Books to look at;
Digital currents
Art in the age of mechanical reproduction
Art in the age of mass media
Simulacra and simulation
- Technological conditions can effect the collective consciousness.
- Technology triggers important changes in cultural development.
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- Anything that is copied isn't always the same as the original.
Machine age; modernism
- Walter benjamin - the emergence of technology and art.
- Photograms were the early experiments with photography.
- Marx brings about the fact that technology changes the value of things eg. is a copy worth as much as the original.
- Consumerism brings down the value in a sense.
- Photography moves something into a new context which changes the value.
- Something that came with photography was kineticism , the idea of movement.
- Richard Hamilton - using technology to re-create image.
- How you style something determines if it rests within art of design.
Electronic age; postmodernism
- The computer is a natural metaphor.
- We consume the technology and create new techniques.
- Collaborations between art and science.
Simulation and simulacrum
- Reflection of profound reality.
(Jean Baudrillard 1981)
- It distorts reality and is confusing because its the decision of what is real and what is not.
- Word of mouth masks the absence of what is real because we believe what we are told.
- Nam June Pauek; uses technology as an art form.
John Walker; art and mass media
- Art uses mass media.
- At what point does art become design?
Digital age
- Digital potential leads to multimedia productions.
- New contexts.
- Used for installations eg. projections (Jenny Holser)
- New technologies make it easier to reproduce without going through a whole process.
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