Conversation 162: THOUGHT / ART COP

Conceptualization is really interested in your Art Cop ideas

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
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2 Conceptualization Why does art inspire you so much?
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3 You It does, yes -- but what *is* art?
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4 You No, art is for arrogant blowhards. Why am I getting this?
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5 Conceptualization Excellent question. Art is a diverse range of visual, literary, auditory, and performative creativity! It's an expression of imagination and technical skill. Additionally, it's history, criticism and pure enjoyment...
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6 Conceptualization Is it? Yet your eye constantly seeks out the most critical side of any aesthetic confrontation. You follow the expressions of imagination and technical skill with curiosity...
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7 Conceptualization Yes! You seek substance. No vapid representations and reproductions of social mores, as made manifest in stuffy biennials, we're talking real *living art* here. Become the Art Cop. Half art critic -- half cop.
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8 Conceptualization Have you looked in the mirror lately? You have the exact features of a savage art critic, with that beard and those clothes! Dishevelled and *prophetic*. Perhaps you should try to critique architecture too!
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9 Conceptualization Of course not, it's autism. Box-drawing. Masturbation with a ruler and a sextant or whatever they use. You should demean and criticize the genteel institution of architecture. While extolling the virtues of the *pure* arts.
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10 Conceptualization In short, art is the highest form of human communication -- representation, narrative, emotion and agency intertwined.
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11 You Hold on, is architecture also art?
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12 You Would I fit into the art world? I mean...
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13 You I guess I *have* been feeling critical lately.
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14 You That's stupid. Architecture is stupid.
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15 Conceptualization Such vigour! Already you express a sharp descriptive mind, ready to slice through the empty and superficial in favour of the *sublime* and the *beautiful*... Do it. Become the Art Cop. Half art critic -- half cop.
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16 You [Discard thought.]
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18 You Wait, but don't I have to be 100% cop -- to get the case finished and all that?
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19 You Okay. If 50% art critic is what's needed to free me from rote repetition, so be it. (Opt in.)
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20 You No. I cannot risk another copo-diversion at this point. Go away! (Opt out.)
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21 Conceptualization Exactly. It's not *only* your duty to only catch the criminals of the street, you must also apprehend criminals of the printing press and the gallery -- the trite and derivative artists and writers of the world!
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22 Conceptualization Go ahead and provide savage criticisms, Art Cop. The world is yours to rip to pieces and reassemble!
23 Conceptualization Quit being so indecisive. What are you going for here? Some kind of indecisive and *camp* aesthetic now? Strike a bold shape here. Go art or go home.
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24 Conceptualization Bravo! Continue, then, in the mediocre and vulgar epigones of the world. So what if everything is incomprehensibly shit and you can see it. Take no responsibility.
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25 Visual Calculus This was a good call. That guy probably thinks forensics is autism too.
26 You Wait, what about music? Is it art?
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27 Conceptualization Only the most experimental kind.
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28 You That's stupid. Architecture is stupid. Music is stupid.
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