disrupting convention through art Does "as means of disrupting convention through art" in the provided context below mean: 1. as means of disrupting conventions in art or 2. as means of disrupting conventions by means of art ? Context: The mailings invited the interactivity of the recipients and, in some cases, gave them a producerly role to play: for example, the boxed ‘Art Pencil’ that held the promise that everything it drew would become art. That an avant-garde gambit such as this is now used as a means of advertising art rather than as means of disrupting convention through art shows that conceptualism has become a form of popular, if not exactly common, currency. The question is to what extent this signals the taming of the avant-garde or to what extent it might be seen as a productive and desirable popularisation of its practices.