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A Different Way To Recycle Old PCs

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-most-modern-art dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Glasgow based artist Sandy Smith has some slightly different suggestions for what to do with those outdated PCs and Apple Macs -- build your home out of them! Photographs of his work; rooms and structures made out of up to 100 (switched-on) computers and other equipment can be seen at computersforart.org/create/; these should be of interest to anyone who has a habit of collecting old (working) computers, or just hates the thought of throwing out their old 486 friend."

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  1. What defines art? No, it's 'WHO' defines art by Jerry+Smith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Definitions of art:
    http://www.google.nl/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q= define%3Aart
    That's a lot of definitions. Art is art when 'articians' say it is so.
    Authoritarial justification.
    Even extreme things, like burning crosses or crossdressed foetusses can be considered art. And before modding me down for this: I do not agree with the examples I just gave.

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    All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
    1. Re:What defines art? No, it's 'WHO' defines art by datafr0g · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I disagree...
      Art is "art" to an observer whenever they think something has the qualities of art.
      Errm, in other words:
      Anything at all is art (to the observer) when the observer thinks it is because of a (artistic) quality or meaning percieved...

      If I find a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk artful, then it is to me because I think it is.
      It is arrogant (and unfortunatly common) though to force a perception of art upon others.... that's what pisses people off about the "what defines art" question.

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      "Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
  2. Pretty? Scary? Sad? by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know if it's supposed to be pretty or scary.

    Pictures like these remind me of how eery a society we live in. It's actually kind of depressing or even scary.

    (In an I'm-in-front-of-my-computer-at-4:45AM kind of way)

  3. Re:Looks like my garage .. by ksheff · · Score: 3, Insightful
    or my living room.

    I would look at some of those pictures and start thinking "I have one of those computers..and one of those..that one too.."

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    the good ground has been paved over by suicidal maniacs
  4. Junk... by kylegordon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Constructed from 16 monitors and 60 computers in a dimly lit round basement space, the circular structure of The Blackhouse faces outwards, yet allows the viewer to look over and into complicated interior.
    It's the whole 'dimly lit round basement space' that gets me... I walked past this when it was built a few weeks ago, as I live 2 blocks from the Art School, and not only was it in the floorspace of an empty shop, but it was looking out onto a busy main road. To be perfectly honest, it looked like someone was bored and had arranged a pile of junk computers in a circle. Completely uninspiring and boring. I even told my girlfriend about the 'pile of crap in the shop' and that she shouldn't worry as I won't be asking for any of it. I'm sorry, but I can't see how this passes for 'art'...