Walter Benjamin
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", i'm not sure if technology allows just anyone to be an artist?? Programs like; Photoshop, iTunes Garage Band, Illustrator, iDVD etc (basically anything mac shop pro) are allowing people to edit and generate their own version of art, music and photos and help too personalise and characterise.
What does that mean for Art?
People who do create art from their computers, be it music, images, videos etc, are only artists as far as people accept them as artists. In my opinion. People that record songs and music on their computer becuase they dont have the money or access to a studio should continue. This means nothing for Art, just that more people are attempting to crack into the evergrowing culture. Furthermore skilled professionals will still be ranked higher due to their quality.
In my opinion photoshopped images are not authentic.
People who plagerise and utalize other people's work are not authentic in my eyes. There are some cases where an origional piece of work has been reformatted and photoshopped completely to create something newer and better, which could be used as authentic.
Benjamin refers to Aura as - The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that is transmissible from its beginning, ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced. yes digital things have an aura.
Bring on the next Task...
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