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similarly to how Eno says the boundary conditions of any medium becomes its signature characteristic, the ways in which it allows an artist to be unrealistic, to step outside the context to gesture back at it, determines the sort of stories it is possible to tell with it
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the fetish for "realism" in every medium damages every artist's ability to work around the limits of that medium to say something more - just a…
https://twitter.com/OstavNadezhdu/status/1474447129104068612
some see the purpose of media as being to most accurately depict slices of reality; but this begs the question, by what metric is accuracy measured? is it fidelity to raw sensory data, or to the subjective impressions generated by the same?