1. In section IV Benjamin stated that art predicted crisis well before anyone else through reproduction. He stated that rather than ritual of past ideas of tradition, art and its uniqueness is based on politics. Could the same kind of sentiment about photography be applied to digital media?
2. Benjamin talks about the importance of exhibition being equal to the work itself. Do you think the exhibition entire change a piece if presented one way or another?
Absolutely. I think photography has a history of documenting important worldly events such as war, important congregations, and more. Photography was often the first medium to be at these places and be mass produced to inform the knowing public. Digital media is in a same boat, with digital photography and live blogging doing the same type of information transmission as before. Or even further, you have meme culture, which explains what the cultural zeitgeist and perspective on certain' events' are in a series of several, whimsical images. Usually containing a cat.
ReplyDeletePresentation accounts for a lot in art. Digital media tends to be the most ambivalent of all, because it exists in a special place between the artificial/internet and real. There are heavy decisions to be made about how a digital work looks 'physically'.