Jiatong Han ( Tonya)
Professor Klepper
English 113B
24 September 2013
Artists and Internet
In this day and age,
Internet has wide applications in all aspects of our lives. People rely on the
Internet to find information, store files. And many artists and designers use
the Internet to create and design their works. There is not doubt that Internet
has became an important part of our life, people can not live and work without
Internet, especially for the people who want to create something which is
artists. Internet provides a wealth of resources and ideas, and designing or
creating with Internet are also the trend of the times and it could be a way of
life, at the same time, with the functional improvement of Internet, plagiarism
and rely on Internet too much have been brought to our attention.
Nowadays
is the Internet era, people can do majority of things via the Internet.
Creating and designing new items and works is one of them. First of all, people
can search resources on the Internet. There is no doubt that Internet provides
a series of creative resources and inspiration. Some creators borrow ideas from
others and built upon them to create something which is newer and better. In
our textbook, Lessing called this kind of borrowing is "Disney
Creativity". From my perspective, borrowing ideas from others to create
something newer is a good way to improve both of them. For example, McDonald’s,
a big American global carting company, is also popular in my home country. People
like to go to McDonald’s to enjoy fast food in China. Therefore McDonald
is very successful in Chinese market. Meanwhile there is another kind of fast
food restaurant called Dicos. By referring to the business concepts of
McDonald’s, Dicos concentrates their major markets on relatively smaller cities
and creates some new and different things in their menu. Therefore, we can say
that Dicos gets their business ideas from McDonald and operates their own
special fast food, it is helpful for Dicos to survive in the market. On the
other hand, McDonald’s have one more competitor, it could be a kind of pressure
to prompt McDonald’s to create more delicious food that fits in local markets.
Competition in business is similar as competition in arts field. In general, artists
and designers borrow ideas correctly will make their works more competitive and
bring lots of benefits to both sides.
Second, the Internet is an important tool
to deal with artists and designers’ works. When the artists or designers have
ideas, they build frame first, then they seek accurate data through the Internet
to support their draft. Finally, a combination of all resources will make the
results and visual effects more perfect, such as Deviant Art. It is an online community showcasing various
forms of user-made artworks.[1]
Deviant Art aims to provide a platform for any
artists and designers to exhibit and discuss works. Creators can get a lot of
inspiration from there, and usually artists and designers want to go place such
as Deviant Art to get the newest information about art and design. Another
example is Pento, another online ideas box. Pento always shares some useful
information for creators so that they can keep up with the major trend of the
times. Therefore, the resources from Internet really can help artists to get
useful elements and ideas. Artists should reasonably use this resources and
often visit the artworks website to improve themselves.
However,
all things have good and bad aspects. The disadvantages of Internet are also
obvious. With the development of network information, some artists and designers
copied the ideas from the Internet. They search the Internet to find the
works they want, then they use the materials directly without any permission.
By using this way, they save lots of time and money to obtain more personal
interest. This behavior is absolutely wrong. It is unfair and immoral
to the original authors, and it can be regarded as “rob the author of the
profit.” It is an appropriate option that creator to get the inspiration from
the original author and his content, then they can make themselves’ originality
and combine them together in order to generate personal ideas and results.
There is no doubt that all things have a starting point, and many final
excellent ideas and works stem from this point in terms of our cultural background
and feeling of art. That’s the reason why we should do a great number of practice
and research during our study time. Using the information and ideas from the
internet reasonably and accurately will bring lots of help and benefits to
their creation programs. So artists and designers must distinguish the
difference between plagiarism and citation in order to create new ideas and
good composition. On the other hand, some creators rely on Internet too much so
that the ability of innovation is abate. As Dutch artist Rafael Rozendaal
saying that “The websites should not try to be paintings.” Anyway Internet just
a kind of machine to help human how to work efficiently but it can not instead
of human brain.
In
sum, Internet is gradually becoming a necessary part in our life, people can’t
not live and work better without the access of Internet. In particular, artists
and designers rely on the resources from the internet to expand their
visionary. The famous Dutch artist Rafael Rozendaal said “The website can exist
anywhere you want, anyway you want.” Internet
is a good platform for creators to get newest ideas and it is also a good
proscenium and backstage tool for creator, but every coin has two sides,
plagiarize and copies from internet also exist and affect the development of innovation.
How can creators to make the best use of resources legally and how can they do
not rely on Internet too much is becoming more seriously. After all, our life
need more real creators rather than copycats.
