New Media #3

In the NET ART section, I checked out 2014 list and I saw this video http://the-urgency.undervolt.co/96272939 . After checking out that video, I thought it really rocked and it's kinda tells what would it be like, if you life was wrecked because of social media and the internet. Also, it was wicked awesome how the creator of this video combined visual arts, animation, and really life videos.

New Media #2

I checked out in the MIT section, sensible city and checked this link http://senseable.mit.edu/light-traffic/ out. It was called Light Traffic | MIT Senseable City Lab, and I thought it was very brilliant and it had a visionary look at traffic on the road, and the stats included with it.

Video Art #3

I just watched Colombian videtart, and this was excellent and greatly creative. It was copyright free and the music performance was really sensational.

Performance Art #3

The Human Canvas shows lots of artists using cutting and bleeding for this performance art. Lots of people might faint, enjoy, or get disgusted while watching this; but I thought this performance art was really awesome.

Artists & Technology #4

I just watched Art History in 5 Minutes, and I thought it was awesomely creative and pure genius. Also, it's like creating a collage with pictures from magazines, newspapers, and/or the internet.

Artists & Technology #3

While working on my Xerox project, I was taking a look at other people's Xerox designs and I found this one very interesting and creative. http://dcaseyart211.blogspot.com/2009/03/xerox-project.html

I never seen anything like it, it's kinda like a gothic spider with a dark side, and it makes a great symbol or logo for a T-shirt, medallion, or a company.

Computers #3

Looking at Nintendo History, and I was surprised when I found out it goes back to 1889, when it was originally named Nintendo Koppai (a small company in Kyoto (a small island in Honshu, Japan)), and that the Super Mario Bros. idea came from simple playing cards. A few people assume that Nintendo thought of the name itself, including the animation for Super Mario Bros.

Computers #2

I just watched a documentary entitled The video game revolution, it takes a look at the interactive, electronic entertainment. Lots of think that playing video games is like being on TV (in a competitive way) and that it better than watching TV.

Electronics #3

Just watched Felix the Cat,  this was the first star on television and this video contains the first image that appeared to be broadcast on TV. It's hard to see it, when it's blurry unless someone is trying to avoid copyright infringement.

Electronics #2

I just watched Original recording of “War of the worlds” by Orson Welles, and it was really cool.       Lots of kids and teens today think watching it on TV is better than listening to it on the radio, but back in the 30s they didn't have computers and television sets, and many people enjoyed listening to it on the radio; this is similar to Harry Potter books & Harry Potter movies. Lots of people loved reading the Potter books than watching Potter movies, because in the movies the director and the producer didn't add any scenes according to the book, but some people loved the movies either way and some people didn't.

Time Based Media #3

I just watched Great Train Robbery – Edwin S. Porter , and I enjoyed it. At 7:41, it showed some color added when people were dancing, and I believe the theme for that scene (in my view) would be "Living Color".

Broadway #3

while watching Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt – Walter Ruttman, I thought it was great silent film, and it reminds of the late 1920s', when times were hard and everyone was working hard to make ends meat.

New Media #1

Yesterday, I saw a video that's about the digital storytelling in a physical world. What I like most about this video, is that it's not a mixture of theatre, dance, film, music, and visual art, but that it really shows that it shows either a vision of nature or relaxation.

Video Art #2

Last week, the teacher showed us few examples other students' Video Art on what we can do for Video Art projects, and one of my top favorites would have to be this: http://thuyp.blogspot.com/2010/12/video-art_6190.html

What I like most about this student's video art, is how it shows a sense of illusion within the eyes, which is kind of similar to hypnotism.

Time Based Media #2

In Jason Theodor – Creativity: In this video, Mr. Theodor talks about how to create more, better, and different and it's based on the creative method systems. It also talks about differential uniqueness, foundational quality, creative ratio, elements in balance, 8 creative types, etc. This video was very informative and it gave me a few ideas on my Flip Book, like for the flip page animation, it would have to involve what the topic is and what goes with it.

Broadway #2

I watched a scene from broadway film called "Whatever Happen To Jane"(1962), it involved singing "Ive Written A Letter to Daddy" sung by Bette Davis. I thought she sang that song beautifully and it was really cute how that boy present her with a doll resembling Bette Davis. Bette Davis' singing reminds of Shirley Temple, when she was a little girl and ranged in a broadway film.

Here a video clip of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fElh8TKLiYM

Opera #3

I was look up for some info on Mise en Scene, what I found out is that it's a French term meaning that it's the arrangement of actors and scenery on a stage a theatrical production or stage setting. It consists of 4 major components: setting, actors, lighting and composition. Two different styles that represent miss en scene is German Expressionism and French Poetic Realist. It creates motifs, reinforces themes and establishes mood.

Opera #2

The teacher showed us this adaptation of an opera called "Madame Butterfly", showing a great use of clay art and of stop-motion animation. Also, the opera music really goes with the scenes in this video. Looking at this, kinda reminds me of the clay animation Gumby, that I used to watch when I was four or five years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt87rvCPViQ here an episode of it, and if you freeze at 3:17 to 3:19, it's almost realistic.

I honestly thought that Pjotr Sapegin’s Madama Butterfly, was very creative and excellent, what I like most is how they made the movie almost realistic. and how it's related to the chronology of opera.

Artists & Technology #1: Xerox project

The teacher wanted us to create a Xerox project; it's a 2D or 3D work of art inspired by any Art movements that were shown in class.

Yoshi 2D

Music #4

For the VIRTUAL music movement, I chose Hatsune Miku because she's a virtual star or a digital avatar, but technically she's a vocal synthesizer called a Vocaloid, developed by a Japanese software company Crypton Future Media. The character appears as a 16 year-old girl with pig tails and her name translates as "the first sound of the future" which might let people believe she will lead to revolution in the music industry. Also, Miku performs live songs that was created by a thriving global community, with tens of thousands of songs featuring her voice uploaded since 2007. Slightly, she's a representation of the evolution of digital music technology, crowdsourcing, and creative collaboration. Being a virtual star, she can do amazing things that her counterparts can't do, like exploding in a shower of light.

Also, here a video link of Hatsun Miku doing a live performance at Lady Gaga's Artpop Ball concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRTKs2U1f0

Music #3

For the DUBSTEP music movement, I chose Delta Heavy because they're a British electronic music production duo, consisting of Ben Hall and Simon James. They made their mark with their own special brand of music, but for their single "Get By" they experimented with melodic dubstep. The clip steps away from the normal-live action and towards stop-motion animation. This sort of technology has rarely been used for music videos with its rather expensive price tag and painstakingly detailed nature, but when done right, as Delta Heavy did it, it looks awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cOt9UcYGOU

"GET BY" by Delta Heavy

Music #2

  For the HOUSE music movement, I chose Jesse Sanders because he is one of the pioneers of house music, although it's cited by critics that he's "the originator of house music". He's also a DJ, record producer, film producer, and an entrepreneur.

  Sanders talked about how "back in 2010, he started incorporating visual elements into his sets to enhance the experience, and then he utilized the Roland Visual Sampler system in Los Angeles, California. The crowd was amazed because he was DJing, but the visuals were telling his story at the same time. The people didn't know whether to dance or to watch. Having that control over the crowd is stimulating".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNxwKXpHKw 

Music #1

    The teacher wants us to choose 5 different music “movements” from the ones listed above and add one group/musician/performer to that category, especially related to the usage of technology. For the ELECTRO - CLASH music movement, I chose The M Machine. The M Machine is an American electronic music duo consisting of Ben Swardlick and Eric Luttrell from San Francisco, CA, because this group design, built, and performs its own live visuals in the form of a massive LED version of their iconic "M". It is this eclectic and all-encompassing approach towards their craft that has distinguished The M Machine as something very unique in the world of electronic music. The group achieved initial viral success with a teaser video for their two-part album Metropolis. Inspired by Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 film Metropolis, the group created an entire mythology for the release, each song telling part of the story of the dystopian city of Metropolis. Here the teaser video of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14zfVItUev8

   

A&T News

    The teacher wanted us to search for some news relating to art and technology, so I searched on the internet and I found a news article relating Google DeepDream. DeepDream is a computer visualization tool that was developed at Google's Zurich office (at Zurich, Switzerland) and it was released to the world during the summer of 2014. It's a style of computing inspired by the brain and nervous systems to not only help us learn to recognize shapes in pictures but understand how neural networks work and what each layer has learned. So a network is comprised of sets of ‘neurons’ that are all interconnected and will communicate with each other when given an input (usually a high number of inputs) in order to determine what the correct output might be. They’re used most notably in speech recognition and image classification.

       I found this video that shows a journey trough all the layers of a artificial neural network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCE-QeDfXtA

Origins #4

   I read  Art Vs Design, you know lots of art students always ask themselves which is a great career choice for you; being an artist or being a graphic designer; 50% of people want to be artists, either because they would be free to do whatever they want or being able to express yourself through the enjoyment of the creativity of art, and the other 50% of people want to be graphic designers either because they would be able design something on a computer, it pays more money and it'll make you rich, being recognized by the media of an amazing design you made, or being able to design something for a major company like business cards, menus, poster, postcards, flyers, billboard ads, etc.

Performance Art #2.3

    Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices together including: collage, sculpture, video, music, computer programming and performance, to form an altogether new field. He's best known for his visually stunning collages housed in custom frames, Newsomes' work is deeply invested in how images used in media and popular culture communicate distorted notions of power. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he crafts compositions that surprise in their associative potential and walk the tightrope between intersectionality, social practice and abstraction. Newsome's works opposes cultural essentialisms. They lead us into a realm of uncertainty, in which the symbols presented transform, but are nonetheless made tangible

 In one of his recent performance arrangements, Newsmen used a hacked Nintento Wii controller to mix sounds in real-time in conjunction with a chorus of live performers (Shade Compositions); in Five, he used motion-tracking software to produce drawings of vogueing dancers.

    Nam Juin Paik, Laurie Anderson, and Rashaad Newsmen are both performance artists and they use technology in order to document their work; for those who actively incorporate technology into their performance practice.

Performance Art #2.2

    Laurie Anderson is an american performance artist, composer, and writer whose work explores an extraordinary area of media and subject matter. In order to get support for her work in performance art, Anderson worked as a freelance interviewer and art critic for ARTnews and Artforum. By 1974, she received several grants that gave her more freedom to pursue her artistic explorations. Anderson is one of the most well-known performance artists who continues to not only use but make technology for her performance pieces. Anderson “hacked” traditional instruments by, for example, replacing the catgut strings of a violin with magnetic tape; she consistently uses voice modulators during her live performances to create different, often unsettling, vocal effects.

    Also, Laurie Anderson created a massive four-part multimedia extravaganza, United States I–IV. It combined music, photography, film, drawings, and animation with text and consisted of 78 segments organized into four sections: Transportation, Politics, Money, and Love. Here's the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZVz_M2oSM&t=1195s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzcy-ryRdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm2xwqkdN2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XGS_9xa28Y

Performance Art #2.1

Three of my favorite performance artists are Nam Juin Paik, Laurie Anderson, and Rashaad Newsmen. Nam Juin Paik was a performance artist, composer and visionary, but he's best known as the creator of Video Art. He transformed a video into an artist’s medium with his media-based art that challenged and changed our understanding of visual culture. He also developed TV Cello in 1971 for his longtime collaborator Charlotte Moorman. The piece mixed live musical performance with pre-recorded broadcast (or live broadcast), playing with issues of simultaneity, mediation, and mass media. Three televisions made up the body of the cello, and displayed a direct feed of the performance itself, a video collage of other cellists, and an intercepted broadcast. 

TV Cello

Electronics #1

      The teacher wanted us to choose a 21st century technology and write about this technology, and what influenced it, so I searched on the internet and I found a news article relating Google DeepDream. DeepDream is a computer visualization tool that was developed at Google's Zurich office (at Zurich, Switzerland) and it was released to the world during the summer of 2014. It's a style of computing inspired by the brain and nervous systems to not only help us learn to recognize shapes in pictures but understand how neural networks work and what each layer has learned. So a network is comprised of sets of ‘neurons’ that are all interconnected and will communicate with each other when given an input (usually a high number of inputs) in order to determine what the correct output might be. They’re used most notably in speech recognition and image classification.

       In this article I found, https://www.inverse.com/article/14608-princeton-undergrad-creates-google-deep-dream-inspired-deepjazz-a-i-music-maker, it talks about a 20-year-old Princeton computer science sophomore named Ji-Sung Kim. It took him 36 hours to complete deepjazz during his first hackathon, HackPrinceton, held on April 1-3 at the university. After finishing a marathon of coding, he created a website for deepjazz, and posted the source code on GitHub. Much to Kim's surprise Deepjazz is steadily trending on Python and GitHub — reaching as high as the top seventh program on GitHub overall. Also, it was featured on the front page of HackerNews and is still generating a lively discussion. Kim repurposed an existing music generator optimized for jazz music that his friend Evan Chow developed called JazzML, using the code to get relevant data but transforming it into a binary matrix that is compatible with the two deep learning libraries Keras and Theano.