For my generative topic I choose to research how popular electronics are being integrated into the arts. Familiar gadgets such as picture phones are now being used for fine arts photography and moviemaking for their convenience and inexpensiveness. Picture phones are wide spread these days and more and more Americans are ditching there land line phones and sticking to there cell phone plans. They have also become a popular tool to document a moment in time such as the election of president Obama where a disgusting amount of people wiped out there phone to record his speeches and the following performances by Beyonce and Jay-Z. Camera phones were also used to document the horrible events in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. I found a photographer while researching named Thomas Ruff that uses google and other internet search engines to find images that he then blows up and hangs in galleries.
