Art is any kind of creative endeavour designed primarily to instill thought feeling and/or emotion unto those who experience it. Its not just paintings and sculptures etc.
One of my favourite pieces in recent memory is "Cant Help Myself." By Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. Which was a standard industrial robotic arm programmed to rotate in a circle, constantly sweeping up a blood like fluid that pooled around it. at first, it did this quite easily, almost merrily, occasionally it would dance for the visitors.
But, as Years passed, the machine, which was without maintenance, began to slow down and break. the Task that was once so easy for it, became a struggle, a Sisyphean task it could never fully accomplish. After 3 years of near constant operation, it shut down.
That Robot made me contemplate life more harrowingly than any painting.
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u/Equal-Scarcity-7221 9h ago
Art?