Discussion questions for Reading #2

Question 1---Do you think that our fast-paced, need-it-now, get-it-now world has lost its eye and patience for art made the "old-fashioned way"? Question 2---Is digitally-created artwork actually destroying art? Is technology helping our hurting our creativity?

Apocalypse Animation Video

I wanted to animate this like it is straight out of a disaster movie: objects shaking, moving, and falling. If you have ever been in an earthquake, you know that things don't just move back and forth, they wobble in all directions. At the end, I thought that once everything was destroyed, we would be able to help each other get through the mess and rebuild together. (Yes, it looks a little cheesy, but I was channeling my inner Irwin Allen).

Another shot at destruction...

So, I took another stab at the Apocalypse project, and I think this one is more interesting.  I still have issues with Photoshop, but I played with shapes and some of the color saturation, and I like the eerie-ness of some of the images.

Apocalypse

To me, apocalypse means the end of our world--the earth as we know it.  Highly unlikely that the end will come from  a comet in space, I think that it will be us humans that will complete our demise.  Here are some images of destruction, and natural disasters, that some believe are signaling the end of the world.

Discussion Questions #1

1. What if an artist creates art in multiples to be able to share his/her art with more than one exhibit at a time.  In this way, no one has to wait for the installation to travel from one museum to another. Does doing this lesson the value of the art? Does it even deserve to be called art if it is easily reproducible?

2.  An artist creates a piece to be displayed especially for a room in a museum--maybe the acoustics add to the "experience" of viewing the artwork.  If the piece became a part of a travelling exhibit, would this lesson the experience of seeing the art in person? What if no one else knew about the special room in the original museum--would it matter then?