Metamedia

The development of metamedia and working out of "meatspace" is a relatively new yet already very helpful addition to my art and art in general for mainly two reasons. One reason is financially. It's a lot easier to create digital paintings and sell prints rather than buying materials and creating a new piece every time. This makes art more readily available to the public and circulated faster. I am of there personal belief that the more art there is the better. While i don't consider drawings and paintings antiquated or obsolete, it's reasonable to say that digital media has made art accessible to someone who doesn't have a lot of money. Another reason is  the truly limitless opportunities created with digital media. I didn't even know that new media was a real art style let alone a degree. (I was really artistically ignorant before college, I blame my high school) There were combinations of visual and audio art that i couldn't even imagine. I went to the Aurora light show in Dallas a couple months ago and i saw a great example. It was a projection of a woman on strands of pink fabric dancing while a track of her singing that has been altered to a lower pitch played. It blew my mind to find out that this piece came from UNT. I changed my major from Drawing and Painting to New Media shortly after.I'm honestly grateful to whatever cosmic art god allowed for the development of a media beyond the tangible.

week 1

As the electronic devices improve over the years, the media grow, too. It change into different things and goes different path in the media. New function were add to programs and software like in Photoshop.The function cut, copy, and paste it is use in digital media. And media change from only use paper, paint, ink, and more to using computer software to create it.

Blog Post #1

The article by Lev Manovich was a bit long winded. Some of the terms that were used required some further study. However, some of the metaphysical displayed data that was spoke about was really interesting to read. I had this Cyberdyne feel when i was reading simply because this article puts technology in a more real life perspective and to read how fast technology has grown is both exciting and frightening. On a lighter note, data being represented as a medium in a more "artistic sense" is a new form of creativity for me. You can now have a digitization of most aspects of art without leaving your desktop, which I find to be fascinating.

Understanding Metamedia

From what I understood from this reading, performing a simple command in software are actually far more complex. Commands such as "cut and paste" and "search" are examples of simple yet complex functions. As technologies rapidly advance and become more capable of performing various tasks, technology becomes a medium for consumption. I connected this reading to computer applications in art by the easy usage of the "cut and paste" function across the numerous types of media creating software. Content creators can sample others' work or their in work. We live in a time were we remix; remixing not only exists just in music, but in just about all kinds of media.

Manovich Reading-Michelle Greene's response

    Although a lot of the terminology went over my head, I think the evolution of technology described in this article is fascinating. The subdivisions of techniques as reenactments of physical processes and new software techniques that work with digital data in general better explains how advanced yet still very young the technological field is. I especial appreciated the moments where Manovich referenced simply understood processes such as the cut and paste. 

Understanding Metamedia

The concept of the "Software Takes Command" was very interesting and it gave myself, the reader so many things to consider. Metamedia is easily relatable to metaphysics in an art sense. Once you understand how something works wholistically, much like a computer, you can relate that to several things around us. Art through digital mediums has and will further explain that concept in a more broader form as the future progresses. Art whether it be the visual or audio teaches humanity. Understanding that all things work a certain way for a specific way is a great realization because that only leaves one to suggest that the ideal of aesthetics (art) will soon one day be understood and human's can empathize with each other through the education of the arts. I am a firm believer that the art's can and will educate humanity on how to love one another and survive as a civilization. After growing up as an obsessive video-game nerd for so long, metamedia/metaphysics begins to become more of a easier concept to wrap my mind around because I've been in a computer generated world bending the rules all along just to reach an objective. Now that that power to bend the rules in the digital realm exist today with programs & technology are more prominent, I'm more than excited to do some "rule-breaking" in the Computers Applications in Art course.

Unerstanding Metamedia

The improvement of technology reflects our need as humans evolve. We strive for the creation of a better life. This may be the underlying reason to improve communication, and in this case information. The evolution of computer software and programs evolved at a rapid pace to meet our demand for a more efficient life. Manovich points out the inventions of IPhones and tablets and their easy access to shopping, books, and music. However this evolution led way to a formally nonexistent form of media or new media. A new way of expressing ones self.  There is the question of whether this “stimulated media” is more convenient than traditional ways of making art. In my opinion this “new media” is beneficial and needs to be appreciated.