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Re: Why don't you say what memetics is to art?
> I don't memetics being under attack.
I think I red something about social darwinism, and it seemed to
connect memetics to it. If that was not the case, I apologize.
> I think it all started with a questioin from an artist: "What is meant by
> memesis; the dictionaries don't show the term at all..."
>
> Now so much has been written about it (or around it) and it looks not clear
> at all. Just where DID that term come from and what is its original meaning
> or derivation?
It comes from a book by Dawkins, the selfish gene. See my ww pages, my
essay on cultural evolution. It comes from gene, and is supposed to
be the counterplayer or better analogue of genes in culture.
> And then the questions is: What does it all have to do with art? Isn't that
> what the PrixArs Electronica etc. symposium is all about?
Is it, I didn't know that.
> I haven't read a thing about art in all this extended expository elaborative
> pseudo explanatory oratory.
Neither have I. I wouldn't know what it has to do with art directly.
Unless you see the fashions and ways of painting etc. as memes. As
far as i can recall the late Ben Cullen wrote some articles about
memes and art. He showed that for instance painting could be seen as
memetic, where innovations in the way of looking at objects in
painting were very rare at least directly after the middle ages.
Hans-Cees
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