intro to new media arts
Every Icon, a new media art piece by John F Simon Jr. , which is a visual representation of computer symbols. This work is a white 32 x 32 square grid where each square turns black in until every pattern is completed.For the artwork to run through every pattern it would take around 5 billion…
Roy Lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein was a well renowned American Pop artist from Manhattan, New York and has really made a name for himself in the art industry. He is seen as one of the leading figures in the new art movement, in which his work defines the premise of pop artwork through parody. “M-Maybe” is a…
John F. Simon Jr is multimedia artist and a software art pioneer. His daily drawings inspire his larger pieces of art. In 1999, Simon decided to start the practice of “Divination Drawings”. Basically it was a daily drawing that he would use to meditate. He let his pencil just be guided by the unconscious thought…
PAM on Sofa by Mark Napier In the digital age it is very clear that human nature is able to makes its way into cyberspace. This piece was inspired by the painting of the Venus and the ideas it represents making their way into a prevalent part of the internet. The piece is…
Six Years of Mondays, Jon Thomas and Alison Craighead A man named Graham Smith had been recording the view from his bedroom window for six years, everyday from 6am to 6pm. The video shows every Monday throughout the six years. Every year has a different soundtrack. This piece was really interesting to me because it’s very…
Roy Lichtenstein is one of those artists that everyone knows of but not many people actually know. The work of his that jumped out at me the most was his rendition of Bedroom at Arles (1992). As a fan of Van Gogh’s original painting this work seemed a humorous…
Allan Kaprow: “Fluids” (1967) Allan Kaprow was an American artist most famously known for the development of what we now know as performance arts….
This picture mimics || mocks the current selfie movement. It shows the usual transition after faking certain emotions when in reality being in a different state or mood. The phrase it contains in the manner of snapchat text only makes it a clearer and more direct satire of all those that use their social media…
I believe that this new game engine, Twine, successfully (and easily for the creator) puts the gamer into someone else’s life. Which is what all video games used to do through complicated graphics. Only that Twine achieves it by displaying text and hyperlinks. This possible text based interface is probably why all games are way…
This is my first time approach Twine after I played the game which is “Depression Quest” had been mentioned by the article. It feeled like a pure text fiction game with multiple choose which concerned depression, the whole game experence like making communicaion with your personal doctor about:”Oh you are sort of depressed with this…
Precious Plastics, Dave Hakkens 2013 Precious plastics is a design project started by Dave Hakkens which focuses on providing people with tools to recycle. In order to provide people with these tools Hakkens shares all the blueprints for the necessary machines in order to get started. The machines generally work to break down old and…
Life is Suite (2005) Life is suite project was to reflect the nerve of the body. The sofa was found in the trash with a broken leg and ripped leather. After the sofa was found, it was taking to get painted. The design was digital with screen designs. The idea was to get an object and tell a…