Media Arts and Technology

Live Sculpting Live sculpting is a user controlled interactive art piece using modified electric skin to rebuild the muscles on a real human into the "ideal" body type. (Electronic skin is a small, (postage stamped sized), discreet, device that adheres to skin and relays information back to a comput...

http://www.technologicaladvances.net/future-technology/future-technology-cyborgs/ For my final Project I plan on using the synthetic skin we discussed in class to turn myself into a living, breathing sculpture. i plan on integrating viewer interaction by giving them a certain amount of control over...

Forensic Facial reconstruction http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00206/text_pti_facial_reconstruction.htm This technology, which only used to rely on the hands, now is incorporating 3-d imaging technology to reconstruct the faces of unidentifiable corpses using the skeletal information. This allow...

http://www.renga.com/rengeiza_e/index.htm The first piece that caught my attention was Ren-Gei-Za Talk. This is an art collaborative made up by artists who met on the web and interact on the web. They pieces create are all internet based and they are constantly pushing and challenging each other to...

Legrady Article Authority of the image: Legrady discusses the misnomer of accepting photographs as neutral documentations of history. The photographic image originally gained its authority by juxtaposing itself with painting in the 1860’s. The superior resemblance to nature that photographs introduc...

Noah's Arch Revisited artz redo.jpg Attributes: 1. Formally there is an arch that can be found in each photo, in most of the photos multiple arches can be found. 2. There is a consistent color scheme in each photo. We find a warmly colored arch, generally orange or beige, fully encompassed by a cont...

http://1adt.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Creative-NBA-National-Basketball-Association-Print-Ads-15.jpg The advertisement I chose to discuss is a 2008 NBA playoffs promotional ad. The advertisement is split vertically in half; the left side depicting Kobe Bryants face and the right side featuring ...

On of the primary arguments in Mambers article is that the work of Marey should not be viewed as a stepping stone to something greater, but as an artistic and scientific happening in its own right. Artists such as Duchamp did not look at Mareys work and seek to improve it, instead it was their muse ...

The Camera Obscura can be and should be seen as one of the first steps on the road to modern day photography, as its ultimate goal is simply to capture an image. What interested me about this assignment was seeing how the camera Obscura had entered into pop culture the same way modern day photograph...