Repeating, Abundance, 4-14-99

Based on 3 articles:

'Why do I Keep Repeating Myself"

Abundance and Redundance

4-14-99

These articles raised interesting questions on man's relationship to technology. Are we as the first article said, indulging in "machine Karma"? I have now begun to ask myself how incorporated i am with my own technology. I am using a computer to write these comments on the article, i even used my computer to read the articles. In a sense i have become enmeshed with my own technology, i recently downloaded programs to facilitate actions between me and the computer even more quickly and easily. I think i honestly do "spend more time organizing my desktop than organizing my desktop"

I don't think that the concept of 'information hiding' is really a true event. I do know and understand that developers and hardware providers try and protect their technology, but innumerable amounts of technology has come out of 3rd party users adapting and tweaking pre-made hard and software.

The redundance article mentioned artist's responsibility within our overly digital culture saying that artists show "the value of difference". Apparently in our digital age, "There is little difference, Reality is a format". After having worked within different formats of images, video, and audio I can understand this comment much more. Flipping through tv or youtube or anyother media outlet, i can experience an unlimited variety of programming, but thats true, I rarely see anything that I can't understand or that causes me some confusion, because i can readily receive the 'reality format'. I agree with the author's statement, about art and 'art'. Its true. I see many fabrications that seem 'artsy' or eclectic and enjoy them thinking 'this is so unusual' but really, there is little to no true art contained within the work.

All this said, I agree with the author of 4-19-99, "art and technology have come together to forge a new humanity." It does seem so. Fake art is being prodcued by the same means as real art. People are becoming enmeshed in their machines that not only are used by artists, but can contain some form of artistic value. A trained artist could just as easily produce the 'reality' of TV as well as confrontational art, utilizing the same tools for both!