FINAL PROJECT

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Flash

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Final Project

For my final project I'm going to use a series of action photos to create a movie piece using imovie. I've never used imovie before and have recently gotten to explore some possibilities of the software. I like how throughout the semester we have explored a variety of creative software, and as I look forward to doing more with those softwares like photoshop, dreamweaver, and flash I decided to move away from adobe for the final project. I had two beginning ideas for my final one of a holiday theme movie full of ice skating and christmas spirit, and a movie about a boy who's looking for the perfect story book ending, he wanders the library, takes notes from lifetime originals believing he'll learn how to find the "one" and live happily ever after. I'm more interested in my second idea and where I can go with it for an ending but it is still a work in progress. The movie will also have music, but the songs are not definite at this time!

Chapter 3 Digital Art

Chapter 3 was easier to follow than previous chapters. Christiane Paul does a good job at giving brief backgrounds and introductions of each theme discussed in the digital arts. Paul acknowledges that "the attempt to give a survey of all the themes addressed by art employing the digital medium is beyond the scope of this book, and the topics outlined in this chapter are meant as the main coordinates of a larger territory or inquiry. Two topics I found interesting were body and identity and mobile and locative media. I think it's crazy how much technology has affected how we view ourselves, whether that be how we physically view ourselves or mentally see ourselves as individuals. Our physical existence and virtual existence are complex opposites. Physically we can only be in one place at one time, but virtually we can be anywhere, anytime. "Online identity allows a simultaneous presence in various spaces and contexts, a constant 'reproduction' of the self without body". Mobile and locative media is a more recent theme to enter into the digital arts. I like the idea behind smartmobs and flashmobs, it made me think about past groups of people and artists who've assembled at random to perform a public work.

FLASH

Flash has been really fun to learn, and although its very time consuming it's probably my favorite program I've worked in. Choosing a topic or idea to work with has been challenging because there is really no right or wrong or even  guidelines for the project. I'm facing a problem of having possibly too many ideas. The flash tutorials posted on the class blog have been the most helpful out of anything else I've found online. I think one of the hard things to do on flash that I'm noticing is once you know how to use layers and motion or any other tool it's hard to put them together to create a coherent scene that makes sense. I'm still learning though, and that's about it so far!

Chapter 2- Internet Art

Chapter 2 like Chapter 1 was a hard read. Its hard to follow Greene's style of writing. I find myself re-reading the paragraphs and at times more confused the second go around than I was after the first. I interpreted the chapter as an attempt to show what goes on inside the internet art community, and what were some of the pioneer internet artist's claim to fame. I can't say I am a huge fan of internet art, most of the pieces highlighted in this chapter are to me aesthetically unsettling. The work seems to be a little outdated. The artists and their work although essential to the understanding and recognition of internet art are examples more from the revolutionary stage of internet art as a medium.

Introduction & Chapter 1- Internet Art

Greene's writing was really hard to grasp, and not necessarily  her concepts and thoughts but more her phrasing and lengthy (occasionally unnecessary) explanations. I enjoyed viewing work from the early days of internet art, but it's also hard to appreciate the work shown in the book as internet art presently because of the greater knowledge we have for the internet now and the capabilities it gives to internet artists. I think internet art in general is a hard field to become known in or remembered for because of the difficulty to use the internet in a creative way or to do things that have yet to be done by others.

Chapter 1 - Digital Art

I have enjoyed the readings in the Digital Art book so far. I got a nice history/summary in the introduction, while chapter 1 explores how the aid of computer software has opened up a multitude of possibilities for the artist to create art. Chapter 1 explains how the computer is now used as a tool by artists to manipulate, distort, or rearrange photos or other images in ways that would never have been possible without the computer and software like photoshop. These possibilities are a blessing in new technology but are also a topic of much debate. Personal opinions plays into the debate that if you take an image off the internet and change it and then claim it as your own , you are in some way stealing either another artists work or there idea. Even with these possible negative aspects of the digital age it's amazing to see how all other "traditional" fields of art and media are using or applying the computer to their work.

Intro. Digital Art

The introduction to Digital Art was informative as far as giving me a new way to define and think of digital art. There seems to be some oppositi0n between digital art as a tool versus digital art as a medium. I agree with factors that support both ideas, but at the moment as I am in the beginning of my digital art experience I will stay undecided. I like how in the introduction the author made to reader think of digital art as an art form, not something off completely by itself. I believe it is a continuation of the history of art. Art changes and if you agree with and if you agree with that change or not it doesn't stop it from happening. We will have to adapt to these changes in the art world. Museums, artists, media we're all beginning to adapt to the new possibilities offered through the digital arts.

Project 1

Portraiture in the Digital Age/ The Body Electric Response

I found both Portraiture in the Digital Age and the Body Electric to be enjoyable and interesting articles. There was new information in both pieces that I may not have considered before when thinking about digital art and photography. I liked getting to know more about the beginning of digital photography and where we are now with it and where it can lead us in the future. It's exciting to think of what artists have done with digital photography; how the human identity and the identity of society has been morphed and manipulated. There s ani endless possibility of ways to use digital photography, and I know some are hesitant to except digital pieces as art, but this is where we as a collective are headed. I feel a lot of peoples doubts or hesitations towards digital art and the digital medium itself comes from the fact that they're not familiar with the software or tools and link change and confusion to negative associations, bad feelings towards the field of digital art. There will always be a classic appreciation for a photograph, but now with all these new ways to express yourself , create new identities and multiples that there is an admiration and appreciation for the digitized as well. 

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