Tuesday, February 27, 2007
feb 27, 2007 Combingin Animations
This Assignment helped me get a better grasp on how to make movie clips buttons. Although we went through it during class, figuring it out on my own was helpful. Next time, I think, I can make the buttons more complex. The buttons in this animation move a little, and my goal for next time is to make them more mobile and move at different rates.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
feb 10, 2007 Vector Rastor Symbols
This assignment was to make 30 animations. Using both raster and vector images helped me navigate through several programs used to make flash animations, as well as, incorporate traditional drawing techniques.
feb 10, 2007 Vector Rastor Symbols
This assignment was to make 30 animations. Using both raster and vector images helped me navigate through several programs used to make flash animations, as well as, incorporate traditional drawing techniques.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
What is Net Art? Again?
Net Art:
is any artwork that triggers some kind of response in the viewer, and is accessible from the web. Usually these works are interactive, but not always, and use traditional art fundamentals, but not always.
is any artwork that triggers some kind of response in the viewer, and is accessible from the web. Usually these works are interactive, but not always, and use traditional art fundamentals, but not always.
I feel my piece meets the criteria for Net Art because the drawings were created tradionally, but incorporated the modernity of the internet. Also, I feel that it is emotive or at least makes an attempts to be.
06FEB2007 Homework Assignment
A: Response Question: My question is, As an artist, is your work any less important or valid if no one sees or appreciates it?
B: Artist Art Response
Alan Bigelow via the Turbulence Artist’s Studio
Alan Bigelow (self-titled)
Alan Bigelow’s piece is a highly interactive collection of different experiments. It functions similarly to a website, but incorporates fine art principles that keep it from becoming overloaded with information. Actually, other than titles, the work uses a small amount of text. This encourages the viewer to explore the collection of smaller video techniques and studies. The main page is clean and easy to negotiate. The experiments are evoking and keep you watching as well as participating. In America Ghost, the viewer depresses a moving square and a kind of audio bio starts about a person while a video loops that is related in some way to the audio scrolling text. The music nicely compliments the type of bio it backgrounds. For example, a bio of a business man plays, and as he describes his selling and pitching process, music loops behind him. The music is cold and angular sounding which reiterates the cut-throat manner of the business man. Saving the Alphabet is a study of combining poetry, video loops, and typography. This piece operates by forcing the viewer to select a letter than revealing a poem about that letter. This treatment allows the viewer to participate in the artwork, he/she picks a letter and a reaction happens, usually a poem. Smaller looping letters float in the background keeping the simplicity of the site from getting boring. This is a common theme among this collection, there is nothing added that is not needed.
C: Response Consideration 2.6.07
1. The broad perception of art has not changed since digital media’s emergence, but when has the broad definition of art ever been accurate anyway. Paint, collage, digital, there is no difference between these mediums because they are all tools an artist uses. Digital is the next movement in art, but most people do not realize it. Like most modern art movements or mediums, it take the people that write about art and buy it to catch up with the artist that actually create the work.
2. The work of early internet art can definitely stand with modern internet art. It is the idea not the medium that makes the art. An artist could make a painting with stick figures and be more moving or evoke emotion more than a painting of a bowl of fruit that looks like a photograph. The change now is bad artwork, (artwork without meaning), can be disguise by 3-d graphics or complicated visual effects that do not add anything meaningful to the piece. This treatment of modern effects is like putting a rotten banana in a new skin. The future internet and digital art has to be that it becomes so overly popular that it is run into the ground, just like most other movements or media in the past. Just as in the past, there will be a handful of artist that become immortalized as the definition of digital art, whether they are or not.
3. I define Net Art just as I do all other art, if it created to evoke emotion, or express and opinion, or have some sense of depth and meaning it is art. The medium doesn’t matter to me. Internet Based Art sounds gives a sense of the medium being a legitimate field, but Net Art sounds mass produced and cheap. I think that IBA is should definitely be considered art, or at least has the potential to be. Actually, if there is a big crowd of people screaming that it isn’t art, this should be a sign that it is a form legitimate art. As long as it meets my emotive definition of art, I consider it so.
4. The greatest advantage to digital and Net Art is anyone can reach it from home, and it has the ability to be interactive. Interactivity is a great way to stimulate the viewer, making them part of the work. Giving the viewer a chance to change the outcome is another way to excite them into participating. It is not necessary to gather or have a place to view art, I think allowing people to view the pieces from at their own discretion puts the emphasis on the artwork rather than the museum. The worst part having your work in a gallery is the opening, it seems most people prefer the act of gathering, rather than exploring the artwork itself. The advantage of digital work that organazations such as schools, buisinesses, and other companies, is that it can be cheaply and displayed while taking up little space. MCA for example, could reserve a small bit of wall space to stream digital art, the only cost would be a projector and a computer. But this lack of foresight lets the digital work go unnoticed, though you could make the argument that even an art school does not validate digital work as artwork. In most of the MCA shows,(as well as other schools) the digital content is minimal.
5. Time will eventually force the minds of people that digital art is valid. Probably after a movie is made about it and a digital art master can be named by the public and art scene, then it will be recognized as art. Digital artist should keep working and keeping digital work steeped in art fundamentals so our work can endure the time it takes to be acknowledged.
B: Artist Art Response
Alan Bigelow via the Turbulence Artist’s Studio
Alan Bigelow (self-titled)
Alan Bigelow’s piece is a highly interactive collection of different experiments. It functions similarly to a website, but incorporates fine art principles that keep it from becoming overloaded with information. Actually, other than titles, the work uses a small amount of text. This encourages the viewer to explore the collection of smaller video techniques and studies. The main page is clean and easy to negotiate. The experiments are evoking and keep you watching as well as participating. In America Ghost, the viewer depresses a moving square and a kind of audio bio starts about a person while a video loops that is related in some way to the audio scrolling text. The music nicely compliments the type of bio it backgrounds. For example, a bio of a business man plays, and as he describes his selling and pitching process, music loops behind him. The music is cold and angular sounding which reiterates the cut-throat manner of the business man. Saving the Alphabet is a study of combining poetry, video loops, and typography. This piece operates by forcing the viewer to select a letter than revealing a poem about that letter. This treatment allows the viewer to participate in the artwork, he/she picks a letter and a reaction happens, usually a poem. Smaller looping letters float in the background keeping the simplicity of the site from getting boring. This is a common theme among this collection, there is nothing added that is not needed.
C: Response Consideration 2.6.07
1. The broad perception of art has not changed since digital media’s emergence, but when has the broad definition of art ever been accurate anyway. Paint, collage, digital, there is no difference between these mediums because they are all tools an artist uses. Digital is the next movement in art, but most people do not realize it. Like most modern art movements or mediums, it take the people that write about art and buy it to catch up with the artist that actually create the work.
2. The work of early internet art can definitely stand with modern internet art. It is the idea not the medium that makes the art. An artist could make a painting with stick figures and be more moving or evoke emotion more than a painting of a bowl of fruit that looks like a photograph. The change now is bad artwork, (artwork without meaning), can be disguise by 3-d graphics or complicated visual effects that do not add anything meaningful to the piece. This treatment of modern effects is like putting a rotten banana in a new skin. The future internet and digital art has to be that it becomes so overly popular that it is run into the ground, just like most other movements or media in the past. Just as in the past, there will be a handful of artist that become immortalized as the definition of digital art, whether they are or not.
3. I define Net Art just as I do all other art, if it created to evoke emotion, or express and opinion, or have some sense of depth and meaning it is art. The medium doesn’t matter to me. Internet Based Art sounds gives a sense of the medium being a legitimate field, but Net Art sounds mass produced and cheap. I think that IBA is should definitely be considered art, or at least has the potential to be. Actually, if there is a big crowd of people screaming that it isn’t art, this should be a sign that it is a form legitimate art. As long as it meets my emotive definition of art, I consider it so.
4. The greatest advantage to digital and Net Art is anyone can reach it from home, and it has the ability to be interactive. Interactivity is a great way to stimulate the viewer, making them part of the work. Giving the viewer a chance to change the outcome is another way to excite them into participating. It is not necessary to gather or have a place to view art, I think allowing people to view the pieces from at their own discretion puts the emphasis on the artwork rather than the museum. The worst part having your work in a gallery is the opening, it seems most people prefer the act of gathering, rather than exploring the artwork itself. The advantage of digital work that organazations such as schools, buisinesses, and other companies, is that it can be cheaply and displayed while taking up little space. MCA for example, could reserve a small bit of wall space to stream digital art, the only cost would be a projector and a computer. But this lack of foresight lets the digital work go unnoticed, though you could make the argument that even an art school does not validate digital work as artwork. In most of the MCA shows,(as well as other schools) the digital content is minimal.
5. Time will eventually force the minds of people that digital art is valid. Probably after a movie is made about it and a digital art master can be named by the public and art scene, then it will be recognized as art. Digital artist should keep working and keeping digital work steeped in art fundamentals so our work can endure the time it takes to be acknowledged.
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