Thursday, October 16, 2008

"Art, if you want a definition of it, is criminal action"

After reading John Cage's essay again, I really found it interesting. He's right, art is criminal in how it "conforms to no rules". Continuing on Cage's ideas, into the future, art is going to become even more criminal with the help of the computer. As we know, the creation of "4:33" was revolutionary in the sense that the composer wasn't just one person, or one artist, but the audience as well. This is huge. The computer will go on to show us how much of a criminal art really is - and how badass it can be. Artists are going where they have never gone before with digital artwork, sometimes completely user-generated. Rather, the person viewing the art, creates their own 100% personalized experience branching off only in a direction the original artist pointed them in. This creates for endless boundaries that Cage only began to conceptualize.

No comments: