

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For the last couple of days I've been listening obsessively to the album Mosaic by US folk artist Woven Hand, formerly known as 16 Horsepower ( Read more... )

EDIT: There was an embedded image here, but the geocities site it was hosted on forbids hotlinking. Just follow the link below. Of course, this does diminish the already minimal usefulness of this post to nothing; you should probably just sub Momus or Jean Snow instead.

Snagged from Jean Snow via Momus. Nice mix of freaky and cute, quite ( Read more... )

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"On the contrary, our ambitions are clearly megalomaniac, but perhaps not measurable by the prevailing criteria of success. I believe all my friends would be content to work anonymously at the Ministry of Leisure in a government that would finally undertake to change life, commensurate with the salaries of qualified workers."
I need to read more ( Read more... )