Conceptualising
After trawling through tumblr and photoshop tutorials, I came across a digital artwork which layered newspaper over a person and used watercolour filters to create a digitalised image (click here to view image). This sparked an idea that I could cover the death of print media, very much a contemporary issue which addresses the changing and technological times we live in.
Newspapers have always been a primary source of facts and information, with many of us rising to our morning coffee and 'the paper'. The change and death of newspapers is not new, with the old days heralding the morning and evening versions of the paper as well as extras, whereby 'breaking news' was available as an extra piece of paper; 'extra, extra, read all about it'. Television also posed a threat to the paper, providing a more aesthetic approach to news; however, the newspaper survived, still providing a more comprehensive approach to the news accompanied with opinion and editorial pieces (Lark, 2007). However, today the accessibility and immediacy of digital news has changed the way we access information, making the death of newspapers a well documented phenomenon. Digital media overcomes issues faced with production costs, with the internet and its virtual pages being a free commodity. Rising prices and a changing market have seen staff reductions at major newspapers, including Fairfax Media and the Times in a drastic move to reduce costs. It seems the process of digitalisation is inevitable, as tablets provide a physical and portable version of the news and entirely replace the need for the paper.
Using this information I want to create an artwork which illustrates the death of print media and shows the evolution to its digitalised counterparts. At the moment, I am considering creating a mixed media collaged painting, which features a skull in the foreground, partly composed of newspaper, situated on a red, black and white background, which gradually becomes pixelated towards the corners. The colours will be drab, to represent the demise of print news, whilst red will be used to symbolise blood. These three colours are also a subtle pun referring to the riddle 'What's black, white and red all over?' referring to a newspaper. Whilst this joke is a cliche for our contemporary times, its meaning is set to become lost for future generations.
Newspapers have always been a primary source of facts and information, with many of us rising to our morning coffee and 'the paper'. The change and death of newspapers is not new, with the old days heralding the morning and evening versions of the paper as well as extras, whereby 'breaking news' was available as an extra piece of paper; 'extra, extra, read all about it'. Television also posed a threat to the paper, providing a more aesthetic approach to news; however, the newspaper survived, still providing a more comprehensive approach to the news accompanied with opinion and editorial pieces (Lark, 2007). However, today the accessibility and immediacy of digital news has changed the way we access information, making the death of newspapers a well documented phenomenon. Digital media overcomes issues faced with production costs, with the internet and its virtual pages being a free commodity. Rising prices and a changing market have seen staff reductions at major newspapers, including Fairfax Media and the Times in a drastic move to reduce costs. It seems the process of digitalisation is inevitable, as tablets provide a physical and portable version of the news and entirely replace the need for the paper.
Using this information I want to create an artwork which illustrates the death of print media and shows the evolution to its digitalised counterparts. At the moment, I am considering creating a mixed media collaged painting, which features a skull in the foreground, partly composed of newspaper, situated on a red, black and white background, which gradually becomes pixelated towards the corners. The colours will be drab, to represent the demise of print news, whilst red will be used to symbolise blood. These three colours are also a subtle pun referring to the riddle 'What's black, white and red all over?' referring to a newspaper. Whilst this joke is a cliche for our contemporary times, its meaning is set to become lost for future generations.
Preliminary Sketch
Jarvis, J. (2008). The Print Media Are Doomed.
Retrieved November 21, 2012, from Business Week:
http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2008/12/the_print_media_are_doomed.html
Lark, A. (2007). The
Beginning of The End for Newspapers. Retrieved November 27, 2012, from Andy
Lark: http://andylark.blogs.com/andylark/2007/03/the_beginning_o_1.html
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