[APPROVED] **May 2022 Funding Proposal for Philosophers DAO**

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[Proposal] Seminar Philosophy of/and Art: Institutional autonomy and social commitment in art at the beginning of the 21st century

The autonomous status of art, which establishes institutions as the sole authority in matters of art, generates a distance between art and its audience, that neutralizes the political content of the artistic message, and restricts it to an elite audience. Among those works of art and/or the uses of their mechanical reproductions, at least two areas could escape this institutionalization and elitism: the street and the net. How does this affect creativity within an environment where art moves tow…