--- On Thu, 3/24/11, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] Am I alone? To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "ailo" ailo.at@gmail.com, pd-list@iem.at Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 8:42 PM On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Thu, 3/24/11, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca
wrote:
The "mysterious skill" meaning of art is closer to
the
original meaning of the word. "Tech" is a greek
word that
means "Art"... etc. But university artists tend to
ignore
this use of the word... it's foreign to them.
Their art-word
is about Duchamp and John Cage and stuff.
Your feedback loop seems unnecessarily strict.
If Romantic period composers found a way to give Mozart an honorary membership, surely you can find an inlet for something by Cage in your feedback loop.
But what do you know about my feedback loop ?
Well, the evidence offered that university artists tend toward a particular conception of art is that Duchamp and Cage are found there, implying that where you find _them_ you find that conception. So I'd venture to guess that your feedback loop excludes them-- otherwise you wouldn't be essentializing them by using their names as broad opposition to the "mysterious skill".
Cage wrote a lot of different kinds of music.
-Jonathan
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