Relationship between the terms of CREATIVITY and TECHNOLOGY

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           As we already defined, the terms of CREATIVITY and TECHNOLOGY are quite vast. Time to get specific and concentrate in one area. As we are creative practitioners here, I would like to explore the terms in the artistic field.
         Technological development in art is a fact. We can take
the example of tools and materials. We have graphic tablets, mechanical pencils, artistic internet platforms, but canvases, paper and exhibitions still exist. That kind of technological development offers us quite a few options to make things easier, but is this necessarily something artists need or want? We are humans after all, and the need to touch or see a physical original of a painting keeps some artists away from digital art. But nonetheless, digital arts holds a lot of options to change and edit artwork, in ways that are not possible in traditional art.Therefore digital art becomes a method, alternative, another medium of creating artwork, not a better way to do so. It puts people in front of the dilemma tactile qualities vs. technological benefits. It all comes to a personal choice, the way kindles did not put the end of physical books, digital art is not the end of traditional creation.

         I have put examples of two pieces I have done, a digital one (on the left) and a traditional one (on the right). I am not here to defend either one of those methods or to claim if any of them is better or not. Technological development definitely gives us a variety of amazing options, but at the same time lacks the feel of texture that traditional art has to offer. There are plenty of amazing printing options, but the fact that there is no physical original can be quite bothering. In the phylosophical and literary review La Liberté de penser (Paris 1848) we have some interesting reflections about art and original. Kant says that the soul of the artwork is essential for the artwork and its quality. But later then, pop art appears in the art scene, there are prints and collages and all this new mediums and art pieces that are distributed in multiple copies, all the same, no original. Does that destroy the soul of the piece? Does an artwork even have a soul without an original? That question seems to be a major problem on the art scene in France after the popularity of pop-art. Now illustrators don't seem bothered by that, but people still seem to have a prejudice about digital work, a massive part of the common audience does not support digital art for not being "real art", as it is assumed that "that computer does everything". Knowing this is not the case, we can say that digital art can still be assumed as misunderstood among non-artists.