Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer how to create the right image, but how to find an already existing one.
Lev ManovichIt has become a clichรฉ to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.
Lev ManovichThe digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.
Lev ManovichWe turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.
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