The Art Revolution in A Digital Age

What is art, really?

Xu Zhen’s Eternity-Buddha in Nirvana, the Dying Gaul, Farnese Hercules, Night, Day, Sartyr and Bacchante, Funerary Genius, Achilles, Persian Soldier Fighting, Dancing Faun, Crouching Aphrodite, Narcissus Lying, Othryades the Spartan Dying, the Fall of Icarus, A River, Milo of Croton. Photo by yesnodunno taken at the National Gallery of Victoria.

In the age of information systems — where we are imbued into the matrix of computing — art is revolutionised.

Baudrillard-ian theories of a world dominated by mass media, images, signs, and any other simulacra is no longer a philosophical study of a potential future, but rather realism embodied.

Media culture has created an information overload, and the subsequent implications on the ways in which we view and approach the vast amounts of information made available to us through mass media. You can scarcely get about your day without inexplicably being exposed to a plethora of information through some form of information system.

Plugged into the matrix, are we?

Our phones, computers, televisions, radios, cars, watches, fridges etc. are all mediums of information distribution. Frankly I wouldn’t be surprised my oven rejected my temperature settings and started beeping me instructions on how to properly bake a loaf of bread of heat up some sauce (I’m looking at you, Bimby).

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