art ed + web 2.0 + [e]merging media blog

One of the first things I do with Art I students at the beginning of the year is have a discussion of aesthetics regarding Claus Oldenburg. This happened years ago, but some students built a giant cardboard ketchup bottle to go along with Oldenburg's giant stuffed hamburger. The ketchup bottle was taken down and considered vandalism. We talk about what the differences are, and why one should be considered art and the other considered trash.

I would consider the exhibit be installation or performance art. I don't know if I would consider the website art itself. It is just the recording of a temporary event, like digital images of works in a portfolio.

I think whats great about this website is the tongue and cheek way that they discuss their own work, how can you copy something which is lost, and covered in a shower curtain both playful and ominous. I wish i had seen it. Its a little like Duchamp in a way I guess,or Warhol. I love students.

Since this is my question, it's a bit odd to comment on it. Anyhow, this project reminds me so much of Banksy's work. I wonder how making the website of it "legitamizes" the work. Also, since the casual "Googler" will not know that it is not real, does the Moma have a right to be upset? How can/does the unauthorized affect the authorized museum show?

This is interesting. Pause. (I feel the opposite of saturated with ideas.) I guess it seems to me that the real "point" of this was the website rather than the "exhibit." Would the website be an example of the art world's version of a "paratext"?

The Moma show should be something that in a way could be considered temporary in its art and creative in its implementation and understanding..........

Well, this is certainly interesting and innovative. I would say it is art, the work they exhibit in the restroom. Although, it is taken down and the exhibit is short lived, it does not change the fact it was there and they used the space for what it was.

I think whats great about this website is the tongue and cheek way that they discuss their own work, how can you copy something which is lost, and covered in a shower curtain both playful and ominous. I wish i had seen it. Its a little like Duchamp in a way I guess,or Warhol. I love students.

The Moma show should be something that in a way could be considered temporary in its art and creative in its implementation and understanding..........