In chapter 3, the book now discusses the more intricate part of digital technology. I think it is very interesting how technology has evolved from the dawn of time. Before text was for documents. Text and data has evolved into a medium of art. Who ever thought that something so simple as text would be considered art? I am sure no one could fathom the thought of it 50 years ago. I think it is entertaining that anything and everything can be considered art.
Another part of this chapter that I thought was interesting was the fact that the world has evolved enough to begin making artificial intelligence. So far AI has not evolved as drastically as shown in some of our favorite sci-fi movies, but I believe that one day our technology will break through that evolution. Hopefully, our earth will not decompose like in Wall-e and hopefully robots wont try and take over our world in IRobot. Whatever happens with technology, I hope the world is prepared for the things that we created.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Chapter 2 Response
I think it is really interesting that the book states that the words "interactive art" as something that the viewer can not only interact with physically, but is also a mental event as well. I think that is really interesting because I actually think that all art has some sort of interacting between the piece and the mind, not just digitally.
Out of the entire book, I really liked all the art shown by Perry Hoberman. My favorite is the installation called Catharic User Interface. It surrounds the frustrations that people have with technology. The viewer gets to throw mouse's into a wall that totally looks like a 100 computer keyboards. I think that is a really cool idea, since everyone has ran into computer problems at one time or another. I feel like throwing objects at my computer on a regular day to day basis. I think it would be cool if he turned it into some sort of video game.
I also really like the installation by Toshio Iwai named Piano. It is ingenious. I have a real passion for trying to create art that incorporates my main background, music, and my sense of creativity via the digital world. This piece, is awesome because it focuses around the same idea.
Out of the entire book, I really liked all the art shown by Perry Hoberman. My favorite is the installation called Catharic User Interface. It surrounds the frustrations that people have with technology. The viewer gets to throw mouse's into a wall that totally looks like a 100 computer keyboards. I think that is a really cool idea, since everyone has ran into computer problems at one time or another. I feel like throwing objects at my computer on a regular day to day basis. I think it would be cool if he turned it into some sort of video game.
I also really like the installation by Toshio Iwai named Piano. It is ingenious. I have a real passion for trying to create art that incorporates my main background, music, and my sense of creativity via the digital world. This piece, is awesome because it focuses around the same idea.
Spherical Illusions
So I decided that since I was learning how to use Flash in a different class that I would put the skills that I have learned into something that is computer generated for this project. I only used Adobe Flash and Illustrator for this project. I made the animation into a video on youtube. It is very short because it doesn't loop like it does within the browser (.html).
In illustrator, I used the rectangle tool and created a a rectangle and then used the rotation tool to get the rectangle to rotate into a circle, thus creating the circle. I actually got all of this "How-To-DO" site. I just kept repeating the process until I got enough circles to choose out of. I used the same technique for the circles on the top. As with all of the circles, I had layered 2 different rectangles on top of each other to make the interesting design of the circles. The bottom circles were made with the spiral tool and layering 2 different ones together and then taking the rotate tool and rotate them.
In flash, I made about 14 different layers, each one having 1 circle or motion tween on it. All I did was rotate every circle, individually, on each key frame. It wasn't that difficult, it was more time consuming than anything.
I made may different colored circles with many different styles but below are the ones that made the cut.
In illustrator, I used the rectangle tool and created a a rectangle and then used the rotation tool to get the rectangle to rotate into a circle, thus creating the circle. I actually got all of this "How-To-DO" site. I just kept repeating the process until I got enough circles to choose out of. I used the same technique for the circles on the top. As with all of the circles, I had layered 2 different rectangles on top of each other to make the interesting design of the circles. The bottom circles were made with the spiral tool and layering 2 different ones together and then taking the rotate tool and rotate them.
In flash, I made about 14 different layers, each one having 1 circle or motion tween on it. All I did was rotate every circle, individually, on each key frame. It wasn't that difficult, it was more time consuming than anything.
I made may different colored circles with many different styles but below are the ones that made the cut.
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