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)

Survey

What is/are your major(s)/minor(s)?
Major - Business
Minor-Art/Japanese

Why are you taking this class? What are you most looking forward to?
I'm taking this class in order to be more familiar with digital photography and I'm also interested in the class topics. I looking forward to the field trips, and the many projects that we will complete in the course.

How comfortable are you with (please be specific and elaborate):
Macs? a little, I know my way around with them but im not an expert user.
Scanners? very comfortable, depends on the scanner though
Printers? very comfortable
Photoshop? I know a few photoshop tricks, but I'm not expert
Digital Cameras? I <3 them. I can usually figure any camera out in a matter of seconds.
MP3 Players? I have one, I use them a lot and I'm used to working with them.
Contemporary Art? I like it, I don't know any art history or artist though.
the Internet (surfing, finding things)? Expert, if it's on the web I'll find it.
Web site creation (PageMaker, DreamWeaver, HTML, other)? Never used them.
Digital Music creation? I have used a few music making programs, like Reason and FruityLoops
Flash animation? Never done any
Drawing? I do a lot of drawing.
Blogging? I don't have a problem with blogging, but i do take up a lot of time doing it.

What are your top hobbies, interests, philosophies that you might use to make art in this course?
I have a lot of interest in media arts, urban art. I like things like martial arts and La Parkour/Free running. I spend most of my time studying various Martial arts, playing video games, and spending time on the web.