More than 150 years ago photography threatened to displace art as the locus of visual reality. But geniuses such as the French Impressionists and later the Cubists and Futurists and Dadaists in Europe and then the abstract expressionists in America propelled painting from the mundane representational world into the universe of ontology.
And painting has never looked back. So with media and the internet.
The internet is a much better medium for news and information and opinion and rumor and innuendo and discussion. Media will have to become more of the ontological record of humankind. Media will have to embrace all of the instincts and practices and contexts of the web, but remain a record, not a network. An expression, not a notation.
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