From: phg+@CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Gleichauf)
Subject: PHIL: VR, but is it ART, 7/5/92 NYT article.
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 92 17:49:51 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Jul06.174951.206671@cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University


	The Sunday New York Times, Arts and Entertainment Section, July 5, 1992
headlines with a long article and some accompanying photographs about Virtual
Reality as an artist's medium.  The debate was prompted in this forum by an
current exhibit in Manhattan where artists have in some cases implemented some
virtual artworks, and in others where they present proposals for things that
they can imagine but not accomplish for lack of access or deficiencies in the
state of the technical "art".  This discussion may be of some note to
those who are interested in the perspective of others with little understanding 
the technical issues that are the focus of this newsgroup, but are fascinated
with the notion of an artistic vision.  The opinion I carried away from the
article is that many of us here may have more imagination than the applications
the artists were concieving as original. Perhaps familiarity has not bred contempt for the art, it has enhanced it.

							Paul