After listening to the “Think Again” podcast, I took note of Sarah Lewis’ perspective of art’s ability. She believes that art shifted or turned the tide in the face of massive injustice; for example, the photograph “Earthrise” being the most influential environmental photograph for the environmental movement, or, Louis Armstrong’s music contributing to the Brown vs. Board of Education. I completely agree that someone’s work has the potential to influence others. Like Banksy, he uses art, specifically graffiti, to encourage political activism and social change. While Sarah Lewis sees art as a way to change the world, new technologies and electronic phenomena today have made me also realize that in addition, the world has now changed art.
The shift in art from realism to modernism has created not only innovation but the ability to express oneself more freely. In the Introduction to New Media Art, we are taught that there is no specific basis for new media because the world is constantly being introduced to new technology, etc. Compared to before, the use of avant-garde has increased as people have been pushing their boundaries to design something original, inventive, or revolutionary. As we now focus on new technologies to express art, there are endless possibilities to what people present.
The notion that the world has changed art is also represented in the online gallery under Smithsonian American Art Museum. While many of the media art were intriguing, the Choco Drink TV by Kota Ezawa stuck out the most for me. By using mixed media, Kota created something beyond the norm and represented contemporary art. All the unusual objects formed together reminded me of Arthur Danto’s view that art has come to the end and that “there was no special way a work of art had to be.” There is no limit to what a person uses to express his or her artwork.
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