Art & Journalism

in a high-tech world, there is a naturall attraction to high touch, or non technical things.

kodalith.  It’s a film that transfers progressive images into dots. The dots turn to either black or white, depending upon how long they are exposed.

If you look at the picture from a distance, you see the whole image and it makes sense. But if you get really close you only see the dots.

I would say that the rise of technology-driven, online journalism - in which many many people (blogger, vlogger, citizen journalists), being to contribute to what we might think of as a ‘matrix of truth’, is in many ways analgous to the rise of impressionist art or more specifically, pointalism, as a way of seeing the world.

The ‘truth’, the journalism is no longer one sole voice or one sole perspective. It is, instead, an amalgam, a ’sense’ of reality driven by thousands of points of color or thousands of opinions, voices and facts

ultimately seen as one greater and whole image.