Experiments in art : digital : life

A great site I learned about through Facebook. This post in particular caught our eye – especially now that we’ve officially launched the UPP. Always a fan of Chris Burden.

“I try hard never to forget that art is essentially a game of signification, and that in our capacity as artists, we always endeavor to ask questions, to search, and to play.”

- Joseph Kosuth

This time about the “indentured servitude” that student loans are piling onto Americans, and its effects on both the (idea of) middle class and the “American Dream.”

See a great article with multiple links here.

It’s my personal belief that student loans are creating an over-educated, under-employed/employable class of citizens in this country – particularly in the arts, but in other disciplines as well. The upside, I suppose, is that such conditions generally make fertile ground for true revolution.

An article from today’s NYTimes Opinion pages about the traditions of “conceptual art“

Marlene Dumas famously wrote,
“lf a Prostitute is a person /
who makes it a profession/
to gratify the lust of various persons /
for economical reasons or gain, /
where emotional involvement may /
or may not be present— /
Then it seems not so far removed /
from my definition of an artist.”