Tuesday's Lecture

Well this lecture was way better than the "potluck/skype" lecture. Philip Glahn talked to us about relation between art and technology in society. I really liked the images he provided because I understood his connection and could identify a lot of them. He talked a lot about the anonymity in mass production, and how in art that is not good because you are striving to be a recognized individual. He also stressed how editions decrease the value of art, the more that something is produced the less value it has. I thought the example of the artist who creates replicas of artifacts that were stolen during the Gulf War was really interesting. The replicas were created entirely out of Iraqi newspapers, and the artist found the replicas and their images using online databases (technology).