Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Spalding Gray: Tell Stories, Listen — Make Art
100k Project: "If we are in need of testimony as to the importance of participation in the arts, Gray’s words provide it. What he refers to as being “media-ized” is actually the process that turns art into a commodity and the public into passive consumers who buy their creativity instead of doing it themselves."
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Participation in the arts isn't dead...it's just migrated. Amateur artists and writers - entire flourishing communities of them - can be found on the internet. Most of the time this is in the form of adding to the huge web of interconnected media culture online; fans produce fanart and fanfiction, people make videos that become viral hits, bloggers soliloquize to the blogsphere. Art and artists are not gone...they've just changed.
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