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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. 

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Chapter 3 internet art

In chapter three of Greene's book she discusses how internet art has become more than just art it is about the transfer of information. Greene also speaks about hackers, and how hackers can crack into secret data bases and steal important information. I thought that this part of the chapter was especially interesting. It made me think of that early 90's movie hackers, I just thought that was humorous. Greene mentions the famous internet artist Ricardo Dominguez and how he uses internet art as a means of an installation piece. He called his piece Electronic Disturbance Theater. As a little side note, i really enjoy the title of Dominguez's work i think it does a really nice job of explaining what his piece is all about.  

Greene then goes on to discuss some other famous websites like Heritage Gold. This site used photo shop but changed the controls of photoshop. For example the choice of colors i photoshop were changed from blue and green to black and Japanese. I thought that this was a very interesting concept in that this is really not art which Heritage Gold was producing but different way to create art on the computer. I think that most of the things discussed in chapter three can only be be considered partially pieces of art because i think that when someone makes a web site, that is not a piece of art. Yes their is art used on the page but i would not consider the website an actual piece of art itself, it is the things on the site that are art. 

I do like how internet art was used for making a statement. i mean it is still used for making statements and voicing opinions on government, economy, and life in the 20th century. I really liked the TOYWAR web site Greene discussed, mainly because of the lego men. I just thought that the whole website and the idea of the site was interesting and a good way to make a statement about society. 

Flash Project

So far i have been having some trouble figuring out flash, but it is coming slowly. I think the hardest part for me so far is getting my images to actually line up in each different key frame. I had to resize all of them in photoshop then try to line them up again in flash. I think i have figured it out by using the points you can select to make sure every thing is aligned. I have also been experimenting with the page flip action scripting, which i have found to be extremely confusing, but i am intent on getting it to work. I think if i get the page flip down with all of my own animations from my own drawings, though my project might not be very long, i think it will display that that i have a good handle on flash. 

I think that flash is an incredible program, there are so many interesting things you can do with the program. I liked looking at the link of the artist which was posted on the class website. It inspired me to look at more artists who have used flash in a fine art medium like we are doing. All though i have been frustrated with the program i feel like if i work through it, i will have learned some thing that i will be able to use in the future. In class on Wednesday my goal is to get the page flip down and to get my animations all aliened so they look really smooth and professional. 

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portraiture comments The Body Electic comments

After reading Portaiture i thought that it was interesting to see how digital portraiture has developed from when it began. Now it is very uncommon to hear about artists working along side with engineers, but i guess to do anything digital back in the 60's and 70's that was the only way things were going to be done digitally. Im glad its not like that any more, just reading about how they haD to use complicated algorithims to make the portraits look like they are actually ageing does not sound like it would be very much fun, it just sounds very tedious. I think that it is also interesting to see how far our technology today has come from what digital art was in the beginning. It is incredible what a computer has the possibiltiy to produce. 

The Electric body, i thought was also very interesting to read. It says in the beginning of the article that the body is seen as the representation of ones self, this i agree with, but when they started talking about digitally removing sensory organs, that frankly just freaked me out. I mean yeah i have seen art like that, but personally i dont like it, I find it very dark. As an artist i look at things with more of an eye for design, shapes colors, and patterns. So when they are talking about the human body and digitally transforming the body with the computer, i can relate because i am an artist as well but it something that i am not that interested in.

Expanding the boundaries of the self was interesting, i mean everyone has seen peoples web cams and blogs and everything that is on the internet now, but i thought that it was interesting to hear how it all started, with a digital camera. It makes sense, its easy to share photos and videos in this digital age. I myself have several skiing videos on the internet. I thought that this section of the article did not really have that much to do woth what our class is all about, but i enjoyed reading it and i gained some new knowledge about the history of the web cam, which is cool.

Introduction comments

After reading the introduction to Christiane Paul's book Digital Art, it gave me a new outlook on what digital art actually comes from. Digital art has made leaps and bounds in recent years from what it started out as. Now digital art is a main stream world wide and excepted by almost everyone as a legitimate form of fine arts. We started talking about this fact in our discussion on the introduction chapter, but i think it is an interesting point which should be discussed, and that is is it still art if it is say a famous piece of art and then manipulated by a computer program. I think yes defiantly this still counts as a legitimate piece of art, so what if you used someones ideas, that is what art is people using each others ideas and methods and elaborating on them to create something new that is their own. Even with my art i have a few artists which i really like, and i defiantly use their same style and ideas in my pieces, but no one accuses me of stealing someone Else's ideas. I guess one could make the argument that it is much easier to use some one Else's work and say it was their own but there is a line at which it is borrowing someone Else's ideas and just straight copying.

Chapter 1 coments

After Reading chapter one of Digital Art by Christine Paul it is obvious that she thinks that digital art is the way of the future, meaning that all arts will eventually become in some way or another digital. Chapter one goes on to talk about how digital art is being used now and what effects it has had on the artistic world today. Paul talks about the creation of a "hyper real" environment, meaning using digital imagery and digital functions to create and envionment which is completely done by transforming images on the computer. I think that from reading this first chapter i gained a lot of new knowledge about what is being done with digital art, and how digital art can be used in a fine arts aspect. Personally, i think that digital art is defiantly another sub- category of fine art. Though you do not use the same tools, as you would say if you were painting of drawing, the computer is a similar tool, just the computer allows you to so things that previously were possible by working with a paint brush, pen or pencil.