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This artwork at the Guggenheim Museum, designed to keep a blood looking liquid from going too far away from it. Its name? "Can’t Help Myself". See a YouTube video of it in action.
Can’t Help Myself
@david WTF, just WTF. I don't know what else to say about it.
@david @lyse @eaplmx While it's not exactly "art", at least it's a cool robotic arm (for 2016) and it actually does something.
All I'm saying is that considered how "modern art" is on a never-ending trajectory down to shit, I'd be glad if it could at least return to this point, where you actually had to put some effort into it and not just tape a banana, squirt paint out of your ass, resell jpegs or sell "invisible statues".
*Yes, those are all real "art projects", that we got after this one.*
@thecanine oh, it is art. For as shocking as it might seeing, I liked it very much. I enjoyed the robotic arm graceful moves, and the, almost human, inefficacy of it (slowly, but surely, the liquid is getting away). There is a lot of art that you need to put your brain to it, to understand. Some will enchant you with its beauty, other will be so incomprehensible that it will be worth looking. And other that will just make you "meh".
Off topic, please follow me, and drop @fastidious, as I am going to be using this one from now on, exclusively. :-)
@thecanine due to my background in automation and robotics, I think it's cool by itself. And for my new discipline on art and design, I think it joins the subjective aspect of art.
Buuuut I think it does something similar to the Useless Boxes...
If its purpose is to be useless, well... A nice paradox to design
@david Sweet dreams are made of this … 🤪
@david Sweet dreams are made of this … 🤪
@david Sweet dreams are made of this … 🤪
@david I was not saying it's less art-like because it's shocking. I just thought that as interesting as it is, it's not something someone painted or sculpted, but rather an interesting exposition with a robotic arm, that the artist probably got made from someone else and just found an interesting use for.
I should probably be a bit less judgemental, when it comes to other peoples art (which I'm still not as judgemental towards as anything I make), but than there are pieces I'll most likely never recognize as art. This category includes the random lines of paint, sold at some galleries to launder money, or the flat corporate design, made so generic it no longer evokes any emotions.
Even outside of that, if ones art is only bought in hopes, that it'll eventually be sold for more, rather than out of the desire to own it and find enjoyment from owning it alone, it'll also make me very skeptical about its value and "art status".