Richard,
I thought Baudrillard already saw digitality as the metaphysical
principal of his third order of simulacra, and also mentions 'code'
which includes DNA as well as software in connection with this
order.
The challenge of digital art does seem to be that 'the product is
entirely "virtual".' But there is an interesting comparison with
another art form: mathematics, and with another: literature.
G. H. Hardy: "A mathematician, like a painter or a poet,
is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent
than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
A Mathematician's Apology (1967 p.84, originally 1940)
The originators of the ideas are still recognized as
such, it's just there is no physical original. Similarly,
a text (in the traditional sense of made of words) has
an original physical form (which may have market value as
in a manuscript, or first printing etc) but the text
is not any physical realization. Literary authors are recogized
as originators and as having originality despite a manuscript
having a quite different status from a handmade drawing.
John
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, richard jones wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> hi mark,
>
> maybee one of the central problems of digital art is the fact that the product is
> entirly "virtual". there can be no original and as you rightly say any hard copy is
> merely a print... tho this is also problematic as any print you care to make is a
> copy of an original that does not actualy exist..
>
> so in accepting digital art as fine art we first have to accept that the notion that
> originality is no longer a a neccisary component of art perhaps .... or we go back to
> jean baudrillard and ask him if he has a fifth degree of simulacra in mind to help us
> see what is comming next=)
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