digital media 245 triptych

digital media art is natural progression in the evolution of art chain! 3

      Duhamel calls the movie “a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star’ in Los Angeles.” How does Duhamel not see the intrinsic field of film as an artform whether he approves or not? From the inception of a  film project to the "kind of participation which the movie elicits from the masses",  film involves creativity, writing, production, interpretation, acting, editing, art in staging, background, special effects, costuming and musical scores. If a project is not accepted by the masses, is it not still an attempt at creativity? Is it wrong to entertain? Is it wrong to vie for public support in the form of renumeration and approval at the box office? When money is created for future projects and the continuation of the process fullfills
 itself, is that so bad?

digital media art is natural progression in the evolution of art chain! part 2

Walter Benjamin (1936)

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    Walter Benjamin (1936).... to have written this psychic piece was fortelling and advanced beyond his time!

     How his peers must have scoffed and naysayed his advance thinking. So how was he able to break away from flock mentality and move to the future without constrants of convention? How did he know?

digital media art is natural progression in the evolution of art chain!

    "We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.”
Paul Valéry, Pièces sur L’Art, 1931
Le Conquete de l’ubiquite
     Was Paul Valéry a visionary long before his time, by predicting the innovations which followed with time and led to digital media as an acceptable means to the new form of digitized art?
     So then one would ask, "What is the next step in the evolution of tools which have led us to become digitized?"
     As eight tracks moved to cassettes, then cd's and dvd's, and blue ray, and cameras advanced to video and digitized, equipment will continue to evolve and increase in capacity, capability and efficiency.