Constructive Instability’ Thomas Elesaesser
Avant garde art diminishes and becomes obsolete in the wake of technological innovation. Humans live in a virtual reality where they interact with machines.
The Practices of Everyday Media by Lev Manovich
We produce our own media but the tools used to make media comes from commercial sources.
Both these articles articulate the ways in which we interact with computers and social networking. If you put both articles together it becomes apparent that this cultural shift to social networking has vast negative consequences. Avant garde art slips away into oblivion as we become more and more plugged into computers. The public sphere disapear as we disapear into the computer. Originality is vanishing because the templates in which people create art on the computer are produced commercially.
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