sodiboo :pride_heart:@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud
re(architecture specifically):
I thought about this some more and realized that e.g. museum exhibitions, playgrounds, interactive experiences such as escape rooms, are very much so built for the sake of the thing being built, and not as a means to an end. I think these things are unambiguously art.
if "engineering NAND art", then architecture can still be very much be art.
I was too focused on residential construction. which isn't necessarily art. that's not to say it isn't also art; because the point of this post is to ask whether that's art. when I say "isn't necessarily art" I just mean it's not as obvious to me that it should be art. I want to hear what others think about it.
sodiboo :pride_heart:@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud
I've thought some more about it, and I've come to the conclusion that engineering is NOT art. but that does not mean they are mutually exclusive. in fact, these two labels are orthogonal and do not affect each other.
just as an individual can use the skills of their craft for artistic creation, as well as for engineering. just as a given individual can be an engineer and an artist. I think that any given creation can be a product of both art and engineering. most are.
sodiboo :pride_heart:@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud
re(previous writing):
what I failed to recognize previously is that there is a distinction between the two purposes to my creations. I said there's an irony to it, but I lacked the terminology to explain that irony.
am I sisyphusI'm an engineer, and an artist. my engineering is my art. it's art because it's what I enjoy doing. it's engineering because it's a means to an end to create more art (which is more engineering).
without the desire to create the art, the need for the engineering is unnecessary. because they are one and the same, it is a self-perpetuating cycle.
I am sisyphus.
