Friday, September 24, 2010

Ideas

Aren't ideas what really compose each individual art world? Where do ideas come from? How are they generated? How do we come up with a really good idea? Each art world can be seen as an enormous exchange of ideas: the ideas prevalent are what make each world unique. This video explains very well how ideas come about, and this relates to art worlds because these ideas are what define each world. Let's get down to the basics of how the art world is built.



So basically I'm posting this because I feel that the paces where artists hang out (school, coffee shop, big meetings) are where they get their ideas. And of course I'm also posting this because the video is amazing. :P
Ideas are what define the art world, and therefore the places where artists get them should be of interest to us, no? I'm thinking it would be really exciting if we could also do some research on where and how artists get these ideas, because ultimately we will have to find ways to access these places as well if we want to be successful as artists. To understand the "future art history" (art worlds) we must delve into the ideas and the places ideas come from so we can see how they will evolve.
Comments? Discussion? Thoughts?

1 comment:

  1. First of all, I agree that this is an awesome video!
    And secondly,
    I like that he recognizes, regarding innovation, that there is a need for ideas to "incubate" or collide with other ideas to really advance. That supports the whole notion of different art worlds or disciplines overlapping, which has always been of interest to me. For example... there's some collaboration of sculpture, furniture making and industrial design to make a product that is successful in pleasing a consumer aesthetically, and in practicality-- that's how I feel, anyway. That's why I'm pushing for some incorporation of artist networking, or how disciplines overlap, in our video.

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