"While many artists use digital technology, how many really confront the question of what it means to think, see, and filter affect through the digital? How many thematize this, or reflect deeply on how we experience, and are altered by, the digitization of our existence?"
I think the main point here is the word affect... Because no matter what medium or form new art is in, it's about how the deeper meaning provokes one to think, and how a piece affects the viewers... New age art isn't just about the visual aspects but the deeper meaning to the piece that is not scene on the surface. The meaning of a piece doesn't necessarily have to jump out at every viewer, but it needs to be there in some sort of way. This is why there is a digital divide because modern art has made it acceptable for anything to be considered "art" and there needs to be more definition between the two. When art is thoughtfully made to affect the viewer through the viewer thinking, seeing, and filtering, then i think the digital divide when be vanished. Since art truly is, "visual code that gets transcribed inside our minds into thoughts and emotions," it is important that we continue to make art for the affect and the meaning rather than just for the hell of it and for the visual aesthetic.
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