... every rainy, grimy detail still burned in my mind, almost as if I had been there. And in a way, I had, through one of my favourite media of contemporary art. The graphics design of a video game map.
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"What is Contemporary Art?" pg 52. I come back to Call of Duty: Black Ops, the video game that inspired my highest scoring SAT essay. Reading the description of the Kowloon walled city transported me right back to the level in Black Ops set in Kowloon, ...
I think it could still retain its meaning, if the meaning were to be what the critic Peter Schjeldahl interprets it to be, as any art available in YOUR lifetime.
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"What Is Contemporary Art?", pg 12: Contemp(t)orary: Eleven Theses, Cuauhtemoc Medina.
The essay brings up the possibility of the "contemporary" label losing its meaning by becoming oxymoronic, fixed in time, when it loses popular use.
@ally22t@ally22t I can see what you mean by texture, the shading around the edges, and the specular reflections make it look almost soft and slightly fuzzy
@Haleymaki01 I tried to decipher what it says, but I couldn't. But not knowing it didn't take much away from my appreciation for the art piece. The colours and the shapes provide enough food for thought.