[fiatjaf]

"Being original"? That's what art is for you?

[alexandrerond]

Name an art current which hasn't revolted against what was previously done. Every generation of artists tried to grasp things which were left out by the previous ones. As I said, genious, but also technique.

What's art for you?

[fiatjaf]

It's not because in the past (I mean 500 years ago) art was produced by doing something different from what existed that you should conclude that "art is about being original", even less that "art is revolt against what was previously done". These facts, if always true, are just consequences of another, much higher, goal of the artist.

It's because modern artists started thinking that _the goal_ of art was to be original that we came to this situation.

[theseatoms]

Avant-garde is likely a better term for what GP is describing.

[meric]

It's consciousness cast onto a medium, like casting a double to a byte.

[emerongi]

Producing art with a computer does not go against what has been previously done?

You can't even recognize "genius", which this is. It directly challenges the definition of "art", which is pretty wonderful.