I am sorry the image is blurry. It appears clear on my computer and I do not know how to fix it. In case the image is difficult to see, the bottom of the pyramid has more rugged jobs while the top is a CEO in a big office.
Month: March 2015
Remix Picture
The keywords that I used in my picture were: no wrong way, dedication, colors, pretty, and free flowing. I believe my imagine could be considered art because I used my creativity to develop something that reflects my feelings towards art. In week three’s reading, Dissanayake reveals her word “palaeoanthropsychobiological” which she believes defines the many different forms of art. Dissanayake describes what this word means when she writes, “First, that the idea of art encompasses all of human history; second, that it includes all of human societies; and third, that it accounts for the fact that art is a psychological or emotional need and has psychological or emotional effects” (Dissanayake 15). Based off of Dissanayake’s definition, I believe my picture would fall into the 3rd criteria because the picture that I created has an emotional effect on me. While I was creating this picture, I took the emotions I was feeling and put them into something that people can now see. Furthermore, I think post modernism demonstrates that my picture is considered artwork when the author writes, “Postmodernism points out that any ‘truth’ or ‘reality’ is only a point of view” (19). This quote demonstrates how postmodernism is very open with what they consider to be art. Therefore, we can consider my picture to be my “truth” of how I see art.
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Remixing Culture
Although I am not very familiar with what is technically classified as copyright infringement, it seems to me that it would be very difficult to draw a line. For me personally, it is hard to develop a strong argument defending copyrights or not because I see both sides.
In the Ted talk, the speaker, Lawrence Lessig, mentions that he does not support people stealing someone’s work for commercial purpose but he believes it is necessary, especially for the younger generation, to use peoples work in order to foster creativity. Lessig gives examples of how the younger generation uses copyrighted music in a nonthreatening way when they take a song and put it so someone else’s lips line up with the words of the song. While the speaker was talking, I completely agreed with him that someone should not use someone else’s work for commercial use without their permission. In addition, I could also see where he was coming from regarding people reusing music for personal use. If it became illegal to use music in the ways he demonstrated, it would limit the way people could express their creativity.
In the Amen Break video, it reveals how a drum line has been altered numerous times and put in things ranging from other songs to commercials. Although this drum riff has been altered in some cases to the point where an untrained ear would not recognize it, is this still considered copyrighted?
While comparing these two videos and the assigned reading, I have come to the conclusion that copyright infringement caries a lot of value in modern society. With the internet being accessible to almost everyone in the world, people are able to share things with anyone instantaneously. As a result, this makes it very easy for people to illegally share copyrighted music and movies. Although copyright laws might limit creativity, I do not think those were its intentions. Lessig writes about this in our assigned reading when he says, “Artists want their expression framed just as they intend it…doctors or pharmaceutical companies want to assure that instructions or medial explanations are not translated by just anyone” (Lessig 85). I believe that copyright laws were set up to protect the people who created the work of art. When Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, he did not have to worry about people copying his work because the only way people could truly experience it was by going to see it. Nowadays, with a click of a button, someone can pirate a movie that someone created and send it to the rest of the world without their permission. As a result, this artist could lose a lot of money that should have been paid to him. Furthermore, this could lead to less people using their creativity because they feel it is not worth it due to the fact someone else is going to steal it once it is made. Finally, I think the copyright laws should remain the same. I believe they are doing the best job they can to maintains peoples original works without trying to curb peoples creativity.
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Technology Essay
The main thesis that the author discusses in Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins is how art is changing. If we look into the past, people used to only see art as paintings and sculptures. Now however, we are at a new point in time where technology is much more prominent and as a result has started to become interwoven with art. The author writes about the mix between these forms of art when she says, “An examination of the fluctuating borders between computer graphics theory and practice in scientific/technological use, in artistic use and in ‘everyday’ use reveals differing patterns of culture authorization” (Jones 21). This quote demonstrates how our society is starting to change the old borders that were once set up between art and technology/science.
Jones gives a historical example of how technology and art were combined in the 1940s when she writes, “Computers were used to generate the earliest computer graphics and display them on oscilloscopes” (Jones 22). This quote reveals how technology and art used to be connect 70 years ago. If we take a step back and look at how art and computers have developed together, it is amazing to see the advancement. An example of this is with animation. Nowadays, we are able to digitally draw characters and have them do things such as act in movies. Animationschool.net discusses the basics of animation when they write, “Animation is the art of bringing something to life. How it’s brought to life can be done any number of ways…You can put it on a computer, like Toy Story.” In the 1940s this would have never been impossible and because of that, people would not be able to consider something such as animation as art. By comparing Jones 1940 example and this animation example, we are able to support Jones thesis on how art is constantly changing.
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How Animated Movies Are Made. (n.d.). Retrieved March 2, 2015, from http://www.animationschool.net/how-animated-movies-are-made.html