Answer the following questions about 150 words each.

Question 1)
using the readings from Weil, Paul and Rand:

Based on your readings of the three brief articles above, how would you describe the impact of digital technology on creative/artistic expression? Is what is being created under the banner of digital art (as described in the readings) breaking new ground in terms going beyond the possibilties inherent in analogue media?

Question 2)

Using the reading from Watts:

This article explores how “ruin” or “destruction/disaster” functions as a dominant aesthetic in many works of art, film and literature, specifically in computer games. What are some of the reasons for our fascination with “ruin,” according to Watts?

Watts ends her article with the suggestion that computer games, through their use of mutually created experiences, “can be used to challenge, dismantle, and reorganize thinking about gender.” Do you agree? How else might computer games challenge us to “reorganize” the paradigms that we use to construct our reality?