RE: [microsound] herbs&spice and everything nice

[Christopher Sorg <csorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: David Fodel [mailto:DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> as far as paint goes... it's a medium, not a tool.

I'm sorry, but I'm a bit annoyed by this, being a painter and all.  Just a
little something for your from Webster:  Tool - "something (as an instrument
or apparatus) used in performing an operation or necessary in the practice
of a vocation or profession."

You can limit your definitions as much as you want to.  That doesn't change
the fact that , at the very least, brushes, palette knives, sticks, air,
various other items, and yes, even paint, are tools used to create in the
painting medium.

How a painting is created and how a sound is created, in fact almost
everything humans do (besides just sitting and thinking, or walking around
poking stuff with their fingers) is mediated through the use of a tool.  And
believe it or not, this "tool is the message" discussion goes back *at
least* to modernist painting issues, if it isn't even more deeply rooted in
Plato's insistence on rhetoric over the spoken word.
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Christopher Sorg
Multimedia Artist
Adjunct Professor
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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