The medium is going to develop and mature of course. Like its “modern” counterparts, film and photography, there is room for technical development – even more so with 3D probably. I don’t know if there’s been much change in the technology of painting in some time. I’ve seen where galleries are incorporating things like holography and digital projections, the same with the theater. I imagine 3D will be incorporated in other mediums as well. I think there will always be a certain attraction to ‘hand crafted’ art as opposed to digital art, just as in some sci-fi scenarios printed books are valued not so much for their content as for something else more undefinable and I suspect something more than mere nostalgia. If an image can embody something of its creator than a painting that the artist touched, breathed on, even incorporates molecules of him may have a certain something, perhaps on a spiritual level that I'm not sure a computer generated work can match.

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