Wiping away the past (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, September 10, 2015, 00:43 (3460 days ago) @ Leviathan

My point is that art should be able to be preserved.

There is some art that is meant to be temporary - like performance pieces and installations, earthworks/land art, and more. There are some printmaking techniques that 'use up' the original plates to the point where they can never be used to create the image again.

The only way to preserve those kinds of art is to document them - like you did with Dinklage's voice.

It's interesting you say that, because I know that is a large part of the artist's intent in those pieces - for them to be temporary. I personally think that is misguided, because everyone's individual experience with art already is temporary. How many times are you going to go see David? Probably not often enough for it to cease being special, even though he's a hunk or marble that will stand for centuries later.

So you're not really gaining a whole lot in terms of the people who do see it, but you lose the ability for others to have their experience down the road. If you really think your expression is valuable, it should stand in time to be heard.

Some arts are temporary by their very nature such as theatre or live music. You were either there when Prince got booed off the stage opening for the Stones at Madison square garden, or you weren't. But video games are decidedly not temporary, or at least don't have to be.