TRTR by indirection. More Serendipty

[Paul Mackin]

On 8/18/2011 10:16 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Stumbled upon another TR-thematic fascinating piece, imho, while hardly looking. (It's good
> to get away, visit other people and read some of their magazines)
>   
> May-June 2011 Antiques Magazine, p.106 an article by a long-time art critic, james Gardner, called
> BETTER THAN THE REAL THING? A critic appraises the Google Art Project experience.
>   
> In which this line appears unironically: "one of the inadvertent revelations of Google reproductions----
> is that reality itself, the real thing, may just be an imperfect medium for looking at art.    (!!!)
>   
> He goes on to make the case involving hung on a=museume walls so we can't look at them
> fully eye-to-eye, every way then distorts; can't get close enough to many sections.....and glass
> keeps them, well, under glass............................................................
>   
> TR theme?..Is he just a contemp version of one of the satirized crew in TR?...an art critic, who
> would bloviate at a party about Google Art Repros being more real?...Google sponsor this??
>
What is Real, or better, what is unmediated Real.

Even if you happen to live only two blocks from the MMOA or the National 
Gallery you're going to have to face a lot of mediation.

Art history
How much the picture cost
Guards
Open hours
Other people
Tour guides
Glass
Ropes
And the biggest mediation of them all is that you didn't paint the damn 
thing yourself.

But true, there's nothing like the real thing.  Of course that doesn't 
rule out that there can't be something BETTER than the real thing (as 
the song goes).

Virtual machines have advantages over real machines but you need a real 
machine to run them on top of.

Personally I don't like to be present at Happenings.  They scare me.  
Something might REALLY happen.  On youtube you're safe.

Burn this post.

P