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".
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