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Originally Posted by phoenix
With interdiscipline studies though I do believe there is a lot of opportunity now, especially for cross study and employment for visual arts mixed with applied science streams.
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i agree with interdiscipline studies when it's something like this, or if you're sending art students out to do social work or something like that. proper philosophy classes wouldn't go amiss, but then that might show up the art tutors as charlatans when the students realise the tutors just talk out of their arses about deleuze & co.
and now i'm going to grind my axe:
i'm not really fond of state funding for artists, i think that funding for large galleries & collections that are open to the public is good and proper, what i don't agree with is setting aside public money to be used in grants which can be applied for by artists to fund their little performance piece or whatever, i don't think it's in the public's interest to fund some crappy little thing that nobody is ever going to see (or like)*. needless to say this opinion was not popular amongst my peer group at art school. i think the same people in favour of public money for artists are opposed to government bailing out the banks, but i'm not sure if i can see a difference, i.e. both are seemingly incapable of keeping themselves solvent without needing handouts, what do you all think?
*it would be nice if there was some kind of nationalised system for everyone to get free money to persue their hobby, but until then i don't think it's fair to give money to some and not to others when it could be spent on something more beneficial to the public at large (health care for example). something that really disgusts me is seeing people who've tried to get funding or grants behave ungraciously when they don't make the cut, as if they are entitled to swan about and indulge themselves at the expense of the taxpayer.