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After going to art school, I realized I learned one very crucial lesson: if everything is art, nothing is art. Objective standards must be held in order to preserve beauty- perhaps not universally, but within a culture. That is one of the great crimes of the post-modern world... the destruction of beauty by calling everything beautiful.

Every Apeture release is like another star popping up in the night sky. Simply wonderful!

Art, to me, is an expression. And art truly becomes art when it touches an observer in a way that they find deep meaning in it.

Slight thing. There is objectivity to art. If there wasn’t we would never be able to critique, improve or praise. Whether it be aspects of contrast, pacing, cinematography, dialogue, saturation, form, etc. This is not to deny the subjective nature of art. Each piece of art whether films, traditional or digital drawings can evoke varying emotions from people. These emotions can be explained to varying degrees depending on the person but cannot overshadow the actual piece itself. That is how we end up with people seeing things which aren’t there at all. That’s the difference between someone saying “The banana on the wall represents how we as humans seek to leave our mark on the moon, trapping it much like the tape” and “The banana represents Adam Sandler and the tape represents Pikachu” TLDR; art has both objective and subjective quality

Helping others is a noble endeavor, I'll always remember that line

Hey Mike, that's a cool video. I hope you're taking suggestions for topics for your videos. I have some cool ideas. I want to learn about them from your Videography. 1. CLONING: Human Cloning, it's applications, it's dangers, it's misusage, Political interests, National security and so on. 2. HYPNOTISM: Applications, dangers and misusage, so on. 3. CONCIOUSNESS: Self-awareness, perception. A bit more in depth. 4. SOUL, AFTERLIFE, ETERNITY....Any concepts of PSEUDOSCIENCE. I hope you'd consider it.

How can this guy produce such high quality videos so often?! Where does he get the footage from? It's just wonderful!

The ending almost brought a tear to my eye. Great work

I've thought for a long time that art is created whenever someone senses "something" with either of their senses, and then identifies this "thing" as art. This can be the artist themselves in the process of creating the art, or it can just be a witness who observes "something" that is either created without the intention of being art, or a natural process or a consequence of several things set in motion unintentionally by people or animals or plants or natural effects. As a crude example, maybe a plastic bag is thrown away, and then blows across the ground into a certain setting that someone who witnesses this may call art. Seeing this plastic bag in different contexts may affect you in different ways, and make you think in certain ways or about certain topics. It doesn't have to be profound, smart, but if you want to make good art it probably should be. Although, in modern art it's not uncommon, as I'm sure this video will mention, to make art out of mundane things. Or a blank canvas. Or just a toilet. Or a banana peel on the ground every day for a month. At first, it seems stupid. But then it makes you think, so then it's not stupid anymore. Except now it has been done, so if you try to do the same, it's going to be lame. Except, no. It depends on the context. A danish artist was offered a bunch of money to make a piece of art. He made a piece called "take the money and run" which was a blank canvas. The mental process involved for someone to make the leap of identifying "something" as art may vary, but often people are moved in one way or another by this sensory experience. My point here is that while most art is created, it doesn't have to be. Art that isn't created could be a natural thing or process that is captured with a recording device of sorts, and you could argue that this "capturing" is the "creation". But you don't need to capture it, you can just witness it (although you could argue that your eyes and brain are doing the "capturing" or "creation" of this art). The disadvantage here is that you can never share this exact piece of art with someone else if it's not captured, unless they are standing right next to you and witnessing the same as you. Art requires a consciousness to be in some way (again, doesn't have to be profound or good or anything) moved, and then identify this thing as art.

"Art is something that gets your mind away from your mundane life"

Art is yourself, the result of your unique experiences and memories, the way you used these to build the painting that is you.

The last bit about LaMDA was beautiful man, keep up the good work.

5:30 Aperture: “but perhaps they carried it with the intention of communicating the feeling they experienced when they saw the stone” The guy who picked up the rock: “hehe cool rock. Looks like mi mum yea?”

I really love these videos every single last one just found you out yesterday and got hooked and got me feeling some type of way I don't know how to explain it but it's so fascinating how you put everything together.

This is the BEST KZfaq video I have experienced when exploring the topic of, "What is art?" "ART IS ANYTHING THAT RAISES AND SUSTAINS A CONSCIOUS LEVEL AND/OR INTO A DIALOGUE, CONSISTENTLY." Topics concerning art and academic definitions can get deep fast. Thank you for creating this video!!!

Art is the physical manifestation of concepts, typicly in an astheticly pleasing form, or art can simply be something that is astheticly pleasing, such architecture. For artists, the biggest skill at their disposal is their ability to translate their ideas, concepts or feelings into something other than language, such as a picture or in music. If someone feels a really strong feeling, then they should beable to translate that feeling a lot better, such as a musician suffering from depression making a song that transmits those feelings into us.

I define art as something that is created and make humans feel some kind of emotion

That elaphant painting was incredible I've never seen that before

To borrow part of a quote from William Rehnquist: I may not be able to define art, but I know it when I see it. Whatever "art" is, it's entirely subjective, a matter of personal opinion, and in the eye of the beholder.

Art helps us to both realize and lose ourselves.

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As a freelance ontologist I have subscribed to the idea that reality itself is art.

I believe anything can be art as long as one loves to witness it

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me,.... No more

Art is a connection between the one conveying and the other understanding it.

My personal viewpoint has always been: Art is just a word we use to describe things that we happen to think are profound in some way Everything is art- I know many people would say that you can’t say everything is art because then it’s like saying nothing is art, but I don’t think that calling something “art” and having that exclusivity is really all that amazing. To me it’s like getting a trophy. Like, cool. I’ve got this piece of metal that tells me I did a good job. But the true meaning behind what I did is in the work. The important thing is that the quality of said art varies, and that our subjective tastes and our changing minds influence what we think of said art. What one person thinks is a piece of trash is what another person thinks is high art, and our discussions about art and how our subjective tastes have reacted to the objective material are ultimately what drives our personal growth, even if those discussions happen in our mind. This is why I find people saying other people’s opinions are objectively wrong to be regressing ourselves mentally, because opening ourselves up to differing viewpoints is how we expand our minds and grow as people. This is also why I don’t get people separating entertainment from art or saying video games aren’t art. I remember seeing Hideo Kojima talk about how art is only art if 100 people walk by and only 1 person stops and pays attention. But games are more of a service because all 100 people are supposed to enjoy it. But wouldn’t that 1 person be entertained? Doesn’t that automatically make the game a piece of entertainment? Isn’t the same true for films too? Let’s take an example like The Godfather. I might say “The Godfather is one of the best movies ever made” and then someone could come up to me and tell me “The Godfather is too long, everything overstays its welcome and some of the characters overact”. I could totally disagree, but that interaction has caused me to view The Godfather in a new light. Now I’m thinking hmm, is there a way that The Godfather could’ve been paced better? What are some examples I could look to for that? Is The Godfather still a masterpiece? Ultimately the conclusion you come to goes on to define you as a person, and maybe one day you’ll create a movie, book, album, play, game, painting or sculpture that’s based on your own systems of belief that resonates with other people that have similar interests, which will in turn influence their beliefs and interests. That’s the cycle of art, it’s the cycle of life. The distinction between High Art and Low Art or Art and Entertainment just says that if whatever you make doesn’t meet the criteria for “high art” then it’s automatically worse, which I believe is just a byproduct of humanity feeling the need to have a perfect explanation for everything when we live in a much more nuanced and abstract world than that. The very concept of what art is is abstract by itself. And to clarify, I don’t believe this means we should be taking something like E.T. (Sorry I only really know video games lol) and saying it’s immune to criticism because EVERYTHING is art, I’m saying we should take E.T. accept it as art, and then judge it based on its own merits. E.T. is art, but it’s poorly made art. The Shawshank Redemption is art, and it’s outstanding art. I realize this sort of makes the descriptor “art” useless, but it could end up seeing use in the future to simply mean something profound; it might even already be transitioning into that status. And I think part of the problem is that we’re using such a vague word to describe things in the first place. Don’t ask me for a better solution because I don’t know how to properly organize thousands of years of human effort, I’m just here to start the discussion. After watching the video I was reminded of another important detail: your conclusion doesn’t ultimately have to be “it’s bad” or “it’s good”. I find the animal art fascinating. I’d enjoy hanging the pufferfish art on my wall, but not the elephant’s. Despite that, I know the art must mean so much to that elephant. Knowing that gives me a greater appreciation of the elephant mind, and reminds me that the world we live in is not only a human world. The AI was also quite interesting. While I find that removing the human element detracted from it for me, I also think that the AI was an interesting reflection of humanity’s collective consciousness and that it told a story that had genuinely human-like profoundness. Notice how I never really said “I think it’s bad” or “I think it’s good”. Your experience with art does not, and SHOULD not, simply boil down to those two results each time. Art is more nuanced than that, LIFE is more nuanced than that.

Or how we would say in Germany: "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?" "Is this art, or can i throw it away?"

"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is something people deem to have aesthetics or emotional value that people want to collect and place value on it. So, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it, if it sells for a million dollars, it is an art, for people value it as such.

Art is everything bringing an emotion to the eyes of the viewer. The stunning emotion that an experience brings upon your mind to make you recall it, admire it, fear it and/or reject it.

It's difficult to find mistakes in your presentations but at 4:28 you mentioned 1987 but in your screen it was 1897..

How art is defined depends on us, some will disagree, while some won’t.

Theses videos hit.

This intro is like from Internet Historian's second channel, Incognito Mode Art. ART! IS THIS AN ART? ARE YOU AN ART?

Art is a living creature that makes us smarter. More open to receive life. Thus, we all have art inside. We are all contributing to art. If art elevates life in you, it's the best-selling art.❤

Never disappointed by this channel!!!

Art is beautiful. Not because of the standards for it but because of the originality it can bring.

Thanks to this video, I've regained my motivation.

The Art industry use to be an outlet for people to get away from the world and politics, a place to be free from it all, much like sports. But today everything has intertwined and seems to always have some agenda to push

Damn dawg all the ads in this video made me feel sure about what's NOT art

For me art is something that one can look at, hear, read, somehow take in and appreciate, maybe like, maybe love it? I think whatever the AI makes is also art, because it only re-shapes what we made ourselves. And we created AI in the first place, so you could say AI itself is art. Whatever it creates is also art

I opened youTube and swore on my life that I'll just search what I'm looking for and leave, and then this was the first video waiting for me😂🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️Thank you aperture

Excellent reflection... Thanks for creating such a valuable material!

Music is more than Art... Music is Life! "Your heart is a beating drum." Edit: I'd actually love to see you dive into music, specifically. Not sure what you would say, but I know I would enjoy it.

It really feels like your vocal intonation is a pickup of how much Carl Sagan influenced you, such that in your early years you mimic his intellectual perspectives, cosmic aspirations, theatrical presentation, and of course stylized speech and distinct delivery, while perhaps growing out of the tendency to mimic, the vocal imprinting of copying your favorite scientist somehow stayed but unconsciously, resulting in genuinely sounding like Carl Sagan.

Trolling is a new form of art that can spark more viral reactions than a picasso

Sponsored by that business newsletter I had to subscribe to for my Business Essentials class in high school that I have not unsubscribed from even after so many years due to sheer laziness.

You make pauses (and that's good), but you read the words a bit fast, you need to slow down. Also, the pronunciation is not clear enough at times.

Very enticing video

LaMDA creates from an average of human experience; and yet within a selection of people it is usually the unique extremes that create the popular art. Also art is an individual perspective captured in an external expression of which only the artist can ever truly experience as intended. LaMDA isn't capable of experiencing any work that it creates.

This episode considered to be ART... I mean i repeated saying WOW several times when it ended

TDLR: AI don't have the self-consciousness to have to send their own messages and just completes commands. An argument I can make against AI art as of now is that AI currently does not have a self to connect to others. The reason why googling translations is garbage is due to the AI not understanding the context and message that the google user is trying to translate to, just general connections to the words and the words themselves in the other language. Although yes the human mind has unconsciousness driving most of our actions, art is created by the teamwork of the unconscious and the conscious parts of the mind, with the conscious being the leader. Art is intentional. AI accepts intentional INPUTS, but does not really provide meaning itself. Meaning here is the message that is meant to be spread. Because AI does not have a self, many images come out as uncanny because AI can't really see the artistic mistakes, it just does. When an any animal communicates love, it meant it. When a machine does so, it was just commanded to as the current purpose.

Why wasn’t I in this video

Art is creativity… Choosing something in the universe and giving it a special meaning. AI is doing that too.

This is beautiful a video

Regarding the thumbnail: I have a 'painting' (one of 250 copies from a local artist from many years ago) which is, I kid you not, a torch glued onto the painting with its shadow drawn as if it's leaning and standing on a 3D wall, where the bottom corner is shown by a straight line. So, it's a torch, its shadow and a line. Very sophisticated.

10:55 what did he do there I don’t think it was just for visuals

Art is personal interpretation

I like how he started and ended with the same question

Art is very powerfull A guy got rejected in art school he made history

Your videos are art, bro

you end with a question, i like it

art is bringing another meaning to sth that was there or sth that was created in order to enhance those feelings that you get from your senses and the thoughts that it may invoke inside art is everywhere waiting to be discovered or taken purpose meaningfully in one way or another.

ive got chills watching this

Art is what gives life its meaning and beauty.

Art is divided into 2 categories: Liberal Arts & Fine Arts. The examples that you, mentioned in the content of this video, are Fine Arts. But this video is technically Liberal Arts.

Banana duct taped to a wall is the artiest art that ever arted. Don't cast a shadow on their genius. Salvador Da-who? The Vitruvian what?

It depends on the artist

beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Banana on wall. Peak art.

Shower Thought: If finger is a noun, why can't fing be a verb?

I just woke up from a nap thinking about this video. Idk but with machines being able to create "art" I was able to come up with an analogy. Let's say you and me agree to race each other on a 1km run. You agree and it's planned and everything. I come in a car and you come in your Nike track running shoes. We both came in to race. If I drive my car to it's peak performance I'm still racing, and if you break a world record but lose you still lose. It's unfair no. Point I'm trying to get to. Just like racing advancements will be made in life. So with that different appreciation for variations for stuff will grow. Like how people prefer watching F1 over track and field. To appreciate what a machine can do.

Visual art is the pictorial exploration of pictorial conditions. What of art like so-called performance art etc.? Art is the media exploration of media conditions. Whatever the method, the method's conditions are explored in some way.

curious to know where to find your background music love it🎶 🎵

Accept that animals, have consciousness? Haven't we already accepted that?

When we ask, "What is art?"or say, "Anything is music!", the discussion is generally a lot of modernist rhetorical drivel designed to defend the untalented artist or musician's work. The question that leads us in the right direction is: "Why art?" "Why music?" If you compose music because you want to show how successfully you can "innovate" and reject anything that might meaningfully engage our imagination and emotions, I believe you need to rethink the "why".

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I was hoping that you'd address constellations when talking about humans creating art out things that are already in nature. Like, constellations don't inherently exist. We literally saw these tiny dots scattered across the sky and started connecting them until we saw some form of images. If that isn't the most fascinating example of the human need to create art out of everything!

SEDOON, RAY MARK For my own point of view art is a reflection of your heart, because through this you can express your thoughts/feelings. This is the way of expressing what some people feels.

Although the banana taped to the wall is supposed to be a criticism of modern day art, I believe it's exactly that intention which makes it an art piece. Sure it's funny to criticise modern art for how inclusive it tries to be and claiming everything is subjective and whatnot, but by taping that banana to the wall in protest of that idea you are actually creating a commentary and sharing your thoughts and feelings on the state of art. This man was playing 4D chess while we were still on checkers the whole time.

Baby don't draw me don't draw me no more

I love this channel so much

Quite a scary thought that we may, just may be bunch of algorithms

I want shower thoughts

The beautiful about art is the thing u can't explain

The act of living is art in itself, you know? I am the clay what of who or what should be my mold, cheapen it at your own risk we are all the masters to our strokes.

My definition of art: any intentional human creation intended to create an emotional response.

Please link the music you use.

Bro got me thinking

Looking isn’t as simple as it looks. Art teaches people how to see.

I don't know, but I can add that new form of art are always questioned, for example even to this day some ppl think that video games are not art despite they actually aggregate everything that art is about, a story, music, visuals, voice acting, motion capture, emotions, the play of the actors etc. I can tell what art was, but what it will be in the future? Maybe we can know it only in retrospection? :)

This elephant silmply blows my mind. That's incredible.

Handwriting is also an art

That's really weird, I was just thinking about this question yesterday and here it is, Aperture uploads a video about it the next day!! Such a weird coincidence!!! XD

9:46 LaMDA said :"the beast was a monster but had human skin" . Maybe here is a hidden moral : being a monster is human.

Richard Gomez's from Philippines created the greatest art

To me, art is the appreciation of beauty. And to make art is to attempt to create something beautiful. To some people it is political, sending a message about things they think should change in society. And art becomes the vehicle to do so. But I do not agree with that definition.

Trust me 'True Art' is "Destruction."

The line differentiates Art and Garbage has blurred too much recently