Enter notes from Ruben's Class..
This was from, I think the second and third week. And well here I am maybe a month late... but it's okay those classes are still pretty fresh in my mind.
It started with critiquing short pitches of our films... thus the notes in the middle of the left and right page. Then in the second week we delved more into Aristotelian theories.
Art (experimental) World vs. Commercial World
At one point Ruben references Aristotle saying that 'you cannot be an artist while being commercial'.
This led into a lecture I'm realizing that more and more has become quite important to me as I have continued to discuss it on the side.
The main point in this discussion was that the art world is very much so alive and well today and so is commercial, but their relationship with each other isn't exactly of co-existence... the art world functions as feeding the commercial world, which then makes profits from it. To exist in either one, whomever is creating the work must visually declare themselves to be functioning distinctly as one of the two fields. Although, an argument can be made for existing in both, there are conventions and standards that have to be on display that will appease either field.
This presents an important dilemma for me to consider, and will soon take the form of a stream of think-vomit on this post. I may have come to more decisions based on this dilemma, but the thoughts that were running through my mind went along the lines of...
Where do I stand amidst all of this? Where does my work say I stand? Which field do I want to be practicing in? What is it going to take to define myself as either or? How will this affect the result of my grad film? How will the lifestyle that I want to have be affected by this decision? Does a decision need to be made soon? Or can I afford to wait?
What will Jay do next? Stay tuned for the next episode of my... lifeeeeeeeeeeee...
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