I immediately found myself interested in the Duchamp article and how he proposed that the viewer or "audience" defines a work of art as much as its creator. It's not the first time I had heard of this concept, however, the way he described it as a process that an artist must come to terms with is very interesting. We really do have to take into consideration how all of the effort, time, and struggles we put into a piece of art can entirely shape our views of it. So in a sense, it sometimes must be left up to a third-party to view it not only in it's own context but also as a part of a larger art community. There is a good transition into the Higgins piece there, with his notions of intermedia and the categorization of art. Higgins takes the common question of "how do we categorize art?" and delivers a fleshed out answer. It's simple to take the side of saying, "art just is" and sometimes that's a sort of self-satisfactory answer; however, Higgins way of looking into not only various mediums, but literal forms of media as well, helped me grasp a better understanding of the openness and expansion of intermedia. Overall, I feel as if both of these articles have definitely opened up my mind for what we'll be exploring further into the course.
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