Today we can blog, e-mail and photoshop in the blink of an eye. Created in the early 1940's, the machine first inspired by the minds of Vannever Bush and Douglas Engelbert has since then come a very long way. Artists are now able to use the computer to alter and depict their work in ways apart from traditional artistic media.
For example, the YouTube video supporting Barack Obama was clearly based off the original piece of digital media we had viewed. However, the artist was able to capture an entirely different message for its audience with essentially the same video as seen in the Apple commercial ; small tweaks here and there.
"Apple's Original Macintosh Commercial"
"Vote Different"
Living in a constantly modernizing world, the computer has also helped the individual with promoting their work easily and rapidly. For example, Blog sites for web discussion, MySpace for music, and YouTube for videos. The facility and accessibility one has to the computer has allowed artists to share their work at international and low-cost level. Laurie Anderson stated, "As these two life forms – human and machine – begin to merge a little bit, we're talking about technology really as a kind of new nature, something to measure ourselves against, to make rules from, to investigate." Agreed- the computer as a multimedia medium has no doubt allowed artists to express themselves indefinitely, and will continue to do so in the near and far future.
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