Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] McLuhan net

typing of digital art + thinks McLuhan...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdJcQJPOrcM

Chunks,
mez


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Avi Rosen <avi@narkis.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> Digital art is globally produced and distributed simultaneously at the
> speed
> of light, and within fraction of seconds reach any surfer worldwide.
> Artistic global interactivity equalized the speed of the artist, art
> object,
> and the art consumer. The cyber art cloud is monitored by search engines,
> hubs, social networks such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo,
> involving about 2 billion of users and hundreds of thousands of servers
> that store in their memories the contents of around 1 trillion (as in
> 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once. (Google 2008).
>
> There is a dramatic change in characteristics of contemporary art made in
> such intensive electronic environment as described by McLuhan* (1964,),
> 'Today, when we have extended all parts of our bodies and senses by
> technology, we are haunted by the need for an outer consensus of technology
> and experience that would raise our communal lives to the level of a
> world-wide consensus'.
>
> * McLuhan, M 1964, Understanding media :the extensions of man,
> Signet books, New York p.105.
>
>
> Avi
>
>
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