Bishop Claire-Digital Divide Discussion Questions

1. Does modern contemporary art's hushed relationship with digital art suggest that digital art may never be an acknowledged media by the mainstream art world? Or does it have to wait its turn to become outdated for it to be accepted and "fashionable"?

2. Do you think the mainstream art world's lack of interest in digital art comes from the common misconception that computer based media can be made with ease at the touch of a button? Could their opinion be as simple as a misconception or are there other factors at play? If so what could they be?

Apocalypse Animation with sound

Apocalypse Animation from Aaron Beck on Vimeo. Through our continuous burning of fossil fuels, our polar ice caps are getting smaller and smaller leading to some very unhappy polar bears. When the polar bears' extra terrestrial cousins learn of this, they travel to earth to destroy us all.

Choose Your Fate

There are many different hypothisies as to how the world will end, each with little more likeliness than any other. How you choose to prepare for the apocalypse is up to you. It is important to keep in mind that certain life styles may hasten the coming of the apocalypse, whether it be through the slow accumulation of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere or the accidental melt down of a nuclear reactor,
Choose Your Fate.

According to Benjamin, "There is no such place for the movie scene that is being shot. Its illusionary nature is that of the second degree, the result of cutting. That is to say, in the studio the mechanical equipment has penetrated so deeply into reality that its pure aspect freed from the foreign substance... The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology." What does this say about the relationship between art and reality?

The evolution of art technologically has brought with it the ability for certain mediums such as photography to be reproduced relatively easily. Does this ease of reproduction make the work any less valuable than if there is only one copy? Does mass producing art take away from the original intent?