Study Task 2 - Davis Douglas quotes

The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction 

http://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter09/9-1/_pdf/3-Davis_Work_of_Art.pdf

'The work of art in the age of digital reproduction is physically and formally chameleon' (art its very versatile due to digital)

'There is not longer a clear conceptual distinction between original and reproduction in virtually any medium'. ( replicas are so clever)

"In one sense, Walter Benjamin's proclamation of doom for the aura of originality, authored early in this century, is finally confirmed by these events'

'You'll have to look hard in this col- lage of images, sounds, and words at any time, now or in the next century, to find a single universality'

'Analog signals may be compared to a wave breaking on a beach, breaking over and over but never precisely in the same form. That is why copying an au&o signal or video signal in the past always involved a loss in clarity'

'any video, au&o, or photographic work of art can be endlessly reproduced without degradation, always the same, always perfect.'

'The same is true for handmade images or words that can be scanned- that is, converted to digital bits.' 

'The moment a painting can be scanned, the original landscape, portrait, or color field can be altered or cloned in the manner of a vintage film.'

'Urszula Dudziak's wonderful layered singing, using a digital tape recorder that allows every line of a song to invade the next line, pointed in this direction years ago.' 

'We can walk, think, and feel the manmade world in virtually the same way we experience the "real" world'

'Yet more is at the issue here than simply reproducing or mimicking the art of the hand'

'By finding the means to transfer my early video works from analog to digital media, I can contemplate revisions on my computer that will allow me to change my mind, two decades later, about points where I erred long ago. This allows me to produce a "post-original original."' 

'Compressing the video signal before transmission currently allows an even purer and cleaner signal to be sent over a dedicated phone line than can be sent via satellite or analog relay.'

'What begins to emerge in the first digital decade is a fine-grained sensitivity to the unique qualities of every copy.'

'Here is is where the aura resides-not in the thing itself but in the originality of the moment when we see, hear, read, repeat, revise'.