Media Arts and Technology

"VIRTUELECTROKINESIS: EMOTIVE HEADSET" CLICK LINK BELOW TO GO TO MY FINAL PROJECT WEB PAGE http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~amirzaian/TITLE.html Abstract Information: EPOC Headset The head set works is through the software that uses algorithms to quantify brain activity into actions produced either on a c...

1 “Saving Myself” was an artwork involving a Bonsai tree that would copy an image of it self with in the rings created inside of it. Each ring was altered by the climate with in the box that it was grown in therefore controlling the brightness and darkness of the ring. save_col.jpg http://5voltcore...

One of the three technological advances that I found was a military project called the “Exoskeleton Suit.” The Suit was designed by engineers to give soldiers increased stamina and the power to lift heavy weighing objects with more ease. It records and mimics the specific movements of the person wit...

The article by Stephen Mamber dealt with Etienne-Jules Marey’s contribution to the study of movement. He bought forth a new way of perceiving movement in time. In the article there was debate on whether Marey’s chronophotograph was a precursor to the development of video or if it had more implicatio...

These five images all have certain classification attributes, which relates each one to the other. At first glance it is apparent that these images are advertisements of different clothing companies. The first image is an advertisement from the clothing company called H & M, the second is from GAP, ...

The article “Aesthetic Primitives of Images for Visualization” discussed six dimensions of visual aesthetics with in the photograph. The types of visual aesthetics dimensions were color, form, spatial organization, motion, depth, and human body. The specific dimension of an image, which I was intere...

In the article “Art and the Semiotics of Images” there were several ideals which were presented about how images are perceived. The idea that text and image coexisting within the same environment grabbed my attention. The quote with in the article which claimed “text may discreetly assist us in gett...

Response to Barth Article Roland Barth’s article dealt with the idea of how we the viewer perceive images. The three key messages that spoke of were, the linguistic message, the coded iconic message, and the non coded iconic message. The fist message, linguistic, dealt with text in images and how t...

As I went through the information covered in the link on our class web site called Image Overview there were several topics which caught my interest. One was of the various forms of notation, “visual articulation of a concept suggesting further action.” The idea that music could also be translated i...