How to Make Analogies in a Digital Age.

The article reports that painting as a form of art can gauge the depth and direction of digital technologies of image production. The best logical analysis of the analog property of painting as an art can be seen in the book "Languages of Art," by Nelson Goodman. Goodman's terminology allows an inde...

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Publicado en:October no. 117; pp. 71 - 99
Autor principal: Davis, Whitney
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: MIT Press Summer2006
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Sumario:The article reports that painting as a form of art can gauge the depth and direction of digital technologies of image production. The best logical analysis of the analog property of painting as an art can be seen in the book "Languages of Art," by Nelson Goodman. Goodman's terminology allows an independent and precise characterization of analog and digital modes of representation. Certain new media art works have a co-mingling of analog and digital modes.