$5M In Pirated Software On A HDD = Art?

Yes! Then you will see, you'll see and you'll know, Why I didn't like teh art schools. (they drew on my stuff with pastels too :()

I am sorry that you had a bad time in Art school. Screw those guys. If you feel like you were on to something then you should follow your passion. You'd probably be more successful than any of those hacks anyway, considering that your Art would come from a place of passion, not just a desire for a crappy degree.
 
well, I guess the artist had a heck of a lot of fun watching the pirated porn :p
 
I am sorry that you had a bad time in Art school. Screw those guys. If you feel like you were on to something then you should follow your passion. You'd probably be more successful than any of those hacks anyway, considering that your Art would come from a place of passion, not just a desire for a crappy degree.

It was teh teachers too! Thinking about it. They were all post modern post industrial society ironic decay and I was all post that, and with stuff looked like the stuff it was supposed to be that was probably slightly disturbing (children cry). It probably never would have worked :( I still apply myself...but just to everything I do. Theres teh art in everything, and therefore why limit yourself to the production of something that can be applied everywhere in everything. It is all public theater or something, why hide teh god in teh temple.

I have to agree about the degrees. They should always be seen as worthless bits of nonsense to what you need to do to get them, but thats never how it works... Damn society! (as I work on stuff for degree no.2 :D)
 
Art is in the eye of the beholder.
I consider a hard drive sitting on pedestal just that, a hard drive some moron put on a pedestal.
If you consider a hard drive some moron stuck on a pedestal art, that is your business.
I don't expect you to agree with me that it is not art, any more than you should expect I accept a hard drive some moron stuck on a pedestal is art.
 
this is why art sucks. if you want to contribute to the world, study something useful, like science
 
Art is in the eye of the beholder.
I consider a hard drive sitting on pedestal just that, a hard drive some moron put on a pedestal.
If you consider a hard drive some moron stuck on a pedestal art, that is your business.
I don't expect you to agree with me that it is not art, any more than you should expect I accept a hard drive some moron stuck on a pedestal is art.
You don't define Art. Sorry, you have no basis to believe any of this besides personal bias.
 
this is why art sucks. if you want to contribute to the world, study something useful, like science
This is a rash over-generalization. It speaks more to your confirmation bias than to reality. There is plenty of amazing and inspiring Art that enriches our world, and one piece that you don't like does not detract from that.
 
It is an interesting discussion prop, I will give it that. That so much value, so much time, so much work, is all stuffed inside some little electronic device, that is so cheaply and commonly found, and it's 5 million dollar contents so easily duplicated, is some what hilarious when you think about it.
 
It is an interesting discussion prop, I will give it that. That so much value, so much time, so much work, is all stuffed inside some little electronic device, that is so cheaply and commonly found, and it's 5 million dollar contents so easily duplicated, is some what hilarious when you think about it.

And I don't mean to be so negative. I quite like what you're on to here.
 
$5 million? Noob!

$0.99/track, find a 10 second short track, that's $20.6M on a 3TB drive right there! Or $51.5 billion after RIAA's $2500/track fine ...
 
$5 million in pirated software?

So if someone paid $4 million for the drive, would they be getting a huge bargain?
 
$5 million? Noob!

$0.99/track, find a 10 second short track, that's $20.6M on a 3TB drive right there! Or $51.5 billion after RIAA's $2500/track fine ...
That's 32 years worth of EMI's revenues, and more than the value of the commercial music industry. Just think, a single hard drive of data worth more than the entire music industry!
 
Sometimes Artists are just fucking tools. They put out complete and utter crap, it gets attention and makes a lot of money for total nonsense.
 
Yes, this is Art. This is creative and it is unique. Also, I would like to see your qualifications as an authority of what is and is not Art. I think you're talking out of personal preference instead of facts.
Anything can be Art. This piece was made by an Artist and presented as Art. It was made to be considered by an audience and critiqued. Calling it "hipster" is a weak critique, to say the least. Quit being so pretentious about Art, you're projecting yourselves.

Can I see your qualifications?

Yes, this is my opinion, and in my opinion this is not art. I am going to submit my tv remote control to my local art gallery saying that it's creative, unique and beautifully designed.

This is Art.
http://www.google.com/search?cx=c&q...&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1234&bih=765
 
Art = Anything one person likes to do, he does and other pays if he likes it to and too lazy or incapable of doing himself.

Well, since this thing has $5 million worth of software, what is the price tag on this?

Oh, and don't forget my discount i'm buying bulk software, i know i know it's illegal, but hi, it's art toooo, I swear i'm not gonna use it just display for my new rig i'm building. (Question: Does power cable and data cable come with it?? and what is the warranty left on the HD, you know just in case;)!!!)
 
While this is "art", it's not art. For all we know it could be a completely empty HD. This exhibit fails without a means of showing all the data to the viewer, or some contrasting image/exhibit to show the meaning of the hard disk ( Such as an old piece of thread from the olden days of copyright law)...
 
Not really true when all the art galleries now are full to the brim with multimillion dollar pieces that are all the same "conceptual statement junk. Maybe the avant garde of this stuff might have been vaguely unique, at the time. But that was a long long time ago and it's pretty pathetic that they even bother with this stuff now. It's not progressive, it's really just the same, and then the same, and then the same. "today I made a statement with flour. now i'm totally not going to make a statement while making a statement with orange peel". There are so so so many "concept about ideas" things now and have been for so so long. Anyone not bored of them has amnesia or something. Why does something have to have a "statement". If something was just say...another picture of a naked woman with fruit or something people would just laud it's stupidity. But somehow doing the same thing with non fruit is different? The "art" world is just full of morons like this, which is why it just pays ass service to a tiny elitist subset of the community.

Why does art have to make a statement? Who is left that gives a crap?

My experience of art tuition was art forgery and having to go to shitty galleries to see another "statement" from some jackass who's entire effort and "artistic" ability went to making a samey statement to the other 3435067 articles in the gallery while people commented using big words and work out how they could change it slightly into "their own" take on this stuff that the great unwashed "didn't get" while circle jerking over each other how this made them enlightened, while I thought they were all circle jerking cock rubbers who just copied others because they couldn't do any better. When I was invited to an art college and saw it saw 4 more years of that I stayed far far far away :D

FTf'gW

Right there says it all. Eat it, art snob bitches!!:D
 
So this means I can go get a drive.. make sure it is wiped completely, and call it art? It would be the complete opposite of this piece of "art".

I could make millions selling a few clean drives. :p

yes. Like Peepingdan says, it may not be good art, but it's still art.

I use some blank harddrives as decorations in the house. I think it makes things as a whole, interesting looking. It's purposely placed and not just "junk" around the house. Aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

Do I think it holds a candle to Mozart, dances, or Dali? No. Not everything is going to be remembered forever.
 
if this is art, then i have art all over my desk. as does everyone else i know. i understand trying to start a discussion about the rediculous price put on data, but unboxing an external hard drive you bought at best buy and putting it on a white table and calling it art is a slight against real artists.

theres probably nothing even on the drive.
 
So, carry your laptop to the exhibit, plug in, and you're $5M richer!

So, could you do a similar exhibit in meatspace? Rob $5M from a bank (explaining to the cashiers that it is art), and put it up in a museum. Shouldn't take up too much space. Would the exhibit be worth more than the value of the money itself?
 
I think the idea was to stimulate discussion, which it certainly has done so...

A harddrive, no different than millions of others to the naked eye, yet this one supposedly has $5 million of value within it. IMO, I think it's fairly clever and goes to show how asinine software valuations can be, which I thought most of you would be on board with. :p
 
It's called IRONY you closed minded Fascist!!! GAHHH!

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Gold Casio calculator watch FTW!
 
conspicuously displaying a hard drive with $5 million of stolen property.
It's NOT FUCKING STOLEN. They have not stolen anything. For the love of god, will people PLEASE understand the difference between infringement and stealing.
 
So its got 3 mp3s on it?

Anyway. This is why nobody likes postmodern art other than people who want to seem like they are "cultured" or some shit. No effort goes into it. I bet it is seagate too. :(

LOL, too true, I think it's a Western Digital drive, so it's miles better (I hate Seagate too, they were bad before they bought up Quantum, not entirely sure how they survived this long).

I hate the new forms of art, a dirty bed and a bunch of crap all over it, is not art that's a homeless guys home; nor is a dead animal in a glass container, a hard drive not hooked up to anything is not art, just someone forgot to pack it up with their laptop after a Starbucks session.
 
Just as a crappy scribble on binder paper can be a drawing,
this can be Art.

No one is claiming that by calling the scribble a drawing that it is in league with a DaVinci. I don't think this is entirely good art, but it is Art. The more you guys whine about it the less gets done. Why don't you make an Art piece about it and try to change the culture of Art?

I also never claimed that I defined Art. My opinion is informed (not held through faith), and is therefore worthy of consideration. Not all opinions are equal. The definition of Art that I use is informed by historical context, given to us by Historians and Art critics. If one wants to see the piece that gave context to this work, look no further than Marcel Duchamp's "the Fountain".
 
How in the hell can this be considered a work of art?

The creator must be somebody who just downloaded 1 TB of data from Piratebay.
 
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