John Tyler Artifacts Co-creating (3-23-13)

Artifacts Co-creating -- Personal choice

In class we discussed the relationship between the artist, the artifact, and the audience or spectators.  It was stated that the artist becomes a creator once an artifact is produced.  Once the artifact is observed by the spectators and varying interpretations are deduced the spectators as a result become co-creators.  If this is true then the artifact itself is co-creating by moving back on the audience and creating interpretations and reinterpretations.  Tolkien argues that humans are sub-creators, creating second worlds through imagination and design. This would infer that the artist and audience are interacting with the primary world then creating their own, unique secondary world.  What about the artifact itself? To what extent can art and the objects themselves create secondary worlds?