Examines the views of Benjamin Buchloh and John Roberts on the significance of the Internet in the arts.
This paper examines Benjamin Buchloh’s comments on the Internet where he suggests that the avant garde, as we have known it, is declining, in part due to the immediacy of the internet and its effects upon the transmission of culture. The paper then discusses the views of John Roberts on the implications of cyber-technology on art and communication and notes potential weaknesses in his perspective.
In explaining changes in the avant garde, Benjamin Buchloh suggested that the avant garde as we have known it, is declining, in part due to the immediacy of the internet and its effects upon the transmission of culture. What Buchloh refers to as our notion of , a relatively autonomous, public avant-garde, stands to be much changed in the 21st century. (87) Artists through time who joined the avant garde by way of their self-determination, are more often to convey an instance of self-expression, and the internet obviously offers endless opportunities for this expression in ways and a degree of international contact that is going to change what is regarded as avant garde, and the tradition underlying how avant garde creativity is expressed.
John Roberts has fully explored the implications of cyber-technology. He begins by explaining that the forces of globalization, in market economics and the results of ‘modernity’, have reached every part of the world. A new kind of cultural modernity is unfolding which pertains to electronic creation and the manipulation of artificial worlds. (216)”
John Roberts has fully explored the implications of cyber-technology. He begins by explaining that the forces of globalization, in market economics and the results of ‘modernity’, have reached every part of the world. A new kind of cultural modernity is unfolding which pertains to electronic creation and the manipulation of artificial worlds. (216)”