Monday, October 27, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Change
Previously I had decided to ue the focus of the war as my premise for this project. However, after a response of a recent Bulletin Post I did on Myspace I have found my new direction.
My candidate is still Barack Obama
My slogan or theme is : Change! YES, JOHN MCCAIN
How much longer?
This is not to take away from the great many men and women that are fighting for us to be free in our beliefs. However, I just do not understand the construct of War period. That the idea of divide and conquer is a huge thing in the mindset of humanity, and that no strong country would be where they are without it, however I just don't agree that the means justify anything.
With that my Candidate is Barak Obama .
My Slogan: Why NOT another 100 years?
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Art Evolution
With the rapid growth of the multimedia realm in art, can one even begin to fathom the depths at which the medium will develop and the possibilities that this medium will continue to bring? The answer is no. There are INFINITE possibilities to which this medium will open peoples' minds and draw the attention of the masses. This is a very Modern Day
However, what we find most often in art is that when an artist is creating that breathtaking piece, they often use one or two techniques that really ignite this magical world that locks the audience into place. What we are seeing with multimedia as an art form is that the abilities and the techniques used are endless. A person will not, or rather could not settle on just applying one technique to their pieces. The direction that multimedia art is developing and going is absolutely amazing and something that is simply breathtaking. In this class we have seen pieces of functional, dynamic and well "living" art that has grown and evolved into my vision of the future, the artwork of Jason Freeman. It is as if his pieces are that next step that transition into what bridges the gap between the vision of men like John Cage, William Burroughs,Douglas Englebert, Norbert Wiener and others. It is as if Jason Freeman took his own multimedia class, learned all about these inventors and ingenious creators and took what he could from it to create this collage of work that would grow and develop into the mainstream of the art world.
Jason Freeman explores the ides of John Cage with his pieces titled Flou an interactive computer game that in my opinion further develops John Cage's idea of music as a multimedia response. Instead of having ballet dancers setting of the pitch sensors, Jason Freeman uses a space ship as his "dancer". The Melodic tunes captivate the player as he/she glides through space being active in the musical composition. Like Yellowtail by Golan Levin, the audience now become co-creator of the art. The audience is now a collaborator in a piece that only they can see and in Freeman's case hear.
What happens when Freeman expands his vision with the creation of iTunes Signature Maker? A program where he taps into a person's music library and creates a unique song specific to that library. Who is the artist? Is it even considered art? The concept is new, but the execution is not Freeman's, its not even the owner of the library. The execution it through the mind of the computer, the program that sifts through the songs at random and creates this new sound. So is it to say that the computer now has a mind of its own? Is art now out of the hands of the artist, the audience and dominated more by the adaptation of the electronic mind? Where will art take us, where will these mediums take us? What is the future of art?
These are questions that cannot today be answered, but George Orwell's 1984 seemed to have a good pulse on the evolution of technology and the world. Many of the concepts I think are still pertinent today. To the future of art evloution, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING".
However, what we find most often in art is that when an artist is creating that breathtaking piece, they often use one or two techniques that really ignite this magical world that locks the audience into place. What we are seeing with multimedia as an art form is that the abilities and the techniques used are endless. A person will not, or rather could not settle on just applying one technique to their pieces. The direction that multimedia art is developing and going is absolutely amazing and something that is simply breathtaking. In this class we have seen pieces of functional, dynamic and well "living" art that has grown and evolved into my vision of the future, the artwork of Jason Freeman. It is as if his pieces are that next step that transition into what bridges the gap between the vision of men like John Cage, William Burroughs,Douglas Englebert, Norbert Wiener and others. It is as if Jason Freeman took his own multimedia class, learned all about these inventors and ingenious creators and took what he could from it to create this collage of work that would grow and develop into the mainstream of the art world.
Jason Freeman explores the ides of John Cage with his pieces titled Flou an interactive computer game that in my opinion further develops John Cage's idea of music as a multimedia response. Instead of having ballet dancers setting of the pitch sensors, Jason Freeman uses a space ship as his "dancer". The Melodic tunes captivate the player as he/she glides through space being active in the musical composition. Like Yellowtail by Golan Levin, the audience now become co-creator of the art. The audience is now a collaborator in a piece that only they can see and in Freeman's case hear.
What happens when Freeman expands his vision with the creation of iTunes Signature Maker? A program where he taps into a person's music library and creates a unique song specific to that library. Who is the artist? Is it even considered art? The concept is new, but the execution is not Freeman's, its not even the owner of the library. The execution it through the mind of the computer, the program that sifts through the songs at random and creates this new sound. So is it to say that the computer now has a mind of its own? Is art now out of the hands of the artist, the audience and dominated more by the adaptation of the electronic mind? Where will art take us, where will these mediums take us? What is the future of art?
These are questions that cannot today be answered, but George Orwell's 1984 seemed to have a good pulse on the evolution of technology and the world. Many of the concepts I think are still pertinent today. To the future of art evloution, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING".
What will happen to literature?
In his text " The future of the novel," William Burroughs lights fire to the question of what will happen to novels and pieces of literary work as multimedia and technology continue to grow? This to me is a great question and something that we should be thinking about. I mean with technology today, more and more people are dropping books for online and more graphic material. Although there are a few like me who will never tire of books and literary work, there are many who would love to see a transition from what we know as books today into the "space age" of tomorrow.
We can already see a shift in this medium from its textile and very sometimes heavy and uncomfortable use in classrooms across America, as classes are attempting to be more green friendly and turning their everyday classrooms into technological worlds. Access to text, to homework, to having the whole course book online is a huge advancement to the way that books and classes will interact. The thing with a novel though is that ability to make it easier and more consistent with the times. I am sure that if people refuse to sit for two hours to read an everyday novel, the chances of them sitting to read an online novel may be slim to none.
Burroughs proposes that these new novels be literary creations and artwork in and of itself. A melding together of one artists ideas with another. I think that the concept is fascinating. It recycles this "old" idea and turns it into something much more fluid and dynamic. The only thing however I would find wrong with the way that this new "fold-in" method would create is that how much would each author lose intensity of their individual text. Would the fold-in method be lost on the reader? And would the reader be able to catch up and keep up with the flow of the novel?
We can already see a shift in this medium from its textile and very sometimes heavy and uncomfortable use in classrooms across America, as classes are attempting to be more green friendly and turning their everyday classrooms into technological worlds. Access to text, to homework, to having the whole course book online is a huge advancement to the way that books and classes will interact. The thing with a novel though is that ability to make it easier and more consistent with the times. I am sure that if people refuse to sit for two hours to read an everyday novel, the chances of them sitting to read an online novel may be slim to none.
Burroughs proposes that these new novels be literary creations and artwork in and of itself. A melding together of one artists ideas with another. I think that the concept is fascinating. It recycles this "old" idea and turns it into something much more fluid and dynamic. The only thing however I would find wrong with the way that this new "fold-in" method would create is that how much would each author lose intensity of their individual text. Would the fold-in method be lost on the reader? And would the reader be able to catch up and keep up with the flow of the novel?
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