The Vitality of Digital Creation Response
In The Vitality of Digital Creation, Timothy Binkley argues that, while the idea of the digital image is paradoxical at first glance, computers and the digital image have become an integral part of everyday communication today. Furthermore, as the digital image becomes easier to produce and distribute, its role in our lives becomes increasingly paramount. These digital representations have a certain vitality to them because they have the potential to engage us and act in response to us.
What interested me the most in this reading was the comparing and contrasting that Binkley does with digital and analog media, not only in the ways that they influence us differently, but also in the unique implications of their representations. On one hand, digital representations are built on abstract storage and measurement. On the other, analog media focuses on concrete preservation and impressions. As someone who grew up in a digital world and continues to work in it today, the implications of what separates analog and digital work apart from the obvious technical differences is very interesting. It certainly reveals why my life has distinct digital and analog differences. Although I listen to a lot of music digitally, I have always had a fascination and appreciation for analog music through cassettes and records. Why did I seek out analog alternatives when digital is so much easier? It's because I reacted to the unique characteristics of preservation and the tracing of past events that analog representations had and digital does not. When you grow up immersed in a world where the computer is a primary art tool, it takes a different perspective to understand that digital representations are abstractions and fundamentally different than pure impressions. Why do you think that analog media affects us in a different way than digital media?
"The Vitality of Digital Creation in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism." Binkley, Timothy. In The Vitality of Digital Creation in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 55, Iss. 2. Published 1997, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (10 pages).
What interested me the most in this reading was the comparing and contrasting that Binkley does with digital and analog media, not only in the ways that they influence us differently, but also in the unique implications of their representations. On one hand, digital representations are built on abstract storage and measurement. On the other, analog media focuses on concrete preservation and impressions. As someone who grew up in a digital world and continues to work in it today, the implications of what separates analog and digital work apart from the obvious technical differences is very interesting. It certainly reveals why my life has distinct digital and analog differences. Although I listen to a lot of music digitally, I have always had a fascination and appreciation for analog music through cassettes and records. Why did I seek out analog alternatives when digital is so much easier? It's because I reacted to the unique characteristics of preservation and the tracing of past events that analog representations had and digital does not. When you grow up immersed in a world where the computer is a primary art tool, it takes a different perspective to understand that digital representations are abstractions and fundamentally different than pure impressions. Why do you think that analog media affects us in a different way than digital media?
"The Vitality of Digital Creation in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism." Binkley, Timothy. In The Vitality of Digital Creation in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 55, Iss. 2. Published 1997, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (10 pages).
For me I think it has to do with the aesthetic of analog media and the art of it and I also agree with you that it's more pure. Well thought out ideas good job!
ReplyDeleteI would say the same about the comparison between analog and digital media, it was quite interesting reading about that. great job on understanding the reading!
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