Week 3 Robotics + Art

I constantly seemed to believe that the advancement of technology in the world directly correlates with the advancement in production. As time passes, new technology is being created helping people with several tasks. The latest advancement in robots however frightens human kind because we believe that the robots will eventually take over. Humans have this idea because of movies like RoboCop or other forms of entertainment that makes society sacred of technological advancements. 

Walter Benjamin wrote about how technology changes the way that humans view the world and how we interact with our environment. His piece “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” written in 1936 explain the relationship between technology and displays of human art. Benjamin compared a magician and surgeon to a painter and cameraman to explain the relationship in a comparable fashion. 

Today's society has advanced Benjamins initial claims even further as magicians that were then known as surgeons can now be linked to machines that perform surgery and exercise this magic with just technology without much human effort. The painter and cameraman example also has evolved as painters which evolved to cameramen has been linked to computers that can create a form of digital art through the advancement of technology. These advancements over time display a new way of expression that steer away from using too much human effort and instead are constructed through technology that makes expression easier. 

An example of these technological advancements is the transformation from the movie "Its a Wonderful Life" to the movie "Up". The advancement in displaying the plot of a movie went from a black and white low quality movie, to a fully animated cartoon movie with color and fluid movement in the screening. These expressions of art have drastically improved because of the advancement in technology  As time goes by humans will create newer and better ways to express themselves.  

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