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Mechanization is very prevalent in today’s society with
technology expanding, and more work is being done online. Davis’s writing
expands on how art is changing in terms of how it affects our body, mind and
spirit. He draws on how it took years for a Marxist art theorist, Frederick
Jameson, to accept video as a form of art. He still disliked that video was
unable to promote communication of any kind. In today’s society, communication
is seen vividly through the internet. People are using forms of social media to
communicate with one another, and these new technological means of
communication are seen as a form of art. I see these technological innovations
affecting today’s youth especially, where children are no longer forced to
express themselves verbally, as they are now allowed to hide behind the walls
of technological social media to express themselves, including their works of
art.
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While technological innovation is being used to expand
communication, it is also being used to recreate works of art. Benjamin
elaborates on the repercussions of reproducing works of art. Any time you are
replicating art, you are missing the element of its presence in time and space,
and thus you are losing the element of passion and emotion that went into
creating the original making. It becomes unauthentic, and it lessons the
artist’s original work by taking away the difficulty that lies behind the
artwork. It is easy to copy what someone else has already done, but coming up
with the idea in the first place is the real challenge.
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Technology is truly becoming the future with everything
being done on a computer, or even through a robot. Driverless cars are becoming
a staple of our future, leaving humans with one less tasks to do on their own. In
Disney Pixar’s movie, Wall-E, Wall-E
is the last robot left on earth. He spends his days tidying up the earth with
his own hands. The movie shows that people ruined earth from their laziness,
becoming too fat to even move on their own. This exemplifies how people often
abuse the technology we are so blessed to have, and if we are not careful, the
technology will consume us. It is important to remember to still do things on
our own, without technology. Some of the best works of art are still created
with two human hands.
Sources:
"Arduino - Introduction." Arduino. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2016.
"Micromagic Systems Robotics Lab." Micromagic
Systems Robotics Lab. N.p., n.d. Web.
17 Apr. 2016.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction”(1936): n. pag.
Web. 17 Apr. 2016.
Davis, Douglas. "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital
Reproduction (An Evolving Thesis:
1991-1995)." Leonardo 28.5 (1995): 381-86. J Stor.
Web. 17 Apr. 2016.
I thought that your way of approaching this topic with two different arguments was interesting. After I did the reading for this week I didn't consider the effect that social media plays but I thought that you did a good job describing its place in the world. All of the examples that you gave made it prevalent just how controversial the process of industrialization can be. Society often has different stances on the up and coming technology depending on the aspects of life that it effects. \
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