Art
and culture is intimately tied to
technology.
Even artists who disdain technology must admit
their ongoing debt to progress. Those who refuse
to accept this should go forth, don mammoth
skin overcoats and smear crude stick bison and
megatheriums on cave walls with their cranberry-juice-and-egg-yolk-daubed
fingers.
As new technologies appeared, such as painting
with oils on canvass, the Great Artists exploited
it.
Today the technology which is revolutionising
art is not paint or canvass science but computer
science. And it is in this field that the great
art revolution is taking place. This is just
as well, because the new artists are untutored
in traditional art. They are, it seems, unable
to paint. Painting is the highest form of visual
art, yet it is dying. (Actually, there are brilliant
painters out there, but, generally, they cannot
obtain funding).
Canvass-illiteracy in encouraged in Britain
by the art establishment, funding, and giving
"awards" to (vis the Turner Prize)
only the most tragically talentless artists,
for their equally ghastly and insipid work.
(The current "art" establishment finances
and rewards only "modern art"/"avant
garde art"/"conceptual art",
or whatever that load of cobblers is called).
Past Turner Prize-winning "works"
have included videos of coppers sitting silently
in chairs; an eyesore concrete cast of the interior
of a house; literally crap pictures "painted"
using elephant dung. Modern art/avant garde
art/conceptual art tries to reduce art down
to an idea. The not-so-secret dirty little secret
is that modern art/avant garde art/conceptual
art is (often literally)
rubbish; yet
incredibly, art judges consider themselves to
be daring and trendy. Oscar Wilde said there
are well written books and badly written books,
that is all. That is my view too, something
is either good or bad. There is no such thing
as art just because its
called art. Modern
"art"
isn't art, modern art
is a cheap gimmick, a joke that has worn thin.
Let art prizes go to the gifted, to the artists,
designers and programmers of computer games.
Today, computer science is spearheading a real
art revolution, although the art establishment
itself does not seem to realise it.
Modern computer games look incredible and will
only improve. Innovative, dynamic, interactive
and entertaining, some have thousands of players
immersed in virtual, fantastical worlds on the
Internet. The computer game arena is where most
of the real artistic innovation is happening,
and will be cited by future historians as the
true contribution of the current artistic generation
to the progress of art.
A few Damien Hirst modern art atrocities rise
above all the shit to become merely mediocre
(I understand that Hirst confessed he has no
real talent as an artist). If I were to commission
a work from Mr Hirst, it would be a piece called
"
The Art Establishment Think With Their Hearts".
This modern masterpiece would depict the usual
clueless pseudo-accademics blindfolded, with
their blood-pumping organs preserved in chloroform,
and crushed into their empty skulls. They would
be frozen forever in the act of preparing to
elect themselves the winners of the Turner Prize.
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