The Arts

The simple frames of reality filled as it now is with technology, is slowly losing touch with the most important aspects that make humanity what it is; the arts.

Even now, as I sit and write this, I am no longer using a paintbrush, a pot of ink and papyrus like I once would have done, every word an amalgam of images and semi-spoken sounds; now I use a crude electro-mechanical device for transferring words onto a computer screen.

Even technology has bypassed the point that I currently exist in; spoken words can instantly transferred to the screen using a simple microphone, and yet I cling to the keyboard as some last vestige, a token attempt to keep the art, which once was a major part of me, within me. And yet I know that in time even this aspect of the art will change and my expression will be forced into a new set of channels and directions as dictated by technology.

As a whole we have become too dependant on technology nowadays to fully appreciate the arts - where once "entertainment" was found in the random wanderings of the Bard and the Poet sat by the fireside in the village Inn, now "entertainment" is most often found linked hand in hand with technology.

The Internet - a valuble tool in modern day society has no real form and structure, it is merely a collection of electrons existing as magnetic pulse within the computers of the world. As such the internet has no inherent beauty - and yet parts of the internet, certain collections of electrons to convey a certain purity of image s and sounds, but still they are not formed with the arts.

In the age where machine, in many ways, conveys a more important roll than man, a lot of art has lost all of it's original essence, yet even technology can aid in the arts. Most music now is created first on computer and then given to the orchestra, as are a lot of th finest images created using a strict set of mathamatical formula on computers.

I hope that the arts do not completely die in the face of computers, merely that they change, become more adapted to the techology of the day than I can.