I Am User Generated

I’ll apologize in advance if this comes across as a gripe, but the blog world is full so let’s get on board.

Working on the edge of art, academia and social media is proving to be difficult mix. Link ideas across this disciplines is seeming to be a counter intuitive self defeating task. Allow me to elaborate.

A huge value of art is the fact that it begets questions. That’s why I’ve chosen this field to address many issues that concern me. Art is often ambiguous, and invites more questions. On the flip side working at the master’s level art must be accompanied by academic research. This form of research has been understood in the form of scientific research that seeks to find defensible truths. Now let’s add the social media space into the mix. Social media is conversational and no one wants answers while they’re in a conversation, they want to talk it out. Conversations is for discussing ideas not for actually finding the answer. Art begets questions, research seeks truth and social media just wants to keep talking. Theses factors make it very difficult to judge the value of the art/research/social media project because all three things are usually trying to accomplish very different goals.

I’ve not settle on the answer to this quandary except to pose a question in an art piece, research a possible answer through academic reading and then talk about it through this blog.

I will also be developing social network that will help facilitate conversation as it relates to academia and art. More to follow