Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Homework Reading Responses

The Artist of the Future Is a Technologist

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.12/holtz.html

First of all...It urks me to know that there are people out there that think that computers cannot be used for art. The snooty people of the populace who look at the amateurs that create awesome and creative pieces are judging the populace according to their standards of what art is and what art isn't. I don't know why, but these people are the types of people that piss me off extensively and really don't know what art is. The close minded reaction to changes in technology and the growing advances of them have given our world a new way to look at art and how things work.

Skeptics will say that digital artists don't have the same aesthetic vigorousness as the traditional great masters.

Bullshit. They have the same damn motivation as any other artist out there, they just have a different medium in which they can do it.

Will we have fewer deep thinkers in the future because people no longer have the attention span to read someone like Henry James?
Kids who grow up in information spaces using nonlinear tools like Perspecta, and those brought up on MTV's subsecond splices, perhaps won't know how to use a pen to write a story from A to B. But they will have the skills to do 10 things at once and create something where people will say, "Holy shit, that's amazing!"

Hmmm. I could say that is true, but really I can't. Its like only judging someone with black hair and blond hair. I really think it all depends on how someone grows up, how they learn and adapt to the world around them that effects their way of creative exploration especially in regards to the computer and new technology. MTV was the beginning age of computers, and most of the people since then who have gotten a computer, have adapted far better to the technology then those who didn't have them before. The newer generations are popping out knowing the knowledge there is to adapt easily with the technology.

Technology: Beast Burden, or Blessing?

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/technology-beast-burden-or-blessing

The world out there for an artist or a student trying to learn the software available to them, to me, is dog eat dog world. In other words, I am being snarky and saying too bad sucks for you. I can get the basics, but from an early age I have always been trying to learn a program from scratch. Here and there I have a hard time that I need a teacher to help give out the basics, but once she explains them all, I am able to explore and go off to my own devices. Illustrator and now Flash are those types of programs. I now feel like I am an advanced user of Illustrator, while still in beginner mode of Flash. The knowledge is coming to me easily... but I feel like I can definitely get by now with a better explanation and understanding of the program. Other than that I definitely feel the 'i need help' all the time student brings down the class and the lectures that are presented to the students. In my opinion I think its adequate to say that its possible to get by on the basics and adapt to the technology and programs. For example... over the years man has had to adapt to technology and has done so adequately. This is the same concept now. People are just having a hard time doing it now because they are so used to their lives and happy enclosed bubbles that when they pop and enter a new environment, they have NO IDEA what to do or how to adapt.

I could rant more on these two subjects, but maybe for a later time.

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