Should digital sculpture be as valuable as traditional sculpture?

The real sculpture has greater intrinsic value as it is constructed from real world materials that have value and very attractive statues are able to improve property values and attract viewers. In my area a series of painted cow sculptures sold for charity are happily displayed outside of several local businesses. These cows attract viewers and bring people to the shops.

cowparade.com/ These benefits are not available to digital sculpture. There is a possible exception of Second Life or similar virtual worlds, where an attractive statue may bring viewers to a virtual location. Even with those benefits the fact that anyone can create a statue with free software and the fact that there is no material cost to the statue will keep the value of such statues quite low.

I believe that as digital worlds develop virtual statues may improve in value, but I think they will always be considered lower value than a physical one. This is fine and understandable, even to someone like me who is working on becoming a digital artist. The perception of skill will be slanted as the creation of the material statue is seen as the more valuable skill, so even if the digital artist is MORE skilled in some cases, I think it will be hard for the average person to see or understand that.

No, digital sculpture should not be as valuable as traditional sculpture. In my opinion, the reason is pretty simple and straight forward. With digital creations, there are no limits on supply.

Making copies takes a couple of clicks. Remember, the value of anything in this entire world is dictated by the fact that other people can't have it. If many of the beautiful things I own were attainable by others, it would ruin the whole point of owning them.

Acquiring a 1:1 scale sculpture of David would be incredibly difficult, but digital products can be owned by anyone. The amount of work involved doesn't matter. Look at musicians, for example.

They can each work equally hard on the same song, while one sells millions of copies and the other sells 200.

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