This reading unexpectedly turned out to be one of my favorites from this semester, because exploring the relationship between a musician and an artist has always intrigued me. As someone who was always closely linked to both musical and artistic worlds since I was young, there were moments when I was confused which one I wanted to choose/was a “better fit” for in terms of career paths; and to be frank, I’m still standing at a crossroad with this decision. This was probably why this reading had many relatable and intriguing aspects, because it talked about how the boundaries between different categories of art are becoming blurred, especially with the rise of technology usage in both music and art — this allowed many artists to become “multiple artists,” or artists who refuse to be confined to a single category.

I found it particularly interesting how club spaces in the 1990s became the new “institutions” that acted as new forms of galleries and museums where hybrid work could get done. Reading about this also reminded me of my time in Berlin, where we got to learn about underground art scenes during the early 1900s and the evolvement of the club culture in Germany throughout the 20th century. It was also around this time when works in which music and visual art that are conceptuallyand technologically intertwined were starting to become popular, thus showing how digitalization didn’t just provide new tools, but moreso fundamentally redefined the relationship between music and visual art, as well as artist and audience.