The world is moving fast. Keeping up with it is a must, if you want to survive. The new media can be a very effective tool for us, if we know how to use them.
After reading "The Technology and the Society"by Raymond Williams, it hits me; the society depends on technology and likewise technology depends on society. There is no clear cut answer to which what influence one another first. It is like asking which came first the chicken or the egg? As far as human history goes, we always have some sort of technology and culture. For example, the expansion of knowledge causes one to implement television. The television phenomena causes people know more. And so on.
William Wegman
One of the big influence of technology to society is the making of cameras. The ability to capture a moment in time and store it forever the way it looks and sounds changes a lot of things in society. William Wegman, an artist, took advantage of this and made many artistic/comical videos. One of his video shows him putting on his deodorants onto his armpit. For the whole video which lasted 49 seconds, he talked about why he liked the deodorants and sprays unstopped stream of the deodorants onto his armpit. It is funny and artistic in a way.
5 semi-naked Anthony(s)
Another artist, Anthony Goicolea, also made use of this technological change. He photographed himself and multiplied his image to portray his artistic ideas. His work is very strange. It is very sexual but not in a normal way. Most of the picture, like the one on the left, contains only semi-naked multiple of himself. This strangely reminded me of something I saw a year ago. It was Megan Fox making out with a dummy which made to look exactly like her. Maybe her producer is a secret fan of Goicolea? Below is an early video made by Wegman which I found to be pretty cool.
Byte, I love this comment of yours: "It was Megan Fox making out with a dummy which made to look exactly like her. Maybe her producer is a secret fan of Goicolea?" It made me laugh!
As for the rest of your post goes, I really like how you compared technology and society to the "chicken or the egg." Now that I think of it, it is completely true that we really cannot justify who or what came first: society or the technology?
Nonetheless, what I believe is that society has always been placed before technology. Without the people's demands, desires and needs for easier communication in the past, there would not have been any demand for innovations. People would have remained living simple lives without any complaints, as they would have been unaware of any technological advances. However, ever since technology began advancing in the 1900s, people became accustomed to it and started expecting more and more to come. Today, technology has become so common, that we even fail to give credits to the inventors! To put it all in a nutshell, it is definite that society gave birth to technology. We are responsible for our own corruption and problems led by technology!
You are describing the Modern age when society began believing in "progress" and that new developments would make life better and better! Do we all still believe that?
Byte, I love this comment of yours: "It was Megan Fox making out with a dummy which made to look exactly like her. Maybe her producer is a secret fan of Goicolea?" It made me laugh!
ReplyDeleteAs for the rest of your post goes, I really like how you compared technology and society to the "chicken or the egg." Now that I think of it, it is completely true that we really cannot justify who or what came first: society or the technology?
Nonetheless, what I believe is that society has always been placed before technology. Without the people's demands, desires and needs for easier communication in the past, there would not have been any demand for innovations. People would have remained living simple lives without any complaints, as they would have been unaware of any technological advances. However, ever since technology began advancing in the 1900s, people became accustomed to it and started expecting more and more to come. Today, technology has become so common, that we even fail to give credits to the inventors! To put it all in a nutshell, it is definite that society gave birth to technology. We are responsible for our own corruption and problems led by technology!
You are describing the Modern age when society began believing in "progress" and that new developments would make life better and better! Do we all still believe that?
ReplyDeleteWould you say that artist's in the entertainment field have an advantage with using art in politcal cartoons? mroe so than youtube artist's?
ReplyDeleteIf they had put clothes on that megan fox dummy, i wouldn't have been able to tell the real one from the fake one.
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