Highly interactive evolving art goes mainstream

[mattbell]

The sort of highly interactive art you see at Burning Man appears to be making inroads into the mainstream conservative art world.  

The New York Metropolitan Museum just finished displaying a piece of art that consisted of an evolving organic bamboo structure that viewers could climb through.  It's extremely immersive and in constant flux - the construction process is part of the art itself.

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/arts/design/01bambu.html?_r=1&hp
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On an unrelated note, I found a report that said that the CIA secretly funded abstract expressionists in the 1950s to ensure that the US dominated not just the nuclear arms race but the battle for intellectual dominance in the art world as well.  

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

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[laughingstone.livejournal.com]

On an unrelated note, I found a report that said that the CIA secretly funded abstract expressionists in the 1950s to ensure that the US dominated not just the nuclear arms race but the battle for intellectual dominance in the art world as well.

Well shit, I approve.