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“For neither the first nor the last time, young voices rose up and announced that art was dead.” I think this statement is really interesting because in art, people are always looking to expand their horizons. While there are periods of time where people feel easel art is obsolete, it will never truly go away. […]

“The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition.” This was in Guy Debord’s passage and I think what he means by this is that regardless of what style of art you are creating or what type of art you are creating, the uniqueness of one’s […]

“I am liquidity incorporated… the rainbow…torrent…cloud.”  I really understood this quote as soon as I read it by Mark Sladen in his article The great wave. Liquidity means the availability of assets to a market or company and the speed of cashing out your assets. Incorporated from a business sense is to be in a […]

In Brandon’s video, Papier, I really enjoyed the relationship between the paper and the hand as well as the movement of the camera. The positioning of the camera, accompanied by the movements of the camera created a very intimate relationship between the pages and the hand that was caressing them. I think I was most drawn to this […]

Adrielle’s video has a subtle aesthetic that connects a standard in traditional visual art to her topic: time. Her topic (the subway) connects to time because it deals with transportation. However, her video also relates to time in a different way. Her subtle use of symmetry also relates to time. We see a green pole […]

“One of the biggest misunderstandings about digital information is that it is replicated identically, without loss or transformation. But anyone who works with such information knows that digital practice is constituted – like perhaps any technology – by malfunction. One has to constantly convert information in order to work with it across different platforms and […]

“One of the biggest misunderstandings about digital information is that it is replicated identically, without loss or transformation. But anyone who works with such information knows that digital practice is constituted – like perhaps any technology – by malfunction. One has to constantly convert information in order to work with it across different platforms and […]

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 […]