Category Archives: Blog HW Posts

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 […]

“My point is that mainstream contemporary art simultaneously disavows and depends on the digital revolution, even—especially—when this art declines to speak overtly about the conditions of living in and through new media. But why is contemporary art so reluctant to describe our experience of digitalized life? After all, photography and film were embraced rapidly and […]

One can’t help but ask if much art is left once a project folds itself so successfully into socialmedia culture.” Art is not bound by the constraints of the internet, social media, the digital or physical world. Art, like time and space, is infinite and does not live on the same plane as us. There […]

“So why continue to work with “real” analog equipment? Artists like Dean, the preeminent spokesperson for old media, stake their attachment to celluloid as a fidelity to history, to craft, to the physicality of the editing process; the passing of real film is a loss to be mourned.” Since when does the argument of old […]

“My point is that mainstream contemporary art simultaneously disavows and depends on the digital revolution, even especially when this art declines to speak overtly about the conditions of living in and through new media. But why is contemporary art so reluctant to describe our experience of digitized life? After all, photography and film were embraced […]

HWDue – Blog 08: Quote a passage from the reading that captures your attention and write a 300-word response explaining why that concept is of interest. The quote that stood out to me was “If you borrow am artist DVD from a gallery, it usually arrives in a white slip, with VIEWING COPY ON IT […]

Bishop’s idea of the Digital Divide resonated with me well because of how agreeably it appropriated with the contemporary world. She brings up two very specific ideas that were a reflection of artists’ work such as Frances Stark and Thomas Hirschhorn. First, she says “Each suggests the endlessly disposable, rapidly mutable ephemera of the virtual […]