Media Arts and Technology

While browsing the various research labs on campus at UCSB I came across the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. The research conducted by this department primarily deals with the notion that the human brain is hardwired to evolve to certain adaptive problems, essentially acting as a collection of “...

The IMAGER Computer Graphics Lab, part of the University of British Columbia, has published an article addressing the issues of color correction for tone mapping in digitally enhanced/manipulated images. The research team notes that while camera technologies attempt to account for “real-world” lumin...

MAT Open House Review Visiting the open house tonight reminded me of why I want to be an art major. Being able to see the incredible work that fellow students and faculty of UCSB have been developing was very inspiring and a great opportunity for me as an aspiring photographer/digital arts oriented...

The Lake & Stars Advertisement http://imageshack.us/a/img37/136/45062214.jpg These two ads are for the lingerie company, “The Lake & Stars”. Their content spurred much controversy in the media, and related interviews and articles can be found under “sources” of this post. Linguistic: The linguistic...

"Movement" as a word conjures up equally the artistic and the scientific. The dancer, the athlete, the beating heart, the gallops of a horse's hooves, the tracings of a figure through space—all can suggest a simultaneous desire to capture and to analyse. - Stephen Mamber, "Marey, the analytic, and ...

Blade Runner : In director Ridley Scott's science fiction film Blade Runner , Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a special police agent responsible for tracking down machine made humans known as “replicants,” and executing them before they cause harm on Earth. The replicants, created by the Tyrel...

“Camera obscura,” a term invented by German astronomer Johannes Kepler, translates into “darkened room,” descriptive of the dark box in which a small pinhole is used to allow light to pass through and project an upside down image on the opposite surface. Variations of the camera obscura have existed...