Culture or Commerce

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Comment by Carsten Trotzkowski on May 1, 2008 at 2:13am

That's 100% OK for me - there is definitely nothing wrong or contradictory to cultivate culture that also sells as commerce - in the best case with positive side effects like global communication & understanding. What could be wrong with that? But my question was motivated by something else: The concrete result - a CD. What kind of result will come to the ear of customer when the CD is played: To put it to extremes: On the one side you can have highly commercially successful music (like Modern Talking or all those casting show zombies) that might be quoted in Wikipedia of Year 2030 as "super successful trash". On the other hand, you also could have something like modern Classic: Those (comparably few) enthusiasts and experts may be overwhelmed by the art, but the broader public won't understand neither buy it. After all - in my opinion - the balance between culture and commerce might be the real point: What influence on the result will be given to public voters, the jury, the record company, the academic experts, the Sawubona community itself?

Comment by Oliver Gassner on April 30, 2008 at 10:29pm

Does not culture mean: 'make use of the world by human collaboration'? And if you 'cultivate' something, sometimes there is a profit. Be it spiritual or monetary.

In a way I see this project differently from you.

We are encouraging artistic collaboration on the net, showing that technology can corntibute to global communication and understanding.

But that's only me :)