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Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on May 20, 2011 at 6:22pm

black boxes.

 

they talk to little black boxes made to keep you out.

 

instead of making tools for people to create, the companies are creating trash which is non-modifiable without serious efforts. they are not giving people access to the full product, but just the very outer layer. the shell.

 

there is so much potential in technology which goes untapped.

 

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but as for art, i think if you like making art, then make art for the fun. if you do it for the money, you aren't making art in my opinion, you're making cash. which is fine. i understand the need to eat and pay rent. but you shouldn't call it art, call it making a living. and then i hope you make art in your free time. ;-D

 

Comment by Human Artist Vending Machine LTD on May 20, 2011 at 6:16pm

If I get what your saying..It is the poem of art that is the art. I think the conflict is the abuse of the system attacking the art. I know the market is changing to overly used dull effects. Gallerys are loosing and closing the doors..Free street art is being mass produced,cheapen and sold.Grants are taken by businesses who clain there doing it for the art..and then charging the artist. Fund raisers are built to charge the artist who gives..

Like a drug..it would be nice to get money for the addiction..I wouldn't turn down bills for my art..but I would give to. The order of it all is just basic madness..I don't think this life is real enough..when everything is put in plastic or glass..for phones or mini computers..People taking to boxes..about nothing..

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on May 20, 2011 at 6:05pm

@HAVM: in my opinion, "product" for an artist is MOVEMENT OF THE MASSES. it is the artist's function to create things which make people think. if all you are after is to make people think they need to give you money, then perhaps you should be in business. if your goal is to make money through art, then essentially you are in business. ART, in my opinion, is a way of speaking out to people, calling them from their daily lives, their routines, their entrapment in the system; and saying, "come out and play".

 

i welcome your thoughts, especially i you disagree, this is good stuff.

Comment by Human Artist Vending Machine LTD on May 20, 2011 at 5:46pm

I am not sure where I stand on it all. Lots of different thoughts. Art is like the gift of acting,music,making a good cupcake. People get paid for that all the time. If we choose to give some of our product free..than that is the choose. but we are still the pray to the products we use to make such things..with a larger mark up just to call it art supplies. For the poor trees that get cut down..with trees having ownership..even if a company can't product a tree with out the use of life..My art still have my ownership, hard work to build..and make to what it is. Credit is the least I ask of my work. Street art is free art..so the object of not being moved..but covered it seems real..then giving stuff away..with out ownership.

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on May 20, 2011 at 5:37pm

you get credit for it, because it can still be traced back to you.

it's like those bugs that skip across the pond,

they don't own the water, but they make beautiful things with it.

 

make sense? ;-D

Comment by My Life As A Collage on May 20, 2011 at 5:13pm

good point - for me, it's challenging the notion that art is a rareified thing that only certain people can make, do, own, understand, afford...

i like getting credit for what i do, but i realize that once it's out of my head, it's out of my control.

 

make sense?

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on May 20, 2011 at 4:50pm

it's not so much about giving away art for free.

that's not what this was intended to be about.

it's about bringing attention to the proprietary nature of our era:

where everything is copyrighted, trademarked, proprietized.

the big corporations sell us products which are closed off from modification,

promoting a sense of final product for end users. things are mass-produced for consumption, not reuse.

FREE ART is meant to be a movement to bring attention to this very dangerous cycle, a system designed to breed slaves to it.

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on May 20, 2011 at 11:40am

don't get arrested, val!!!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 20, 2011 at 11:19am

Duty Free.

True story: a team of young African footballers when passing through Heathrow Airport, London, on their way home after an international match saw the 'Duty Free' shop and...helped themselves, believing the cigarettes, perfume, booze, etc they took were, well 'Free'.

Now applying this principle, think I'll visit the Louvre next week and see what Free Art I can pick up.

I'll share it with you if you like: it will be Free of course!

Monsieur Croque

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 20, 2011 at 10:44am

Bonjour! I'm sending you 3 Three Arthur cards for the Free Art Exhibition. One is in Swedish -- Skol!

Regards, Croque Monsieur

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