To be considered as art, an artifact must communicate something, and it must also be novel … [But to remain novel] … novelty, unpredictability, or entropy must increase continually … eventually entropy will be so great that art will be incomprehensible … [and] the art form will become extinct (Martindale, 2009, p. 133).
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