What really caught my attention in this week's chapters, as being something that I had not considered before, was the inability for people to become utterly original and creative by using new media.
We use programs like photoshop, cool edit or various other sound and image editing and processing programs, feeling creative, but in essence we are just applying a series of filters, thus altering the original product. True originality has become extinct nowadays. it is almost never the case that a new form of media or art is created from scratch. It is usually a new combination of pre-existing forms. There is certainly though a lot of variability. The range of options when it comes to using technology to create, is seemingly infinite. Although it is simply a modification of previous signals by applying several filters to it, the result is so fundamentally different sometimes, that we come to think that it is original and in no way related to the source product.
But the question is, was there ever anything truly original, or was that always an abstract ideal. Most of our history, creation has been formulaic, only in the modern era did originality become a fetish, and art an object of veneration. Perhaps what is really lost is not so much Art with a capital A, but craft, skill.
ReplyDeleteI know this sounds terrible but I generally believe that everything is on 'repeat' these days. Movies, books, other media, seem like re-imaginations of past productions.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think that there is certainly a lack of authenticity. But then new media platforms come up, like facebook for example, that are very original up to a certain extent, and this makes me reconsider my views.
ReplyDeleteI find that I havent seen a movie lately that i cant predict. Originally in film is lacking.
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