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Thoughts on “What’s (Really) Specific about New Media Art?

The Article talks about how New Media Art has become very popular in recent years, ever since technology boomed and we learned how to use a computer for the first time. Artists use it to express their creativity and emotions through this new wave of Art. The author noted that New Media Art was kind of hidden away at first, not as appreciated as it should have been. But in the coming years, New Media Art has been coaxed out of its shell by curators who have put an effort in displaying New Media Art to the world. The Article refers a lot to the texts of CRUMB, “Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss”, held by Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook from the School of Art, Design, Media and Culture in the UK; who created the first seminar for New Media Curators. The author of this article posed a lot of questions concerning New Media Art being curated, such as “is it being more displayed as New Media or Art?” or “would curators need to learn a different model to curate New Media Art?”. I guess these questions come from the fact that this is a new phase of art, jumping from contemporary art to New Media Art.

I wonder why there is such a fuss over New Media Art in the first place. I think it might be because it is so new that it has to be talked about and the fact that it's not simply using paints or sculpting materials. But then one has to wonder: is it more science than art or more art than science? And what is the purpose of New Media Art? Because Art used to be about portraying a time and a place or predicting the future. What is the message that New Media Art is trying to send us?

Well even with all these questions, there remains one conclusion:

“New Media Art is the art that uses new media technology as a medium-period.”

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Thoughts on Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol Lewitt

This reading definitely required me to read it more than once to understand that the writer is clearly trying to derationalize rational ideas about art. In the first few sentences, it notes that he’s trying to make the reader believe that you do not need to follow modern or traditional rules about art to make art. But, some of his sentences do not make sense to the minds of realists, like “ These sentences comment on art, but are not art.”. You understand what he means, but you cannot help but wonder if there is more to what he could mean. It seems as if the artist is posing sentences in front of us and saying “duh, it totally makes sense”, but because of the rigid society we live in, we are left in complete wonderment of what he actually means. I do like how he is trying to sway us from old rules and embrace the new rules of the future. It’s like those that believe in the world of the past are uncultured swine while those that think and respond to Sol Lewitt’s thoughts are the enlightened artists. The point of all his comments on Conceptual Art is that they are weird but intelligent.

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revision of my art200 final

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Before this video, we were assigned a project to make a sound collage using sound clips sourced online. The goal of the sound collage was to set a mood, and then, for our last project of the course, we were to use Adobe After Effects to create a video of still images using our sound collage as the soundtrack. While searching for sound clips, I found the song "Gloomy Sunday", also known as the "Hungarian Suicide song". This inspired me to create a piece that explored the mindset of someone tormented by suicidal ideation. It is a storyline in three parts: the first being the melancholic, frenzied, confusing nature of the living world, then the transition between life and the afterlife, and, ultimately, transcendence into a peaceful afterlife. While the overall theme of this video deals with extreme emotions, it seeks to be applicable to any situation where one is suffering and must hold onto the promise of an easier future.

All images are mine, and all sound clips are sourced from freesound.org or archive.org.

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When it comes to digital art, copyright is an extremely gray, yet serious, area. The laws are purposely vague so that each judge must interpret it on a case by case basis. Even though it is copyrighted, a copyrighted image can be appropriated. To appropriate an image is simply to use the connotation an image inherently has. It’s important to emphasize the meaning of “connotation”. Connotation is the meaning that a word, or in this case, image, has beyond its literal definition. For example, if one were to look at an image of Crocs, the literal definition they would have is “ugly shoes”, but the connotation Crocs have is of the ironic memes the internet has created around them. One could appropriate a copyrighted image of Crocs if one needed these famously hideous shoes and all of the cultural information that come along with them. This same meaning wouldn’t be attached to different, ugly shoes an artist creates originally.

It’s important, however, that an image has been appropriated, not simply copied. The image must have been altered, its purpose must have been changed, and oftentimes its location changes as well. Using the Crocs metaphor, I can’t copy and paste an image from the Crocs website and post it on my blog. I could, however, photoshop the Crocs onto Donald Trump’s feet, and then post it onto my blog. This follows appropriation because the timage has been altered to include Trump, it purpose has changed from an advertisement to satire, and its location has moved from the Crocs website to my blog.

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Loop exercise for my ART200 class. Messing with patterns and rhythm...... but in loop form.

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Took a selfie in a cave for my ART200 exercise... and then edited myself into another cave.

I took a selfie at my desk which is underneath my bed and kind of a little “study cave”. I used the masking tool in Photoshop to edit myself into an actual cave. (I also cheated a little bit and used the burn tool to calm down the highlights on my shoulders to hide the fact that my background was brightly lit and make it more realistic.)

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