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Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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Tue, 20 Feb 2001 04:39:43 GMT
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Cool, Thanks for asking....These are important questions. Come check out an
Art Show I am involved in. The show is March 24th Details at:
www.regurgitationshow.com
Until I get better pix and a website...Suffice to say, I'll be displaying a
6 foot long Preying Mantis that took 3 years to complete. Two 3 foot tall
Mechs. One is a all Black winged robot. The other is a Red robot simular to
the Battle Master of Battle Tech. Then My Latest...a fully articulated
robotic torso....This is the first step in the only robot I have to
build...20 motors and 4 RCX controll lifesize arms....the Head...which
is...Proud to say completed!
An RCX contolls the neck mechcanisms. Two (2) Vision Command - Vision
Sensors Sit in the head behind eyelids controlled by pnuematics!
Sorry to babble on about MOC's , that is to say- I do think
Working/building/using/creating with Lego is Artisttic to me, and I take it
seriously....Hey...Lego is my Meduim!!!
Build on.....2001
Eric Sophie
aka
"Legomaster" (around these parts!) whoohoo
In lugnet.general, Jonathan Lill writes:
> I am really bored at work today so I am taking this opportunity to ask all
> you LUGNET people questions which have been interesting me a bit. I spend
> much of my time away from work making art. I consider myself, in part, an
> artist. Unfortunately this leaves less time for Lego but that is a choice I
> have made. Because of my dual interests, I have wondered how many people out
> there also consider themselves artists. Here's a couple of questions:
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> Do you make things you consider art?
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> Do you consider your Lego creations artworks?
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> Do you make things which aren't strictly speaking Lego creations but involve
> the use of bricks (i.e. multimedia collages)?
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> Do you call yourself an artist?
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> Are you a professional in a creative field such as graphic or industrial
> design or architecture?
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> Are you able to utilize Lego in your profession apart from merely sharing
> your enjoyment with your coworkers?
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> If both building and playing with Lego is a creative pursuit, how does it
> differ from other creative pursuits such as painting or sculpting?
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> If you don't consider your Lego creations art, why not?
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> I have hesitated asking these questions because I foresee the matter
> devolving into a debate of "WHAT IS ART?" But I am not interested in any
> strict definitions or in making blanket statements. I want to know how
> people personally feel towards what they make and how they differentiate
> their Lego activities from what they do in the rest of their life or from
> what other people do.
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> I have read that many of the posters here are people involved with
> computers, engineers, programmers, mathematicians, etc. This makes sense as
> those fields have a lot to do with the constructive, logical, and systematic
> aspects of Lego. I have seen Lego models built by professional architects
> and they have an obvious connection as well. At the bottom of this inquiry
> is the question of what the activity of playing with Lego really consists of
> and how it is or can be integrated with one's life.
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> Response to any of these issues would be appreciated.
> By the way, I have seen some models of museums of art in Lego bricks but I
> would be interested in seeing brick creations that are truly abstract and
> not imitations or representations of everyday, or real, objects.
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