Open End Research Paper

From my trip to the Moma, I found three pieces of work that I think can be classified as media, multimedia and art. Firstly, I came across an image entitled Onions done by Charles Harry Jones in the The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel exhibit, which I believed to be media. It was basically just a photograph of

TAKING THE TIME TO PLAN YOUR MOVE CAREFULLY WILL HELP YOU AVOID PITFALLS ALONG THE WAY. YOU NEED TO TAKE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A LOCAL MOVE AND A LONG-DISTANCE MOVE INTO ACCOUNT DURING THE PRE-MOVING PROCESS. WHETHER YOU 'RE PLANNING YOUR FIRST EVER LONG DISTANCE MOVE, OR SIMPLY NEED TO ENSURE YOUR NEXT GOES OFF AS PLANNED

I’ve explored these connections in several extracurricular programs relating to art history as well as science and technology. At the American Museum of Natural History, while taking science research courses in astrology and the structure of our universe, I couldn’t help noticing the artistic beauty inherent in the multiple color composites in the solar system that we analyzed. Similarly, at my internship at the Rubin Museum of Art, where I discovered Southeast Asian art and created computer-generated mandalas, I saw spatial patterns and various geometric sequences in the artwork. When I see these connections I get very excited because, honestly, it all makes sense! Art and science are not mutually exclusive concepts; rather, I think the line between the sciences and arts is

• “Openness is the degree to which a person is curious, original, intellectual, creative, and open

Art is a skill used by humans which allows them to express ideas through writing, drawing, picture, sculpture, or other form. An artist can use art to prove a point to society, draw people’s attention to a situation or just as a means of entertainment in its design. Contemporary art is art produced at the present period in time or within our lifetime (Contemporary Art). Through contemporary art, artists are able to express social ideas or causes by giving us a glimpse into past events which have occurred because of decisions or actions and create a work which represent those events. Sometimes an artist uses as his or her inspiration a past event from their lives which has brought a strong emotion. Two contemporary artists who

Art has been a major outlet for many artist around the world making masterpieces to represent what they see in the world. As generations pass, and we don’t talk about the past art is the connection to remind us of what once was. Visual art helps us connect to the past by using different art forms to show historical events and cultural beliefs/ trends.

The music video “Magic Position” by Patrick Wolf carries with some sense of romance while at the same time builds hopes for those who feel wretched by the tribulations of life generally. It advises people to stand up against the frustrations and setbacks facing them and take a magical position to focus ahead. As McLuhan put it, hot media is high definition, well filled with data and requires less participation (McLuhan 36), implying that there is no adequate space the audiences would need to fill in to interpret and comprehend the work. For instance, a movie often conquers optical space, gives great amount of visual information and uses chromatic senses to engage its audiences. This type of media favors systematic precision and consecutive ordering, as it often allows less audiences’ participation. Comparatively, cool media are low definition and require high participation by the audiences (McLuhan 36). Thus cool media active involvement among the audiences. Take an example of a cartoon- usually comprising a simple circle to represent the eye, some squiggles to represent the hair, and a curved line to convey a smile- this is low definition. The audiences have to fully comprehend and

However, computer artists now see the importance of these works as they started a “new technologically-grounded aesthetic,”3 that would be an integral part of the development of art through computers.

Professor Mondloch first briefly discussed the concept of interface in the context of art. She argues that the way we see and experience art works “is as important as what we see.” To illustrate her argument, Professor Mondloch used Bruce Nauman’s Live-Taped Video Corridor as an example of how our experiences of an art work can become its meaning.

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Represented in this exhibition is one of my recent digitally assembled photographs which I construct from film, digital, and print based materials using photo editing software. Through this process, I am able to assemble and manipulate multiple layers and fragments of information and images, and to control the degree and manner of integration with one another; thus offering me new possibilities for the visual creation, destruction, and manipulation of space, time, form, meaning, narrative, and perception.

In today’s society, technology and art go hand in hand. Art has been around for a long time but technology such as computers are still very new. These two mediums have comingled and now evolve and effect the other. Art has changed to reflect the vast improvements technology has contributed to communication and the ability to create using digital space. Technology has also changed with artist pushing the boundaries of what is technical possible in the digital realm. Much of today’s art is created and presented in digital formats. The question of whether digital art is truly art has risen among many critics in the art community.

Often, the aim of the digital video is to allow users to learn faster or relax deeper, but artists have extended the experience with such devices into the realm of art. The digital art is disadvantageous when the viewer is not focusing so hard to master; the viewer field of vision may still become narrow by reading the shape, and may be difficult for the viewer to obtain the other information presented outside the viewer field of vision. That has been difficult to grasp the information simultaneously as expressed by space in video. In addition, the information that the viewer considers to be important is limited to printed information, and information that is important to the viewer may be displayed in areas aside from the area displayed.

The visual arts have evolved over time and have shown remarkable change and growth. Artists have built on the progress of their predecessors and made it a cumulative process of continuous innovation and added to the cultural heritage of humankind.

As we discuss media, we must also discuss the nature and function of art. A difference between art and media can be the process by which they are made. Yet in these modern days, the lines between media and art are not lines, but fractals or shapes only described by functions of calculus. That is to say that art and media are heavily intertwined in the 21st century. Some media is art; some art is media. A trait that media and art have in common whether one wants to argue their definitions or not, is that they both reflect society. A fundamental function of art, media as art, and perhaps media in general now, is to reflect experience, society and culture. That is what art history, and therefore media history are: the observation, categorization, and interpretation of artistic artifacts and media objects in regards to their design, construction, and content and how those things tell us about life at the time of the artifacts' modernity. This is the general nature of media. Thus, reflection is indicative of media.