2010年1月3日星期日
Evaluate Report.
Digital environment create the possibility for millions of things: unlimited conversations with anyone on this earth (literally), massive amount of information within your reach at any time, technology which is able to create basically everything you can ever imagine in your mind--anything is possible, it goes as far as your imagination.
Digital environment brought a brand new possibilities for art, it has totally changed the old view of “how an art work should be” for thousand years. Artists have been experimenting this new way as usefully and skillfully as the “traditional” way, art scenes have never been such massive and creative as nowadays in history--of course, nothing is perfect, people are getting creative and productive as they had never did before, so sadly at the same time, it’s raising the issue of mass amateurism. Is art missing its “aura” in digital environment age? If image can be reproduced, where is art? Do we need a whole new language to understand the “aura” and “hybrid”? There are many questions left for us to consider as an artist, since we have the responsibility to tell the right massage--at least a responsible and thoughtful massage to this world.
Digital makes you available to connect with all kinds of media, put them together to work, mix them or to create another new form from them. It can be related with everything in your life: your personal information, your work, your social life--literally, all your information can be saved as memory in digital environment if you try to do so. Some people say it’s only a trend, people will go back to the old way of socializing after some time. Some people say it’s ridiculous to keep one’s information still after their death. I myself think it is very possible that our memory can live eternal as a machine in the future, even after our body died physically. I’m also very positive some research institutes are already experimenting it. But my question is--is it an advance for the humanity or it’s the opposite? I think man is using too many outer supports in their livings, yet they always refuse to improve their inner thoughts, getting more and more lazier, only choose what can bring them satisfaction and happiness, no matter what that leads them to. (In this point, my head is full of the image from movie <>, I hardly think those so called “future people” is advance from us in any way. But it could really lead us there, sooner or later.)
In this 10 weeks I’ve learnt things that was totally myths for me. It led me understood an little but brilliant edge of digital environment, in a very interesting and thoughtful way. Of course, it’s still a myths for me, but at least I knew some basic knowledge which made me ready to explore more in the future. It had remind me the important fact I always tend to forget: You should always, always look the world from different angle, it teaches you more than a long peek from one side.
Digital environment brought a brand new possibilities for art, it has totally changed the old view of “how an art work should be” for thousand years. Artists have been experimenting this new way as usefully and skillfully as the “traditional” way, art scenes have never been such massive and creative as nowadays in history--of course, nothing is perfect, people are getting creative and productive as they had never did before, so sadly at the same time, it’s raising the issue of mass amateurism. Is art missing its “aura” in digital environment age? If image can be reproduced, where is art? Do we need a whole new language to understand the “aura” and “hybrid”? There are many questions left for us to consider as an artist, since we have the responsibility to tell the right massage--at least a responsible and thoughtful massage to this world.
Digital makes you available to connect with all kinds of media, put them together to work, mix them or to create another new form from them. It can be related with everything in your life: your personal information, your work, your social life--literally, all your information can be saved as memory in digital environment if you try to do so. Some people say it’s only a trend, people will go back to the old way of socializing after some time. Some people say it’s ridiculous to keep one’s information still after their death. I myself think it is very possible that our memory can live eternal as a machine in the future, even after our body died physically. I’m also very positive some research institutes are already experimenting it. But my question is--is it an advance for the humanity or it’s the opposite? I think man is using too many outer supports in their livings, yet they always refuse to improve their inner thoughts, getting more and more lazier, only choose what can bring them satisfaction and happiness, no matter what that leads them to. (In this point, my head is full of the image from movie <
In this 10 weeks I’ve learnt things that was totally myths for me. It led me understood an little but brilliant edge of digital environment, in a very interesting and thoughtful way. Of course, it’s still a myths for me, but at least I knew some basic knowledge which made me ready to explore more in the future. It had remind me the important fact I always tend to forget: You should always, always look the world from different angle, it teaches you more than a long peek from one side.
2009年10月19日星期一
notes.
Digital seems to be around us in everyday life, yet I think there's not many people actually know what is "digital"..including myself.
Digital is artificial, not natural.
Digital is fast and convenient, connect people better (?) and instantly.
Digital has a huge opportunity to expand in very short time because of its massive information storage ability.
Information technology has created an unlimited possibility of conversations, between people, among the whole wide world.
"To see something as ART requires..
An atmosphere of artistic theory,
A knowledge of history of art,
An art world."
Anticipate the future, beyond the horizon.
Identify possible roles and strategies for future intervention.
“There’s no ‘ism’ associated with digital art.”---Rush. M. 1999
Definition of Digital Art:
Art that uses digital technology as a tool in the process of making so called “traditional” art.
Uses in any of these ways:
-As the product.
-As the process.
-As the subject.
Walter Benjamin think digital art raise issues of:
Authorship.
Uniqueness.
He suggest:
Art work’s “aura” is lost in reproduction.
If image can be reproduced, where is art?
From issue of reproduction, to totally new form of production.
Loss of “aura” in representation of “the real”
“Real and Virtual”
Do we need a whole new language to understand the “aura” and “hybrid” ?
Tic-Tac: personal co-ordinate on existing huge environment.
“It is only a matter of time before constant broadcasting of one’s life becomes as common as e-mail.”
80% of the world population never used internet.
5 views of the internet:
Just a tool. (e.g. eBay is just a large and convenient flea market.)
Big but becoming Dull. (integrated into everyday life.)
Big but Bad. (1. killing exports and professionals-mass amateurism. 2. dependency on web-eroding independent thought-dumbing down. 3. eroding privacy and identity.)
Big and getting bigger Fast. (don’t over-play the negative side of open environment.)
Big, Good-could become Bad. (some people want to close it down, adopt it to safe and chargeable new internet.)
The machine is us. (is using us.)
Collaborate group > institutions-control being inhibition of development.
Negative side-no profit for the creations.
Encouraging mass production.
Change the way of thinking about values.
Social capital > Technology capital
Digital environment create the possibility for...
-Conversation with anyone in the world.
-Brand new way of communication, socialization.
-Finding the right answer to your question.
-Finding the right member of “your group”.
-Faster the globalization.
-Equality (in general)-Equality for expression.
-Powerful global group.
-Chaos!
-Lost of information.
-Instability of information access (loss of history).
Digital is artificial, not natural.
Digital is fast and convenient, connect people better (?) and instantly.
Digital has a huge opportunity to expand in very short time because of its massive information storage ability.
Information technology has created an unlimited possibility of conversations, between people, among the whole wide world.
"To see something as ART requires..
An atmosphere of artistic theory,
A knowledge of history of art,
An art world."
Anticipate the future, beyond the horizon.
Identify possible roles and strategies for future intervention.
“There’s no ‘ism’ associated with digital art.”---Rush. M. 1999
Definition of Digital Art:
Art that uses digital technology as a tool in the process of making so called “traditional” art.
Uses in any of these ways:
-As the product.
-As the process.
-As the subject.
Walter Benjamin think digital art raise issues of:
Authorship.
Uniqueness.
He suggest:
Art work’s “aura” is lost in reproduction.
If image can be reproduced, where is art?
From issue of reproduction, to totally new form of production.
Loss of “aura” in representation of “the real”
“Real and Virtual”
Do we need a whole new language to understand the “aura” and “hybrid” ?
Tic-Tac: personal co-ordinate on existing huge environment.
“It is only a matter of time before constant broadcasting of one’s life becomes as common as e-mail.”
80% of the world population never used internet.
5 views of the internet:
Just a tool. (e.g. eBay is just a large and convenient flea market.)
Big but becoming Dull. (integrated into everyday life.)
Big but Bad. (1. killing exports and professionals-mass amateurism. 2. dependency on web-eroding independent thought-dumbing down. 3. eroding privacy and identity.)
Big and getting bigger Fast. (don’t over-play the negative side of open environment.)
Big, Good-could become Bad. (some people want to close it down, adopt it to safe and chargeable new internet.)
The machine is us. (is using us.)
Collaborate group > institutions-control being inhibition of development.
Negative side-no profit for the creations.
Encouraging mass production.
Change the way of thinking about values.
Social capital > Technology capital
Digital environment create the possibility for...
-Conversation with anyone in the world.
-Brand new way of communication, socialization.
-Finding the right answer to your question.
-Finding the right member of “your group”.
-Faster the globalization.
-Equality (in general)-Equality for expression.
-Powerful global group.
-Chaos!
-Lost of information.
-Instability of information access (loss of history).
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