By Stephen Persing, Big Red and Shiny
If you listen to certain voices you will be told that art is irrelevant; that it is not required to succeed in life; that there are better, more profitable things to do. If you are involved in any sociopolitical issue—which means you have a pulse—you know the lie of this alleged wisdom. Making a point requires conjuring images, visual and verbal. Any politician must be an artist; logic alone is not enough. Everyone who stands for something is a politician in this sense. An artist begins where listening to certain voices ends.
Read the full article.
January 28, 2013 at 12:23 pm |
It seems that at the moment, Augmented Reality is one of the unregulated channels for communication that we still have. I think that it’s powerful because of how obvious yet subversive it can be as a form of protest. In the future (if this hasn’t happened already) I can imagine the debates about the legality of AR space. Is all AR Space public? Or do private properties also have ownership of the overlaid virtual reality space?
Given the fact that Aaron Swartz (R.I.P) was charged with a felony for just copying (not necessarily stealing) a bunch of digital academic documents, it’s clear that the old institutions of law are in disharmony with the reality of the digital world. At the moment I think that AR remains free because it mostly caters to a niche crowd. I’d like to see more people become involved in this so it can become further legitimized as a way to see the world, I just hope it can stay as free as it has been.