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   "purple"  wrote in message   
   news:d43b4515-10e2-44e4-83a6-c8913ea745e9@c19g2000prf.googlegroups.com...   
   On Mar 17, 10:55 pm, nenslo  wrote:   
   > In article ,   
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   > MistySteele  wrote:   
   > > purple wrote:   
   > > > On Mar 16, 2:02 pm, "SODDI the Unclean"  wrote:   
   > > >> The media IS art.   
   >   
   > > > blabbity blabbity blab   
   > > > Report on Project in Understanding New Media, Part VII(Exhibits), p.i,   
   > > > 1960.   
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   > > Interesting. One could say that art is only defined as such because it   
   > > is what people see. Shakespeare, Dickens, and Da Vinci are all famous   
   > > only because their works were, and are, seen by the masses. Now that the   
   > > media is seen by the masses as well, it has become a new form of art.   
   > > So, in my opinion, the media is not "killing" the Arts, only replacing   
   > > some of them with something else. Whether this is good or bad is up to   
   > > individual preference.   
   >   
   > Personally, I don't think a forty-eight year old quote has anything to   
   > do with "new media." I don't remember what 1960 was like, but I   
   > remember 1962 pretty well, and I assure you it was a different world   
   > entirely from this one now.   
      
   And why is the present world so different from 1962?   
      
   Because shut up, dean.   
      
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