Blog 1 assignment by Phillip Craig

I wouldn’t say the artist lecture on the 19th was the most interesting talk in the world, but most usually aren’t. What matters is if the artwork shown is interesting, and it was. Kartz’s ideas on emotion, especially on sadness, and the way she represents these emotions in her work are appealing, my favorite being the 368 songs made 1 piece. Using songs (with the word “sad” in the title) to represents different individual’s sadness is a good idea, as the kind of songs people listen to are often affected by there current emotion. Also, putting them all into one and somewhat disturbing song shows what collective sad emotions “sound like.”