Re: [-empyre-] Is it digital art?

[Jeff Sonstein <jeffs@it.rit.edu>]

>     But my question is: can this process or any part of this process be 
> called Digital
> Art? If can't, what kind of art is this?

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does a medium-focused definition or typology really matter?
is such an argument really meaningful?
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I remember (in the 70s) when Judy Chicago went around the US
raising money for her group to complete "The Dinner Party"
and the (frankly silly) arguments she had to deal with
that this was somehow not "art"
because they used and produced objects of daily living

jeffs

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