ART & TECHNOLOGY: Avatar, Art and Technology

I wrote a bit about Avatar, Art and Technology last week but since we had further discussion in class, I thought I'd discuss the idea of nature within Avatar and also in our world now.

Some of my favorite parts of the Avatar movie was the connection with nature. I thought it was interesting the relationship that the Na'vi had with nature and that they consider nature itself art. It's interesting to think that we, in the world we live in now often don't consider nature art at all. We're ripping through forests, jungles and rainforests like they themselves don't matter, we're only using them for their resources. I think it's important that we look at them for other reasons too. Like in Avatar, the humans were there to destroy Pandora for its resources and they don't care that the avatars consider the ground sacred. They use there technology to destroy the art of the nature.

In some ways there are certain things in nature that are spectacular on their own, they should be kept exactly as they are and never changed. For instance, Niagra Falls, the Grand Canyon, or the pure beauty that is the many of our National Parks. But there is also, man-made beauty that is created by our technology such as the Hoover Dam, and Mount Rushmore. There are so many beautiful things that can be considered art, its just up to us how we choose to see them.