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Chapter 2 internet art

After reading chapter two of Greene's Internet Art there were many thing which i found to be very interesting. Greene starts off by discussing E-mail based communities. She discusses how e-mail based communities emerged and their gain in popularity. I don't know if i would consider e-mail and sending information via email a form of artistic expression, but to some this method of sending information electronically over the Internet can be seen as a form of art. For example on page 75 there is piece of art, if you want to call it that, done by Heath Bunting and Natalie Bookchin. It is just a page with some information on it like one wold receive in an email, that is not art! Greene then goes on to discuss exhibition formats and collective projects. Exhibition formats is a pretty bland topic, i think, all green talks about in this section how how some Internet art is presented. But then she talks about how there are big collective project being done in the Internet art world. I think that collective projects a a necessary part of any type of art. i think that from working with other artists one can use their ideas and techniques to build on their own. Greene then goes on to talk about several things in chapter two the talks about browsers and how browsers are used on the Internet. Its funny though because still iwould have to say that a browser cannot be considered a piece of art because i mean you can make it aesthetically pleasing bot to actually get it that way you have to work with codes, and i think that typing in code should not be considered an art form. And in the last section of this chapter Greene talks about distribution has changed due to the Internet. I would definably agree with the fact that the Internet has made distribution of product much easier for people. it makes products available all over the world. And finally she talks about the sexual personae and hoe the Internet has allowed people to better express their sexual persona via the Internet. 

Chapter 3 digital art

In chapter three of Paul's Digital art she discusses different themes in digital art. She starts out by talking about artificial intelligence and artificial life in digital art. I feel like this does not have as much to do with actual art than it does science and the creation of artificial life. Though there are some examples that i thought were very interesting which Paul discusses in this chapter. For example Sommerer and Mignonneau's Interactive Plant Life was a good display of how artificial life can be seen as a piece of digital art. Paul talks about the theme of body and identity. This is an important theme in digital art, i think, because it is easy to transform and distort the body and one's identity with a computer. Also it is amazing to see what people ideas of their own identity look live through digital images. Our first project we did this semester delft with the theme of digital identity ant how we view our selves through digital images. I really enjoyed doing this first project because it allowed me to create something that was a representation of myself with out actually have an image of my self. Paul then goes on to talk about how gaming is an important aspect of digital art. I defiantly agree with this fact that video games are indeed digital art. After learning flash and doing the most simple of animations it made me gain a new found respect for video games. I could not even fathom how game designers create such incredible three dimensional graphics. Paul also speaks about technologies of the future dealing with digital art. I think that the future of what is going to be capable with digital art will be amazing. With people using computers more and more the level of digital art will just keep getting better and better as time goes on. 

chapter 2 digital art

In Christiane Paul's Digital Art chapter two is entitled "Digital art as a Medium". In this chapter she goes over several artists that have used digitl art as a sucsessful medium for their work. Personally i think that digital art can definatly be used as a sucsessful medium for fine art works. I think as long as the medium is affective in getting the artists ideas, oppinions, and statements across to the persons veiwing the piece that would be considered a sucseful work of art. Though it may not seem as legitimate as say painting with a brush by hand i think that what one can be capible of doing with digital art far outnumbers what is possible with a brush and paint. First Paul discusses the different for of digital art. She comments on digital at as dynamic. It can change as data changes, so this gives the opportunity for a piece of art that is ever changing as the data controlling it changes. Paul talks about installation art and how digital art can be used in installation. Personally i think that digital art in installation is a very int resting and useful thing in installation pieces. To make a piece of art interactive is the next necessary step for art. instead of just looking at something your actually involved in the art work its self. Digital art makes this viewer involvement mush easier. Another thing Paul discussed in chapter two of Digital art was "soft wear art". I did not like this section as much mainly because most of the pieces that were discussed in the book were not aesthetically pleasing to me. Bu that is just my personal opinion and I'm sure there aer artists out there who have created "soft wear art" that i would very much enjoy. The section on virtual reality and augmented reality i found very interesting. I just like how with a computer someone can create an entire virtual environment. i think that the notion of augmented reality is also very interesting. Taking an image and tweaking it so it looks realistic accept for some little thing that is not supposed to be there, i think is really cool. The last thing Paul discusses in chapter two of digital art is the incorporation of sound and music in digital art. As some one who is just learning the basics of digital art, i think that sounds and music are a very important aspect of creating a successful piece of digital art. I mean it is not always a necessity but i think it defiantly enhances a piece when there is music and or sound in the piece. 

Final Project Blog

So far the final project has been going well for me and i have been working on some photo shop images. The first image i have been working on is of me skiing, Its a sweet pow shot, i actually used it in my dream weaver project. I want to take the picture and make it into a short animation in flash. But the main theme of this project is i want to use the page flip action script and make it so it looks like my sketch book, so you would be actually skipping through pages on my virtual sketch book. I was going to try to use the page flip action script in my first flash project but i got frustrated with it and decided to go another route. So the first page of my sketch book will be the skiing animation. The second page is going to be an animation that i drew. And the third will be another animation of mine probably combined with some picture of me that i worked on in photo shop. I know it will be tough, but i really want to make some thing that i am proud of for my final project. I think this one will be successful.