Modern tools such as Photoshop and digital cameras have created new forms of referential art. This is a postmodern construct, recombining and altering images to convey new and altered meanings. The art at right is a reformulated version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa made from hundreds of computer parts and is called Technology Smiling.
Worth1000 has photoshop contests and the new configured abstract and surreal art that is being made by recombining images is very interesting. The Best Worth 1000 Photoshop Galleries has one called If Women Ruled and it features the art photo by safnase of what altered versions of traffic lights might look like, at left. 
The Worth1000 Super Hero contest generated a lot of interesting photos. My favorite is The David as Superman by liquidself, at right.
Art and the concept of art is being radically altered. A playful world has opened up with the new tech tools.
You can mess with Mother Nature now and a whole lot more... MotherPie's favorite play game with family photos and photoshop: taking different features of family members and doing a cut-and-paste to recombine our looks.
Kodak is no longer listed on the Dow Jones Industrial list. In such a short time digital cameras have replaced the old technology for capturing moments on film. Only now, you never know what might be captured and mixed up and recreated from the photos. Now they are less tangible and more easily lost, more ethereal and because of the ease of tweaking and changing the captured image, photographs can no longer be assumed to be capturing a snippet of reality. The idea of the real is alterable.
Just picture it...a changing world.
It blows my mind. It really does.
Posted by: tracey | June 19, 2006 at 05:12 PM