Digital technology has altered a lot, especially with authorship. It has become more and more difficult to accurately claim something as your own, especially when put on the internet. It has become so easy for anybody to sit down with another creator's work, open it in Photoshop, and transform the image completely, calling it their own. While the end result may be creative, it could send a different message than the one the original author intended to be seen. At the same time, maybe the author wanted his/her work out there and be accessed by those who want to build upon it to create a bigger work of art.
Digital technology has affected our lives by letting us create things we could not before. Even as far as CGI, and even though personally I am not the biggest fan, it allows viewers to see something on a screen that could never actually happen (like flipping complete streets on top of each other). As far as cultural production, digital technology has made the digital arts more accessible to the masses. Instead of having to put together a gallery, invite people, etc., now it is so easy to create your own website and advertise your work. The other great thing is the ability for students, or frankly anybody who would like to create, to have access to this digital technology to create a new art form. The downfall, however, is the inability for those who may not be so familiar and may not have access to the technology, to be able to create like those who do.
-Derek Applegate
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