Author Archives: LSullivan

In “Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke”, Hito Steryl says, “It strikes me that the best place to go to grapple with the digital condition is not the art gallery, but Tumblr, Youtube and even 4chan. What place does art have in confronting the digital, when today’s most successful digital expressions apparently […]

In this postmodern world that we live in, technology has become a factor of great influence on everything that we do on the daily. I find it interesting how when technology got involved with art, we started to figuring out different ways and styles in which this could be applied to art. Just like this […]

“Presented as carefully displayed collections, their installations belie the extent to which everyone with a personal computer today has become a de facto archivist, storing and filing thousands of documents, images, and music files.” The rarity of the exclusive meme has plagued the digital age. No longer are we confined to the walls of a […]

I found a lot of interesting points while reading “Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Streyerl and Daniel Rourke”. “Today the majority image production, dissemination, and commentary takes places online…the best place to go to grapple with the digital condition not the art gallery, but tumblr, youtube and even 4 chan.”  “If artists do not expose […]

Response to Artifacts. The artifacts article discusses the major changes in art throughout time with the introduction of technology. Unlike paintings, Digital arts are majorly being accessed through the internet rather than art galleries,  the article states: “Today the majority of image production,dissemination, and commentary takes place online. it strikes me that the best place […]

Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and Guy Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle” both discuss the “images” resulting from modern means of production. Debord focuses on how modern technology influences the individual’s perception of society by the presentation of a “reality”/ worldview that is actually very different from […]

The poor image expresses the full ambivalence of Fanons idea of lumpenproletarians, which Arendt already beautifully and much more precisely described as mob in her “Elements of Totalitarianism”. The mob does not consist of the underclasses, but the “refuse of all classes”. The mob is composed of people expelled into a world characterised by violent […]