Reading 72-96

The concept of immersing the viewer in the digital plane becomes on the biggest challenges that each of the artist must undertake. Many of the artists use very different ways to be able to immerse the audience into their piece. Erwin Redl uses hundreds of LED lights to create an environment to brings the viewer in although not completely interactive in still immerses the viewer in this environment of systemically placed lights. A different technique used is one by Jefferey Shaw, with the use of angles and creating something on the digital plane but being able to interact with it in the real world. The Golden Calf piece does this by allowing the outside user to interactive with the object in the digital plane.

Reading 45-71

This week's reading covered more application of digital art, one of these came from Dieter Huber who uses digital art to create artificial plants and animals using the technology as a medium to show these creations that he designed. Most of Huber's work deals with the topic of biotechnology and engineering, showing the viewer a concept image of a plant that could be possible created by the use of biotechnology. These pictures tend to be very abstract but at the same time seem very life like. Another use was the line drawing done by Jochem Henedricks these drawing seemed very useless at the beginning kinda confusing the audience but when you understand that the lines are the way the eye reads a paper or book and the movement involved, it becomes very interesting. I found the piece by Huber to be one of my favorites as it covers the idea of using technology to explain the powers of technology in that he made the concepts of these life forms in order to show that technology could the same.

reading 27-44

Digital mediums are spoken about much doing this part of the reading. It covers the different styles that artist use to within digital art to bring their message across to the viewers. Some of the more interesting pieces of work where from Nancy Burson who used composites of famous actress blended together to make one picture and another of a face that focused on culturally defined ideals. It commented on the view of beauty in society and culture. Charles Cohen's 12b, and Andie 04 use the digital medium to comment on the idea of a foreground and background by reversing them, so that the person in the picture is a void outline and the background becomes the center of the piece. Using the digital medium these artist are able to show viewers ideas that traditional art was unable to do.

Reading 7-25

In the begin of the reading Christiane Paul introduces the idea of digital art and the history behind it. He explains that digital art is art form that uses technology as a medium to convey a message of art to an audience. This is very radical compared to traditional mediums that most artist use as digital presents a more interactive feature that is rarely seen in traditional art. During the recap the history of digital art we see many style of art which has been displayed through our culture, one being the dadaist and Duchamp's reproduction of the Mona Lisa with a moustache and goatee. Another older piece that was done was The World in 24 Hours, in which artist exchanged multimedia art in 24 hours which the use of fax, computers, and videophones to send them across 3 different continents. I found this history of digital art to be interesting in the idea that the digital art has been taking place prior to the new technology boom in the late 90's and 2000's and that most of the art was rather more of a science than art.

Flash

This is my first time ever using Adobe Flash. I'm kinda excited to learn more and see what you can do with this program. The following Picture is an avatar project that i worked on, Its not the best quality as i'm still trying to figure everything out but, I think i manged to capture myself somewhat at best. hopefully i will be able to come back and make a better one when i know more about Flash.

Photoshop basics

basic photoshop

Today, we took a trip to the art exhibit and took a look at the digital art. The name of the exhibit was "The girl who was no longer human!", this exhibit was actually quite interesting, with a scientific/biological theme. most of the photography reminded me of x-rays. I found it quite interesting that most of the artist contained pictures of women, and the exhibit carried a old school, 1970's sci-fi feel. The video that was playing would skip around to films, 3-d art programs, and pixel art. One of the films was actually completely pixelated. All and all I found the x-ray photographs the most interesting, mostly because I never seen any photographs like it. I really enjoyed my trip to the art exhibit and I hope we have many more trips to come! (Top-> 3-D room, Bottom-> Some blur art)