In our steadfastly advanced and technology-enhanced world, the artist's toolbox has expanded, and creatives are adjusting their interpretations of traditional artforms.
As usual for this sort of thing, we hear the artists' back stories, enhanced with clever fake period photos and album jackets; we follow the customary backstage high jinks (one of the stars disappears right before his curtain time); and we wait for the climactic concert.
Though it made acoustic and dramatic sense to place the jazz musicians in the center of the stage, surrounded by the Philharmonic players, this enhanced the impression that the jazz artists were more of a solo ensemble than true collaborators.
So is Von Trier right that this enhanced creativity is lost if the artist returns to sobriety?
An enhanced society rather than enhanced individuals.
What these artists are doing is using enhanced communication to get close to people, when others have just stopped trying.
For years, artists have included video footage on enhanced music CD's, but that video, viewable on a computer as a CD-ROM, does not have the same playback quality of DVD's.
A service that legitimises the swapping of music files, perhaps with enhanced features such as faster downloads and information about artists, may prove attractive to some of Napster's users.
The facts about the artist's life are the means and the enhanced appreciation the end, not the other way around, as is often found, for example in psychoanalytic essays attempting to infer facts about the artist's subconscious conflicts from his work; in these cases the work is being taken as the means and the study of his life as the end.
When pricing is announced, Mulligan told me, artists will be able to opt-in to keep the enhanced features, or revert back to the basic free account.
