{"id":1431,"date":"2010-08-31T06:56:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2010\/08\/the_myth_of_the_artist_in_a_ma\/"},"modified":"2010-08-31T06:56:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T13:56:28","slug":"the_myth_of_the_artist_in_a_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_myth_of_the_artist_in_a_ma.php","title":{"rendered":"The myth of the artist in a mash-up world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting thoughts on artistry and authorship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/arts_culture\/item\/mashed_up_music_technology_and_the_rise_of_configurable_culture_20100826\/\">in this excerpt<\/a> from Aram Sinnreich&#8217;s book&nbsp;<i>Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture<\/i>. It&#8217;s now a well-worn story that technology is blurring the line between artist and audience, and our understanding of art-making and artists is evolving. But Sinnreich tells the story rather well. Says he:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<div>The biggest myth of all is the Romantic notion that artists somehow create their work uniquely and from scratch, that paintings and sculptures and songs emerge fully-formed from their fertile minds like Athena sprang from Zeus. Running a close second is the myth that only a handful of us possess the raw talent &#8212; or the genius &#8212; to be an artist. According to this myth, the vast majority of us may be able to appreciate art to some degree, but we will never have what it takes to make it. The third myth is that an artist&#8217;s success (posthumous though it may be) is proof positive of his worthiness, that the marketplace for art and music functions as some kind of aesthetic meritocracy.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Sinnreich draws on DJ culture to explore the evolution, since DJs are at the edge of copyright, creative ownership, and remixing\/mashing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So much of our economic infrastructure in arts and culture is based on the assumption that artistry is scarce and artists are separate. As those assumptions change, our work will change as well.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting thoughts on artistry and authorship in this excerpt from Aram Sinnreich&#8217;s book&nbsp;Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture. It&#8217;s now a well-worn story that technology is blurring the line between artist and audience, and our understanding of art-making and artists is evolving. But Sinnreich tells the story rather well. Says he: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}