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I just found a couple digital images of paintings I did back in my university days.

A discussion of technologically mediated communication, the paintings depict digital communication systems overlayed on pixelated imagery of found webcam screenshots.  The overlay style, painted in a definitely analog method, reference the digital layer opacity workflow found in applications such as Photoshop.

It cannot be denied that communication methods have changed as a result of technology.  Just over a century ago, communication across oceans took months, and now, real time HD video can stream. Speaking over the phone is different from speaking through connected computers. Video chat and web cam communication has changed our conceptual size of the real world, bringing people closer together, yet there is an increased psychological distance between humans emerging related to digital mediation.  Do the benefits outweigh the detriments?  Only time will tell.

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