Post #18 - Lecture - Computational Media and Digital Art

We have learned to use technology as our tool, more specifically computer. With a computer, we are able to navigate the internet, save data, create, and manipulate different resources that are at our disposal. Nowadays artists can use computers to create pieces of art just as how they used pencils and paintbrushes, there are applications in computers that can be used in order to create these projects. As digital art gets more and more popular with modern artists old techniques may have faded a bit, along with allowing new kinds of art styles to emerge. Conceptual art allowed artists to think of an idea and be able to create something new and that could be interpreted in many different depending on what the artist may want to portray this allowed artists to play with different things such as movement and sound. Kinetic sculptures also became more popular as art started to have an abstract definition as to what it could be. John Whitney was one of the "Fathers of Computer Dynamics" as he truly began to experiment on how to make art with computers. Whitney started to work more and more on computer animation first creating the graphic that is in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Vertigo, along with receiving the nomination for Best Animated Short Film for "Matrix". In EAT both engineers and artists came together to make pieces of combined digital, visual, and classic art; creating a new kind of art. With technological advances, film/video became more popular allowing artists and filmmakers to have more creative flexibility by being able to edit, especially with the popularity of Youtube on the rise in the early 2000s.

Discussion

Electronic Media and Performance

I believe the self-destruction of Banksy's painting was a way for him to give a certain meaning to what art is and how it should be appreciated or even interpreted, I think he wanted to get a reaction from the sudden destruction to what would have been a $1.4 million sale. Banksy also shows the way in which he likes to convey emotions and even irony through his spray paint artworks, not only by having clear messages that can be seen in the art but also in the places and locations that he chooses to put these artworks, along with the audacity of doing it in public areas in midday yet still staying with his hidden identity.