It’s all gone blurry
June 1st, 2007
I noticed a blog entry by the editor of Computing magazine whilst roaming around the web as you do! He’d been invited to take part in a debate on the overlap between technology and art and found himself on a panel of experts that included the founder of the Stuckist movement - self-appointed guardians of ‘proper’ art and up and coming artist Dan Proops.
You can read more about it here, but what drew my attention was his – comment about photography & art:
“If photography is art, then does technology not make us all potential artists with a digital camera or mobile phone camera in our hands?”
For me that’s a bit like saying that owning a cooker makes us all potential chefs. True it may be fun to try, but doesn’t talent have a role to play? Oh yes and hours of training and then practising too …?
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1. Charles Thomson | June 1st, 2007 at 7:17 am
Ha! So you’re a Stuckist after all, and a self-appointed guardian to boot. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it.
See the Daily Telegraph today (1.6.07)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/06/01/dp0101.xml#head2
Cheers
Charles
Co-founder, The Stuckists
2. Bryan Glick | June 3rd, 2007 at 10:30 am
As a technology writer, it has been very interesting to see the reaction when I ventured briefly into mentioning art!
Also, as a journalist, I understand your comment entirely - these days the world is full of people who have a blog that makes them think they are a journalist/writer.
Equally, having a digital camera does not make you a photographer. But given the number of competitions you see these days inviting people to submit their mobile phone camera pictures, would some claim this makes it possible for them to create art, even if they are clearly not professional photographers?
The key word in the comment you quoted is “potential”. Who can say that there is not someone out there who, thanks to a mobile phone camera, might not be able to create something that might one day be considered great art? Technology at least allows the possibility to exist where once it did not. Even Gordon Ramsay probably started out boiling eggs on his parent’s cooker.
Bryan
3. Sue | June 4th, 2007 at 5:24 am
I agree technology gives us more possibilities - but experience counts too. And I guess it depends on how you view the technology - for example I don’t consider that having a blog makes me a writer - for me it’s just a ‘keep in touch’ marketing tool, but maybe one day I will write a bestseller
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