пятница, 11 февраля 2011 г.

The concept of internet - technological art

Technology, mathematics, computing - some believe that everything about these is cold, heartless, dead. For some, it is because they believe anything this logical can not be considered artistic, others are just wary of artificial intelligence of any level.

Besides, the artistic types nowadays would not touch math with a ten foot pole, right? There's nothing artistic or elegant about maths.

While the websphere nowadays is overflowing with human-created graphics designs, colours, in the period while the internet was just developing (1947-1990), it can be considered the epitome of a logical, mathematical structure.

That is the point of view most would take. But is that really true? Did internet really start out as an empty shell that we just filled with art, splattering our new, artistic ideas upon every surface?
I for one do not believe this is true. Perhaps me being raised around computers since I was 2, learning to operate MS-DOS and unzip files before I could read or even coherently speak has affected my way of thinking, but I think that technology as a whole is a beautiful form of art that can only encourage us to create further. As an artist, occasional writer a lot of my work contains allusions to the internet, computing, mostly in the most basic of forms - binary, html code, etc, mostly because I find it absolutely fascinating.

Internet was created to share data and information. In my opinion there is nothing more elegant and beautiful than the pursuit and sharing of knowledge. Thus, at least the underlying purpose is artistic, is it not?

In addition to that, there is nothing more artistic than invention. If there is no place for maths and technology in art, then where does that place DaVinci? If there is no place for logic in art, where does that place philosophy, writing? Psychology? All these fields are intertwined to the most complex degree, as they are the utmost human being. I don't believe that there's a single person in this world who is not a creator, an artist of some kind. Those who write code, invent, create, those who came up with the prototypes for calculators and computers, those who created the internet, are no less of artists than those who paint landscapes and portraits. If anything, they might be more.
Expressing what they see through visual, auditory media or taking an abstract concept and actually realizing it, which one is more artistic? Can you really believe that computing is dead and heartless?

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