YES! *punches air*
It's fun to take a machine and do silly things with it- I do that all the time- but that is NOT art! Using your bastardized machine to communicate something or to achieve an effect is art.

Look under "Projects" and you'll see the one about the Subaru wagon I mentioned, as well as one where she used a lawn mower to run over stuff, peeled the mess off of the underside, let it dry and called that art. What was the point of that? To say that self help books are worthless and only good for being run over with a lawnmower? Or is there something I'm missing here?

I like experimental art, if it achieves something. Hers doesn't, at least not to me.

Yoko Ono, similarly, does a lot of stuff that doesn't appeal to me- but I suspect that hers is an attempt to annoy as many people as possible at the same time, in which case she succeeds.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 6 May 2008, 17:05, Reply)