The electronic Brillo Box
An approach to interactive art through the writings of Arthur C. Danto by Pau Waelder Laso.
This is an essay I presented in a symposium on "Arthur Danto and Contemporary Art", celebrated in Murcia, Spain, in December 2003:
"In the present paper, the theories proposed by Arthur Coleman Danto in his book The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (1981) are applied to the interactive artwork PainStation (2001), created by Volker Morawe and Tilman Reiff. The purpose of this essay is to show how, by using the theoretical considerations proposed by Prof. Danto, this piece can be seen as a work of art, however presenting many similarities with a video game. A parallelism with Andy Warhol's Brillo Box (1968), paradigm of the artwork that is indiscernible from the common object is thus established."
It is available for download in english and spanish in:
http://www.fursr.com/
http://www.sicplacitum.com/
All comments are welcome.
– Pau
The electronic Brillo Box
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Type: discussion