A Foreign Country

[trivnar]

Salut tout le monde. Les cours approchent leur fin (déjà!) et en leur compagnie arrive tout les projets de fin de terme, les exposés, les dissertations et tout autre: plein de choses à me tenir occupée. Quand je ne me casse pas la tête sur mes devoirs j'essaie de tenir mon studio au propre, faire mes courses ou me faire à manger.

Je marche à l'école

Comments

spindlethin

[anonymous]

I suppose the question then becomes what has the power; the art, or the information it holds? Art was, I assume, at one point, the most expedient way to convey information in the form of ideas. Is it still?

Re: spindlethin

[trivnar]

Yes, art was very widespread in conveying information: mostly because the majority of people were illiterate! Hence why so much iconography in churches - stained windows, statues, etc. I think people in 'modern' countries tend to forget what one story can do to people.
As for expedience today, still valid: think of the iPad, iPod, Kindle etc - technologies designed to bring us closer to music, movies, books, a sort of universal access to the human collective... (mkay, now I really want to go write some scifi now)

[zaveline]

Very interesting topic! I'm still loving the pictures (the ones you were allowed to keep, anyway :))