Art and Crime

 

We can now digitally distinguish the boundary between pornography and art. Algorithms are set to read the unmistakable geometry of the naked body that assess flesh tones and shadows. That is not to say that the body can not be contorted and layered to suggest unrecognisable geometries and thus not be censored by social media. The art that is in question is not necessarily the image but it’s articulation that avoids transgressing the digital boundary of recognition. It implies that our eyes will be taught to accommodate a different kind of perversity; one that challenges the digital authority of the internet and the establishments that have recognised standards. We have always had standards as much as metric measurement and it’s incumbent geometry is seen as a norm. It’s adherence manufactures a society that has achieved its own blinkered justifications. So to draw upon new horizons will be telling towards the inherent irony of rule; of subservience; of platitude to the rules. For rather to break rules it seems much better placed to measure them.