Well Obama got elected. I didn’t vote for him but I really hope he can turn this piece of shit economy around and do some good for the country.
The game’s still going
add anything you want to the picture and then repost the new picture so someone else can add something
some of my early art
funny thing about this one my hand was broken in three places while i was doing it
Net Art theory
What is Art? This is one of the most frequently asked questions. Well what is Art? According to dictionary.com art is the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. It is the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings. This definition is rather broad in viewpoint, so from what I see many things could be considered as art. Painting, sculpture, drawing, screen-printing, the list is very long. For me, and I’m sure many other people, art and creating art, involves the process of time and the artist’s skill and dedication. Since the beginning art started to become documented and categorized, there have been thousands of discussions on what could and could not be considered art.
One very large medium, which was first not considered as art but is today, is photography. Beginning around 1800 photography was invented but it was not considered art until around the 1900s. How did this come about? Well to begin photography had around a one hundred year history. Photography also was considered to have an elegance unmatched by any other works of art; it was pristine, closest medium to perfection. And another reason is it was such a huge advancement in technology and such a prominent medium, that critics could no longer ignore it for not being art.
Now we have come to the age with the emergence of a new medium, the medium of digital media. Digital media encompasses a wide range of computer programs and systems including the newest form of digital media, web art. And just like photography we come to the question is web art really art? First of all what is web art. The creation of images and code on a computer, using computer programs and then put on the World Wide Web for anyone to see or to participate with. The compilation of images using a computer program that is nothing more than code, pixels, electric currents, cables, and storage devices.
This brand new medium, just an infant in age, which would not exist without computers, can it be considered art?
Lets compare web art to photography since photography has already made the trip through history and has been defined as art. First photography had to have a background and history, and has given its predecessors their dues.
Web art has not been around for even fifteen years, and has it given its predecessors their due? Does web art owe something to photography, or even painting for that matter?
Photography is also tangible, you can touch it, feel it, even taste it, if you like licking paper. Web art on the other hand it is not, it only exists in code in a place buried deep in the guts of a computer or in the Internet.
Photography was a huge advancement for its time. It changed the way people viewed the world, and how people think. Web art is not necessarily a huge advancement however it is created from a technology (computers and the internet) that are extremely advanced and have changed how people live their lives, how people think about life, and it will continue to do so.
Photography also involves a process, starting with choosing film, finding that perfect shot, going to the dark room developing the negative, dodging and burning and so on. Painting also involves a process, which is much longer, more difficult and time consuming. Web Art just like painting and photography takes a process to create, using many different computer programs.
Photography is also just a representation of the object that is depicting; it is not a reproduction of the physical object. Web art also copies images but it also does something very important that sets it apart from photography, and that is simulation. It simulates it subject, with a three D space and interaction with the viewer that photography can’t obtain.
Photography captures a still image that is just one moment in time that you will never get back again. This gives photography a lot of its power and impact. Web art can also use a still image to have the same power of impact, however it has the advantage of being a time-based medium as well, utilizing moving objects as well as images. Web art also has the advantage of not just being a time based medium but it can also incorporate sound effects and music as well.
You also have to keep in mind that photography even with it still be used everywhere and daily; it is considered an older medium. I don’t know about what other views are on this but I don’t consider web art to be in no way an older medium. So down the road sixty to seventy years from now how will we look at digital media and web art? Will it last as long as photography has? Will it be nothing more than a chapter in a history book? Will we consider it a true art form or just an outbreak of computer hackers having a field day with Photoshop and the Internet?
So I have laid the facts out. There are some similarities between web art and photography and there are some differences. Have these points given you enough evidence to consider web art as being actual art? Or is it something else entirely?
Book reading
Critical Questions:
1. With the installment of the noncommercial publishing industry how has this impacted the patten world?
2. How many people here see the public domain as legalized piracy?
3. What would be the results, including the econmomy, if the free software movement occurred on a larger scale then it is alreadly?
Main points:
1. The war about copyrights, if left alone will burn out.
2. Extending copyright terms pays off for congress so they continue these extensions
3. It is difficult to make available tto the world a copyrighted project. There is no list of copyright owners.
4. The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from feudalism of these concentraitons, tied to the change in copyright and what it produces.
5. The movement for remaking common sinse begins in the streets, with significant numbers of people with a wide range of skills.
Debate Questions:
1. Should congress continue to extend the existing terms of copyright protection?
2. Who blelieves in the idea of “All rights reserved” and who believes in “No rights reserved” and why?
My web site
So here is the link to my website, first project done in web art, enjoy http://clem.mscd.edu/~msadowsk/
