Wednesday, April 9, 2008

History of communication

We've come a long way from writing on cave walls... and sitting around a fire with 'the tribe' watching the hunters recount their kill by way of dance and re-enactment. Now we write on (well physically nothing I should say type) a medium made popular and accessible by apple in 1991 when using computers started to become a personal arena. Today the fire is a cybercafe where we sit, still with other people and watch re-enactments or read writings on our modern cave wall (screen). The face of art has definitely changed. But this doesn't mean those other forms of art and/or communication have become obsolete, it just means we have expanded the platform within which we communicate and also ironically still incorporate some of our older styles of art with this new fascination of cyber technologies.

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