Friday Class Activities
1. In-class writing:
- Reflection: role of technology/media related to art for you as student (studying) and producer
— fastwrite: post on your blog (entry can be draft/saved and private if preferred)
2. Ideas for Group-Curating Topics/Focus
- Discuss in class and post ideas proposed in comments here
(initial list, to add/modify over weekend)
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PBS Digital Studios: “The Art of Data Visualization” video (2013)
- — note: see video description for links to examples shown
The effects of piracy on:
– the entertainment industry
– the software industry
– soon: physical goods? (3D printing)
Visual Design in Social Networking Platforms
Maybe I’m a little lost — and off base, but a was hoping to curate Sketch Comedy or Stand-Up online.
I am interested in printmaking and illustration, so I would like to do a project that incorporates those art mediums. I don’t really have a more specific idea about a project yet…
Social Media as global marketplace.
The internet black market.
Legal and illegal internet activities, cyber-crime.
Silkroad.
Representations of digital behaviors and activities online. Will we ever see a movie/ TV show of people reading/ browsing the internet?
I think we should have a research project to look in to what may be the biggest, recent technological advancement may be in the visual arts. It could be how we stream movies and binge watch television shows. I think this is a very interesting topic because this medium provides zero interruption and gets rid of commercialization, and cable providers.
How TV has changed in the way that we can watch the episode a day later for free or even go on illegal websites to watch shows or movies. Netflix has eliminated viewers on tv which eliminates viewers to shows and commercials. Ex. Orange is the New Black is a netflix series that elimates commercials.
How do the advancements of social media affect peoples behavior through education or relationships of people today? The research of how the internet has changed how people communicate, ex. how people are afraid to talk on the phone so they text or use a different type of social media.
I would love to do this. Might also get to curate a little bit of media under new Net Neutrality guide lines!
» Topics for Group Curating Proposed thus far:
— re: entertainment, software, physical goods (3D printing)
** We still need ideas/suggestions from a good number of folks, as well as qualifying/modifying many of these (in relation to visual art and disciplinary discourse)…
→ remember, each group will be able to refine focus and develop/expand/vary topics as semester progresses. Also, each group will likely foreground technology/media (or at least implicitly, given “network curating”).
» protip: probably best to start with your artistic field/medium, then consider particular aspects (“subsets”) of contemporary topics:
trends/movements, genres, activities, artists/groups, locations, delivery (installation, projection, apps, tech/software), circulation, reception.
— The latter aspects each group will likely cover at some point, as the discourse (the way the art form/medium gets “talked about” and written, online) related to your group curation.
The primary and initial focus of the group work is just documenting what you observe (and find, deliberately seeking while also browsing) in your experience, research, courses, extra-curricular / prof. activities, etc.
Accessible use of visual art. (i.e. music, pixelation art, movies, literature, quotes).
Make the most creative and interactive user friendly blog site competition.
How design can impact a decision, or create a mood based on how it is displayed/interpreted, good or bad? **hopefully that makes sense.
I’m not sure if this would qualify, but since dance is my “art form” I think it would be interesting to look at how dance is represented through film or how it can be changed by the use of technology.
» email exchange with student about group focus idea
“a group examining — documenting, curating, discussing, using — all the recent/new/emerging forms of video
(video of course names a medium and a form, implied here: not simply recorded “amateur footage” of our daily observations, Instagram-style, like concerts attended or whatever we’ll never watch again. Vines are nice exemplar of “amateur footage” edited, by some users, in very stylized way influenced by film cinematographers & editors)
So, curating emerging video forms — everything from Vines to YouTube channels (with quite varied forms, genres, audiences) to new forms (multimedia, interactive, VR, apps, etc?) — is a fine starting point, with opportunities for new directions/developments as the semester progresses“
I am interested in the expressive aspects of mobile content-creation apps. Instagram and tablet-drawing apps for instance. I want to research the democratizing aspects of the smartphone era and how that is going to change art in the future.
http://mikaelanevin.wordpress.com
» protip? this series might help with (refining?) ideas for group curating; browse away! https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/leonardo-book-series
Topic: In what direction is entertainment moving? It seems that blockbusters today are packing more and more visual/emotional stimuli within plot lines in order to keep audiences entertained. Are movies going to keep getting more intense?
Is it possible to have a career in the arts today without an internet presence? Can one resist the influence of the internet?
How art has become interactive and expendable to the user.
» potential group topics
1. Video Forms (trends & tech impact: medium, delivery, cultural forms)
2. “in-person art forms” (e.g. Performance/Installation) & Media/Tech/Networking
3. Interactivity/Tech & Art
4. Network Implications/Ramifications: “participatory culture” broadly
I’ll be in Video Forms group.
Tentative Groups
» Interactivity: Tech+Art
Katy*
John
Nate
Matt
[additional member?]
» Emerging/Recent Video Forms
Gavin
Ian *
Leo
Rick
Stefan
» Fine Arts & Network Media(tion)
Amanda
Brandon
David
Elena
Kayla*
Kathryn
Kendra
* = discussion host / facilitator
I’m also in the video forms group
I am in the video forms group.
Interactivity/Tech & Art
I’m in the video forms group
I am in the Interactivity: Tech+Art group