ART vs. DRAMA

["Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>]

thom@indiana.edu wrote:

> I originally objected when it was suggested that randomly generated art could 
> be in the mix as eye candy. I objected because real ART has never worked this 
> way.
Are you just a dramatist with a deep prejudice against the history of 
the visual arts?  Go look up the Surrealist experiments with frottage, 
or Dadaist concerns with chaos and chance.  But perhaps you don't think 
Marcel Duchamp's "Standard Stoppages" are ART either, though they hang 
in the museum and art historians do call them such.  It seems your 
definition of ART is no more than "what you personally care about."  Are 
you sure when you say ART, you don't really mean DRAMA?


Cheers,                     www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

20% of the world is real.
80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.