The Art World Expands

There is so much attention given to how technology has changed this world. How it has changed the way people, artists etc..view things. How we can express things. I was watching a movie the other night "Live Free or Die Hard" and in the movie our own technology was used against us. It was used to cripple our way of life and everything that we take for granted. What would happen to art then? What would happen to those artists then? Or those spectators? Would they stop producing art? or would they go back to making more traditional forms? Would they go back to thinking that painting and sculpture were the only art?
This article also expresses the views of post modernism in great detail. While reading a couple of things stood out to me. ONe of them was that postmodernists dismiss the idea of this world becoming so artificial. They beleive that secondary images filtered through television, film, and other media now substitue for direct exposure and exert a powerful influence on how we perceieve and understnad the world. I have a huge problem with this. Take for instance a museum that is showcasing works by Van Gogh. But the museum is in France. The showcase will never come anywhere close to where a certain classroom is that is studying about Van Gogh and his paintings. The students will neve have a chance to obtain a direct experience but they can view the exibit on the web through cameras that the museum has set up for web brodcasts. I agree that this is a secondary image. It is not direct experience. But it is the closest that all of these students will ever have at seeing these works of art. Is it not better to have seen somethign second hand than never at all? Or is seeing art only for the privileged?
Also, there is no single style associted with postmodernsim, instead all styles and visual vocabularies are valid and pluralism rules. So if there is no style....then why is there even a classification? Why can't it just be art? I never hear an artist walking around refering to him or herself as a post modernist artist. It is always just "I am an Artist." And this whole jazz about truth and reality not being as truthful or as real as they may seem, is a bunch of bullshit. Anyone who believes this world is truthful is naive. Reality hasn't been real since before the creatiion of reality shows. War is real. It is not truthful. It is probably one of the most deceiving practices on earth. Life is real. You can only be true to yourself. People make their own relaity. People decided whether or not they are going to be truthful. It isn't a cultural byproduct.