Zach Biehl's Digital Divide Response

Something that really bothered me was how the author compares digital art to linguistics in contrast to photography/film being compared to an image-based art form, and how that somehow discounts digital art and makes it more alien to the viewer. Just because there is code beneath an image in digital art doesn't mean that the image is any less tangible or real. It's real because you brain is interpreting light your eyes catch, not because it's an actual material thing. If we put art into some kind of tangible/physical box we're doing ourselves a great disservice. Bishop really just needs to take a deep breath and realize that it's all going to be okay and art isn't going to come crashing to the ground. Optimism is much more helpful in the pioneering in the formative years of a medium rather than dwelling over it seeming obsolete in comparison to other mediums.