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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Michelle Hastings

Michelle Hastings

Are Musicians Benefiting from Music Tech? | Artist Revenue Streams - 0 views

  • The survey questions and interview responses strongly suggest that emerging music/technology has had a measurable impact on their careers as musicians and composers.  Revenue generation aside, technology has made them more self-sufficient, given them the ability to connect directly with fans and peers, and leveled the playing field in general.
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    Results from a research project measuring whether or not technology has had a positive impact on musicians.
Michelle Hastings

Digital Music News - If Only the Tech Industry Understood the Music Industry They Want ... - 0 views

  • Copyright without control, without the ability to say no, creates a race to the bottom as far as being able to monetise "content" – it lines the pockets of the distributors (YouTube, The Pirate Bay et. al.) but not those who created it.
Michelle Hastings

Digital Technology Is Making Its Mark in Cuba - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The global boom in digital filmmaking has rippled across Cuba over the past decade, letting filmmakers create their work beyond the oversight of state-financed institutions. Independent movies have become a new means of expression in a country where, despite freedoms and economic reforms introduced by President Raul Castro since 2006, the state still carefully controls national press, television and radio, and access to the Internet is very limited.
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    Digital technology is enabling people in Cuba to express themselves through film.
Michelle Hastings

bruce munro: light at longwood gardens - 1 views

  • in addition to their form engaging technology in dialogue with nature, bruce munro's installations make use of low-cost and recycled materials, with a focus on low energy output.
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    Artist Bruce Munro uses light to create natural feeling, large scale art installations.
Michelle Hastings

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - First Major Exhibition Devoted to History of Manipulat... - 0 views

  • Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major exhibition devoted to the history of manipulated photography before the digital age.
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    There is much discussion about the manipulation of photographs using computers.  But as this exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art demonstrates, photo manipulation dates back to the 1800's.  So, is the method of manipulation actually relevant, or are computers just another step in a long history of the technological evolution of the medium?
Michelle Hastings

Digital sculpting vs. traditional sculpting * Chest of Colors - 1 views

  • Many people are sceptical to innovations and refuse to treat them on par with the old methods.
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    An interesting look at what sculptors are able to create using computers.
Michelle Hastings

Believable Relationship Scenes Constructed in Photoshop - My Modern Metropolis - 1 views

  • “By digitally creating a photograph that is a composite of multiple negatives of the same model in one setting,” Connell writes in an artist’s statement, “the self is exposed as not a solidified being in reality, but as a representation of social and interior investigations that happen within the mind.”
Michelle Hastings

Mesmerizing GIFs of Living Movie Stills - My Modern Metropolis - 2 views

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    This is a series of stills from movies, with motion created in gif format.  Definitely not a form of photography that would be possible without computers.
Michelle Hastings

iPad Art: Solar Powered | iPad Insight - 0 views

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    Interesting article on creating art with an iPad.  The article also references a Flickr group dedicated to people working in the medium.
Michelle Hastings

Photography: an ever-evolving art form - 0 views

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    There is so much discussion in the art community about how the ability to digitally alter a photograph impacts its perceived "legitimacy". My favorite quote from this article, which sums up my position on the debate: "... no amount of technology will turn a mediocre photographer into a great one. Nor, in conceptual terms, will it transform a bad idea into a good one. For that you would still need to possess a rare set of creative gifts that are still to do with seeing, with deep looking."
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