Thursday Oct 20, 2005
Thursday Oct 20, 2005
Is "blogging" artwork of the new millenium?
Looking at it, blogging has many of the features of traditional and contempory art forms, including:
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Personal expression of the blogger
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Viewing gallaries
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Critics
And as with some art forms, I suspect we will soon see (if not already being done!):
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Live Blog Readings
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Bloggers signing printouts of their blogs
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Censoring
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Viewing ratings (as done for movies)
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The Annual Schwartz Blog Awards
And, like art, it seems that blogs come in all manners of style and purpose.   Children are broadcasting their views to the world via blogs.   Corporations are using blogs as a new format for marketing and corporate expression.   Engineers are using blogs to talk about their products in a personal, first person voice.   Activists are blogging to express their concerns.   Parents are employing blogs where photo albums used to be used.   People are connecting all over the world via blogs, sharing their thoughts with anyone who will listen.
Poems, paintings, music, sculpture, folktales, photography, ... and so on.   In the new millenium, did we add "Blogs"?