Controlling And Happening:the Exploraion Of Artistic Language In The Universal Digital Era

Many many times innovations of technology happened from the stone age to the present,in 18th century,since James Watt improved the steam engine,human really accessed into the era of industry with a productivity's soar.21th century,Human got unprecedented capacity under the help of information technology just like every technology revolution and human would face to an unprecedented rich world.The root which brings the wonderful things above is a succinct grace theory that found by Claude Shannon in 1948——The Theory of Communication.This theory produced great energy for the world,even some people compare it as Newton's first law in the zone of information science,simple appearance but huge connotation.A new metric which was defined by Shannon——Bit also became a common unit that parallels to Second or Meter,the information age began since that,the information explosion and the internet revolution are the most appropriate reflection.As the materialization of human being's spirit,arts extremely rely on mediums and mediums have a definitive effect on arts.Along with the development of material world,art and human's mind also changes,from a medium point of view,art is materialistic,it can not escape the gravity of the material world and also,it affects the world.Today,as the high speed development and plebification of information technology,art works rooted in the digital era appear a lot.Under this background,we have to think.What influence will digital society has to art?Will art be changed too much by digital technology supported at rationalism?Every time technology or medium innovated,artist's smell was always relatively sensitive because they can not stop yearning for the exploration of spirit.This paper will focus on the relationship between technology and art,around two refined keywords "Controlling" and "Happening",attempt at exploring the possibility of modern art in this digital era in the way of ceaselessly creating.