°2004.12.14.tu | Being Geek
Being a geek: finding joy in the why and how of both that which is taken for granted and the unusual.
°2004.12.01.mo |Street Art
Yesterday I attended a panel on street art at the Small Press Book Fair at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. The building is quite lovely, and it even has a library open to the public. Many of my favorite artists were there, including Swoon. A number of interesting questions were asked, such as how is street art different from graffiti? I suppose this is just a special case of the difficult question of what makes art art? Some ventured differences included that the whole of the panel was white, mostly middle-class, and many attended art school. Also, one very interesting difference might be that street art is a phenomenon of the Internet: the Wooster Collective has had an important effect on the definition and coherence of the movement. In fact, some graffiti artists complain of the fact that a person can put up a few pieces, get them posted on the Internet, and be famous without doing the hard, risky, persistent work of building a local name.
Ad and Droo of Skewville were amusing, noting that the change from advertising to street art meant that their work is still fake but at least they are not selling it anymore.
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