With the rapid and massive dissemination of digital images and videos, people live in an era replete with digitized visual information.
In this era of high-tech, digitized, hyperlinked visual media, a small but salient portion of artists and designers have seen fit to stage returns to ostentatiously analog, off-line, slow, and decidedly un-precious materials and processes from a surge in interest in hand-dirtying ceramics to the embrace of reclaimed, upcycled, discarded ephemera in collage, assemblage, and installation works.
Gerald Seligman, the executive director of the nonprofit foundation, suggested that digitized vintage reissues not only sound infinitely better than they used to back in the era of turntables, when every scratch and hiss was magnified, but retain an appealing authenticity that can be enhanced with the proper packaging.
Yet fashionable shop windows and online offerings look suspiciously familiar: new, perhaps, in the mix of colors, especially with digitized patterns, or in ever-lighter stretch fabrics, but so far nothing to project fashion into a futuristic era.
Two games of this era were specifically cited in the hearings for their content; the fighting game Mortal Kombat featured realistic, digitized sprites of live-action actors, blood, and the ability to use violent "fatality" moves to finish opponents, while Night Trap featured 90 minutes of FMV content, with scenes that were considered to be sexually suggestive and exploitive.
We embrace digitized post-material consumption.
Once music is digitized, new behaviors emerge.
He created a digitized electronic library.
Turn the pages of the digitized Koran.
But marginalia are being digitized, too.
