Wednesday, August 29, 2007

The Language of New Media Questions

Lots of text on that page, isn't there? I did come up with a couple of things as I read through it, though.

I don't know how exactly to connect "Blade Runner" to what the text is talking about, exactly. The text talks a lot about the validity of art and culture created through the digital interface. Is the comparison between run-down, unacceptable "Blade Runner" and the smooth cool Mac a parallel to that?

Is the ability to "replicate" art through copy and paste throwing originality into question, somehow? Shouldn't the original work put in by the original artist still cound unquestionably as an original piece, even if a file can be copied out digitally pixel by pixel, through a different process?

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