How is this Art?

[band1t]

I came across this video on youtube
and I dont see it as art
tell me what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCnazXygtg

[sr73bu]

... its art when you have no "artistic talent"... like alot of the "fine art" majors I sat along side of in college, before I switched to Industrial design...

These "artists" typically dress the part (literally) and maybe even talk the talk,,, but in the end they're in it for the fashion and the fact that society allows them to believe they're "artists"....

When I think of art I think of everything from Da vinci to Graffiti to a well thought out hot rod.... but not this crap.

LOL, sorry for the rant, there are some talented people out there today, doing some pretty absract stuff, but this is just crazy.

-Sean

[novaderrik]

would it be art if it was a couple of hybrids or Smart cars?

[LeighP]

Art should create something....not destroy beautiful things.

[Takid455]

went to art museum (MOMA in NYC)to see a ferrari exhibits many years ago . it was very interesting. lots of engineering blue prints.

Anyhow, I walked through the art painting and saw 'crap' was getting a lot more attention than very intricate paints. Of course there is all the philosophy and stuff about a square w/ a line through it, but the stool w/ a bicycle jammed in the middle...really???

[edog1]

I created a lot of art in my younger days.

[band1t]

how is slowly wrecking 2 trans am art???
now dress them up and make them flat out sick
ill call it art

[MrQuick]

its expressive...just like **** and dumb **** are.

[crustysack]

same way as the italian artist that put his feces in a jar and called it " merde de artist" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_****
a can recently sold for $100k + which enforces the notion that not all rich people are smart

[LeighP]

Can't blame an artist for making money selling his turd....thats smart....now the people who bought it...well, at least they provide a free source of amusement for the rest of us......

[pnypwr]

This sculpture is a machine that advances two full sized automobiles slowly into one another over a period of 6 days, simulating a head on automobile collision. Each car moves about three feet into the other. The movement is so slow as to be invisible.
It is almost impossible to watch a modern action film without at least one automobile wreck. Why do we find interest and excitement it new versions of the same event? Why are we not satisfied? Cars are extensions of our body and our ego. We buy or modify cars that reflect our personalities and egos. When we see an automobile destroyed, in a way we are looking at our own inevitable death. This moment is, because of it's inherent speed, almost invisible. We have slowed the event via film and video but only from a cameras perspective. We never get to see the transformation of living breathing car too wreck in its entirety, in detail. This piece offers the viewer the ability to examine in three dimensions the collision of these cars. A moment that might take a fraction of a second in an actual collision will be expanded to take days.
Car wrecks are spectacular moments. This piece by changing one of the key variables removes and changes the nature of the event. What was life threatening is now rendered safe. What was supremely spectacular is now almost static. The wreck has been broken down to its Newtonian components. We are left to contemplate our own mortality our own Newtonian components.




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Produced by STUK arts centre and City of Leuven
Supported by LMS international

[tylers88]

Its art because now the Prius owners car see 2 very nice looking "polution creating" cars destroyed even though none of them think about the polution caused by the manufacturing there car and the batteries for it

[Hunter68]

because we live in a fu... jacked up world i feel that tattoos are not art either but everyone out there tries to prove me wrong, just peoples views