Media arts: History and theory

  Discussion:  What I see in the photograph are different signs that are hidden, and a person behind a pole hiding as well. I also see lots of advertisements from other places to eat and for stores as well, with prices on glass windows everywhere. What I think about every time I look at this picture is how they do all these advertisements back then, and how was the infrastructure back then as well. Was it better than the infrastructure of what we have today? And how were they able to place so many advertisements on a single wall if it can be distracting if someone is trying to read one or another. This picture makes me feel confused, but fascinated at the same time, because it can be a piece of history and shows how times were simpler and how each lifestyle was different back then, on what people would do and what people would wear.  GRC QUESTIONS 1. Camera obscura 2. Light sensitive chemistry 3. Daguerreotype 4. Negative/Positive 5. Aura 6. Commodity value 7. Exhibition ...

 As technology evolved in the industrial revolution and now that new innovations have been created, there was a new machine that made printing a little easier, the "Gutenberg Printing Press". Later on in the 17th century, newspapers were invented, but hard to see, that those were improved later on. Sooner many years later in the 18th century, the first steam engine was made! There was something more important that was created when it came to art, and that is the "Camera Obscura". This was a device that created an image from outside that artists could paint over. Then things got easier, the first camera was invented by Joseph Niepce. After the camera became a thing, artists and filmmakers started experimenting with movements to use in films. Before the camera technology got better, Etienne Jules Marey studied how pictures could move together and see the invisible "visible". This was a process called "chronophotography". He adopted and further deve...

 Let's double-check: 1. Camera obscura 2. Albrecht Durer 3. Vitruvian Man 4. Leonardo da Vinci 5. Renaissance humanism 6. Fresco 7. Petrarch 8. Jan van Eyck 9. One point perspective 10. Modernism 11. Wealthy merchants 12. Avant-garde 13. Leonardo da Vinci 14. Fauvism 15. Pablo Picasso 16. Cubism 17. Abstract painting 18. Clement Greenberg 19. Scientists 20. Nicephore Niepce 21. Etienne Jules Marey 22. Eadweard Muybridge 23. Semiotics 24. Johannes Gutenberg

Discussing the Midterm presentation with my group was fun! I did Fauvism, Ava did realism and lighting, Alex did industrialism and mindset shift, Niyah did leisure and whimsical, and Christian did freedom and experimental. It took as a while week to get the presentation done especially when I had plans for the weekend, but I created a groupme chat that would help us update on what we needed to do or what was missing. It really helped a lot and helped us communicate on what we do next as well as provide feedback, and some suggestions on what to add to the presentation. Overall, it was tough to pull it off when we were busy with other things, but time management and collaboration really helped us a lot and made us confident in presenting on Monday.

Creating this abstract art with my group was honestly really fun. It helped me understand more about what the meaning of abstract art is and how it can have a hidden message or no message at all. We also had to come up with something that could make the audience understand what was going on, which in our case, we decided to do as life can be bright but it sometimes can be dark, but we had to visualize it in a way that it won't be too literal, but understandable at the same time to train out skills into a one-slide storytelling. The bottom line is, that I found my new way of what abstract art is, and it means that it can portray feelings and sentiments from the artist himself, and can produce a message on what the artist is going through or produce a message to a problem or a situation while being creative as much as possible. 

 The industrial was a big step ahead when it came to producing needs for the people, such as food, industrial blocks, and everyday items. The Industrial Revolution transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry and mechanized manufacturing as well as transportation. This rapidly changed between the 18th and 19th century. During the Renaissance, before the 19th century, artists were most often commissioned to make artwork by wealthy patrons or institutions like the church. However, artists started experimenting on what they could do on their own spare time instead of being commissioned to paint someone else. This can be concluded into a world of surrealism. Then, they started to be expressive with color and be more expandable on landscaping too. Later on, photography was made much easier as in 1839, the technology evolved. back then, artists had to paint things NOT captured by the camera. Then, new forms of expre...