“Duchamp Land” is characterized by art that is self-referential, complex, slightly ironic, and focused towards the artistic content. On the other hand, “Turing Land” is focuses towards new computer technology. This art is simple but serious, and normally does not include irony.

The New Media Art world needs to understand better art history and the knowledge of contemporary art. New Media art is often working harder at proving it is different from contemporary art but still is art. When it should spend more time trying to figure out where it fits in exactly in contemporary art. When it comes down to it art is art and it is going to fall under similar umbrellas in many ways, so there is no reason to fight against that when they could work to understand each other to better their own practices.

Medium-specificity is typically used in contemporary art criticism. The New Media Art world now has changed to “post-media.” This being said, the specific artist types (painter, printmaker, sculptor, ect.) are not longer as definite. An artist has this much broader definition, because new media attains the same status as old media. The artist are creating new ways of art by combining artistic practices creating a blur between the different artistic concentrations.

In the last part of the essay it says, “all contemporary art needs to be media literate,” and then it goes to say that New Media Art must be familiar with art history and know contemporary art. With both contemporary art and New Media Art exploring further each others worlds, so they will be able to better understand this New Media Art and where it much go in the categories of art history.

Cultural notions of authorship have changed with the advance in digital technologies. Before, stories and songs were free for the public through oral communities. The idea for an author’s work be protected by copyright is fairly recent. As technology advances ownership of original works becomes threatened. With each new technology it becomes harder for authors to control the copying and reselling of their work because copying is easier to do. There are many different ways to copy something nowadays – such as the photocopier, video, printer, and many others.

Walter Benjamin’s concept of “aura” directly relates to “remediation.” The reason for this is, as original artwork is “remediated” into other art, it loses its “aura.” The “aura” of an artwork is, the atmosphere it generates that surrounds the viewer. This personal interaction between the view and artwork can only be truly felt in person with the original artwork. In our digital age that copies and posts multiple times we think we have seen, for example, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. We have seen photographs of it so many times, but we really have not truly gotten the “aura” of it until we view the original.

Patricia Piccinini’s artwork is interesting in the way that it combines artificial within the natural. In Protein Lattice Red, the mouse sitting on the woman’s shoulder has an ear on its back. It surprises the viewer in my opinion with each of her artworks because you have to find he artificial within this at first all natural looking artwork.

Collages have transformed from just the cutting and pasting of tactile images, like many think of when they hear the word collage. Contemporary collage use of videos and screens is a different approach.  Going from the tactile collages of the 20th and 21st century to the ever-present contemporary ones using installation and videos shows the different generations and the world around them.

Collages allow artist to mix different mediums and materials to create something totally unique. Exploring mediums brings more of a thrill and curiosity because they are normally not partnered together. It allows a more unique and free way to approach an artwork.