Busting the Tube- Response Questions
1) In the article it discusses McLuhan's idea that technology was going to transform society. the article says, "This vision imagined that electronic communications were an extension of the human nervous system and operated in a binary kind of progression-as technology advances, so does the human sensory perception needed to receive it". (pg.2). Being able to grow up with technology we are really the best proof to his theory. Do you think that growing up in an age that technology was always advancing has changed how we perceive things?
2) When the article starts talking about the expansion of video art it mentions how government funding had a huge impact of the effect that videos were able to have. Allowing artists to view themselves as being "legitimate artists". So, in other words it seemed that as people started investing in the video arts it began to be viewed as a real art form. Comparing the video arts to other forms of arts such as painting, it is very clear that paintings are more widely known. Most people will have a certain artist or painting that is their favorite. So, why isn't video art on the same level as the classics? Is it because it is still growing and we haven't recognized the greats of it, or is it that video art just doesn't connect with us as well as the older art forms?
I often ask that question myself. (Q1) I didn't know about the internet until age 11, so I can only fathom what a young mind may be like having known it since birth. I think there is something gained about proper use of it. It may be foolish to just ignore the fact that something like technology is there, but with proper usage (or rules) it can be both effective and healthy. I have a little brother who is about ten years younger, and we have to tear him from the internet every day back home.
ReplyDeleteI ask that question a lot too. In Cinema, we have a 'Citizen Kane'. In videogames, there is no such thing as one of those yet. I think how well reknown a work of art is has to do with how 'social' it can make society. If a work of art can get people in a conversation, of some kind, with another... the more word of mouth that will spread.