I Love Artists. Some Of My Best Friends Are Artists. But ...
I've been getting quite the chuckle out of this Instant Artist Statement Generator. Sometimes I'll read my artist friends' Facebook pages where they describe their approach. Each time, I'm sure they're putting me on. Or maybe they just got their hands on this Instant Artist Statement Generator. Sample:
My work explores the relationship between emerging sexualities and life as perfomance.
With influences as diverse as Wittgenstein and Roy Lichtenstein, new combinations are created from both explicit and implicit layers.
Ever since I was a student I have been fascinated by the theoretical limits of the human condition. What starts out as triumph soon becomes corrupted into a tragedy of temptation, leaving only a sense of nihilism and the chance of a new beginning.
As shifting impressions become frozen through boundaried and critical practice, the viewer is left with a glimpse of the edges of our condition.
And since this statement generator is nothing more than a high-tech Mad Libs, it's worth noting that Leonard B. Stern, the creator of Mad Libs, just died. Here's his obit in yesterday's New York Times.
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Nov '10
Re: I Love Artists. Some Of My Best Friends Are Artists. But ...
Traffic from Ricochet must be causing trouble for the site (I'm having trouble getting it to work). But in the meantime, I came across this related post on an art blog the other day, which is pretty amusing. It's a quiz asking the reader to try differentiating human from machine artspeak. It also has a link to a different artspeak generator.
Though in all fairness, none of it compares in tortured "driviality" with someone like Jon Favreau, Obama's speechwriter...
Re: I Love Artists. Some Of My Best Friends Are Artists. But ...
Awesome. Here's what I got:
I think someone should also make one of these instant generators for academic-speak. Shouldn't be too hard.
Feb '11
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Reminds me of the literature professor who was looking for a customized epistemology.
Nov '10
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Thanks, Mollie. If you have time to kill - I'm sure Ricochet could write this off as essential research - google "postmodern text generator". There used to be tons floating around the web. Postmodernism has lots of holes, and it's very vulnerable to humour (though a good deal of it is valid). Still the best in my opinion is Sokal's Hoax (be sure to read the brief bit about content)
Edited on Jun 10, 2011 at 7:20amAug '10
Re: I Love Artists. Some Of My Best Friends Are Artists. But ...
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
I think someone should also make one of these instant generators for academic-speak. Shouldn't be too hard. · Jun 10 at 6:39am
Here's one! The snarXive generates abstracts for high-energy physics papers.
As for the postmodernism generators Halifax mentioned, the output of one is here. Clicking on a link at the bottom will generate another.
May '10
Re: I Love Artists. Some Of My Best Friends Are Artists. But ...
Well, I'm not an artist, but I do have the pretensions of one.
Apr '11
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ooooh... specifically musicologist-speak would be great.
Aug '10
Re: I Love Artists. Some Of My Best Friends Are Artists. But ...
Elena, are you a musicologist? If so, I'm jealous. (I did what my parents wanted and got a "practical degree".)
Sep '10
Re: I Love Artists. Some Of My Best Friends Are Artists. But ...
Mollie,
Are you channeling Theodore Dalrymple in June's New Criterion?
Edited on Jun 10, 2011 at 9:01amJun '10
Re: I Love Artists. Some Of My Best Friends Are Artists. But ...
I, for one, have no desire to glimpse the edges of my condition. What I can see right now doesn't give me much hope that the edges will be any better.
Also, how about one of these for film (excuse me, cinema) reviews and for wine fanciers to describe the "bouquet" of their favorite vintage?
Apr '11
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Both my daughter and I are accomplished artists and when we read this kind of drivel in magazines and newspapers we send the articles to each other and while scratching our heads, have a good laugh about them. I have serious doubts about the artistic abilities of people who write the kinds of things that are quoted above.
Sep '10
Re: I Love Artists. Some Of My Best Friends Are Artists. But ...
I just tried the generator and I'm a little disappointed. Apparently the near-rhyme between Wittgenstein and Lichtenstein was just a coincidence. I was hoping the thing had a poetic soul.