Questions for "Digital Divide"

1. Bishop talks about how we today are able to just open up a file and edit it, whereas back in the day you would have to start over from scratch. Does that affect the quality and uniqueness [the overall artistic-ness of something] of a piece or is that just a norm to be accepted now days?

2."My point is that mainstream contemporary art simultaneously disavows and depends on the digital revolution, even—especially—when this art declines to speak overtly about the conditions of living in and through new media" -Bishop Bishop is trying to get across that art now days is so reliant on digital means, that he wonders why they don't speak and essentially promote the more modern digital aspects in the art work itself. because as said earlier in his essay, art right now is reverting back to the 'retro' of digital media whether than promoting the new innovative aspects of DM. What is your theory on this?

Animation

What I wanted to get across with this animation was the slow progression in the beginning just like any other catastrophe with the sped up deliverance of the initial attack. problems I came across was not knowing how to make the video longer in photoshop. It gave me a set 10sec and that was about it. That was really my only difficulty. Oh and another problem I ran into was not knowing what the style bar meant. Besides that I really enjoyed putting this together.

Apocalypse Diptych

My approach to this assignment was kind of everywhere. Lily and I first thought of maybe doing a post apocalyptic setting, but later decided to do what exactly caused the apocalypse. In our diptych the apocalypse is caused by a nuclear fallout. Where all the nations just rain havoc on each other. Something like if the cold war had actually happened. Also with a side effect of zombies. Meaning that whatever is left of mankind, if any, is affected by the radiation that is surely around and whatever disease outbreak has occurred making them into zombie like creatures.

Questions for 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'

1. The word Aura was continuously brought up when talking about actual pieces of art and the reproduction to them. Either with actual paintings or with actors and their performance in front of the camera. In these cases what is 'Aura'?

2. What are the benefits of reproducing art?