{"id":711,"date":"2011-12-03T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2011-12-03T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T20:16:07","slug":"why-people-hate-art-our-sooncon-2011-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/2011\/why-people-hate-art-our-sooncon-2011-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Why People Hate Art: Our SoOnCon 2011 Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I edited the talk down from 28 minutes into a much more focused 18 minute presentation.  The other half will be posted shortly (well&#8230;eventually) but here is the meat of the talk.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SUVd6YtVI40\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want the background to this talk, and don&#8217;t feel like digging through my earlier posts, here is a brief summary of this talk and how it happened:<\/p>\n<p>Brad Blucher and I were invited to give a talk at the TIFF Bell Lightbox for SoOnCon 2011. <\/p>\n<p>The topic for our presentation was &#8220;why people hate art&#8221;. Using examples of things we have experienced first hand, we launched into an attack on the pervasiveness of obscurantism masquerading as deep insight within the art world.<\/p>\n<p>Art is often nothing more than a footnote to a (poorly written) essay using invalid logic to make unsound arguments, all the while using technical and scientific terms inappropriately and without justification in an attempt to apply a veneer of rigour and profundity over their steaming pile of banal observations and utter nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>This talk is a criticism of that tendency in the art world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I edited the talk down from 28 minutes into a much more focused 18 minute presentation. The other half will be posted shortly (well&#8230;eventually) but here is the meat of the talk. If you want the background to this talk, and don&#8217;t feel like digging through my earlier posts, here is a brief summary of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/2011\/why-people-hate-art-our-sooncon-2011-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why People Hate Art: Our SoOnCon 2011 Talk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,150],"tags":[44,105,61,126,69,144,104,151,32],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artideas","category-presentations","tag-art","tag-artists-statement","tag-brad-blucher","tag-ocad","tag-site3","tag-sooncon","tag-video","tag-why-people-hate-art","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}