Special Topic in Interactive Media Class 5 blog

Mail Art: Mail Art was originally made out of the Fluxus movies in the 50s & 60s. It can be made out of anything from an art piece to recycle materials. It can also include music, sound art, poetry anything that can fit into an envelope.

Net.Art & Fluxus: Net.Art & Fluxus are similar but different in a way; both contain art works on their material. Fluxus contains art work on the media while Net.Art contains art work on the internet.

Face to Facebook: It was a bit surprising that it can be simple to get people’s information out of Facebook. I knew Facebook can use our information but I did not know other people can easily take our information and put it on the web. The purpose of Face to Facebook is to show people how easy it is to get people’s information. It was successful because once people realize how much information they share on the social media it can easily be seen by people they do not know in the world.

Special Topic in Interactive Media Arts: class 4

Early forms of network art: Mail art

- it initially developed out of the Fluxus movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

- Mail-art is about sending artful things creative communication making projects and shows global culture freedom fun and humor.

- the main mail-art concepts: exchanging art in the global network asking for participation on a project chain-mail.

- some example of mail-art techniques are; stamps, rubber stamps, collage and combination, text and typography, materials and objects and other kind of techniques.

Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico's project Face to Facebook is a bit disturbing. Although Facebook is allow to use our photos for advertisements, having Paolo and Alessandro to take photos of us and posting it on a dating website seems to be disturbing. It can lead to people getting paranoid and wondering if someone is stalking him/her or something. If they ask permission first and the person agrees then it would be okay, but if do it without asking it doesn't seem right. They created it to show that there can be consequences by sharing one's information to a public website. How it is easy to get informations from someone through a website. It created a lot of awareness.

Special Topic in Interactive Media Arts: Class 3

Artificial Intelligence: Marvin Minsky

• An American Cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence
• Co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Born on August 9, 1927 New York City
• Awarded the Turning Award in 1969, Japan Prize in 1990, the IIJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 1991 and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2001

Alan Kay: 

• American Computer Scientist
• Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Arts.

In his video he explains how Computing Pioneer is evolving in a steady pace. It is not too advance at the moment but during the past years it has evolve in a pace where it brought people to awe. The project One Laptop Per Child is an interesting project, because it gives the advantage to kids in the 3rd world country to have an education. Not long ago they only had a small chalk board to use (from what I remember my grade 3 teacher told me) but if they have a laptop it would be much better use for them.

Ken Feingold:

• A Contemporary American conceptual artist
• Born in 1952 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Creates talking heads that talks back with people or machine

Martin Spanjaard:

• Invented the Adelbrecht
• Adbelbrecht is an electronic ball that can think and feel similar to a human being. When the ball can't move it will do a sad sound, when Martin hits the ball the ball will scream etc.

Myron Krueger:

• An American Computer Artist who developed early interactive works
• One of the first people to generated virtual reality and augmented reality

David Rokeby:

• An artist who makes work of electronic, video and installation art since 1982
• One of David Rokeby's pioneering interactive work is the Very Nervous System. He started to work on it in 1982 and his work has been evolving ever since.

Paul Garrin:

• Born in 1957
• One of his famous work is Man with a Video Camera
• The video is about police officers beating protesters and him being a victim as well for video recording the beating. He then made a new interactive video when one person moves a dog will bark on the screen.