Week 3 Blog

Art has been introduced to the world in a more complex way than script has. There has been art that was created in paper and then paintings and then and with time sculpture and 3D art. Based on the readings it was shown that a new type of art came to be to which was known as digital art. Just like Frederick Jameson, said in the readings, that it took a lot of time and getting used to for him to accept that art can come from videos as well.

Woman using virtual reality. Digital Arts Online, 2017.

Industrialization can mean both good and bad. The evolution brought about by Darwin says that if people do not adapt then they soon become extinct. This is kind of how industrialization works. In the readings by Walter Benjamin he talks about how industrializing art brought about a very profound change in the public. When art is recreated like this it loses one important factor, which is time and space. However there is greatness that comes from it as well. There is a sense of uniqueness that comes 

IMAX 3D Movie Cinema, 2010. 

from digital art, a new perspective is shown. Those that do not adjust to the technological advances soon start to find their surroundings very difficult. Instead of reading about the news in newspapers, now we have apps for these news updates and it allows us to see videos of the news and more insight of what occurs. If people don't adapt to the new and changing lifestyles then it becomes hard for them to live their regular daily lives. 

One line from the reading talks about Einstein and how he believed that imagination is sometimes more important than the knowledge we have. His logic made sense because he said that knowledge could be capped of what we know and don’t know. However imagination is limitless. That is where the inspiration of digital art comes from. We have an idea of something and then we interpret that into real life images. To me, the best of digital art is cinema and movies. These are stories that have come to life from someone’s idea. Digital art is one’s imagination coming to life.

Star Wars

We are able to influence our thoughts and imaginations into things that have never been created before. When we think about the unknown we can recreate that through movies. Many decades ago was the start of introducing new technological advances. One famous movies for this case was Star Wars. This movies was taken place in the future with robots. Fast forwarding to 2017, we have started the built of robots in small devices, like vacuums, phones and other devices. Give it only a couple more decades and new movie plots, where robots will soon be a much greater part of our society. 

References:

Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. London: Penguin, 2008. Print.

Kristie.Mass-produced Art at Ikea. Digital image. Swedish Freak. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2012.<http://www.swedishfreak.com/2010/ikea-swedens-answer-to-walmart/dsc05285_web/Links to an external site.>.

[1] Davis, Douglas. “The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” The MIT Press, 1995. Web. 19 Oct. 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1576221?uid=3739560&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101286048881>.

Gillmor, Allison. A digital Paintbrush. Winning Free Press. April 2017. Web. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/a-digital-paintbrush-417920793.html

Hobson, Ben. “Digital Art is starting to be taken seriously”. Dezeen. Feb 2015. Web.

Vesna,Victoria. “Lecutre Part 2.” Math + Art. 12 Oct. 2012. Lecture.