Comments on: Now it Matches The Large Glass http://grandtextauto.org/2006/01/06/now-it-matches-the-large-glass/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: mark http://grandtextauto.org/2006/01/06/now-it-matches-the-large-glass/comment-page-1/#comment-80522 mark Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:12:20 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1042#comment-80522 I'm a bit late on this, but I noticed that this isn't even the original Duchamp urinal, which has long since been lost, but a <i>copy</i> of it. I'm unable to figure out if this is a copy imbued with the magical aura of art by Duchamp himself, or if the museum just unilaterally declared their urinal a "copy" of Duchamp's. I’m a bit late on this, but I noticed that this isn’t even the original Duchamp urinal, which has long since been lost, but a copy of it. I’m unable to figure out if this is a copy imbued with the magical aura of art by Duchamp himself, or if the museum just unilaterally declared their urinal a “copy” of Duchamp’s.

]]> By: nick http://grandtextauto.org/2006/01/06/now-it-matches-the-large-glass/comment-page-1/#comment-79508 nick Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:46:00 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1042#comment-79508 Duchamp: filling the museum with seminal pieces since the early 19th century. Duchamp: filling the museum with seminal pieces since the early 19th century.

]]> By: Ian Bogost http://grandtextauto.org/2006/01/06/now-it-matches-the-large-glass/comment-page-1/#comment-79479 Ian Bogost Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:14:40 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1042#comment-79479 Ah yes. I suppose Footsie is a digital game as much as Sim City is a digital game, of another sort. Thumb war, clearly a digital game. As for Pinoncelli, can one construe the act of urinating in <i>Fountain</i> in 1993 as, erm, also digital art? And for that matter, how do we feel about this account of the act, as <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060106/lf_afp/afplifestylefranceart_060106144405" rel="nofollow">characterized</a> by the AFP wire: <i> The urinal, considered a seminal piece to come from the early 19th-century Dada movement, is valued at some three million euros (3.5 million dollars). </i> Ah yes. I suppose Footsie is a digital game as much as Sim City is a digital game, of another sort. Thumb war, clearly a digital game.

As for Pinoncelli, can one construe the act of urinating in Fountain in 1993 as, erm, also digital art?

And for that matter, how do we feel about this account of the act, as characterized by the AFP wire:


The urinal, considered a seminal piece to come from the early 19th-century Dada movement, is valued at some three million euros (3.5 million dollars).

]]> By: nick http://grandtextauto.org/2006/01/06/now-it-matches-the-large-glass/comment-page-1/#comment-79475 nick Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:04:02 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1042#comment-79475 Ah, yes. Actually they were digital games. Footsie (a borderline case, better classified as a play activity) and thumb war. Fortunately we didn't actually uncover either of these going on. Ah, yes. Actually they were digital games. Footsie (a borderline case, better classified as a play activity) and thumb war.

Fortunately we didn’t actually uncover either of these going on.

]]> By: Ian Bogost http://grandtextauto.org/2006/01/06/now-it-matches-the-large-glass/comment-page-1/#comment-79474 Ian Bogost Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:44:36 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1042#comment-79474 Nick, this reminds me of another, if less dramatic, example of "digital art" we uncovered at DAC 2005, but which now I cannot remember. Nick, this reminds me of another, if less dramatic, example of “digital art” we uncovered at DAC 2005, but which now I cannot remember.

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