The Digital Divide Claire Bishop Response

What I took from this article is that Claire Bishop is commenting about the lack of digital subjects, media, etc in contemporary art. We have not been able to address how forms of new media (digital age) have altered our relationships to history, social relationships, etc. An example of this is that artists started to become interested in old media for contemporary art like the 1990s for analog photography instead of working towards our technological advances like today. Claire Bishop states "contemporary art simultaneously disavows and depends on the digital revolution", which I found very interesting and true. Popular artists I find today are using old film cameras and try to create images as if they are in a different time era- but why not try to use a media that defines today. I understand the use of a certain aesthetic but I feel like our current time does not really have an aesthetic.

I also couldn't find specific questions for this response so I am unsure if we had to follow certain discussion questions or if this was kind of a free-for-all.

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