[PD] "computer music" WAS: Re: Pd at a livecoding event on the BBC

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Sat, 10/17/09, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> in the end, people still choose to spend their time with
> certain art and not certain other art, and this is
> implicitly a judgement of value. those judgements are both
> relativables and an implicit necessity of the art world.
> everybody chooses an opinion or is chosen by an opinion or
> feels compelled to have an opinion which is often not
> someone else's opinion, but all those different opinions
> work together towards giving (or not giving) actual value to
> specific artworks: reputation, money, and the time of the
> day.

There are plenty of reasons one might spend their time with certain 
art and not certain other art, without making an implicit judgment 
about artistic value at all (area of expertise, access, medical 
condition, risk aversion to spending one's time examining new 
works, etc.).  So why do you say this is an "implicit necessity 
of the art world?"  I don't get it.

-Jonathan