Monday, March 31, 2014

Digital Reproduction

In the age of digital reproduction, interactive art has the following seven special features: it is portable, it is private (not public), it represents realistic details, it has a kaleidoscopic orientation, it requires a network connection, it enables feedback/replies, and it can be archived. Digital reproduction has changed the creation and reception of art in many ways. Years ago no one thought to remix a song and call it their own. No one thought that the tools would be available to edit computerized images on a singe device.
Digital art is the most portable and mobile art to this day. You can send a digitalized picture over the internet across the world in seconds. You can share a song or post a tweet interacting with people all over the world. Digital art has the ability to be private. In a way, everyone’s personalized Facebook page is art. It is an individual digitally expressing oneself through the form of social media. Art is shared on Facebook, twitter, and Instagram.

            Nowadays, if someone were to die, you usually hear about it first from some form of media. Whether it’s the news, Facebook, or even online articles. The internet grows more and more complex by the minute. Millions of Google searches happen every minute, an endless pit of information. It is the most realistic, detailed form of art out there and the best example is remixed music. Remixing songs remains a controversy to this day with two different standpoints. One being that it is copyright of original material and the other side argues it is a totally different song. Neither side can truly prove if they are right or wrong but it’s just some controversy that spurs from digital art. Social media and email require internet connection to be able to share anything. People can reply and comment their own opinions anywhere on the internet regardless if it is profane or rude. My generation is filled with keyboard warriors, a self explaining term. And everything on the internet never fully disappears, even if it’s deleted.

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