Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Electronic monuments

After listening to the guest speaker (though I disagree on one or two points he brought up), I've come to the conclusion that Electronic Monuments are only unique or different, in that you can more easily juxtapose ideas with the electronic monuments than you could with physical ones. Normally if someone tries to associate ideas in a physical monument that are not normally associated, it winds up being a "piece of modern art" who's point is lost on most people looking at it. It becomes easier to blatantly make your point or comparison in an electronic medium, where you can put an exact image or sound that represents your ideas to most everyone, rather than having to interpret certain symbols in a particular way.

1 comment:

  1. And if a monument is art, then only (usually) one person designs it. An electronic monument can be shaped by every reader, so the process of mourning is not individual but collective.

    MM

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