3/2/07

Authentic culture vs. rehashed one how is it determined? How is it defined? This is the dense piece of writing in this class. The main point is the discussion of bordo, he is commenting on our culture and how education is required to discuss cultural symbols. For example U-tube you were you can put anything weather it is crap or not. At art opening there is an array of people but are they not people who digest the culture the upper class/educated? To use the Internet as an example again, art becomes completely conceptual because all the work behind it is unseen, art is selling an idea. We are switching from pretensions art to culturally relevant work. Or is it just over load of communication? We are infused with information, are we really able to digest it? Can we really fallow the culture being filtered? Mega corporations like Google buy things like U-Tube to control communication. Art can be reduced to all one form. It is democratization of art into academia. Anything can be art… think of Dechamp. Higher intellectual art can be filtered into culture where it may not be understood how controversial it is but within mass culture it is subverting. Folk culture was macro may, but now it can be seen as the Internet, or rap. Is it equalizing our response just because there is more of is or is it a tool of dissemination? Art for art sake: What is an art gallery suppose to be within society. Yet this article is so bias the information is time sensitive and the information so subjective.