Art, Games, and Technology Research

While reading Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins by Beverly Jones, I discovered that the primary thesis is about how there have been “dramatic changes in medium from alphanumeric code to multiple sensory output” in the short life span of the computer graphics genre. I completely agree with her because this is so accurate especially now, when technology is so crucial to how society lives their lives today. She even mentions how “new forms of art and technology are frequently cast in the mode of old forms just as other aspects of material and symbolic culture have been.”

There are three historical examples that Jones provides to illustrate her theory. One is how Ben F. Lapofsky and Hermert H. Franke were two of the earliest individuals creating images for the earliest computer graphics. According to Jones, “Franke’s graphics were phase forms, presented as events rather than static imagery…His work continues to explore similar forms.”

In regards to an illustration of Jones’ thesis at work in today’s culture, there are so many to choose from considering how highly technically advanced our society has become. One example is how far the television has become. It started off originally as a black and white box and has come all the way to having the LED option of 3D televisions, plasma televisions, projector televisions and giant movie theaters. You can physically see how much this piece of technology has changed from the past till now. It’s incredible to think about the options we will have for televisions in another fifty years.

The Center of Technology even stated how “Over the last five years, technology has been rapidly changing and expanding in every field imaginable. Smart phones are now capable of acting as standalone computer devices that can take pictures, search the Internet, send emails and text messages and yes, they even make phone calls. While it might seem that the technology of today reached its limits, it is still actually spreading its proverbial wings.” It’s hard to imagine how about 20 years ago, computers were only just started to become small enough and affordable enough to be able to go into so many people’s homes across the globe.

 

“How Technology Has Changed Our Lives in the Last Five Years.” The Center of Technology. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2014. <http://www.centertech.org/>.

 

Jones, B. J. (1990). Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins. LEONARDO: Digital Image – Digital Cinema Supplemental Issue, pp. 21-30.

 

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