Art and Technology Final

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Suwannee Hulaween Music Festival Art Installations

Over the weekend, I attended a music festival where there were over 100 amazing art installations. The above pictures are just some of the multiple magnificent pieces. The top picture is an interactive music area, that responds to touch by playing certain sounds depending on how hard you touch the pole. The second piece shows remarkable murals illuminated by multiple colors of light.

I am not exactly sure how to describe the above piece, but it is truly remarkable and very creative!

Performance Art Piece

For my Performance art piece, I chose to record myself hula-hooping with my LED hoop. This is a perfect mixture of art and technology, because hula-hooping can be considered a type of dance, and the LED hula-hoop incorporates technology. I have not been hooping for that long, so my flow is still beginner level, but I enjoy it very much!

3D human art project

For my 3D human art project, I attempted to make a tube that was entirely made of copies of my hands and forearms. In my head the idea was a lot smoother, I just went about doing it the wrong way. If I could go back and re-do this project to make it better, I would.

Flip Book

Useless Product Monologue- THE SCRUB

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21st century technology

The iPhone is one of the most innovated and high-tech pieces of technology today. But how did this piece of electronically advanced technology come to be? We must look back on the original in-home telephone. The basic idea of being able to communicate with one another without sending a letter was most likely the initial idea behind the creation of cell phones in general. However, going in depth to the attributes of the iPhone, which include a camera, games, and internet all reveal the influence of photography, gaming, and computers on the current iPhone we know today. That past technology incorporated into the iPhone reveals the assumed basic need or want of an average consumer. one wants to be able to have a "computer like object" at the tip of their fingers. WHile being able to take pictures, play games, and share this information to one another through texts, calls, or emails, communication at the palm of a person's hand is made possible. None of this would be possible, however, if computers and photography had not been previously established.

Angel de Quinta's "Stage Door"

  I very much enjoyed this blog. I like how Angel reached out to different types of audiences by sharing various types of "summertime"  sung by different artists in different genres. The videos start  out with old-school opera,  working its' way up to more contemporary opera, leading  to classic Janis Joplin, and then a version with a singing man and guitar; this suggests that Angel either has a very broad taste in various types of music, or he just wants to reach out to different types of audiences in hopes that they may find that all types of music can be connected in one way or the other.

Birth and Life of Opera

Although I am not a big fan of Opera, I did find it interesting when the narrator talked about how the origin of Opera came to be.  By combining music, theatre , and poetry and specific lighting, the birth of Opera set the stage for most future types of media today. In addition, the marriage of Henry the fourth that sparked the second opera still relates to the general idea today that fame and "royalty" can act as inspiration for many mediums of media.
         Opera, like any other type of media, tries to evoke any type of emotion from the viewer. However, in comparison to other types of mediums,  Opera  may holds the most power ( depending on who you ask) in evoking emotion from viewers because of the fact that opera combines many different elements, each one being able to provoke a different emotion in different ways.

The World of Wrestling

Although I am not a wrestling fan, and I found this article rather boring- I did enjoy the comparisons of wrestling to that of greek theatre. When the author compares the moves of the wrestler to be exaggerated much like that of greek theatre, I thought it depicted each practice very well. In addition, I thought the article was written very well with great detail as it painted a detailed picture in my head of the actions depicted in the article.

RAUL CUERO- HOW I CAN APPLY THESE COMMENTS TO MY EVERYDAY LIFE

Raul Cuero talks about ways to spark and ignite creativity in his interview. Ways to apply these concepts to my everyday life would be:

• travel as much as possible- the more I see, the more my brain has to work with.
• Raul said "creativity is based on innovation", thus, I  should do things that would not be expected of me. When people expect you to behave a certain way, you are limited.
• Be more innovative in my every day life by analyzing processes and seeing if there are new ways to do things.
• to constantly perceive and observe things in new ways
• be committed to a process without "fear".
• be more intense in my creative process and goal reaching.
• practice whatever interests me. " Learn by doing"