The Digital Age – kaitlyn morrison's blog

Compotier_avec_fruits,_violon_et_verre Appropriation is a technique used in art and is often defined as, “the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them”. The image to the right is an example of the use of appropriation. The Composition with Fruit, Guitar and Glass. Made in 1912 by Pablo Picasso. This technique has been used throughout art history and has made a significant impact in literary, visual, musical and performing arts. Throughout this reading, appropriation is used in the digital age. Many people would argue that this changes the true definition of art and they would question if this is really art anymore. I think the reading really brought to life how today’s society is and how it is affecting everything around us. Especially something that has been around for centuries, like art. For example, Social media. It is a huge issue today. It takes away from what use to be cherished back then. Whether it was art works, or nature around us. In the past it was about living in the moment. But now, people’s lives are “fake”. This reading ties into the previous reading, Zombie Manifesto. We basically live in a society where we are Zombies. We are not really living life. For example, Facebook. Your life on Facebook shows only the good things that happen and you don’t see the hardships. We rely way too much on our phones. Our lives revolve around it. Everything we do is a representation of something. Sort of like a spectacle. This can be defined as, “Images produced by and for capitalist project.t image put out there that alienates people’s actions and respons Untitled e”. A spectacle doesn’t capture reality. You are able to put up representations at will. Again, Facebook. It is not real life because no one sees the struggles that you may be going through. It is just a digital representation. All you are able to see is the “perfect” life. There is a diversion between the idea of concrete visibility. How it diverts from the spectacle, brought up as a style of art. Cindy Sherman used images and film and reproduced the piece also including herself. This was appropriation but also determinant. She makes a point about how society is undermining women. This image is related to the Untitled idea of “high art”, Post Modern. Bill Viola-Silent Mountain (2001). It ,”exemplifies a ‘truly creative’ engagement with digital technology that reworks perception and ushers in a new age of image-making, thereby reconfiguring the ‘correlation of the human with the technical’ and exploiting ‘the potential of information to enlarge the scope of the human grasp over the material world”.