art opinions pls
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- MrAbominable0
"do you think internet or software art with its interaction, minimalistic sometimes, pixel art, animation, conceptual styles, sound, etc has moved art forward?"
the answer is NO. It has the possibility to move art forward but it's an incredibly limited vehicle. The tools change faster than most people can adapt to. Because of that there has been no gestation and very little maturity in the medium in which to build something plastic.
We're still living in a culture that is being heavily leveraged on video. It's a direction that has influenced culture and art heavilly and to an increasingly greater degree in recent years. And that medium is less than 40 years old, for practical purposes.
Just take a look at the impact of photograph on art in the last few years, let alone the last 20. And that medium has been around for well over a century now.
Computers and the internet have had an enormous impact on design.
there simply isn't any art that has benefited from the internet unless you make the reverse argument towards a ludite reactivism and notions of quality.
There's an exhibition at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA that you should look up. It's a collaboration between the MFA program and the faculty and grad students at Cal Tech. Technology has had an enormous impact on fine art. Particularly robotics and cognitive studies.
"or can it all be related to duchamp, beuys, etc? is it post modern? or as manovich states "new modernism" ? "
there is no 'new modernism'. Beuys and Duchamp are irrelevant to any discussion to the internet.
somebody else asked what your thesis was. perhaps if we knew what the argument was we could help further.
good luck.