SV: Re: [microsound] no OS

[Torben Sangild <sangild@xxxxxxxxx>]

Understanding art and music is not about understanding the person who made
it. An artwork often has a political import which the creator was not
conscious of. There is no mystery about that.

Torben

---trommer wrote----

...it seems to me that any act can be pigeonholed into some sort of agenda
by an outside observer, regardless of what the perpetrator's actual motives
were...

perhaps this is the case...i'm not sure, but it does make me sort of
nervous...it seems that this is a methodology that is commonly used by
repressive governments to rid themselves of competing
ideologies...personally, i find it very strange/disturbing to have some sort
of political agenda grafted onto my work or to have something that's
personal and non-ideological suddenly thrust into a political context by an
outsider.

i remember reading an article in 'arts' magazine a while back...they were
discussing an artist who had traditionally been viewed as 'political'; they
were interviewing a fellow artist/friend of the person in question (sorry, i
can't remember any specific details right now - may have been philip
guston)...anyway...the friend commented on the fact that he found it funny
that the artist's style/imagery had been attributed to socio-political
motives, when in fact the imagery arose from a much more mundane and
quotidian source...something to the effect of: 'if people could see what he
saw outside of his window every day they would understand where the artist
came from a lot better'...

> That IS politics. tV
> 
> (Moreover, a lot of OS-ers are open Libertarians).
> 
> >> The interesting part of the open source community is not its politics,
> >> but the do it yourself, stick your fingers in the pie, deeply inclusive
> >> collaboration of it all.
> > Isn't that its politics?
> > 
> > hmmm...
> > 
> > Simon.
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