I loved the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and the vicious little suction cups on the squid’s arms. Now I will wait for Dean to tell us why none of this is “art” :))
Alright, Ruchira, you’ve provoked me. I viewed the New Scientist photographs as soon as I saw Sujatha’s post yesterday morning. They are indeed remarkably, compellingly beautiful. (Why, though, must the journal’s plodding web service so frustrate viewing the gallery?) The one I especially enjoy is the black and white buckling polymer, straight out of Bridget Riley. Art, however, only appears explicitly in Sujatha’s title. The journal makes no such predication. The images are “fascinating,” “impressive,” “breathtaking”… The contest itself was a “Visualization Challenge.” I can deal with that with no loss of sleep.
It’s art to me, Dean, even if you prefer the nomenclature of ‘Visualization Challenge’. In any case, even the organizers of the contest seem keen not to step on the sensitivities of artists and the connoisseurs of the garden-variety ‘art’ by dubbing it such.
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I loved the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and the vicious little suction cups on the squid’s arms. Now I will wait for Dean to tell us why none of this is “art” :))
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Alright, Ruchira, you’ve provoked me. I viewed the New Scientist photographs as soon as I saw Sujatha’s post yesterday morning. They are indeed remarkably, compellingly beautiful. (Why, though, must the journal’s plodding web service so frustrate viewing the gallery?) The one I especially enjoy is the black and white buckling polymer, straight out of Bridget Riley. Art, however, only appears explicitly in Sujatha’s title. The journal makes no such predication. The images are “fascinating,” “impressive,” “breathtaking”… The contest itself was a “Visualization Challenge.” I can deal with that with no loss of sleep.
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It’s art to me, Dean, even if you prefer the nomenclature of ‘Visualization Challenge’. In any case, even the organizers of the contest seem keen not to step on the sensitivities of artists and the connoisseurs of the garden-variety ‘art’ by dubbing it such.
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