Study Task 8 - Reflection

•My key findings

•I have been challenged to consider how people think about originality and reproduction.

•I have also found out how artists have responded to new opportunities provided as technology has developed as well as how art critics and artists have reflected on its impact. It was important to research this over time to hear the debates and how they too have developed

•I have been able to hear views on the benefits, suitability and problems associated with both analogue, digital and merging both methods when image making.

•My emerging interests

•I’ve found researching the ideas of analogue and digital, and getting to grips with what has been written and published about this really interesting and I want to explore this more specifically, to develop an expertise in this and find a niche.

•I’m really interested in the music dimension to this. I see a parallel in how new technologies for creative design and mass reproduction have affected album covers (and presumably also gig posters, although I have not researched this as yet). I am interested in the connections between the designs used to represent and advertise music and how the choices of method of reproduction relate to the identity of the bands and the vision for the associated music.

Synthesis

I think that everything I have done has been really connected and a thorough exploration of the quotes following the theories of Benjamin, Berger, Douglas and Taylor.