Yes. I think "art" is a cultural construct that has undergone rapid changes at least the last 200 years or more. To me, it's most helpful to say that anything may be conceptualised as "art", although such imaginative thinking changes how we view the thing because of all of the associations and cultural meanings that are laid into the word "art". So for instance, I can say "Bing AI is art, of course!". Then i'll start freely associating: "what is the meaning and message being Bing AI? Is it good art? Does it make me experience something in another light? How does it compare to other things that are often called art?". I could also say "I am art" and then i'm thinking of my life as a kind of performance that others may look into, that my type of person is perhaps a "style" or "genre", that i have an aesthetic and may be influenced heavily by other persons who are art. None of this or these are facts, of course, but questions that arise because i chose to make a connection between two things that is almost never thought of as such. I personally think art is a form of language or perhaps a class of languages that communicate in certain ways. Like other languages, new words and meanings may emerge over time and others may become clichéd phrases, obsolete terms or even problematic or pejorative slurs. I think one can do this with any word, not just art. It's just that art is one of the few words i think in current language that is used this way so often that the openness of the term often isn't questioned, while most other words are percieved as more stable in meaning (and some get pushback when it gets imagined in a way a big group of people apparently dislike, hate or cannot conceptualise, such as the word gender). I'd go further and say all perceptions are language. The visions my eyes see and my ears hear are signals sent into my brain and interpreted (or misinterpreted) through cognitive processes. And every way of categorising things as objects or subjects are malleable. Language is the only thing we'll ever know. Although I didn't mean to say that there is no independent reality outside our language (i definitely believe there is), it's more that we'll never get to know it and definitely not "objectively". All we can do is collect the fragments of different perspectives, evaluate them and synthesise them into models that are increasingly more aware of possibilities and probabilities and act accordingly. If we don't make such maps, even if falliable and incomplete, we'll keep running into walls that are invisible to us and create immense suffering and fatality. And the more perspectives a person or interest group is aware of, the more there is also a chance of being able to understand and communicate with people of different oppinions :)
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