Media Arts: History and Theory

 Reading- The meaning of "hybrid practices," could mean many things. In art though, it means being able to combine many minds and resources to create something better than just "art." Art doesn't have one definition. If art can be anything why is there even such thing at the word "ART?" Th hybrid practices question new media and practices that we cannot define or put into one category because art is ANYTHING and will forever be anything.  Discussion- Dimensions of dialogue was very confusing and weird. The first video was different objects being built into globs of a lot of random stuff and they eat each other up and slowly make clay. In my opinion this means that anything can be art. It will slowly be something one day. This second video was clay male and female fighting and slowly they have relations but then have a fight and demolish each other. This means that maybe they had an unwanted child or relationships aren't always perfect. The third vi...

 Experimental film is performance art with a camera. It doesn't have to tell a story, or it doesn't have to have a message. It can relate to deep feelings or messages, or it can also be very boring. It was social and personal expression. There was no wrong answer. 9 evenings and theatre and engineering were becoming performance and technology. It was Avant Garde. Anything is art. Scientists began to create art. EAT (experience art and technology) was many people coming together to create art. It showed collaboration of art and technology. Electronic art works with technology! Father of video art Naum June Paik purchased the first Sony portapak. He created a brand-new art form.... Video Art. He also created the Magnet T.V. The electronic superhighway was to say that someday we will be able to connect from anywhere. David Halls TV interruptions was an installation of seven video works that were initially commercials, but it was to just relax and leave the world for a couple of mi...

 Our performance art piece reflected eating disorders, and how they affect those in their everyday lives. We created a very uncomfortable environment by making the room pitch black. This will contribute to the script, and how our words will project in the room. While we say our lines in the dark, each person who is saying their line raises their flashlight and only flashes it on themselves reflecting their inner thoughts or the words on the script. While each person is saying their lines, the whole room is just staring into a dark ibis. This makes it very awkward as well. After we finish the whole script, we then start to eat the pizza in silence. All you can hear is our breathing and chewing. Just like Andy Warhol eating a hamburger, we did it with pizza in the dark. We were sitting in silence until everyone finished their pizza. We then enacted our situations per eating disorder assigned to each group member. After the event we ended it by leaving the room.  My contributions...

 Futurism Giacomo Balla Constructivism Supremacism bauhaus supremacist Hugo Ball readymades Cabaret Voltaire  retinal art  postmodernists  combine Joseph Beuys Etienne Jules Marey muybridge louis le prince kinetograph kinetoscope cinemtograph mechanical t.v electronic t.v. sensors experimental surrealist

 Reading: The reading was very interesting with extensions of what we learned in class during the lecture. The text was a bit long to keep all the information stuck in my head to remember, but overall, it did give some insight into how art has evolved and why it has changed. The definition is for sure nothing like the way it was thousands of years ago. Maya Deren is very inspirational. She acted in her films, but she brought new filmmaking and made it art. It's like performance art because it was so different. Also, talking about the evolution of the camera and seeing how we have come so far in quality and image. I wish we could read more about electronic media and how it had evolved throughout history, but art has fluctuated into a new meaning, and it does not consist of one thing. It will evolve and become more than just a word.  Discussion: Do you spend 8 hours or more a day watching digital media? In my opinion, it really depends on the day how much I am on my phone. If I ...

 Electronic media includes anything that has electricity. Samuel Morse was a painter before he invented the telegraph or got it patented before anyone else. He wanted to unite and communicate through art. Marconi made the radio. He sent the 1st radio telegram. Orsen Wells did a play on the radio about aliens invading the world. This terrified the nation. They used many tools and objects to create the sound effects to make it seem like there was a lot going on in the background. It ultimately was fake, but it scared and terrified many. The television was invented by Farnsworth. The mechanical television. John Logie Baird does a contraption called Selfridges used a hodgepodge of materials like tea chest, used biscuit box, and cardboard discs. The digital revolution led to the information age. Digital tech changed the way we communicated. Still to this day, we can't communicate without the digital tech. Digital is way more technologically advanced. Analog is a rep of information being...