too right On 16 Mar 2010, at 19:28, Curt Cloninger wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would just chime in here and reference Benjamin's famous "art in > the age of mechanical reproduction" essay written way back in 1935. > He notes the difference between painting as stationary/unique/cult > object vs. photography and film as mobile/multiple/aura-emptied > object(s). Benjamin recognizes a fundamental difference between > painting and photography -- a difference related to their > distribution and reception rather than simply their technical modes > of production. A million people can watch a James Cameron movie on > the same day, but a million people can't view the Mona Lisa on the > same day. This difference matters in terms of critical reception, > institutional politics, marketing, economics, space, time. > > You can call a James Cameron movie a painting if you like. You can > call amazon.com architecture if you like. You can call a generative > software algorithm improvisational theater if you like. What is > gained and what is lost by such analogies? At this point, "painting" > may gain more from being associated with "new media" than new media > gains from being associated with painting. > > Curt > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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