Posted by Stephen Pusey on April 10, 1996 at 14:05:49:
In Reply to: Re: Information posted by Joseph Nechvatal on April 08, 1996 at 19:17:53:
Deep water here! It's acceptable to follow Nietzsche's veiw of the World as an artwork - if you subscribe to the belief that the World and the Cosmos have, indeed, an intelligent Maker and that they are the products of this Artist’s creativity. This Artist, like Its mortal counterpart, must then surely be an exploiter of accidents, a careless spiller of ink who then draws out of this randomness a semblance of Its own inherent Order. Isn’t this what artists do? Is not each artistic creation an attempt to recognize a structure in our collective memory, which in turn reflects the shifting biological, environmental and social orders that that have worked on us and through us for countless generations? And this 'order' is surely not the secure symmetry that we strive to surround ourselves with? That is only the apparent aspect of it - a snapshot of the process. Rather it is an unfathomable overlay of fractal geometries that are constantly breaking up and becoming something entirely different - an organic evolution - not a flawless architecture. If an artwork can be seen as a mesh of considered and intuitive signifiers, then I guess you could say that it may be equated with reality in as much as it is a synapse in human communication and may have a causal effect in our evolution.
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