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How does technology mediate the artist experience?

Technology has affected the creative process in the sense that ordinary people have personal mediums of expressing their emotions, opinions, experiences, etc. Youtube in particular, provides millions of individuals the opportunity to to reach out to the rest of the world, and discover how the rest of the world can reach them. Technology affects this “process” of creating art because people can express their creativity without as many limits.
Without much experience using a camera, the photos themselves did not so much as impress the models in them; when I first uploaded my photographs, they had no meaning and seemed like ordinary photos of friends on a weekend. Using the blog as my “canvas”, I constructed a thematic story, verbally swooning the audience from one scene to the next through creating a textual rhythm.
After presenting my situational tour and discussing the presentations of others, I have a greater appreciation for digital media, and the new level of creativity it fosters. It was wild to learn how an entire class of students living in the same city at the same school, when given four key terms, came up with such unique ideas for their tours. This process has affected my experience of making art because I understand the availability and range of tools that technology provides art.
I hope to further explore the different parts of digital media, learn to incorporate music and movement using the PC as an important step in synthesizing other forms of art, and share a bit of myself with the digital media world.