Hmm...

My dad found an interesting article on this person's blog the other day...
The blogger's idea of the parallelism between photography and the internet's impact on how we think is quite interesting. "Photography is used as a memory device that allows us to forget. Perhaps something similar can be said about the Internet. In terms of art, the Internet expands the network of reproduction that replaces the way we "know" something. It replaces experience with facsimile."
Despite the initial fear of photography and its impact on art, it mearly changed things rather than destroyed things. Perhaps internet is having a simliar influence.
Now, in most cases, whether or not this convenient yet synthetic replacement for authentic, real-life experiences is a terrible thing, I'm not sure (depending on the experience, I guess). However, I heard someone say the other day that one of the artist's key roles in the world, is to connect the human to it's imagination. And without imagination, we have nothing. I believe that imagination is greatly influenced by experience. So at some point will internet negatively influence or even create our imaginations and ultimately hinder how artist's see?

Creepy. Far too sunny and lovely out today to be thinking this deeply...

here is the blog: http://ateliernet.blogspot.com