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Contemporary art has distinguished itself since the 20th century by
the type of media that it has used to manifest itself, being it music, videos,
installations, happenings and ordinary objects that artists had utilized to
broadcast their work. On the other hand industrial design has evolved its
own cause, where at the beginning its purpose was functionality of the
created objects and now it is a new exploration of innovative concepts that
depart from the functionality that originally distinguished them to become
artistic arguments.
Industrial design practice is not considered art on these days and at the
same time contemporary art is not considered industrial design. However a
lot of the pieces created by designers share spaces with pieces in
contemporary art in different museums, art fairs and contemporary and
modern art publishing. To try to understand the differences and similitudes
brings the question; What was the motif for both disciplines to blur the
boundaries in some cases? Why is it that some design pieces are more
focused to demonstrate functionality? Why is it that contemporary art uses
some intervened design pieces or ordinary objects? Society plays an
important role in answering the aforementioned questions since both
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Hoy por hoy las prcticas del diseo industrial no son consideradas arte, y
a su vez el arte contemporneo no se considera diseo industrial; sin embargo
muchas de las piezas creadas por los diseadores comparten espacios con
piezas de arte contemporneo en diversos museos, ferias y publicaciones
especializadas en arte moderno y contemporneo. Al tratar de comprender las
diferencias y similitudes se origina una pregunta: Qu motiv a las dos
disciplinas a confundirse en algunos casos? O bien Por qu para algunas
piezas de diseo es ms importante mostrar un concepto que la funcionalidad de
los objetos? Y en el caso de algunas piezas de arte Por qu la utilizacin de
parte del arte contemporneo de piezas de diseo intervenidas o bien el uso de
objetos cotidianos?. La sociedad juega un papel importante en las respuestas de
las preguntas anteriores, ya que ambas disciplinas son creadas en funcin a la
sociedad y para complacer necesidades de diferentes tipos dentro de sus
tiempos.
Consumption and lifestyle in society have changed since their interests and
necessities had changed as well. Which has motivated both industrial
design objects and contemporary art pieces to be developed in different
ways and this brings confusion in some cases about the difference or
similitude among both disciplines. This investigation tries to develop an
analysis between industrial design and contemporary art relationship by
means of consumption as a shared element, to help artists, theorists and
industrial designers interested in studying the new boundaries between
contemporary art and industrial design.