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SHECCA : Living Library Project

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SUBMISSIONS OPEN TO : SUBMIT YOUR BOOK/ART/MUSIC TO BE A PART OF THIS PROJECT THIS IS THE INSERT THAT GOES INTO THE FRONT COVER: Welcome to the…. SHECCA LIVING LIBRARY Project To participate all you have to do is keep this book travelling ! PASS IT ON POST IT ON Lets see how far and wide we can circulate this book ! Pass onto a friend or meet a stranger! when you have finished reading.   If you love this book buy your own copy and support the Author - but please keep this one ALIVE and MOVING.     Send any photos and comments for our social media to share this collective work of art:   Shecca.projects@gmail.com OR PO BOX 5256 EAST LISMORE, NSW, 2480, AUSTRALIA   (for redistribution when done!) BOOK JOURNEYS TO BE DOCUMENTED ON INSTAGRAM :  #SHECCALIVINGLIBRARYPROJECT JAMES verse 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.  

The digitization of Contemporary Art: Re-imagining Reality & the Cult of Culture.

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The digitization of Contemporary Art:  Re- imagining Reality & the Cult of Culture. The digital revolution has provided an avenue of expression and distribution for Contemporary Art that was unavailable in previous times prior to the invention of the world wide web, iphone and the personal computer.   Contemporary art is more than ‘art that is produced currently at this time in the 21 st century’, there is a sense of pervasiveness of the digital throughout its production, presentation & dissemination. Whatever the distinct definition for the current times may be, it is aptly described by media author, Marshall McLuhan, as ‘art is anything that you can get away with’ (McLuhan as cited in Shaidle,2002) and hence is unable to be categorized into any definable style or formalism.   With the advent of conceptualism in the 1970’s, Contemporary Art has branched into two distinguishable forms; one being commodified art, as collectable, and the other as Activist...