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The Art of Photography => But is it Art? => Topic started by: 32BT on July 11, 2018, 08:57:44 am

Title: Emersive art installations for selfies
Post by: 32BT on July 11, 2018, 08:57:44 am
Interesting cultural phenomenan for sure, but is it Art? Well, this gradually decents into the realm of disneyland me thinks:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dream-machine-review-1313972
Title: Re: Emersive art installations for selfies
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on July 11, 2018, 12:03:03 pm
I'm not sure I'd want to spend 38 cents, much less 38 dollars, on this kind of "Art."
Title: Re: Emersive art installations for selfies
Post by: Rob C on July 11, 2018, 12:17:07 pm
I wouldn't go either: I'd be concerned about the fire risk.

Quite apart from a dislike for finding myself in small places with strangers who might go crazy without any warning.

But wait: it's for group-pleasure, isn't it?

You see how important is proper genre-identification?

:-)
Title: Re: Emersive art installations for selfies
Post by: MattBurt on July 11, 2018, 12:47:19 pm
I'm already planning my pilgrimage! ;)
Title: Re: Emersive art installations for selfies
Post by: Telecaster on July 11, 2018, 05:02:49 pm
Stuff like this is so easy to dump on that it's hardly worth the bother.  :)

Years ago I went to an X Files "installation" at a sports arena. This was at the height of the show's popularity. It included themed rooms featuring shooting scripts & storyboard drawings, show props, "alien" figures & prosthetics and some short video pieces. It was fun and it worked because it was all rooted in the show's overarching mythology.

-Dave-
Title: Re: Emersive art installations for selfies
Post by: Rob C on July 15, 2018, 06:36:07 am
As estate agents and used-car salesmen tell you: "there's a market for everything, dear boy, absolutely everything!" but that's faint praise and more a sigh of resignation at the way the old bearded lady world had it right.

;-)
Title: Re: Emersive art installations for selfies
Post by: Robert Roaldi on July 31, 2018, 12:38:58 pm
Stuff like this is so easy to dump on that it's hardly worth the bother.  :)

Years ago I went to an X Files "installation" at a sports arena. This was at the height of the show's popularity. It included themed rooms featuring shooting scripts & storyboard drawings, show props, "alien" figures & prosthetics and some short video pieces. It was fun and it worked because it was all rooted in the show's overarching mythology.

-Dave-

There are two streets in my eastern Ottawa suburb called Mulder Ave and Scully Way.