Media is a constantly changing identity. The technology used to create the media as well as the technology used to bring the media to the viewer and be completely different, depending on the time period you are in. As time changes, people try to improve upon the current form that the media takes. According to Bolter and Grusin,

   “Creators of other electronic remediations seem to want to emphasize the difference rather than erase it. In
these cases, the electronic version is offered as an improvement on the older version…”

San Base is a Russian born artist who has created “Self-Shifting Digital Paintings.” After the down fall of the Soviet Union, art supplies were too expensive, so he had to create a new form of art. His result was “Dynamic Painting.”

 “When he didn’t have fresh canvases to use, Base painted over his used canvases. Liking the effect that created, he began intentionally transforming the same picture over and over.

It occurred to him that a computer or TV screen would be a better “canvas” for bringing his pictures to life, so he wrote a software program to automate the image generation and transformation.”

In this case, the new technology was created because the older technology was too expensive. He does not completely change the older version, by completely taking out the artist, he simply uses the computer as a tool to achieve another form of art. In both “dynamic painting,” and the original form of painting, the artist plays a vital role.