[NewMusic] What David Cope is up to

[Tim Perkis]

barry threw wrote:
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> However, it was argued to me that video games can't be art because  
> they are created by corporations. It was argued that this discounted  
> the entire medium as capable of producing art.  I think that opinion  
> is dead wrong.
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> I feel like this whole point about corporate influences got taken way  
> way outside of its relevance to the topic.
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could be: but this is the very sort of contamination, I would say, of 
culture that happens in a hyper-capitalist society: the idea that the 
basic underlying intention behind the entire enterprise is somehow 
irrelevant or just is in the background, and that the skill, flash, 
formal beauty, or emotional impact is what matters. Of course there is 
no "purity", it's all a matter of doing what is possible. But I'm 
sympathetic to those who still feel art should be driven at base by some 
kind of transgressive and/or spiritual intent.


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