Benjamin Walter’s perception of art can be boiled down to its undeniably alluring aura. Famous arts, such as Rembrandt’s paintings and Bach’s compositions, can even invoke such authority that it has been considered the evocation of God. Real, handcrafted Greek art pieces are immortalized even after their physical state has degraded over millennia, in contrast to images found on the internet nowadays; digitally eternal, but easily forgotten. The “wow” factor of art, known to be handmade and seen in person, in my opinion, still outweighs the “marked” and proven originality of beautiful digital art pieces. Imagine entering the Florence Cathedral, looking up into the high ceiling covered by frescoes and hearing choirs. Of course, the feeling would be different from just watching a clip of the same action in first person, or simply looking at a picture of it. Yes, the digitization of art pieces and creation of new media of art can be seen as a distribution method of art to the masses, but those art pieces have lost something in that process. Its commanding aura is thrown away. An AI can create art pieces, but it will never be better than a human’s production. Technology can only accept massive data and recreate from those, but it will never evolve.
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I appreciate your beautiful analysis by invoking some cases, which largely strengthen your debate. For Benjamin, the time and space that the artwork present is its “aura.”Aura is a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communicated through mechanical reproduction techniques – such as photography and film. So, I am wondering how you define film since film is neither a fully technological product nor an artificial work, but a newly emerged visual approach as era shifts. Because people perceive change with social changes, or changes in ‘humanity’s entire mode of existence. Each human sensory perspective is not completely biological or natural. It is also historical and contextual. Please further reflect on how the popularization of film/digital media shifts the way we observe, understand, describe, utilize, and even create art.