Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years • Hacker News Board

datapunk wrote: post #20

swayvil wrote: post #16

Speaking as a semi-famous artist. Art is a feast. After the feast you poop. Then the collectors come and hoard the poop for all eternity, occasionally lending the precious stuff out to students.

Say I printed this comment. Put it in a frame and auctioned it as art. Would you be the artist for creating the comment? Or would I be the artist for using the comment and framing it in a creative way?

Both?

Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years

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Post by phjesusthatguy3 » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 7:31 PM UTC

datapunk wrote: post #20

swayvil wrote: post #16

Speaking as a semi-famous artist. Art is a feast. After the feast you poop. Then the collectors come and hoard the poop for all eternity, occasionally lending the precious stuff out to students.

Say I printed this comment. Put it in a frame and auctioned it as art. Would you be the artist for creating the comment? Or would I be the artist for using the comment and framing it in a creative way?

There's a HN story from the past year or two about someone literally printing out other people's Twitter and/or Facebook pages and selling the prints in galleries for $thousands. I don't know the correct search terms to find it but it's out there.

EDIT: Richard Prince[0] I guess I've been on HN longer than I thought.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689889

Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years

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Post by justincormack » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 7:34 PM UTC

I borrowed some of these. And returned them.

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Post by grepthisab » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

datapunk wrote: post #20

swayvil wrote: post #16

Speaking as a semi-famous artist. Art is a feast. After the feast you poop. Then the collectors come and hoard the poop for all eternity, occasionally lending the precious stuff out to students.

Say I printed this comment. Put it in a frame and auctioned it as art. Would you be the artist for creating the comment? Or would I be the artist for using the comment and framing it in a creative way?

When Andy Warhol printed soup cans and put the prints in galleries, were the Campbell's logo designers the artists, or was Warhol?

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Post by grepthisab » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 7:41 PM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #21

If you have to register with I.D., it's not purely based on trust.

Sure it is, it just moves the trust to trusting the verified person and away from simply trusting the system.

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Post by kevin_thibedeau » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 8:04 PM UTC

datapunk wrote: post #20

swayvil wrote: post #16

Speaking as a semi-famous artist. Art is a feast. After the feast you poop. Then the collectors come and hoard the poop for all eternity, occasionally lending the precious stuff out to students.

Say I printed this comment. Put it in a frame and auctioned it as art. Would you be the artist for creating the comment? Or would I be the artist for using the comment and framing it in a creative way?

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

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Post by okmokmz » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 8:07 PM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #21

If you have to register with I.D., it's not purely based on trust.

Are you implying you can't trust someone if you ask for their identity before making a transaction/trade/deal?