Category Archives: Blog 08

Technology, especially social media and the internet has changed the interaction of humans beings significantly. Videos,pictures, and documents could be shared in an instant. Art could be seen online with images of every piece of art posted online and found with a click of a button. This change in society has decreased the value of […]

Claire Bishop’s “Digital Divide” resonates greatly with Walter Benjamin’s “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. She states, “faced with the infinite multiplicity of digital files, the uniqueness of the art object needs to be reasserted in the face of its infinite, uncontrollable dissemination via Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.” Similarly, Benjamin states that while traditional […]

Today, many exhibitions (by curators rather than artists) model this new illegibility as a spectatorial condition. Documenta 11 (2002) was significant in many respects, not least of which was its inauguration of a tendency to include more work than the viewer could possibly see—in this case, six hundred hours of film and video. We don’t […]

The influence of technology in art is very well-known in this 21st century that we live in, this became as a new art form that is still developing. Over the course of the years we’ve seen different trends, styles and forms of art, which are still relevant in culture, as a way to put it, […]

“Yet the hybridized solutions that visual art is currently pursuing—analog in appearance, digital in structure—seem always biased toward the former, so favored by the market. ” This quote stands out to me because although we have found more mediums of art, we are still attracted to a simpler beauty. This intrigues me because in another […]

“While many artists use digital technology, how many really confront the question of what it means to think, see, and filter affect through the digital? How many thematize this, or reflect deeply on how we experience, and are altered by, the digitization of our existence?” I think that undertaking this task about considering digital effects […]

“In the digital era, a different set of concerns prevails. The act of repurposing aligns with procedures of reformatting and transcoding—the perpetual modulation of preexisting files. Faced with the infinite resources of the Internet, selection has emerged as a key operation: We build new files from existing components, rather than creating from scratch. Artists whose […]

A passage I enjoyed from Claire Bishop’s “The Digital Divide” was when the author discussed how “when you look at contemporary art since 1989 the year Tim Brener’s Lee invented the World Wide Web, it is striking that so little of it seems to address the way in which the forms and languages of the […]

PLEASE READ THROUGH AND RESPOND TO YOUR CLASSMATE’S BLOG ENTRIES BELOW AND MY QUESTION.  KEEP THE CONVERSATION FOCUSED ON THE SUBJECT OF ART, ART VIDEOS THAT YOU HAVE SEEN AND ART AS DISCUSSED IN THE ARTICLES.   Brendan writes:   “Instead of touching on the ubiquity and popular appeal of digital art, Bishop calls into […]

PLEASE READ THROUGH AND RESPOND TO YOUR CLASSMATE’S BLOG ENTRIES BELOW AND MY QUESTION.  KEEP THE CONVERSATION FOCUSED ON THE SUBJECT OF ART, ART VIDEOS THAT YOU HAVE SEEN AND ART AS DISCUSSED IN THE ARTICLES.   In David’s blog he writes on the future of art – so tied in history to being an […]