{"id":46,"date":"2005-01-12T21:59:25","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T21:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2005-01-12T21:59:25","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T21:59:25","slug":"the_digital_aesthetic_what_are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/the_digital_aesthetic_what_are\/","title":{"rendered":"the digital aesthetic: what are we losing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much as I love most things digital, I occassionally come across an example of how lacking the virtual still is in comparison to the material. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalartguild.com\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=24\">A recent staged showdown<\/a> between a traditional oil painter and a digital &#8220;painter&#8221; makes this all too clear. Somehow the digital &#8220;painting&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t have the same vitality as the old-fashioned brush and paint version. Compare, which do you think is better?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wattsthumb.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/wattsthumb.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"107\" \/><br \/>\nI think there is some equivalent for books, but only for really fine books with delicious velvety (or thick toothy) paper, elegant typography, masterful craftsmanship. In short, the book as art object has the kind of appeal that probably will not be userped by its digital counterpart. However, there is a certain excitement to live, electric, dynamic, cinematic, interactive digital media that traditional forms can&#8217;t compete with. Maybe the mistake of this &#8220;showdown&#8221; was to ask digital art to try to be traditional oil painting and what&#8217;s the point of that?<br \/>\nOne more thing, I will never give up my gorgeous Lynd Ward books, but if a digital version came along full of annotations, images of Ward at work, video or audio clips, biographical information, links to other fans of Ward, etc&#8230; I would buy it in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much as I love most things digital, I occassionally come across an example of how lacking the virtual still is in comparison to the material. A recent staged showdown between a traditional oil painter and a digital &#8220;painter&#8221; makes this all too clear. Somehow the digital &#8220;painting&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t have the same vitality as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}