Poll: Digital Art or Tradition Art

[andreimg]

I didn't vote. I'm not a fence sitter all day long or anything, but I disagree with 99.9% of "this OR that?" questions. Nothing is simply black and white, one or the other.

I'm more inclined to vote for traditional art, but some of that is shit. Just like some digital art is.

What I dislike greatly is someone taking a picture of something, slapping it in Photoshop (etc.), applying a filter to it and acting like it's something amazing/original/hard to do.

That's proving good use of a computer, not great talent as an artist. I can produce things with the method above and I'm NOT an artist. Give me a pen and paper and you'd think a drunk 4 year old had tried to draw something with it's breakfast!

I entered a third option, but a "Both" option is so easy for people who see it, that they just vote and go do the next thing without even thinking why they chose it.

 

[fulano]

I for one don't think that you don't respect digital art(as in generally speaking), just that you stick with what decidedly has worked for thousands of years and continues to still do so. It's just that if we make the mental exercise of stretching this thing far enough, using just a little foresight, one can see that that will stop to being so at one point and this very argument will become invalid. And as shitty as that may sound, I thank technology for that.

Also, there's nothing wrong with liking nature. Nature is pretty and green.

Now every time I hear "If it isn't broke don't fix it", I tend to find some kind denseness and just plain stubbornness in that phrase. I full heartedly support progress. But maybe there are some things that will not become obsolete and still persist even with the better alternatives sitting right next to it.

Let's say we think of music in this instance and technology evolves so much that any pitch and perfect note can be achieved digitally. We don't need human voice for music anymore because the digital one is miles ahead, and it's just pointless to compete with the age old notion of human song music. Do you think people will stop singing or that we will no longer earn to hear a real human voice sing a song?

What if we expand our imagination to believe that maybe some things or maybe a subconscious drive will persists along with any kind of evolution. Like the instinct of survival or mating.

The matters that you bring up are actually very interesting.

If everyone can pretty much hit the same notes a soprano can with the proper oscillations to encompass for emotional range by "merely" typing some notes in a software suite, say three hundred years from now(society may look altogether different by then if one accounts for the accelerated rate of technology), then I'd say that we'd have to come up with better concepts that define what the human "voice" or "singing" now stand for. The subconscious drive to create something beautiful remains intact, but its by then more conceptual than it is physical, wouldn't you agree? It remains as inherent as our will to shape the world around us, or survive, or mate, but now it becomes much, much harder to properly tackle without new criteria.

People definitely won't ever stop "singing," but they may just stop articulating sound with their vocal chords.

 

[Aqualung]

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