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Robertson and McDaniel (2010) draw our attentions to the expanding forms of contemporary art and the implications they have for the way we experience art in their closing remarks in Chapter Six: Language. They write:
Today, the creation of art increasingly involves multimedia mixing. Visual artists are responding to the culture at large, where the diversity of hybrid forms is rapidly expanding. The Internet, movies, television, and commercial advertising consistently conflate the verbal and the visual. With the widespread deployment of computers, video cameras, cell phones with picture-making capabilities, television and film, today’s advanced societies communicate through a blend of words and images. In addition, visual and auditory images are braided together in popular music and other newer genres of information exchange and expression, such as music videos and computer games. With the advent of hypertext and formats that allow the digital combining and overlaying of images, writing, and sounds, and digital technology that allows for the rhizomatic, non-linear sequencing of links to other data banks and information sources, another arena of exploration has opened up for artists in the twenty-first century Each person who is logged n to the computer becomes a reader, viewer, and listeners, scanning the screen and participating in the control of information that flows before her along her own path and at her own pace. Formats that deliver only one form of verbal or visual communication seem destined to become increasingly outmoded in the future. (pp. 221-222)
For this final discussion, I would like for us to reflect on and respond to these closing comments and the questions they introduce. There is no question that we live in a world in which the word "media" has taken on expanding meaning and that most of us are completely at ease moving fluidly between the different means of communications that Roberston and McDaniel mention in this last paragraph. What kinds of questions come to mind for you with the authors’ final remarks? What do you think, especially, about their assertion that "formats that deliver only one form of verbal or visual communication seem destined to become increasingly outmoded in the future"? Will the multimedia mix of sound, image, and moving image supplant our appreciation for painting and sculpture? Will the already fuzzy lines between "high" art and "low" art be even further eroded by the media forms discussed by Robertson and McDaniel? If so, is that a good or bad thing? How will these different media devices impact the way we define "art" and "art making" or how we experience art As the artists and teachers of "tomorrow," what impact do you foresee that the points made by the authors (in their closing paragraph) will have on your work as a teacher or an artist?
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