Impact of Digital Technology on Jerry Uelsmann's Art

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However, perhaps one of the most fundamental challenges to this schematic polarization of art and science is the fact that the visual and the plastic arts in particular have often taken the form of practical ways of grappling with the world, rather than ways of simply generating the inner, Romantic vision of the artist. Art can also take the form a craft, a practical rendering of materials in the real, objective world. Art can even encapsulate the purely craft-oriented and practical mediums, such as the nature of art found in the realization of so-called primitive forms of art, like weaving or pottery.

However, the institutionalization of photography as an art form has perhaps created the greatest modern exhibition of the potential blurring of the nature of art and science since the retreat of the so-called ‘primitive’ arts of craftsmanship in the face of modern commercialization and mechanization. Science provided the technological foundation of photography, the ability ...

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like ordinary companies. Gallery owners, museums and other art brokers provide information about their artists, exhibitions and events. For them, the net is nothing more than a big telephone book in which they too want to (have to) be represented.” (Blank, 1996) The use of the ‘net’ can also create galleries that juxtapose hitherto unconnected images through the use of online galleries, and fuse images through the use of digital technology with a seamless quality undreamed of by photographers, in eras, before. Once, the idea of a museum of computer art would seem like an oxymoron—now MOCA, the Museum of Computer Art, is one of the most trafficked art sites on the web. (MOCA, ...

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