Shanken (213-228)

The piece by Nam June Paik entitled Afterlude was interesting because art doesn't have to be limited to painting or drawings, it can also be words (214). While reading Paik's piece Afterlude it sounded to me like an elegant poem that was also artistically created. Paik's piece reminded me of the piece I created using the Spanish words for various food items because when creating it I wanted to be more than just words on a canvas. The section by Nicolas Negroponte about The Architecture Machine was interesting because again it discusses bringing computers closer to becoming more human-like (217). An interesting section in the reading by Gene Youngblood states that "Entertainment gives us what we want: art gives us what we don't know what we want" (216). I feel that entertainment gives us what we want because we don't have to think, the entertainment does the thinking for you. While art on the other hand doesn't do the thinking for you, one must analyze art and think critically to explain why it's considered art in the first place.