Composing with Media

Roy Ascott's Cybernetic Vision

2006-05-08T21:28:00.000-07:00

Roy Ascott had the foresight to see, back in the 1960's the connection between Art and technology, a connection that is still evolving. To me that is absolutely amazing because I do not think today many people could predict what will be happening in 2046. Just having the idea that Art would not be static was revolutionary in the 1960's and in many places, still is considered revolutionary. Having two way communication through a piece of art is also something that is just starting to take shape today. I think the proof of how far ahead of his time he really was, is how young all of these mediums are. Non-Static art is still not shown in many galleries and Net Artists must fight to get the recongnition that regular artist get.

America's Grave

2006-03-07T18:30:00.000-08:00

When looking at pieces of multimedia artwork, I always like to take time after viewing them to see how my thoughts have changed on the piece. America's Grave at the AU Museum was a very interesting piece to me. I thought the presentation was amazing. I really liked the dirt and the monitors having pieces of dirt on them. I always thought the living grass growing on the grave site was a nice touch to show that the piece is living. Overall I found it very effective and moving, the only critique I have would be that before hearing about the connection to dontas inferno, I did not realize how the material was split up on the monitors or why some where playing different clips than others. I think that as a political piece it was a great success, and has been an inspiration to me on my upcoming piece about reality tv

Dada

2006-03-07T18:10:00.000-08:00

Seeing the Dada exhibit at the National gallery of art makes you realize where so much of today's "new age" "high-tech" advertisements get their inspirations. One of the things that stood out the most to me was how the artists used the word Dada in a lot of the Dada works. Looking back at something like this, it just seems so far ahead of its time. I would have expected that in today's modern art. I also really liked to see how they started the idea of using others works and modifying them inorder to make a statement. This is done so commonly now it goes almost unnoticed, however in the 1920's I'm sure it must have been revolutionary. Overall I was very impressed with the exhibit and how extremely crowded it was at the dad exhibit

Sounds from Shape

2006-02-12T17:47:00.000-08:00

When I read about all the forms of input possible to a computer, One clearly stands out as the most natural. Using ones hands to manipulate objects on sceen by capturing the shadows on the screen makes using the interface almost child like. Seeing as how young children use shadows and their imagination to create games, it seems like it would be a perfect interface for a multimedia piece of work as described in Sounds from Shape.

I think that in the future we are going to see much more than the shadows controling MIDI sounds. I feel that as the article states a true "instrument" can be created with this interface that can used to creat new original pieces. I also feel that the visual aspects of these interfaces is going to become much more "dynamic". Many of the examples are very limited and they do not give the feeling of "creating a piece of artwork" as they do using someones elses artwork to play around with. In the future, just like true music will be able to be made, so will true visual art. When these shape recognition and shadow technology'es are combined with artifical intelligance, than we will see much more orginal materal creations using these multimedia tools

Intermedia

2006-01-29T19:39:00.000-08:00

Intermedia was a very intresting article. I really think Intermedia is not only a key concept in the arts of the future but I also see it being used in feilds beyond the arts. When I was reading about how they invisioned theator that was more interactive and that has audince feedback to change the outcome, I kept thinking about the new developments in internet technology. When you look at new "tagging" websites such as del.icio.us and flickr you can truly see some of the potental that these integrated interactive socal websites. These websites just like the intermedia theator are run by the audience, and are every changeing pieces. These sites are still very new and just one of many more examples of intermedia. I feel that it truly is going to go way beyond art and be one of the key concepts in recent times.