Honestly, I try not to get into these sorts of topics because they mostly run around in circles and do not have a concrete resolution. I agree with PunkClown, this question is never simple. I do not want to argue anymore (although I'm so tempted to contest the "cartoon" statement LOL), and the previous posts have already covered a lot of the arguments. I'd just like to share the way I see this world of creativity we move in. In the introduction of photography, somebody once said it is the death of the painting. Now photography is threatened to extinction by digital art. Then again, "Art" (however we define it) survives. Fine art is still here to stay, and so is photography. It has gone a long way evolving, but it has never put any of its forms to extinction. Fine art and photography still thrive, even though newer media seems to be more popular. The combination of traditional and new technology can give birth to new forms. Who knows, this may be a new form but we just don't have comfortable names to label it with? As _Peter put it, in the end artists create. It's the people who "uncreate" who undermine other ideas, not the art form. (*