tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post8661522065577007111..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Charles Sheeler: Factories as CathedralsJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-40561579548070875932015-11-13T11:19:20.187-05:002015-11-13T11:19:20.187-05:00I wouldn't call myself much of spiritual indiv...I wouldn't call myself much of spiritual individual, so I don't know if I could invoke it religiously as Sheeler does with industry, but after reading this post and looking at his art, it occurs to me that I have something of my own personal analog in the form of my love for all things digital.<br /><br />In particular, I have a fascination with glitches. Their incorporation into art and culture - from images to music to cinema and even interactive media - is something I very much enjoy. For me, there's a quality of joyous serendipity to repurposing the unintended outputs of our machine code - to developing an appreciation and even reverence of flaws, and incorporating or transforming them into new and greater things. So I suppose through that comparison I can understand Sheeler's embracing of technology and industry in his own time.<br /><br />Perhaps in fifty or one hundred years people will look back on the Glitch aesthetic in the same negative way that I look back on the Found Art movement. I'd like to think that finding beauty in digital malfunctions isn't quite the same as signing a urinal in an act of Dadaist rebellion, but my biases and internal perspective probably make me unfit to judge properly.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com