Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.

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  • There is a long history of artists "pushing the envelope… by self-deprecating and making “statements” about how ridiculous the market for art is.

    You don’t get to shove Dada, a Campbell’s soup can, canned “artist’s shit”, a black square on a canvas, a pile of trash, a shirt on a coat hanger, a self-shredding copy of a graffiti, and thousands of similar examples, all under the same label as the Louvre, illustrators, writers, etc… then magically have people value all artistic work.

    There has been continuous, serious, self-damage done to the concept of “art”, and now come the consequences: the general public, thinks the value of art is close to $0, and that’s what they’re willing to pay.

    Coincidentally, AI companies allow anyone to get “better than literal shit” art done for $0… so… 🤷




  • “artists don’t deserve a living wage” or “they don’t do real art”

    Blame the “Modern Art” movement, where a black square, or canned literal shit, can be worth millions.

    At some point, people realized that they don’t need real art, just to decorate an office or house space with “artsy looking” stuff, so they went on a chase to the bottom. That used to be random people from third world countries working for peanuts… now it’s LLMs and GenAI working for fractions of peanuts.

    Same thing has been going in all areas. Who needs a slab of real ice (from a mountain) for their fridge, when they can get fake ice much easier, for a fraction of the cost.