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.