people can view and create art. Once upon a time, when people wanted to see a specific piece of art, let's say for example da Vinci's Mona Lisa, they would have had to travel to the Louvre. With the numerous databases available online, digital copies of the Mona Lisa are available at your fingertips along with anything else having to do with the painting. Art Databases- "a structured collection of data" (408)- have made art more widely available to the masses. For students studying art, this is a fantastic thing. Museums are not only physical places housing art, but they are also found online. Of course there are books available in the library with prints of the work -often in black and white or they have yellowed or deteriorated because of age- but you cannot expand your view of the images on the page. Using site such as Artstor.com, you can zoom close up [to Mona Lisa's face] (Artstor.com) to see details that would otherwise go unnoticed from an image in a book.Anyone can easily manipulate their photographs using programs like Photoshop- copy and paste images together making a collage, remove red-eye in a group shot, change colors, get really creative with the possibilities. Movies can be produced entirely on a computer, very few animated films are hand-drawn now because of the time and expense for creating them. House plans, 3-D compositions, video games, and many other things can be produced quickly and easily because of art going digital.
Kocur, Zoya, and Simon Leung. Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. 1st ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005. 408-427. Print.
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I agree, technology has changed the way we see art and the way we create it. Thanks to the database an individual is able to access images that normally a person would have to travel a great distance to see. But do you think maybe, that this new technology has taken away from the whole creative process? For example, you mention animated films are hardly ever drawn anymore,technology does it for them and that technology also changes the way a person sees an image. Do think that maybe, technology is taking us over? Do ever find yourself wondering what you would do without it?
ReplyDeleteI think that technology has helped us in many ways when it comes to making art. Even through out decades technology has helped artists in their works. I don't think that it has taken over but has helped to enhance our ability to make art in more creative ways.
ReplyDeleteTechnology and the creative realm of digital art can be seen as either a productive aesthetic or as a destructive art movement. Productively, yes, technology and digital data bases enable anyone to enjoy art no matter where they are located, and also allows for a reconsideration of exhibition practices and importance. But looking at the impact of technology negatively, portrays a larger negitive impact on society. Beginning with the idea of digital data bases, in which you said a person can view the Mona Lisa via the internet, removes that said viewed from any personal experience they would have if they went to see the painting in real life. I had the opportunity to go to Louvre in Paris and personally experience the painting, and I can say that encounter is tremendously different then viewing it in a book or online. You loose all sense of meaning, context and reality by viewing the copy. Just as Jean Baudrillard theory of the simulacrum, the viewer when presented with a copy image or representation of the world, looses the ability to distinguish reality from non-reality and looses all sense of the real world. Therefore, the incorporation and new practice of digital art practices distorts all meaning of reality subjecting the viewer, artist and gallery system into a fake, made-up and impure representation of the real world.
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