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Re: [microsound] Serious Artist?



isnt it usually the hipsters that front the Serious Artist tag?
   
  usually the artists doing the really interesting things dont have time for that sort of self- branding. 
   
  case in point... mark pauline from SRL:
   
  a) is one of the nicest people you could want to meet
   
  b)  calls his works 'stuff' in a seemingly genuine unself-concious way

  c) might possibly sic one of his machines on me for considering him an important artist in this email.
   
  
David Powers <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  I use the term "serious artist", to distinguish people who bust their
asses off doing cool $h1t, often for little compensation; as opposed
to the kind of stuff that designers produce, on demand, for whoever is
willing to pay them.

Sometimes the same people, do both kinds of work, but I refuse to take
commercial design seriously as art. Most designers have so bought into
the capitalist model, however, that they seem unable to comprehend
this...

PS. I think js needs a hug. Most people I know trying to do "serious
art" are quite nice and no pretentious. Crazy, definitely, but not
really pretentious. Now hipsters, on the other hand...

~David

On 9/13/06, js wrote:
> hi
>
> On 9/13/06, Jason Hollis wrote:
> > I'm interested to know what your definitions for 'Serious Artist' are, oh
> > list at large.
>
> in no particular order:
> wanker
> wannabe
> humorless
> pretentious
>
> sometimes these guys and gals can do good work that i like; but i most
> often don't even get near enough to find out. the attitude is too
> thick ...
>
> --
> \js [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ]
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