Legrice shtuff

I think Jamar brings up an interesting point that I don't think Legrice maybe stressed enough. The new medias are not only incorporated into our artistic practice, but into the very framework of our lives. While we can talk about the similarities interms of concept and treatment of the medium in relation to other art movements and modes of thought, I think the actual artistic practice of using new media vs old media has been a total game changer. What we perceive as art has changed and thusly the modes and intent we use to make it have changed. I think an artist's relationship to the materials he or she chooses to make art are a huge
part of what the art is or becomes. So in describing the evolution or foundations of something like new media or tech art, I think it's good to address this new relationship we have with materials. To what degree do we have to be invested in the work we make if it's simply a reproduction? What if our artistic practice stemmed from playing video games instead of apprenticeship? How does this change the way we make the art and what bearing does it have on it's honesty? I know these are vague questions, but I feel like, of couse there's a traceable reasonable evolution that brought us to media art in terms of art history and practice. At the same time I'm not sure to what degree that inform it's practitioners I guess - and thats why I get frustrated with it's relevance sometimes - so, it seems maybe more worthwhile to investigate the actual artistic process of making, rather than talking about how technology functions.

"It is impossible for data to have a coherent form or relationship to the information
it represents without analysis" (legrice)

What type of analysis? Technical? computer-based? I think that's what a very large group of people are attempting to do through computer visualization of data; to make data have a relationship to the material without certain types of analysis... maybe one day we will look at a massive grid of 1s and 0s and see within it something calm, or abrasive based on its varying degrees of contrast.... This is to say that the medium will continue to become instilled in our every process until it doesn't need to be analyzed because it will be our first language, and if our artwork is this same language, what makes it other than same ol same ol communication - it'll just be made mysterious for the sake of considering it art.