The Philosophical And Knowledge Producing Role Of The Creative Practitioner

WILKS, J. j., CUTCHER, A. l., & WILKS, S. s. (2012). Digital Technology in the Visual Arts

For the entirety of the fall semester, I took on a project to create a three-page layout for a fictional campaign in National Geographic magazine about endangered species. The goal was to create different content for my portfolio, challenging my skills in photography and photo-manipulation. I transformed people into animals and used gel lighting and Photoshop to create my artwork (see Appendix A figure 1 & 2). At the end of the semester, I reviewed my completed pieces and two theorists best fit my creative process, Julie Burstein, and Teresa Amabile. Julie Burstein discusses the best way to foster creativity is by ‘letting go’ she outlines this in four lessons (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). These lessons include experiences, challenges, limitations and loss (Campbell and Dubois, “Artist Best practices” 25). While Teresa Amabile discusses how the theory of creativity is fostered through her componential model of creativity (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). These include domain-relevant skills, creative thinking skills and motivation (Campbell and Dubois, “On theories of” 14). Both of these theorists go hand in hand providing me with the framework for my best work. This essay will discuss how Amabile’s theory for intrinsic motivation and Burstein’s lesson of experience and loss, align in my creative process to be conducive to my work.

Prior to the digital computer, some artists were using manual devices like the oscilloscope, which displayed the waves of an electric signal. Artists like Ben Laposky would record the waves moving by photographing them with long exposure. Because the waves were constantly moving the photographs would show the fluid shape of the wave and its motion.2 Moving forward to the 1960’s, Bell Laboratories, one of the research facilities funded by the government for computer intelligence research,

Until the 19th century most artwork was created in a two or three-dimensional media. In England, William Fox discovered a technique that allowed camera images to be captured on paper. This medium has evolved since Fox’s discovery in 1839 to a serious and viable form of art today. Photography allows the artist to capture what he sees. The image produced is reality to the artists eye, it can only be manipulated with light and angles.

Annotated Bibliography New technological advancements have allowed for an expansion in the art community, specifically photography. Art has been one of the fundamental aspects of human life since the prehistoric ages. It is a way to express oneself and share creativity with large groups of people. As humans have become more and more intelligent, new technologies have been invented. As technology continues to increase, the possibilities of art also escalate.

Krzysztof Wodiczko can be termed as a modern artist since he used video projections and large-scale slides in most of his artworks (Krzysztof Wodiczko 273). The main benefit of video projections is that the artist is able to make his work visual and real compared to drawn or painted pictures. The medium also enables the artist to represent 3-dimensional objects that may not be possible in other mediums. The two artists use lines to make their work more visible and clear to their audiences.

This student is very quiet and reserved. He does not share ideas with peers unless he is asked to do. His sentences are usually mumbled and short. He is able to generate original ideas using humor and fantasy most of the time. Students find his thoughts funny and interesting, but not always the best ideas for certain topics. There have been times when this student seemed upset because students didn’t use his ideas. I have discovered that some of his ideas are not third grade level and students have a difficult time understanding. In the beginning I thought this student had a low self esteem, but after building a relationship with him I learned it is just his personality. This student could very easily “slip through

Medical imaging, how interesting is that, it’s a tool that helps go into depth about how the brain is functioning, and how it has developed. Medical imaging has many great and useful resources. Imagine how great it will be if medical imaging would develop even more than we have it today, we can find many new ways of discovering---BEYOND what we have already discovered. According to Kunio Doi in his article titled, “Diagnostic Imaging over the Last 50 years: Research and Development in the Medical Imaging Science and Technology,” indicates “In the last 50 years imaging has grown to a high state of high level;” as a matter of fact technology we have today can become an even more successful resource in a matter of years. Mary Lou Jepsen in her

tool should hide messy innards to let scientists focus on the logic behind a working system”3.

Yet as a result of the constant update of technology and the growing personal computer industry, the creation of such work can be recreated at the fraction of the cost or at no cost by anyone. This is computer generated imagery at its finest and most accessible

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.

According to a research presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, a new technology can transform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound data into a 3-dimensional (3D) virtual reality model of a fetus. Using this technique, the researchers were able to visualize and create 3D models of 25 fetuses.

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 “The Creative Spirit”, the author says that “over-control” is one of the main creativity killers. According to Dr. Amabile’s, “telling kids exactly how to do things leaves children feeling that any originality is a mistake and any exploration a waste of time” is a good point; however, I disagree with it. In my opinion, most kids are likely hyperactive so that they should have their parents' surveillance. For example, learning things from their parents first; young toddlers , their parents sometimes educate how to greet people, brief of mindset, unaware of hazardous items, even he or she does not know what manners are good. Some research shows that parents should teach children when stage age of children is like a piece of blank paper. In

It is now a familiar, but true, cliché to observe that the power and capability of computing machinery is increasing at a tremendous rate. In addition, a wide variety of techniques for producing more convincing VR are currently being researched. It is reasonable to expect, therefore, that in this crucial respect VR