Total Recontruction

Within a relatively short time, the digital medium has created quite a dynamic landscape for which computation and imagination mesh together quite well. The ability to make a photograph as opposed to taking a photograph gives us something to ponder. How does the process of image-making relate to the integrity of the final product? The importance comes from the final image. What become the most important elements to any image are its: form, beauty, and content. Content plays a new role in today’s digitally enhanced society whereas beauty derives itself in the eye of the beholder. Form changes with the technology. The forms, and content that we see in work such as Loretta Luxs’ sublime and un-nerving children causes a weariness not found in photography’s pasttime. Their very nature speaks about the use of technology to enhance the realism of the act of art making into the realm of hyper-realism. This concept challenges the viewer to visualize their reality as a manipulated, and quite vulnerable representation of life. How can one conclude anything to be real then? And if it’s possible to put parameters on virtual reality, couldn’t a persona created as an avator be considered real in a sense? Though I don’t necessarily agree with this possible scenario, I find it interesting to interpret the interactions of a virtual and actual reality as something controversial in the future.  

Digital Revolution

 

You know what people, looking back at history for a second I just realized something. We are in the midsts of one of the most spectacularily intriguing, revolutionary, incomprehensible, and innovative periods of artistic expression.  Fuck yea!  Excuse the language, it’s just a great time to be alive. I wish I knew how one could measure the expansive nature of digital art, but  just what are the possiblities?

Everyday, I think about how working digitally in art, photography, science, and other such endeavors has and will continue to drastically change our collective grasp of life. I might just be pointing out obvious shit, but i want everyone to understand how fortunate we are as artists to live in the infant stage of the Digital Age.  This is huge! Everyday, I see new ways to use digital technologies. Everyday, ideas pop up in my head about how I can use photoshop to express an idea. I have never experienced such richness in my creative spirit. Maybe it can only be excercized by bitmaps and little dots but the fact that photography is morphing into an uncontrollable beast of an art medium, I can truly say I love the fact that we are all learning about this shit at the beginning of something amazing.  How f ing cool is that. We are the digital art pioneers. What has been laid out in front of our finger tips as students can possibly change the way our lives mature.  

I don’t really care to go into a debate about traditional photo vs Digital, cuz that really does not matter to me in the long run. The most important thing to me is to roll with the times. I can’t picture myself trying to figure out ways to re kindle a feeling of traditional photographic values as the future is now here. I embrace it and urge others to do the same.  peace

Holy Cow

What a heavy read!!

In my opinion, this was a very well written work of art itself though it was difficult to fully grasp the attached meaning of so much intellectual jabber. Just the introduction to this book promoted multitudes of ideas, and a fantastical array of words and descriptions of words never heard of; of course, they sounded really good. I found it particularily interesting reading about the military connotation of dadaist tactics. The employment of powerful technological advancements, modernity, and the modern media culture are all very important themes that Dada itself lit up. Bombing the public sphere with grotesque images of non other that reality, the wartime explosion of the dadaist movement seemed to react to the exponential expansion of mechanized industrialization as Leah Dickerman points out. A modern-media culture sprung out of this development like a field of wildflowers and artist’s were ready to shock people. This point hits home for me as I realize how important it is for artists to rise above pre-conceptions of what art is and to portray an, “unflinching examination of the historical moment”(pg. 7).  I like the idea of dismantling the very nature of categorization, of defining what art is based on anti-definition.

The final thought of the day is within our modern scope and proximity to a wartime culture, have artist’s lost the aggressive assault of creating modern artistic speculation?

Heyo

Hello and welcome to my blog. 

Within the power of the internet, I find it absolutely amazing how connected the world is in comparison to the past.  This blog is my attempt to link myself with the rest of the world and to place myself in the never ending expansion of the digital archives. 

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Dan

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