sorry, my above comment is largely personal opinion (and i wouldn't be as peeved if vvork wasn't so massively popular..)
VVork makes 'clever' very unappealing, like some disease that art catches when it gets on the Internet.. It's usually: "hey, i did X to Y and now it's Z...get it??!" There's not so much smart ass stuff on the front page now, but the perfect example of what's representative of vvorkness is that piece where its a choir singing the NASDAQ stock exchange graph as music... Who cares? Is there anything interesting going on beyond the punchline? (..well, perhaps in the larger context of the artist's other work [which we aren't made aware of]?) VVork's format/context is ideal for one punchline after the other..
It's like Boing Boing for conceptual art. Boing Boing is to real life what VVork is to art.. But why reduce others' art into little nuggets that can be easily thrown around and reblogged and put into other random contexts on the net just like any other Internet garbage (i.e. YouTube vids of cats and sloths)?? It makes me sorta freaked out about art blogging in general (though others do it better, like this blog) ..
|
VVork makes 'clever' very unappealing, like some disease that art catches when it gets on the Internet.. It's usually: "hey, i did X to Y and now it's Z...get it??!" There's not so much smart ass stuff on the front page now, but the perfect example of what's representative of vvorkness is that piece where its a choir singing the NASDAQ stock exchange graph as music... Who cares? Is there anything interesting going on beyond the punchline? (..well, perhaps in the larger context of the artist's other work [which we aren't made aware of]?) VVork's format/context is ideal for one punchline after the other..
It's like Boing Boing for conceptual art. Boing Boing is to real life what VVork is to art.. But why reduce others' art into little nuggets that can be easily thrown around and reblogged and put into other random contexts on the net just like any other Internet garbage (i.e. YouTube vids of cats and sloths)?? It makes me sorta freaked out about art blogging in general (though others do it better, like this blog) ..
- guthrie 4-13-2007 5:17 am