Media Arts and Technology

"Heartbeat Music Match" using Ultrasound Heartbeat Music Match is an art project proposal that will use the Ultrasound technology outside the context of a hospital. The ultrasound machine will be placed in an exhibit and used to detect the heart rate of a person. With that heart rate, the BPM finder...

Stephen Mamber’s article, Marey, the analytic, and the digital, discusses the influence of Etienne-Jules Marey’s ‘pre-cinema’ chronophotographic gun in the art world. With the tools Marey had developed, he contributed to the realization of the complexity of analyzing physical processes. With Marey’s...

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1. http://www.jamodrum.net/images/JODanim.gif The Jam-O-Drum/CircleMaze exhibit by Blaine is an audiovisual instrument that allows for social engagement and interactive game play. 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbXm6JnGYzU&feature=player_embedded Griduo focuses on live video/audio performance and...

Untitled-1.jpg These images can be categorized by four different classification attributes that homogenize the relationship between each photograph. 1) The first classification attribute of these images is the number of subjects displayed in each photograph. Each photograph of a musical band has fo...

Aesthetic Primitives of Images for Visualization discusses the significant role of images in visualization. Visual aesthetics - color, form, spatial organization, motion, depth, and human body - isolate or exaggerate a process of the visual system. Spacial organization emphasizes the use of the gol...

http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/rhethtml/signifiers/posthuman_200.jpg Art and the Semiotics of Images discusses the language within images and the visual messages that they convey. Images, though they are “mute,” are a mode of meaning, in which the language is a medium to the message. In this ...

Barthes article Response Roland Barthes discusses the various effects of an image, depending on how the viewer interprets and understands each conveyed message. Through a linguistic message, a viewer may construe the implication of an image based on what the artist writes. Depending on the linguist...

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) Moholy-Nagy was a painter and photographer from influenced by constructivism, a post World War 1 movement with angular approaches and geometric abstraction. Maholy-Nagy experimented with the organization of light and shadow, displayed in his painting,"Photogram." Photo...