Post-Media

As complicated and confusing as this was too me I actually found it rather insightful and it actually sparked a lot of ideas about medium in my own head. While , this is not what the author was trying prove, I found myself thinking that the new technology available in art is not the end of a media era but rather just an additional type of medium. If this is the case, should crunching numbers on a piece of paper with a pen, a medium of drawing and crunching numbers online, a new from of artistic medium be considered art. If these are both medium , a term typically used for art, then isn't everything we do utilizing them art? So, as human we are all artists. Another thing that intrigued me in this was his mention of how people receive this technological art. Based on their software and programming and, "because of the limited bandwidth capacity of the channel, the presence of noise and possible discrepancy between the sender’s and receiver’s codes, the receiver may not receive the same message as send by the sender". With technology the way viewers see art can differ so much from person to person. The art they see can be so wildly different then the art another person sees, even though its the same peice. Before this was possible, people could only see art in person , so their experience was guaranteed to be the same, the only shift would be the viewers perspective. Ultimately this new medium offers a lot of new direction in the art world.