Artifacts

After reading this article, the passage that i found more interesting was the following: “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 softwares and on the way it is reformatted, translated, compressed or sometimes even blown up, it is enhanced or diminished: it changes. It changes its format or container or outlook or context.” i realize how fragile an old piece of art can be, because if someone has an originally piece physically printed that person will take care of it in order that it cannot get broken or altered. However if someone convert a physical piece on a digital piece, this one will be altered in infinity way that have never been seen. Because of the different features and platforms that we have, making a change in a historical piece is something that users found interesting to do. In fact, every time someone post a picture on internet automatically get the chance of see his or her picture in multiple versions. This is exactly what happened with art paintings from the past, because we are in an era were art is appreciated not just by going on the museum but by visualizing new characteristics, which will make it more interested and popular than before. I cannot let pass the fact that involves the origins of a piece and the risk of being recognized from what it is in that present than from what it was the pass.