Artwork selling itself on eBay

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• Horp0

  Is the reference to trashy, low-brow internet culture a reason to dislike it?

  No, its the fact that its a twee internet reliant viral masquerading as art by the camouflaging of a cheap laptop inside a perspex box.

  Its true that you could dismantle any piece of art into its constituent parts and devalue it as 'just a square of canvas, just some coloured paints', but its equally important to identify a good painting and a bad painting regardless of the presentation or the materials employed.

  In this case, if you remove the presentation (a cheap laptop in a perspex box) you are left with a hackneyed old email novelty that would be considered an irritant if you weren't distracted and deceived by the bold claims that this is a piece of art.

  I don't dislike it anyway. I think its very funny.

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  • I like the fact you're assuming that there's a laptop inside. What would you think if it turned out the artist had created custom electronics?lukus_W
  • custom electronics? Would it change the way you look at it?lukus_W
  • Yes, I think it would.Horp
  • How do you know there is a laptop inside?lukus_W

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