图像技术与美学观念

Image Technology and Aesthetic Conception

技术进步对文化的影响相当深刻。从手工模仿,到照相复制,再到数字图像技术,图像技术的进步导致了三种不同的视觉文化形态,相应地构成了模仿文化、复制文化和虚拟文化。技术的发展导致图像符号与现实关系经历了深刻变化,进而导致了美学观念的演变。模仿论是一种理性主义的美学观,它肯定实在世界的中心地位和艺术家的艺术表现以及艺术符号可以真实地再现实在世界。机械复制削平了传统美学观中的一切等级和依赖关系,将模仿物与被模仿物置于同一的无差别地位,所以现代主义以一种全然有别于传统现实主义的形态出现。虚拟技术消解了虚拟与真实的界限,虚拟文化将艺术家的写实能力彻底去魅了,极大地提升了想象力,使之超越了传统模仿原则的局限。

Developments in technology profoundly influence culture.The development of image technology has generated three different forms of visual culture,from manual imitation to photocopy and then to digital image,and correspondingly formed imitation culture,copy culture and virtual culture.Technological evolution has caused great changes in the relationship between image symbols and reality,and then caused the changes of aesthetic conception.Theory of imitation is a kind of rationalist aesthetic conception which admits that the central position of reality and artists' artistic expression and art symbols can truly reproduce reality.Mechanical copy had cut off all the grades and dependent relations in traditional aesthetic conception,and put imitators and imitation subjects in the same position,thus modernism had appeared in a way totally different from traditional realism.Virtual space has eliminated the boundaries between fiction and reality.Virtual culture has tremendously raised artists' imagination which has surpassed the limitation of traditional imitation principles.