Media Arts and Technology

The research I did last week was on reconstructions of internal projections of the mind. There is much research being done on this subject all over the world, and more specifically at the UC research institutes. UC Santa Barbara has a brain imaging research center which conducts all types of researc...

Research for Final Project Art130: The research I am doing for the final project is centered on brain imaging and reconstruction. UCSB Brain Imaging Center, University of California, Santa Barbara http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/news/bic_01-2004.php At UCSB there is a research center for studying “mind sc...

Computer Depiction and Non-Photorealistic Rendering by MIT CSAIL Computer Graphics Group There is much study being done on the abilities of computer programming in creating new manners with which to create art. For example, the “Programmable Style for NPR Line Drawing” research being done by MIT stu...

“Aesthetic Primitives of Images for Visualization” written by Gabriele Peters lays out the six most fundamental elements in aesthetics in an easy-to-grasp manner. These primitives are not just important in making an image interesting and beautiful just to be interesting and beautiful, but they are i...

In Roland Barthes’ article “Rhetoric of the Image”, he lays out three messages one can gather from an image. Here I will examine a professional ad and a personal snapshot using his three message system. http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/airwick_bucket_1.jpg The Linguistic message: In this ad, th...

“Crucial to this method was his technique of mapping points and trajectories, so that what unfolds over time in an image is another form of the trace– a series of lines and points superimposed as it were, over the likeness of the body producing them, the superimposition becoming so dominant as to ta...

Alicia Crismali October 6, 2012 As the medium of photography has developed, the ways in which the image effects the human population has been changed greatly. As the years have passed, taking photographs has become a very plausible past time, hobby, or career for anyone, not just the wealthy or high...

Alicia Crismali October 2, 2012 The camera obscura is a device that has been used for thousands of years. Aristotle, one of ancient Greece's most important philosophers, discovered the use of the main principles of the camera obscura from a hole in a tent: he saw how when the light passed through th...