whit's flash project 

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.