Media Arts and Technology

I did my research project on Ken Goldgberg. He incorporates new technology into all of his work, using computers to maintain gardens, measure fault lines, and construct microscopic architectural models. He is an intriguing artist because although he uses cutting edge technology, he is not afraid to ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKlk2S7mq2U For the last project, I wanted to talk about trying to control chaos and derive meaning from it. I picked all of my subject matter from videos that had accumulated on my computer throughout the years. I saw this as embodying a semi-chaotic quality, as I was...

For this project, I tried to let the shapes and colors of the images I chose speak louder than the concepts they represent. In order to start this process, I chose most of my images from the website http://www.stumbleupon.com . This website generates links, videos, pictures, and other information ba...

Elkins p. 51-62 The first portion of the Elkins reading focuses primarily on the idea of formlessness and blur as prevalent elements within the image that greatly affect the interpretation of the subject matter. Formlessness was originally defined by Aristotle, and later by Kant, as “a state of mat...

This is the redone version of this project. For my subject matter, I used images from a photography project that I completed last quarter. For that project, I emailed 35 of my friends and asked them to take a picture of their surroundings using the webcams on their computers. It wasn't mandatory tha...

Within the article by Leon Harmon, the concept that interested me most was the limit to which an image could be distorted while maintaining recognizable elements. Within their study, it turned out that the minimum resolution that allowed for identification of the image was 16 by 16 squares. What is ...

"Collective Brain" mind uploading and neuroimaging technologies The Collective Brain utilizes the hypothetical process of mind uploading, in which an individual's brain is mapped in great detail and copied to a computational device. This process creates an artificial brain that would theoretically b...

1. Roam EO http://mysiteh1.com/~u815752/images/roameo-pup.jpg This is a technology that helps enable pet owners to find lost pets. The system consists of a collar that is placed on the animal, and a locating device that tracks the chip that is placed within the collar. The locating device has a scr...

1. Stelarc, "Extra Ear Project" http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2009/10/09/1255131951-stelarc_stelios_arcadious_s.jpg Stelarc is an artist who had a prosthetic ear surgically implanted in his arm. This ear was also capable of growing - with the artist's own stem cells. A fully function...

Within the article "Marey, the analytic, and the digital", there are various interesting ideas which make the work of Etienne-Jules Marey more comprehensible and relevant to the development and evolution of digital art. The author primarily distinguishes Marey's work as separate and, in many ways, e...