Hi Steve, as long there are collectors (a market), there will be producers, and their products will reflect the culture that sponsored them. I think that as it is, art is struggling to merge crafts with spectacle at the expense of complex ideas. So, I don't believe the question is really about media, but about the consumerism that is distorting the creative process and dragging the artist out of the creative research to satisfy consumption, or at least to find a
compromise.Some collective, post-relational art is trying to find the more idealistic answer to all of this, although it ends up addressing more the issues of physicality than those of expanding knowledge.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Nov 20, 2007 12:00 AM, <<a href="mailto:sjosch@u.washington.edu">sjosch@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>I like what you say , it makes perfect sense.<br><br>So I wonder where you think the object is headed ?<br><br>And/or what will happen with the traditional paintings and drawings that are still being made ?<br><br>
Will they still have any importance at the end of our century ?<br><br>What will a painting or drawing be in 100 years from now ?<br><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Steven<br>Steven J. Oscherwitz Artist/Technoscience Reseacher<br>
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