Robotics + Art
It has been interesting and appealing to see the advancement art have made while our technology has been improving all the time around us. Similar to ideas such as robots, we have seen art and technology clash together to create things that are pieces of both.
Industrialization was the first sign of technological ideas being formed and took a step forward. Industrialization, or the change from economic to society dominant, can at a time when society allowed more use of technology and its advancements to be used. Two common known machines that were made during the industrialization period were the cotton gin and steam engine. With the steam engine creating steam to operate machines instead of the necessity of hand work and the cotton gin making it much quicker and easier to separate cotton, we are able to see the advances that technology is making around us in ours societies. These may not directly be robots, but we see the resemblance in them and how they are created with advancing technology and helping us in our everyday work.
The pieces of technology and machinery that has been created similar to those above have created argument about the way that artwork is depicted with new and old prints. In one of the sources, Walter Benjamin argue for the idea of authenticity and how and older piece of art with a little bit of wear and tear are more valuable than pieces that are made with many duplicates and are all clean and perfectly printed. A perfect example for this instance are baseball cards. Baseball cards now a days have many duplicates of another and anyone can buy packs of cards and will likely get the same exact card that they got in the last pack. This loses value in the piece, as cards from the early 1900's that only have 1 or 2 copies of it, are worth a couple thousand dollars because of the rarity and authenticity. So although technology has advanced our artwork, some instances are better to have the original work due to its authenticity and originality.
Industrialization was the first sign of technological ideas being formed and took a step forward. Industrialization, or the change from economic to society dominant, can at a time when society allowed more use of technology and its advancements to be used. Two common known machines that were made during the industrialization period were the cotton gin and steam engine. With the steam engine creating steam to operate machines instead of the necessity of hand work and the cotton gin making it much quicker and easier to separate cotton, we are able to see the advances that technology is making around us in ours societies. These may not directly be robots, but we see the resemblance in them and how they are created with advancing technology and helping us in our everyday work.
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The pieces of technology and machinery that has been created similar to those above have created argument about the way that artwork is depicted with new and old prints. In one of the sources, Walter Benjamin argue for the idea of authenticity and how and older piece of art with a little bit of wear and tear are more valuable than pieces that are made with many duplicates and are all clean and perfectly printed. A perfect example for this instance are baseball cards. Baseball cards now a days have many duplicates of another and anyone can buy packs of cards and will likely get the same exact card that they got in the last pack. This loses value in the piece, as cards from the early 1900's that only have 1 or 2 copies of it, are worth a couple thousand dollars because of the rarity and authenticity. So although technology has advanced our artwork, some instances are better to have the original work due to its authenticity and originality.
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The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Industrialization." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2016. <http://www.britannica.com/topic/industrialization>.
"Industrial Revolution Timeline." Industrial Revolution Timeline. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2016. <http://www.softschools.com/timelines/industrial_revolution_timeline/40/>.
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Uconlineprogram. "Robotics Pt1." YouTube. YouTube, 15 Apr. 2012. Web. 18 Apr. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRw9_v6w0ew>.
-Kyle Mora
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I totally agree that the authenticity of art degrades as we mass produce them. The uniqueness of the art certainly goes down, but I guess one could also argue that this causes the authenticity of other pieces to be raised even higher. I think it's all about relevant thinking. On one hand, since we mass produce cards, they become less special to us. However on the other hand, because we mass produced these cards, the authenticity of the rarer cards has all the more been exponentially increased. If we had never mass produced cards in the first place, the value of those cards that have only several in existence would not be as high as they are now.
ReplyDeleteI also mentioned in my blog that with mass reproduction, originality and authenticity are threatened. It is definitely true that technology has provided us with much benefit but the negative impacts cannot be disregarded. Because technology allows things to be much more convenient, it degrades value in some sense that rather than physically enjoying art, people would search it up online instead. In doing so, they are not able to fully experience the appreciation of art that they would get in real-life.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you mentioned that mass reproduction and authenticity are at stake here and I totally agree. I also found it fascinating how you tied in the old and the new blueprints to certain machinery on how to make it more appealing while also working faster and more conveniently.
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