Mia/Synopsis, annotation, notes and argument

part 1: few examples

James Bridle: A New Aesthetic We do not see technology as a physical and psychological encoding of memory and experiences, but this is indeed what technology is. We need to look more carefully to how we should use technology.

James Bridle: End of the Future The more information we have, the harder it is for us to understand how the world works. Therefore, we desire for conspiracy theories to fill the gap of our lack of understanding, providing explanation in a form of simple narrative. They are symptoms

Gene Kogen: The Neural Aesthetic The ways technological devices encode and interpret information are similar to how we as human beings perceive things. Therefore, the collaboration between man and technology is possible but also fruitful.

Kenneth Goldsmith: On Uncreative Writing Writers are curators of language just as a curator in contemporary art works as an artist himself. This should be understood in a broad sense, which undermines the notions of originality and creativity.

part 2: the text of our choice

Susan Sontag: On Photography, chapter Photographic Evangels

Whether photography can be defined and restricted as art can be explored through its comparison with painting. On one hand, photography was claimed to be painting’s ‘’mortal enemy’’ since it radically encroached on the way artists and viewers perceived paintings but also its subject matter and the way of depicting it. On the other hand, it was claimed to be its liberator because it overtook its task of faithful representation. But unlike general belief, painting did not turn to abstraction directly, but first adopted the camera’s eye – the way an image-maker sees.