Re: LIFESCIENCE: Re: art/science?

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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I dear melinda 

i think you totally misunderstood my remark,

 >but especially Aphex Twin has nothing to do with commercialism and nothing 
to
 >do with gothic, this is very experimental ambient music, it is no mass
 >product.
 >With his videos made by Chris Cunningham an author for music video is
 >recognized for the first time.
 
  different marketing on different continents... aphex was recently featured
 for an hour on late nite music video tv here. much more accessable than
 getting a cdrom from the net.

so this is perhaps your personal opinion that aphex twin is only trivial and 
nothing else. this is no matter of marketing but something artistic coming 
out of popular culture, very hard to accept and always put down by artists.

so is acceptance by popular culture is a measure of succcessful art work?

total misunderstanding: aphex twin and his work is far away from mainstream 
of  popular culture. 

 in that case is the reverse true -if  "funniest home videos" and "wildest
 police chases"  are some of the most popular shows on tv they must have
 some valuable content that has alluded me till now -oh thats right. they
 are cures for artistic angst...

i did not mention these kind of shows but you are right sometimes it is more 
interesting and more enlightning to watch these stupid shows than 
contemplating in front of a piece of art.

 is that then the same for scientific work, eg marketing the icelandic
genome data base to make it acceptable to the general public makes it
 valuable and necesssary scientific practice?

no i did not mean all things accepted by many people become valuable.
but on the other hand not everything coming from the hands of an artist are 
automatically valuable.
 
regards
birgit richard 
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