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.