Month: February 2018
The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
In his second paragraph, after briefly explaining the history of reproduction through art, Walter Benjamin says that even with the most perfect reproduction, such as photography for instance, it could never be perfect. It is quite puzzling at first glance because photography is the numerical representation of reality. Individuals cannot do better in terms of reproduction these days. Painting is the pictorial and manual representation … Continue reading The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
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Reading 2 : The medium is the massage, Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
In his book, the author deals about the differences in education since the development of new technologies and what he calls “the modern home environment of integrated electric information”. Today, children may face to the “adult world” with the news their parents are watching on T.V. The today’s issues such as inflation, war or how the market price is evolving are not supposed to be … Continue reading Reading 2 : The medium is the massage, Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
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The five principles of New Media according to Manovich
The first chapter deals about the five general tendencies of what new media is for the author. Indeed, new media is not just about converting media into a digital representation, even though communication tools had evolved in the same time of computers so we can talk about computerization of media. First, with the numerical representation of media, through a digital code and an algorithm system, … Continue reading The five principles of New Media according to Manovich