Media Arts: History and Theory

 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...

 Discussion- What message is Andy Warhol trying to communicate to his viewers? Andy Warhol was eating a hamburger in silence as a normal human being. The only thing different was that it was being videotaped. Andy Warhol's message was to just say "anything anyone does is art." We humans may eat a hamburger differently than Warhol. In the video, he took the top bun of the hamburger, and he folded the bottom bun with the patty, and dipped it in ketchup. It was like a taco. His video was a bit of a performance art piece because he was just doing a normal activity that any person does (eat) and for some reason we were really appealed to see someone else eat something that we've eaten before. This also, goes with the idea that many humans are obsessed with the fact of knowing what celebrities do in their daily lives, but I always think that they are humans. They eat hamburgers. They brush their teeth in the morning. They have bad breath in some moments. It is a normal thin...

 Futurism was a movement that adopted cubism and supported the fascist dogma, which had aggressive expansionism and Italian cultural supremacy. It developed in Italy in the 20th century and later developed in Russia as well. Futurist painters adopted the cubism techniques of fragmented planes and outlines to show different views on an object. Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti called for art that glorified war. He was pulled in with the idea that war art gave a lot of expressionism through the paintings. Boccioni showed a lot of movement in his sculptures. He produced several plaster sculptures. "Unique forms of continuous space," is very distorted. It has a motion blur, and it attempts to capture motion in a static form. Giacomo Balla showed interest in speed and movement. He was influenced by Marey. "Dynamism of a dog on a leash," is one of the most important artworks in the futurism era of art. Russolos art of noises which replicated the sounds of their surroundings in th...