I made sure I attended the first Creative Networks talk of the year- Andrew Graham Dixon, and I'm glad I did. Although I can say I disagreed with a lot of his opinions I found his insights into traditional art and what makes art interesting. I found that he was very defensive with what he loved - what he considered the classical paintings the 'true art' and rather dismissive of anything that strayed towards the digital and away from the traditional. As a graphic designer I do feel that there is artistry in our work and to dismiss ipod recordings or photographs as, or how he put it, 'Ghosts' and 'Voices of the dead' is to close a part of yourself to some truly lovely things.
I did raise the question at the end of the talk that surely if photographs and recordings count as ghosts of the dead then traditional paintings and artist sketches must count too. There is a ghost in the sketch, a figurative recording of how the artist constructed their image, a representation of what was happening at the time. He disagreed, but to an extent had to agree, just because a voice recording or a photograph are a more blunt and literal recording of an artist. it doesn't make them any less valid, only different.
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