Reading Response #6
1. "Visualization is enabled and mediated through technology" (p. 179).
2. "Technological developments take hold when they resonate with social needs and values, coming into being through social imperatives" (p. 185).
3. Copies can be called originals in the eyes of some, but in all they are just that, copies (pp. 189-190).
4. In the eyes of Walter Benjamin there's no unique image (p. 191).
5. The world of reproduction entered the world of politics through words being attached to the images (p. 195).
6. Then arose copyrights which gave people the right to copy images (p. 198).
7. The digital camera has no "original" storage connection which made it more difficult when it came to copyrights (p. 206).
8."The technology is designed to bring home to the consumer and artist the ability to manufacture goods and products" (p. 213).
Reflection:
It was interesting to read about politics of reproducibility. There was on image that caught my attention the most, and that was of Hitler. The image showed him through x-ray and his stomach or body was being filled with money. It was interesting to notice power written all over it. Why do politics take over images? Images can give so much power depending on who and what is being exposed through each image. Its true that political art to protest that images should be valuable and unique.
2. "Technological developments take hold when they resonate with social needs and values, coming into being through social imperatives" (p. 185).
3. Copies can be called originals in the eyes of some, but in all they are just that, copies (pp. 189-190).
4. In the eyes of Walter Benjamin there's no unique image (p. 191).
5. The world of reproduction entered the world of politics through words being attached to the images (p. 195).
6. Then arose copyrights which gave people the right to copy images (p. 198).
7. The digital camera has no "original" storage connection which made it more difficult when it came to copyrights (p. 206).
8."The technology is designed to bring home to the consumer and artist the ability to manufacture goods and products" (p. 213).
Reflection:
It was interesting to read about politics of reproducibility. There was on image that caught my attention the most, and that was of Hitler. The image showed him through x-ray and his stomach or body was being filled with money. It was interesting to notice power written all over it. Why do politics take over images? Images can give so much power depending on who and what is being exposed through each image. Its true that political art to protest that images should be valuable and unique.
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