Hot and Cold Media

To define hot and cold media, you will have to relate it to old and new ways of technology and ways of doing things. What makes a media hot is all the small humane things that collectively add a element of realism such as body language and emotion. Cold media is more technology driven that takes those humane reactions away and simplified it for efficiency reasons.

Media Hot and Cold

Categorizing media as hot and/or cold almost seems like categorizing media as old or new. I thought it was interesting that cold media that involves high participation is tribal. I really agree with the statement Margaret Mead said about keeping up with the machine. Technology has been rapidly developing in recent years, maybe a little to rapidly. But I do agree with Mead that it's okay to be moving at a fast pace, but only we completely move forward and society and culture keep up the pace. Hot and cold media must be balanced is maybe what this article is saying.

Hot and Cold Media- Pierce Hunt

Through the entirety of the reading, one phrase of McLuhan's jumped out at me. That "the spectacle of brutality used as a deterrent can brutalize. Brutality in sports can humanize under some conditions, at least." In comparison to the attitude of an eminent nuclear bomb, the society of McLuhan's became desensitized. Which explains his joking expression alludes to international politics just being a sport.

week 5

Media is divide into two categories, which is hot and cold. The media is base the cultures of the area. Cold media need a lot information and participation. Hot media do not need a lot information and participation.

Media Hot and Cold

Mcluhan divides up media into the two categories of hot and cold and describes how they differ. One may see this list of different types of media that he has divided up and may think one side of the spectrum is more important than the other. He talks about how hot and cold media play off of one another, and how one just wouldn't work without the other. He compares hot and cold media to meaning and effect and how that also correlates with life and death. It's not about whether one medium is more important than the other or if it has more of a meaning, but how it effects the viewer or the situation. Media is going to be effected by how it is used and what works best with its surroundings. You can't have life without death, just like you can't have hot or cold, they are both in a constant battle with one another but somehow work together.

Hot & Cold Media

Hot media are those that extend a single sense.Hot media does not require as much participation as cold media because it gives the viewer everything to interpret the message. Cold media require much more participation because some information may not be apparent to the viewer. Cold media leave much to the person experiencing it thus requiring much room for interpretation. The amount of information presented, visual or otherwise, determines whether a medium is hot or cold. A telephone is an example of a cold medium as stated in the reading because ti is low definition and only require one sense to be received. The listener must fill in what is left out during a phone call as opposed to am in person lecture, in which the speaker would be in person.  Facial expressions, gestures, and other cues are available in person leaving little requirement for participation of the viewer, making lecturing a hot medium.

Hot and Cold media

Marshall Mcluhan brought forth a notion that I think we all realize, but do not want to accept.  He starts his argument by pointed out the differences between “hot and cold media”. A hot media according to his article is the “state of being filled with data”, like a photograph.  Cold mediums are defined as something that has little information in it, like a cartoon. In the past. Electric technology brought feelings of anxiety, it was unknown. Now it creates a sense of boredom. It seems as if we live in an age where society delights in filling in someone’s personality, like Calvin Coolidge (31). We are like mere cartoons with no content, until someone comes along and complete our personalities for us. America has created a dependency on cool media with no real content, in turn we have created for ourselves an era of cool or low literacy. This article forced me to open my eyes, and see what our nation has become. It is important that we loosen our dependency on cool means of communication.

Hot & Cold Media

I'm still having a slightly difficult time understanding hot and cool media but from what i gather, hot media is specific to things that don't require a lot if any, audience participation. These are mediums such as movies, and records. Cool media refers to media such as tv and radio where not all of the information is present. I think this is an important factor for an artist, especially a visual artist, for how they are going to publicize their work. Who do you want to see it? Who is your target audience? If you remember these terms and how they affect the way art and media flow through our culture you can have a better understanding for how to present it to the public. This is my practical application anyway.

Week 5: Marshall McLuhan ( Kierra M.)

A hot medium requires less participation from the user than the cold media; like a movie to television, one has all of the required information and the other has information that you have to find. "It is the grosser and participant forms of art that seem "hot," and the abstract and literary forms that seem "Cool"!"". Meaning that the abstract act requires you to think and to find the concept of the meaning behind it while a participating form allows you to already know what the purpose is; causing it to be hot. McLuhan compared the concept to other things, including the TV show Scandal which has a mixture of hot and cold media, by giving you suspenseful moments and having you already know what is about to happen. In conclusion, the difference between hot and cold media is the fact that hot media is something you already know and cold media is something that you have to figure out. This article was interesting to me because it gave a new wording on the terms hot and cold.

Week 5 | Marshall McLuhan

The choice to categorize mediums in a hot to cold, high to low range gives an interesting and different perspective to how best to describe any given piece of information. These categories give way to a better understanding of emerging mediums, such as technology, or even information in general.  Color can be used to prescribe a certain level of difficulty, which I find to be fascinating. I'm not fully in favor or agree with the "city slicker", and jazz being "hot colors". The association of color towards these two subjects I feel have the opposite effect. Jazz, historically speaking, has been known to be played in dim lit and cool colored bars and the "city slicker" has the archetype of being a smooth and "cool guy". In any case, this color theory is a great way to develop a narrative pallet for any piece of work.    

Hot and Cold Media

The article itself is cold media because it took me so long to read through the article to develop an immediate decoding of what “hot media” and “cold media” meant without having to translate the word “hot” from “uninvolved” or “less participating” which is what it really meant. Hot already has many connotations including temperature, attractiveness, and trendiness. I’m not sure if there's any necessity to rename what the author is really calling “involved media” and “not involved” media. Using the terms “long media” and “short media” would also work because that would refer to the amount of decoding the receiver would need to do. It is important to understand the differences between media and their perceptions, but there doesn't need to be a new language developed in order to discuss it.

Media hot and cold

Marshall McLuhan explained what examine hot of cold medium in media in a sense that can be viewed easily by others. It is interesting that media can be considered a cold and hot media and pertain to what type of thing that are going on the make that a equivalent. It's interesting how McLuhan discusses media that is not directly related to art but more towards context and information.  It is in all types of media and can be considered and looked and differently in all cultures. That is what I found most interesting in this article.

Menkman reflection

As mentioned in class, the Kanye music video uses glitch art, but in a predicted and purely aesthetic methodology. The glitch itself had no statement but became a special effect in the music video. The video falls under Menkman's definition of 'conservative glitch art', which was that the creator was more focused on the end product than the uniqueness of the act of glitching itself. Though glitch artists may be offended by the Kanye video, the video still captures the aesthetic qualities of glitch art and therefore is still part of that art genre. The appropriation of artistic styles is not a new concept and is not limited to glitch art. Without that appropriation and creation of a mainstream style many today wouldn't know about glitch art at all. If glitch art remained as a relatively unknown genre of art, would the political and social implications many early glitch artists conveyed in their work even be discussed? Without some form of mainstream awareness, the artist does not have much power or influence over their potential audience. If nobody knows about their art, the impact of the artist's message is hindered.

Week 5: Media Hot and Cold

The new and interesting aspect of describing a media as hot or cold really intrigued me. Marshall McLuhan thoroughly explained what constitutes a hot of cold medium and this truly makes complete sense. Originally, I had never thought of the TV as a cold media that brings forward little context. It's interesting how McLuhan discusses media that is not directly related to art but more towards context and information. Radio, TV, movies, etc. are used internationally and this essay really opened up my understanding of those means of communication and information and how effective they can be in certain parts of the world or even in different cultures. America is heavily reliant on TV and movies to communicate an agenda, but a developing country could be just fine without the usage of TVs. This article, in my opinion, was very informative and educational in regards to how effective the means of communication can be in certain areas of the world.

Marshall Luhan

Hot and cold media can effect different cultures depending on whether the cultures themselves are hot or cold. As an artists you have to decide what medium you want to portray your message through and who is the target audience. Hot media can cool down to where it becomes a thing of the past but although it is cool for one culture it may be too hot for another. There is a difficult balance that has to be achieved so people don't feel bored or anxious by the media output.

I didn't understand what I read but glitch can be use for art. That you can control it someway and you glitch for a reason.

Glitch Studies

So far the lessons we have learned associated with glitch art translate in a really important way. i catch myself all the time following the "rules" way too much and end up using something cliched or trite in my imagery and personally, i would rather my work be an atrocity to god than be "ok". I have always loved the Pollock emphasis on the experience when making art but i tend to forget that when the pressure of displaying something starts to build.
Since learning how to glitch i've glitched just about every childhood picture of me and my sister and i wanted to make a habit of destroying something every day, whether its small like a jpeg or throwing a ceramic egg at a wall until i have whatever shape i have at the end. I think glitch study has helped me unlearn a lot of unneeded structure in creating important works of art that occurs when you have a school system created by fascists. I hope to destroy many more things and see what can rise from the ashes (be it literally or figuratively).

Glitch Studies Manifesto

I found the format and information in this article very interesting and fun to read. The pauses created by the format made for a dramatic reading that you find in manifestos from the futurists but not in the same way as they are physically set up. Like other manifestos, Rosa pushes for change and encourages the artist to dispute the current mind set of glitches as accidents and push them to their full potential as an art form.
" The essence of glitch art is therefore best understood as a history of movement and as an attitude of destructive generativity: it is the procedural art of non con-formative, ambiguous reformations." (Menkman, 6)
Overall I really enjoyed this readings encouragement to push the boundaries of glitch art formally and politically.

Glitch Art Manifesto

The art of the glitch focuses on the aesthetics of glitching through the use software and programs. The concept of glitch is interesting seeing as it advocates the creation of something new, through the manipulation of data within programs. An interesting comment from the text was when it was mentioned that "In the beginning it was calm... Then humans built technologies and the first forms of mechanical noise were born." From there, to my understanding, by the flourishing of technology, the use and practices were bound to be unique, glitch art is a product breeder from the ongoing progression of technology evidently reaching where it is today.

Glitch Studies Manifesto

Glitch Studies Manifesto presents the idea that glitches can create something new. According to the article, they skip the process of creation and by destruction but create an entirely new design. What is normally considered as rejection or flaw too many can turn around and be welcomed as a new. To the author, apparent noise and breaks all have meaning, and can form new patterns. I agree with that statement, and believe that some glitches in themselves can form new and interesting designs.

Glitch art emphasizes the destruction of the primary source. It is interesting how this form of destruction is viewed as creation. While making my own glitch art I appreciated how there was no control over the changes that were being made to the pictures. The art itself took on its own life and it allowed for the art to be very unique.

Post #2 Glitch Rosa

Glitch art is a art that really can capture the essence of modern times. It can create a narrative that gets you thinking about how things in your life really are or it can create a visual aesthetic that other mediums of art cannot really do.

The Rosa Menkman – Glitch Studies Manifesto article breaks down the glitch culture and how technology has a huge part to play in it. Also, Menkman hinted at the idea that just because something is destroyed, doesn't mean it is over. It is making the most creative of something that did not seem to be there for creative reasons. It is really parallel to the essence of art. Art is always changing and trying to go against the grain and the glitch art theory and community prides itself on the advancement of technology and the hiccups of it and turning it into visual arts. 

Week 3: Rosa Menkman (Kierra M.)

The glitch is a creation that can tell a story or have strong significance to something. The variations from one to another causes it to be almost individualist, the ruptures and the colors and images that it creates sparks a mode of thinking to dive more into the creation than to just watch it and think nothing of it. I enjoyed the article as it gave a better outlook to the glitch theory and why it could be an important and unique work of art. This work of art can convey many emotions and thoughts just by one work of art. I think the glitch is interesting and fun to observe and I hope this movement continues or even progresses into something more.

Glitch Studies Manifesto

I really enjoyed the aspect of destruction also being creation. Glitch art is not just an error in an image but rather a new kind of art that specializes in destruction becoming creation. In our last exercise, we experimented with the different languages of an image and actually destroying the image by changing up the language. One might think that this process of changing the language will destroy the photo, but it actually created a new aspect of the photo. Although I did not like the layout of the article (thanks to my perfectly kerned and leaded graphic design self), I enjoyed the article as whole in terms of the central idea that destruction can be creation.

Rosa Menkman Glitch Studies Manifesto - Juan Villagomez

Glitches are recognized for being mistakes often created unintentionally. The result is usually user error, but the software starts to deteriorate after a while causing malfunctions to surface. This concept of failing over time reminds me about this U.K. based artist, William Utermohlen, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Before he died in 2007 he created a self-portrait series over 5 years documenting the steady decay of his mind.  Much like human degeneration, most glitches occur in a similar way, the hardware demagnetizes and the software gets affected.

            In most times when a person creates a glitch intentionally he or she leaves the result up to chance, inputting variables and expecting an interesting effect. Rosa Menkmen describes this kind of activity as creating a filter, and argues that because this action was intentional the outcome is no longer a glitch to the creator. Even though some people know about the filters, doesn’t mean it’s not a glitch to the viewer. The style becomes known as glitch art and works of art start to reflect the consequences of the computer.

Glitch Studies Manifesto

Menkman said that "the perfect glitch shows how destruction can change into the creation of something original. It can change into something that is more creative and has more of a meaning than it intentionally meant to have. A simple glitch, whether accidental or purposeful can change the whole image and provoke more creative thoughts. A glitch can be seen as the destruction of an image, just as a light leak seems to damage a photo, but both ca actually make in image more appealing. What is so interesting about glitch art and its relation to light leaks is that they are both unpredictable, and the result is more satisfying when its not intentional.

Glitch (week 3)

     This article on how glitch media adds an essence of two similar ideas separated by a noiseless channel of fictional creative media in the arts. The glitch movement has a whole new movement in the art now due to the open source of the internet and can be sorted out in all ways. Computer literacy is growing every day and due to that increase in ability the creation of new media will never stop changing just like how glitch art was created and was bought up to be like something that viewers have never seen before. This transparency of altering data is real and can now be easily done by almost anyone but it is how it can be altered to be made out in the new media world and what can be used to create that new fictional counterpart to coexist with each other.

Blog Post #2 Week 3

The Glitch Studies Manifesto by Rosa Menkman reminded my of the book House Of Leaves a bit, just how the typography was set up. The opening to the article as well as the first paragraph seem to be these two very similar, almost parallel, yet separate ideas of transparency and the "noiseless channel".  With advancement of technology, transparency becomes both easier and more illusive. With more people becoming more familiar with technology, we see a rise in computer literacy as well as the advancement of "technological blockades", that disable both privacy and transparency.

I really enjoyed the line, "In the beginning there was noise". The paragraph reminded me of Genesis, specifically the story behind the Christian beliefs of creation. It was this brief narration of the creation and evolution of pixels and the technological advancements. I really liked how the author would have this bolder quotes and then went through the actual thoughts behind these almost statement like declarations.  "Realize that the gospel of glitch art also tells about new norms implemented by corruption"(Menkman).

Week 3 Post- Pierce Hunt

I found this reading really enjoyable to read as it captures glitch aesthetic/design in the text. Aside, the second page refers to the rejection of standard media which I found to be an allusion to the early 1900's Dada/futurism movement in Northern Europe. While the early dada artist were limited by their generation and technology, the glitch art movement made possible by the Internet and open-source data can reach a whole new meta.