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People's motives for walking vary widly. Some want fresh air and exercise, others have errands to run. What makes a walker into a walking artist? The dedication of time and mind to think, look, etc. on the move. The tools that they carry might be cameras of notepads or harmonicas. Some artists use the walk to practice their art - many young people can be heard rapping their way through the city centres of the world, and who can tell what a stranger is thinking? The concentrating eyes. A wandering songwriter might stumble across a story that will appear in their next composition. A sculptor might catch sight of a figure and run back to the studio to craft that beautifully abnormal bodyshape. Inspiration and/through interaction await. Walks lead somewhere, perhaps to a nice café.
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The walk becomes significiant to the person who carries the promise of product at the other end. A practicing artist makes art with enough regularity to be considered loyal to their work, dedicated to their products. When the product itself is a . Postmodern thinking seems to dissolve the labels, opting for non-titled descriptions or hybrid subpractices. You knew where you where with 'a painting'. Why was/is it not a painted? And what if you are too conceptual to make anything? Is art more what people get from something than the something itself?
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Thanks to the multimedia of image and audio capture devices in the newest generation mobile phones, there are much photographers around. People waving screens at their friends, proud of their funny or serious shots, discoveries and accidents. Disposible and affordable media has empowered people - easily available, though perhaps not of professional standard, not the artistic, creative photography of the darkroom tradition. You need no credit [phone credit] and the quality of the camera systems are improving all the time. Although such images may not sell for thousands of pounds, they are still products of creativity [decision making?]. Can digital data be a product? Printed yes. Can sound be a physical product? It can have a presence - volume wobble, comic glass shatter pitch. Data is quantifiable by file size. When things are free, how does their value change? Illegally free downloads may contain advertising for any number of material products and philosophies. Advertainment - salesman performer...back to walking. The stroller/observer/artist collects, adopts, arranges and portrays the environment through which they walk. Default symbols and specific knowledge used cleverly to create a feeling [of movement? Of 'being there'?]. This process of digest and memory selection/alteration has the capacity to immortalise the most average of roads.
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Most people are capable of walking. Most people could press the shutter button on a camera-phone. Most people could be photographers. Digital data is data - thoughts are thoughts - value is value - cost is cost, numbers and prorities and hierachies and lists...information is information. Type and category and origin... it is equal. Language is language. Visuals are visuals. Audio is audio. But Language, visuals and audio is information. What is information when it falls into the brain? Electric signals I'm told. Stop it brain!
Should I be more specific about the types of art that I include? Visual art? The primary form of the intend piece being the object itself, if it is an object? The writing and all else that surrounds it? The name, associations and hype? The story behind it? STOP IT BRAIN!
Lyrics from songs are heard, though they can be read, but in their original format they are information for the ears. This can create a mental image or a mood in the brain of the listener. Is this art because it was something produced with intent? Is that idea as pointless and outdated as any other attempt to define something so broad? All parameters are as man-made as the art, and the word 'art', and the concept of art itself. So I must stop these arguments if I ever want to write an essay. I make it very difficult though because I am choosing to believe that I am very lazy and indecisive. What is 'I'? Etc.
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An English street, a terrace, what does this imply? A set of associations, assumptions...a myth around the artist - don't walk in the ghetto, don't walk in the park at night...restrictions - safety - who is safe/where and when are they safe/how are they safe/what are they safe from? What is safety? Factually safe? Mostly safe? Where Not To Walk? What ART material might be there/anywhere? What kind of material? Biographical? Cultural? Physical? Data gathering.
Art - visual examples for essay [text and image] - perfectly sourced...
No ideas from that except "find good example pictures".
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