Patrick Lichty wrote:
>Actually, perhaps the whole circuit bending genre, which depends
>entirely on a "naive style" approach to reverse engineering, might be
>one of the first that could be defined as folk art. I really like this
>idea.
>Is there a New Media "Outsider Art"?



Mr.Hwang wrote:

>> Is there a New Media "Outsider Art"?(P.L)

>Well, there's plenty of digital creativity that is done by people who
>have no interest in contextualizing it in the world of fine arts, if
>that's what you mean.

>Sometimes I read an essay about the aesthetics of code by somebody who
>doesn't program very much, and I think: It's like it's the 1980s, and
>programmers are like Puerto Rican graffiti artists without MFAs.

"Uber naive und sientimentalische Dichiung-Here Schiller applied his aesthe=
tic theories to that branch of art which was most peculiarly his own, the a=
rt of poetry; it is an attempt to classify literature in accordance with an=
a priori philosophic theory of ancient and modern, classic and romantic, n=
aive and sentimental ; and it sprang from the need Schiller himself felt of=
justifying his own sentimental and modern genius with the naive and classi=
c tranquillity of Goethes. While Schillers standpoint was too essentially t=
hat of his time to lay claim to finality, it is, on the whole, the most con=
cise statement we possess of the literary theory which lay behind the class=
ical literature of Germany."(http://14.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SC/SCHILLER_J=
OHANN_CHRISTOPH_FRIEDRICH_VON.htm)

Language's change.From Schiller to XXI century words "naive"and "sentimenta=
l"passing thru radical changes.For so called "folk art" usual attributes ar=
e naive&sentimental.
We just have to imagine Goethe and Schiller as part of "folk art"tradition:=
-)
"Outsider art"could be better term.There's so much example for people who d=
oesn't "contextualizing"their work with *art*,and their influence was huge,=
just in art.
Borders between discipline considered "art"and science(for example) are ver=
y arbitrate.
Actually,only folk-in-naive-style-outsider thing on this page is Mr.Hwang o=
bservation.
MANIK