New Media in Art, 1-17

The first reading section of our book, New Media in Art, it went through the early phases of cinema and worked its way into talking about Marcel Duchamp and how he took work that already existed and used it as a basis for more abstract, nonsensical pieces. This section seemed to me like more of a short review of things I've learned about in my past art and art history courses. It serves as a nice reminder, however, of the evolution of art as a whole. Movements like the ones Marcel Duchamp was a front-runner in often rejected past ideas about what is considered art and what is considered proper artistic practice. Especially with things like cinema and movie-making, technology evolved quickly and allowed for more people to become experimental with it. This produced several interesting works of cinematic art, a few of which are shown in the reading.