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Reading Response of the Reading “Computer as Theatre”

There are two ways for medium to attract the audience’s concentration:

1, Introduce more background.

2, Bring new content in and keep giving the audience expectation.

It is a comparable element in terms of the audience’s emotion and it is the key elment of be dramatic.

computer is like a human that u need to speak the language that is understandable for them and vice versa. It is not like only present something for each other but more interactively connected.

fist comes the engineer: Eaglebart

then comes the psychologist who focus on What a person is trying to do rather than What should be displayed on the screen. it helps the designer to shift direction from how computer and human talk to a brighter and more complex scope. Norman who is a typical precursor and also raised the idea of “direct manipulation”. There is a side effect in the cognitive psychology called “direct engagement”, which implies the subjective response while the direct manipulation stands for the qualities of action. Here the author firstly brings the theatrical experience into discourse. She thinks the play in theatre is like the computer itself and when you are watching the play and feel emotionally touched, then you will feel joyful for your expectation fulfillment in the play. Same as computer, you talk with computer and gain reflective expactation, which give you wonderful joy.

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Artistic Statement

Artist Statement:

      I as a digital artist who is interested in Motion graphics, interactive installation, music and digital arts created by immersing technology. I learned digital tools for creating artworks and have created multiple digital artworks at a young age.

      Some videos that I have created are greatly inspired by the title sequences of Marvel movies. I used the mash-up style of familiar object with different attributes like texture, material etc. I takes the exploration of mashing up object with different attributes as my main methodology for art creation. A love of nature, history, science and culture inspires me to explore the relationship between living things and nature. Besides, I seeks to express artistic ideas through different media in terms of text, video, music and interactive media. The media evolution theory in terms of McLuhan’s Media Ecology Theory has a great impact on my art career that I used multiple medias to express my ideas from films to VR projects. I believes all media forms are the same in a sense that some successful techniques in one artistic expression can be adapted and represent with the same technique to express through other medias. Also, another modern theory called Object-Oriented Ontology that strikes on the equality of nature and humankind greatly impact on my artistic ideas. Based on this theory, artworks have been made such as my art installation named “LOST” and interactive installation named “Closer”.

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Interactive Installation “Closer”

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Three topics from Reading

Speculation that all artistic expression will combine with digital elements.

 Digital manipulation helps artists express their ideas in a way of recontextulization through collaging or appropriation, as well as the relationship between copy and original, are also features of the digital medium.

 Another characteristic of digital artwork that focus on encoding and visualization is that the process and meaning of an image do not always reveal themselves on the visual level but often rely on external contextual information to help explain the work.

 (Page56)The combination of digital content and traditional print technique can be merged in a creative way. However, Finley's work process mirrors the limitations that are inherent to the restricted menu of imaging sofware: working within the restraints of a set of options determining colour, shape, and form. Do you think algorithm based artwork also has limitation?

 (Page60)Artwork created on the computer has a significant loss of personality, as called “Mark”. Art created by means of computer technologies is more comparable with other technologically mediated art forms such as film, video, and photography, where the individuality and voice of an artist does not manifest itself in a direct physical intervention. Lacking “Mark” is also mentioned on the 65 Page when the author was raising the example of a miniature sculpture designed by Karin Sander. Probably the computer helps too much in the process of artistic creation?

 Computer tools help to broaden sculptors’ creative possibility.

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Anti-Apathy Project

For this project, I will discuss the meaning of live through my artistic practice. There is a reading that I found really expressive to me recently.

https://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/uniformity1.htm

The author raises a philosophical ideology of the essence of matter. By using the examples of how steel is alloyed on atom phase and other examples like the similarity of behavior of chemical reaction, termite when building a nest and agent in the marketplace, she illustrate that the matter of “dead” also has the entity of life. Especially with the advent of new material like fiberglass, crystallization stuff, which are not applicable to be evaluated according to equilibrium techniques, linear dynamics and stability theory(Fiberglass is the composition of organic component and inorganic component).

This kind of matter is given the name “machinic phylum”, which claims in another way that the material has its own life vitality.

Object Oriented Ontology:

In metaphysics, object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a 21st-century Heidegger-influenced school of thought that rejects the privileging of human existence over the existence of nonhuman objects.

For object-oriented ontologists, all relations, including those between nonhumans, distort their related objects in the same basic manner as human consciousness and exist on an equal footing with one another.

For my Anti-apathy project, I would like to express the idea that “everything is in life” by showing a video that the screen is divided into three parts: 1, The constant movement of molecule/atoms. 2, The termites that are building their nest. 3, The stream of people at rush hour.

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Into the Sun (1st edition)

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Response to the Comment of Pictures

My methodology of this response to the comment is greatly affected by the idea from the reading that I read in “Interactive Media” course called “the death of the author. The main point of the author indicates what is important when evaluating an literature depends on the readers themselves but not the authors and critics.

 So I would like to classify the audience who made those comments first:

 1, Audience who are from Virginia but not the same place as the pic shown:

 No matter how long the photographer stayed with people in Virginia, the position of the photographer’s identity is an outsiders. As a consequence, when people from Virginia saw the pictures taken by an outsiders, intrinsically they will reject to it, no matter if the picture is describing wonder life or miserable life.

 2, Audience who are from Virginia and exactly where the pic shown:

 Those pictures may not be as impressive as others because they are experiencing the life in the picture everyday. But probably they might be affected by the emotion flowing out from the pitfull comment made by other audience group and started to self-judge if their life is normal or not.

 3, Audience who are not from Virginia:

 This group of audience may have the greatest impact from those pictures. Their recognition of the place where the pic shown may very similar as the photographer’s so they may think those picture shows the miserable life of those people and have empathy on them.

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Reading Response to the reading “What Good Is Political Art in Times Like These?

Initially, I thought arts looks weak in front of political events until I acknowledged three typical examples of how artwork or artist important in the political revolution mentioned in the essay. I would like to simply generalize the three examples:

 1, “Monument to the Third International” from Vladimir Tatlin.

This is a concept design of a monument architecture in memory of the Comintern. The Tower has four main parts and each parts rotate at different speed. This is a typical artwork designed to meet the political needs as it was supposed to be the headquarter of the coordinator committee of world Communist Parties.

 2, Guernica from Pablo Picasso

This artwork shows the cruelty of war among civilian and become a typical icon of anti-war proposition. Picasso shew this work at the World’s Fair in Paris and provoked a large group people around the Europe to against the slaughters.

 3, the artist Helio Oiticica

During the 1960s, modernism was prevailing among countries and Brazil was dictated with a claim of capitalist modernization. Helio created several interactive installation, which provoke an idea of countercultural movement.

 Political artist mainly create stuff with a background of political affairs and their contribution is greatly evaluated based on artistic practice. With the advance of society, however, Fewer revolution or big event shew up after 1960s, so many artists shifted their energy from political affairs to other area.

 The author points out in the essay that to mix politics with art won’t be perfect because the arts are supposed to satisfy our aesthetic need but not just a slogan. This reminds me of what I saw from the Duchamp’s reading “the creative of act” that no matter if it is ugly or not, bad art is still art. Additionally, the author told us when we are evaluating a political artwork, we should evaluate its social significance as well as normal aesthetic view like philosophical and formal terms.