Project 3 – animation

From the start I new I wanted to do an animation but I didn’t know what I wanted to use. I then decided to use a board game to animate the pieces on the board. I wanted to use a very basic yet well known game, so I chose I childhood favorite, Candy Land. I [...]

Mark Napier’s “Shredder” (1998)

This other work of Mark Napier is in a way similar to FEED, that with the user’s help “slices and dices everything in its path, turning any Web page into what could be mistaken for a work of abstract digital art”. Through Shredder, you can choose any URL or pick one of the bookmarked options. Shredder [...]

link to FEED website

http://feed.projects.sfmoma.org/feedloader.html
 

Mark Napier’s work

After reading the article “Art in the age of digital distribution” I was particularly interested in the reference to Mark Napier’s “FEED” website from 2001. I checked it out myself along with some of his other work, which was all very interesting. The Feed website sort of unravels the web and consumes the information provided [...]

Assignment 2 – Constructed Reality

The weekend before we began working on this project, I was in Arizona with my mom and decided to take my pictures there. I have always had a great appreciation for landscape photos as well as the beauty of mountain ranges. I took many pictures unsure of what I wanted to do with them, so [...]

Intention and Artifice article response

This article was a little confusing at times but it had great points, I was not aware of many instances there have been with photographers creating false representations of supposedly historical events. I appreciate manipulated photography as art but I did not know the extent to which people used it. It’s hard to imagine how [...]

Reality Bytes article response

This article brings up very interesting points, though classic and unaltered photography is meaningful and true. The invention of photoshop has brought a whole new kind of photography. This new photography is more of a piece of work, an art that the photographer spends time working on so that they can rely the message they [...]

Altered States article response

This article really connects with our discussions about the increasing technology of today affects art in how there are new products every year, changing the way we take photos. Though the use of this new technology like photoshop can produce a new and interesting kind of photo, sometimes the dated or classic kinds are best. [...]