Questions:
1) Walter Benjamin discusses a shift
in perception and the affects it had on film and photography in the twentieth
century. He writes, "during long periods of history, the mode of
human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence."
He discusses how the manner in which human sense perception is organized,
the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by
historical circumstances as well. Benjamin
writes about the way we look and see the visual work of art is different now
then it used to be. How is human sense perception related to
history?
2) Benjamin discusses how the sense of the
aura is lost in film and the reproducible image demonstrates a
historical shift that must be taken into account even if we don’t notice
it. What does it mean when the aura is lost? Benjamin writes of this loss of the aura, but what comes through in this new
space left by the aura that has been lost?
In regard to question two, there may already be evidence of what may be occurring when the 'aura' is lost. You in fact touch on it with your digital triptych montage. Connection between the human bodies, whether that be platonic, romantic, or family, can be subsidized for a more gearing towards virtual reality. In essence, with the loss of 'aura', we arguably lose purpose with one another. Same could be said about art! Efforts must be made for the artist to make what he does as unattainable by anyone else's eye or creation. If all there is to create with are objects that already 'exist', the same logic applies on a multiplied scale.
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