The Expanding Medium: The Future of Computer Art

I enjoyed reading this essay above all the others we had to read. Herbert's view on how computer art is becoming a "pathway to the future of expression" is so truthful if people actually thought about it. Our creativeness of developing a roll of film with out own hands has turned into taking the photograph digitally and transforming it to how you want it to look on photoshop. Our hands are essentially becoming useless art tools. Nowadays there is always an easier, faster choice of creating art, or expressing it, just by clicking on one of the many Adobe applications at the bottom or side of your screen, instead of picking up a pencil, charcoal, or paint and creating what you see in your head with the gentle movement and strokes of your hands and imagination.

I was also very interested in one of the last paragraphs when he talks about literature being basically one of the oldest, untouched forms of art that digital life hasn't taken over yet. But, it will only be a matter of time when literature will be created using Adobe. It's already begun basically if you think about it. Kindles and Ipads allow you to buy books (literature) to read and I'm sure there's an app for writing your own literature.