“Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.” WayArtUsedInspire Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
“Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.” ThinkingWorldWayDoeArtUsedTechnologyBasesNew Ways Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
“It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.” WaySimplicityCombinationComplexitySculptureAstonishingEnlighteningMinimalist Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
“For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.” WayCharacterUseFormOpinionWonderfulStreetsConversationToolsOne WayPropagandaPersonaKenny140 CharacterKenneth Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
“The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning.” WayNeedsGivingLooksDifferentMomentsFeelingsLanguageStrongSoundTypeGiving UpAddictionMeaningfulNarrativeShakesConstraintsUnconventionalSortingCoerce Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
“And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What we've experienced is an inversion of consumption, one in which we've come to prefer the acts of acquisition over that which we are acquiring, the bottles over the wine.” ThinkingWayRealCultureWineBottlesConsumptionAcquisitionIntriguingEpiphanyArtifactsInversions Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
