Digital Native or Digital Immigrant?
We had a young art student from Shanghai with us over the festive season and I took her to the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.
We stopped in front of Douglas Gordon's wall text:"Everyone I have ever met". At first she was intrigued asking what was the context of the work.
"You mean its just everyone he has ever met?""Yes."She shrugged. "But it's just like an e-mail address book. No different."And she walked on, clearly disappointed.Looked at from the perspective of a 22 year old Chinese artist Gordon's work seemed curiously dated; so 20th century.I realised with a jolt that digital natives automatically collect the names of everyone they have ever met in their e-mail address books as soon as their fingers are able to touch the computer.
Digital immigrants like myself are running to catch up.
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