On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 11:15 -1000, david wrote: > My non-musical artist daughter says that if a piece of art doesn't > communicate, it's not art; it's just a "spot on the wall." I agree, but it's said that if something doesn't communicate, it does communicate that it doesn't communicate, IOW it's impossible not to communicate. > Nothing made by humans is beyond culture, since all humans are > embedded in at least one culture. Yesno, you for example could care about something while being against it, e.g. by using an inverted cross, but you also can ignore what you don't like, e.g. don't fight against "organized Christianity", but against lies per se, you won't find a cross or an inverted cross among my things, I simply don't care about it, OTOH there are "things" that shaped us, e.g. Christian values, while not being a Christian. Christian or not, less of us will kill our daughters, if she is in love with a man we don't like, this is completely different for other cultures, ... what I want to point out is, that artists should be philosophers. It doesn't matter what culture does surround us, we're searching for something and the result of such a search might fit or not fit to the culture surrounding us. This isn't rebellion, but might be worth to send a message by making art. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
