#I love digital media and yeah I’m touchy on this subject after 5 years of art school and yeah i think my friends are tired of hearing me.p

[lesflaya]

Rambling but there is something so special to me about digitally created media that uses its digitalness to its advantage instead of replicating traditional. I love traditional mediums and I love digital that tries to represent traditionally as well. Art professors told us that “there is something about traditional that digital just cannot replicate” and I think it’s true to some extent, but also that maybe digital is something traditional mediums also cannot replicate. Digital mediums that utilize their digitalization to their fullest potential; ROMcorruption, glitch art, datamoshing, the crunchiness and freedom of old web interface and design, of adding human touch into computerized patterns. I used to hear in art school a lot “digital is too perfect” and “traditional lets you make mistakes” when it’s like, maybe you’re just approaching digital mediums wrong? Overusing an undo button is definitely easy but fucking with the foundations and code of a a digital piece is like carving into a traditional canvas with a knife to see what’s inside. There’s so much to break in and out of with digital art, so much to find if you’re willing to crack into it and not fall back on trying to make something perfect too.