Video Art Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8bfIbg8Tgk

 

Reading Response Chapter 3 Digital Art

Artificial Life and Intelligence, will digital art ever be able to feel as real as life? Will we ever be able to be in a virtually created reality where we cannot tell if it is truly real or not. Will we ever be able to digitally created life, will there be robots that look, feel and act as humans. Will technology and science ever evolve this far? Its hard to imagine and I am personally skeptical of an ever truly real virtual reality. I hope the environment is never so completely ruined that we must turn to a virtual reality of the past to experience nature.

Computers are already used to communicate with humans. Computers answer phones and carry out entire conversations with people, booking trips, paying car insurance, and customer service over the phone. These computers can hear and understand what we are saying, and can talk back to us and carry out applications on the computer. How this works I really don’t understand, but the separation between human and computers is shortening as these types of telerobitics are advancing and being used more and more.

With the usage of satellites and digital imaging websites like Google earth. There is a constant surveillance of the world taking place right now. Systems of mapping are more precise than ever. There is no part of the world that we have not seen thru the use of digital pictures taken from satellites. Next they need to create robots to record vast bottom of the oceans that have yet to be documented.

Digital Gaming has been advancing rapidly from its first invention. When games were simple and pixilated, when the backgrounds were simply black, or mono color. Now there is the Wii, where the shifting of the cordless controller activates the game. People can play games on their x-box 360 over then Internet with people in different countries. Games are so realistic now that people can find themselves captivated in a completely new world. People can be come rock stars or travel to whole virtual worlds, where they take on a whole new role and can do what ever they desire. Virtual reality games where you can move around and swing your arms to control the character in the game. There are virtual roller coasters where the feeling of being on a real roller coaster is simulated by movement and computer graphics.

 

Reading Response to Chapter 2 Digital Art

With the ever changing technologies, there are constantly developing new ways to interact with the computer. Keyboards, mouses, dials, knobs, buttons, remote controls, are typical ways with which we are allowed to communicate with digital equipment, such as TV’s, computers, and cameras. But now technology is popping up in more places than ever before, cell phones can go on the Internet take pictures, send pictures and videos. Cars have their own small computers telling numerous things and directions. Computers are changing to and the way that we communicate with them is advancing. There are now touch screen computers, smart boards, and drawing tablets, that all open up new possibilities. Digital objects are new tools with which artists can use to create new kinds of artwork. Digital objects are also tools with which artists can use to display and communicate artwork. Computers are databases for artwork; anyone can go on the Internet from any computer and share and look at artwork, pictures, and videos from all over the world. Computers and projectors can display huge art works, and videos on almost any surface. Computers can program light shows and audio to accompany art works. Digital artwork can be seen anywhere. There are websites dedicated to being souly artistic, there are huge art database where viewers can see thousands of pieces of art from decades. No longer is art limited to galleries and art stores, it is inside the homes of people all across the world. Not only is the meaning of art changing with the developing world of digital art, but also the availability and kinds of art are changing. Video games are art, I consider special effects and movies art. Advertisements, packaging for products are digital art. Commercials, graphics on snowboards, t-shirts, shoes digital art is seen everywhere. Websites movies on you-tube, the addition of digital to the art world has caused the meaning of art to develop.

 

Website

So my website didn’t end up working due to my clem account with metro wasn’t working. I was very disappointed because I spent a lot of time working on getting everything ready to go on the web, and then it didn’t work.

My favorite websites that other students made were:

Emily’s http://clem.mscd.edu/~efrisbie

Amanda’s http://clem.mscd.edu/~afriedla

 

Aject Self Protrate project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWhuU97XUpQ

 

Mountains Poster Digital Art

 

an advertisment

ad for the colorado pass vail resorts

I think that this ad is successful, it is simple, but for people who snowboard and ski it a beautiful picture that makes people excited for the new season. It makes people who come to their website, feel like oh yeah it is definetlly gonna be worth it to spend $400 to $600 buying their product off the website. The picture has space you can picture yourself in the picture.

 

Response to Chapter 1 Digital Art by Christiane Paul

How does digital art & new media relate to or impact different aspects of our western culture?

All types of art throughout the ages have had some effect on the culture. Digital art causes there to be an element of disbelief in reality. Surrealist movement artists would be amazed to see the way digital art can be used to more easily create nearly flawless surreal collages. With the onset of digital manipulations to images and how flawless they look and seem, the viewer of images is constantly questioning the validity of the image. Photo and video manipulations and surrealist pictures have been around for ages, but emerging digital technologies over the past decade has made manipulations look more real and promising than ever before.

The innovation of new software and using the computer for a tool in creating art has opened up a whole world of new possibilities to the artist and art viewers. Art up until digital art has always been hands on studio work, artists physically create the form. Never before has an artist been able to create a sculpture or image entirely without physically creating it. First digital art could only be produced in two dimensional forms. With new technology artists can use the computer hooked up to state of the art machines that can cut and mold. 360 degree scanners can be used to create art three dimensional art forms. Art is taken to a new level mixed with mathematical parts artists can use code and numbers to create digital pictures. Special software can break down images to manipulate their form abstracting them into digital art. Photos can be changed, altered, manipulated, and generated.

Digital art is seen everywhere it is in movies, books, art galleries, posters, television, commercials, and advertisements. People are constantly looking at some form of digital art, and people are constantly left questioning, it that a real picture, or is it digital enhanced. Pictures of models in magazines are changed, things are added, subtracted, morphed, colors manipulated. Hardly any images that you see in any of the twenty first century advertisements are left 100% reality, real photo, no altercations. So we find ourselves ever questioning the truth that is behind the images and pictures we are viewing. Where do we find reality, not in a magazine, or a movie, not even on the television, or computers that we are continuously surrounded by? Is reality what we view with our eyes, what we know and feel what we are told and learn? Is reality only the naturally occurring views, or does reality include these digital constructions? Certainly reality and what we are constantly looking at and surrounded by meet somewhere. But we could never walk into a digitally manipulated image no matter how real it looks. The models never really looks picture perfect. The digitally mastered special effects in the movies aren’t really happening they aren’t being filmed in from of a live audience. We can use digital art to transport ourselves into any picture or situation, but as real as the pictures look we weren’t really there.

 

Mountains Graph 8-22-08

mountains graphy

 

Las Montanas

picture i made in excell 8-22-08

las montanas graph by kristina davis is licensed