Back to the digital art discussion, and its effect on the
art world due to being reproducible and its potential loss of originals. This
area of art always opens up so much discourse, it’s easy to forget what started
the discussion. Digital art has its own place in the art world, and it can give
so much to the rest of the art world. It’s different, it’s controversial, and
that (in current context) practically makes it art in and of itself.
If it makes you think, if it can be art without being
beautiful, then the idea of an original is less important to me. If the piece
required a creative mind, a unique way of presenting an idea, then it is truly
the only “one” of that piece that will ever be. Original can exist regardless
of quantity of copies in circulation. There are thousands of copies of the mona
lesa on tons of merchandise. People understand however, that there is only one.
The Mona Lesa as an idea was one piece, one artpiece. That’s how digital art
should be viewed, and I think the data bending, distortion, software rendered
artwork all have potential to be so surreal and beautiful that it would be a
terrible loss to pretend that it isn’t art.
-Thomas
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