Audacity is overrated. Twitter is full of clever people straining to be as audacious, controversial, memorable, and viral as possible. Audacity is as common as dirt - an insight the shock troops of modern art have yet to absorb.
> Art goes beyond the technicalities of the creation of the work itself. Art is a form of communication.
Yes - but the skill involved in creation is just as important as the idea being communicated. Installing malware on a laptop is a relatively common skill; a task that could be completed by any millions or even billions of people.
The difference between this form of art and the various iterations of The Sick Child is stark - anyone who has experienced loss can relate to the themes of Munch's painting. True, a critic may not like Munch's technique and compare it to bad food. But the skill and technique actually exist and are encoded in the piece alongside powerful ideas of loss and yearning. And that's what art means to me - it's not a bare, cheap, hacky communication of an idea - art is a synthesis of true talent and transcendent themes.
Munch's work could be sent backwards or forwards in time 500 years and the people viewing the piece could still comprehend the themes and appreciate the skill involved. (Or not - I'm sure there'll still be art critics 500 years from now). An infected laptop on a live stream can only exist in a very narrow and parochial context. That doesn't mean it's not art. It's just bad art.
> "Here is no longer a question of nature, only a bizarre madness, delirious moods, feverish hallucinations"
As an aside, that's actually a spot-on description of Munch's most famous work, The Scream - some critics may simply have not realized the shambolic madness of the piece is a feature and not bug.