Week 3 Blog Post

Growing up in a world full of fast growing technology, I was very fascinated to learn of Professor Vesna’s claim of how art is influencing these new electronic advancements.  Stated in Walter Benjamin’s article “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, he states how the nature of the repercussions that these two different manifestations—the reproduction of works of art and the art of the film have had on art in its traditional form”, meaning the two entities of film, and other forms of technology, have had an impact on art and art has influenced the development of electronics.  A movie in which technology has influenced society and the way artists create their work is Passengers with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence as the main actors.  The movie focuses greatly on the expansion of humanity on another planet with the use of a spaceship that can transport individuals lightyears into the universe without aging. Many creative, non-existent technologies were shown within the movie that have influenced, not only space corporations, but different robotic scientists. In the lecture by Machiko Kusahara, she mentions how many robots are produced to make life for humanity much more efficient and capable of doing what we are not with our own hands. I found it to be quite interesting to discover that art has greatly influenced or motivated society to keep advancing with technology.


(Photo: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 (Video: Youtube "Passengers Clip")

(Video: Youtube "Robotics MachikoKusahara 1")

(Video: Youtube "Robotics Intro")
Works Cited
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936)." N.p.: n.p., n.d. 1-7. Print.

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  1. UnknownApril 26, 2017 at 9:47 PM

    I Agree with everything you stated in your blog because what you said makes me think about the movie "I robot". In the movie, that takes place in future, the robots are used to help and basically make life easier for humans. Even today machines are used to help make production faster and smoother.

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