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Stowe Boyd is a well-known media subversive,
and an internationally recognized authority on real-time, collaborative
and social technologies. His new blog is Message.
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Eveleyn Rodriguez: Ordinary Art = Artisan Journalism?
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Evelyn Rodiguez enlarges the discussion about bloggers as artists: "Your excuses have vanished: This is the age of ordinary art. This is the age of ordinary journalists."
This accords with the term I have been pushing around in my head -- artisan journalists -- to distinguish what we are up to from industrial journalism, but to avoid being grouped with the art establishment: they have worked too hard to distance art from everyday life for me to say "I am an artist, expressing myself in words." People would expect some canvas covered in incomprehensible characters, or some installation with teletypes clanking away like Shakespeare's monkeys, generating blank verse.
Artisans don't think about museums: they make stuff that fits the hand, sits on the table, fills your stomach, and enriches people's lives in practical ways.
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