Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Blogger would totally not let me post yesterday...

These articles give some interesting examples of how to look at and conceptualize digital art (especially from viewpoints predating the technology in question), and I agree with the five characteristics of new media, but I disagree with the percieved "struggle" between the paradigms of marketing/broadcast and free exchange as one of good versus evil. Without going off on a rant, the ability to earn a living from creativity and innovation has been one of the primary motives for technological advancement as well as artistic achievement in digital media and elsewhere and I don't think we should be content with multimedia as we know it as the end-all of artistic practice... anyway, my favorite part of the one article is the idea that this is performance art:

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