Art&Technology

  “Virtual reality is a term much subject to confusion. All synthetic worlds generated by computers could be considered virtual worlds; indeed, fictional worlds of all kinds—for example, those created by literature, theater, cinema, or art—can be considered virtual realities. In contemporary discourse, however, the term virtual reality is most often applied to experiences generated by computers that simulate sensual cues of physical reality more closely than that generated only on a screen and by regular speakers.” Idea, I want to create my own version of virtual reality. I’m approaching The VR reading again because I feel the project I made was slightly convoluted and hard to understand. What intrigues me about this is the idea of having space be filled with human forms, that don’t exist, or don’t contain a human. I want to create these forms mimicking our internet usage. education vs leisure  Myron Krueger asserts that the shaping of artificial worlds is amoral...

What really interests me about this idea of internet... is how we can not see touch or grasp it.  I think what would be really interesting is representing ourselves using technology.  By creating ghostly like forms of what is imagine our use of the internet to be.    This would be life size sculptures. There would be multiples.  And they would vary on what topics that were commenting on.    I want to revisit this idea of VR. I want to bring what we cant see into the literal world with my own forms of the sculptures seen below. 

Caroline, MadT  Algorithm of spottify music based on her listening patterns http://carolineac.blogspot.ca/2018/02/february-28-algorithmic-art.html   link to her blog How deep does an artist need to go to claim control of the process? [...] The extent to which artists understand and can control technologies is a perennial issue in technological and scientific art" (317) What she was looking at was the idea of how far does she need to change this work in order to call it her own. dealing with themes of appropriations. Its the last songs she listed to. she limited it to 4 songs and responded to what this spottily album was giving her. she was thinking of how you relate to technology and how you can be in control when really you are not.  I was interested in the idea of using something as abstract as an algorithm to manifest my own artistic interest (pop music and how it relates to escapism and our obsession with repetition). ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr0dR2MYx-Q&feature=youtu.be   this link is the time lapsed version of the drawings and features the final product at the end if the clip https://youtu.be/awo6_RxuadQ  nancys instructions with Liz blinfolded https://youtu.be/gsWHmVAn2zU  lizs instructions with Nancy blindfolded what is a robot? that is the main question. the reasing describes it by different sources in different ways Karel capek in the 1917 short story- obligatory work or servitude, artificial humanoid machine created in great numbers for a soarce of cheap labour websters- an auitomatic device that perfoms functions normally ascribed to humans or a machine in the form of a human- repetive tasks robot insittiute of america - programammable, multifunctional manipulators designed to move material parts, tools through varied programmaed motions. an interesting point brought up in the reading is how the things that really seperate us from robots is how qu...

These pieces speak to the idea of the virtual 3d world because they showcase a state of altered perception. Im unsure if I like the colored version or not better. The interplay between paint and photograph has this almost photo shopped feel relating this captured moment in memory back to technology.  The paint has this way of clouding a photograph, blurring this idea of memory. Each of these photographs was taken from my childhood, but my perception of this time, of what was actually happening in these photographs is blurred by my memory. The paint acts as a physical representation of what i remember about them. The color choices of the paint was meant to be very artificial, meant to be fake. the passage of time always changes our understanding of a moment. much like a childhood game of telephone. some questions raised- What really is our reality but memory. How do we alter our own perceptions of our memories? what is a photograph but a map of our own reality. What I am ...