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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 9h \ on: essay: visible and felt impacts of bitcoin culture bitcoin
I often feel awkward making bitcoin art (if goofy posters can be called that). Art I've done just cause I couldn't not do it is just whatever comes to mind. But Bitcoin art is thematic. It feels a little like the religious or political artwork that you find around the world: it's propaganda.
I don't mean that pejoratively. Many wondrous things have been made by propagandists. But it's hard to take oneself seriously when you feel like your making propaganda.
Is art for art's sake different than art with an agenda?
i have seen and deeply appreciate your art and i the reason i didn't mention it is because it seems to fall into the 'art with an agenda' category. i don't consider it any less valuable. the point i was making is that to people outside of bitcoin communities, it might get automatically pigenholed as "bitcoin art" and dismissed.
think of the great number of people who will miss out on cathedral frescoes and cathedral painting simply because they will never enter a church! their loss, imo!
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good question. maybe it should come from a similar place as the need to separate money from state.
also i think there is a fine line between art that is propaganda and art that isn't, since I think all art is attempting to communicate something or other
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