Video 1
The video we watched was definitely interesting. It also
brings to light an interesting point, what is to far in terms of art. Are there
any mediums that are just to far, actions that should not be taken to obtain
art? Whether it is body art or any other form of art. I personally would never
want body art of any kind, tattoos, piercings, etc. I just would never want
something like that permanently on my body. That being said, I do respect
people that choose to have body art, and I do appreciate the art behind it. I
am actually currently working on a tattoo design for my roommate. The guy in
this video though has just taken it to far; I mean a gunshot wound come on. Part
of me wants to say well its his body its his choice I could care less if having
a gunshot wound is a thing or not. The other part of me thinks its crazy, and I
have to say I’m leaning that way. I just can’t wrap my mind around paying
someone to shoot you. I also am sure that back when tattoos were a new thing
that people thought that was crazy too, so maybe I am just someone that is
stuck in his old ways not ready for change or something. I don’t believe that’s
the case here though, because tattoo guns don’t, nor do I think they have the
capacity to be able to kill a person.
Video 2
This movie brings up similar topics
that the previous movie we watched did. What is art, what limits art? In the
first movie the man shot himself for art and we found that off-putting and
strange. This movie the man is taking samples from songs, and he is compiling
them to make entirely new songs he calls his own. Is this not just a form of
art? Now I have to say as an Industrial Designer I understand copyright and the
idea of intellectual property completely. And I am a supporter of it, because
with out that then any of my design sketches could be easily ripped off of me
and produced by someone else. In this case though I also understand how this is
possibly been taken to far. This idea of compiling song samples to make an
original song is just an art form, how is it different from painting a picture.
The company that made the paints and the brushes and the canvas doesn’t own the
artist’s work, the artist does. Another thing that comes to mind is hot rods,
and other homemade car builds. Hot rods are a huge industry, very popular form
of art and classic style in the car world. A hot rod might be built of a frame
of one car, a body of another, seats from another, an engine from another, or
the engine might even be made of parts from multiple cars itself. So the
question becomes where do you draw the line. Where is the art line drawn? And
honestly I don’t have the answer to that, but my best guess would be to say
that an agreement of some kind would have to be made and set in place saying
this is the rule, this is how much a sample can be, etc.
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