First Assignment

1.       Gutengerg’s achievements assisted in the revolution of storing and spreading information through his formation of the printing press. Innovating a more durable type made of lead, tin, and antinomy, he created a source of mass production for the time. This was a catalyst in attaining and storing information by multiplying the output and decreasing the expense of books.  His actions modernized communication and common knowledge amongst society. This was systematic to the Renaissance because it assisted in rebelling against the Clergy through the modernization of communication and common knowledge/ learning rate in society. The Renaissance also amplifies a pivotal moment in the founding of education and how the printing press helped facilitate it.

2.       These advances continue to infiltrate and reconstruct current day culture in various ways such as the internet, mass production, stamps and variances of those methods. The internet is a transcending source for imagery, whether copied or original and also provides the ability to transform pictures into tangible prints. Mass production supplies us with the ability to spread infinite copies of otherwise unattainable art. Stamps are a similar method of transferring graphics and can be easily customized.

3.       Photocopier art provides another form of mass production in a less authentic, more up-to-date form. A photocopier scans images, leaving out some of the details that make the original unique. Some alterations arise through the scanning and printing of images but are usually not intentional. A printing press produces authentic prints each time using the same source (which supplies a constant unchanged replication of the original minutiae. 

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