UWW310 Technology & the Arts

Here is an interesting article about how technology has affected arts, but from a different perspective. As newspapers are downsizing due to more online content vs. print, the Boston Globe has begun opening up empty space in their building for community rental and arts events!

This is awesome, as a keyboard player that likes to keep his skills brushed up. Reminds me of the old Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing program I had on my first Packard Bell computer.

This program at Ohio State encourages the intersection of technology and art. The school has a terrific bevy of resources and labs for the students to use in their creative work, CNC routers, 3D printers, high end graphic computers, robot labs, and electronic labs to name a few. The have a presentation on the link showing some of the work, take a look,

This is really cool...clearly universities are engaging in a lot of the exploration and experimentation around integrating art and technology. I am currently collaborating with a composer on a chamber music work that I would love to have incorporate a three dimensional visual aspect. We are working with a visual artists in Maine. Money is the only obstacle!

This website is like it's own Diigo for this topic.

Good resource Beau. I really like this link about the Pew Research on tech and social media and the arts, the Hype Curve is really really informative: http://www.technologyinthearts.org/2013/02/the-pew-research-centers-report-on-arts-and-technology/

Interesting site with a lot of information. Also the Pew report affirms what I am seeing happening in the organization where I work: The Memphis Symphony. I would love to see more technology used in performances and in education, but funding is an issue, as well as a unified institutional vision as to how to integrate technology into the aesthetic aspects of what we do. Marketing is already making use of technology.

MIT is also exploring the intersection of arts and technology. This link is about a German-born composer, Trimpin http://arts.mit.edu/cast/artist/trimpin/ Here music is combined with technology, but he also brings in non-traditional instruments. The MIT website is http://arts.mit.edu/ There is a really long report written about their program: http://orgchart.mit.edu/sites/default/files/reports/20110628_Provost_ArtsatMITFinal6-20-2011.pdf and a shorter summary http://arts.mit.edu/about/arts-initiatives/arts-at-mit-white-paper/

This is a link to a scholarly paper about the dance.draw program from UNC Charlotte. This work is supported by an NSF CreativeIT Award#IIS-0855882 grant. The program is a marriage of technology and dance. The dancers are tracked by cameras or gyro devices that they carry on their person. The software then uses the dancers information to change display information behind the stage and or modify audible information. http://dancedraw.uncc.edu/DanceDraw/Dance.Draw.html

This is really intriguing. I have longed to do something like this with music, translating scores into visual images, so that you see patterns, colors and textures. I haven't read the paper yet, but I will. Also, I find it interesting that this is happening at UNCC. I have a house in Charlotte. I am only temporally in Memphis. Over the years I have done a lot of work with UNCC, and I know several people in the dance department, but I had not heard about this project.

Thought people might enjoy this! Yes Gifs can be pretty silly, but they also can be a pretty incredible medium for the visual arts. Let me know what you think, and if you agree after seeing these!

These are interesting. I had never heard of Gifs before. I'd like to find out more about them. There was something spooky about them to me, but still fascinating.

I wrote a comment already, but I'm not sure where it went! Anyway, these are fascinating...a bit spooky in some way, but I'd like to know more about how they work.

I visit Playbill daily. It is like the New York Times for all things happening in theatre, particularly in NYC. Now that I no longer live there, this helps me stay current on my business.

This is a daily digest I receive. Thomas Cott finds the best and most pertinent things in aggregate and summarizes them in a daily email. Mostly pertains to Performing Arts, ticketing, development, audience building, etc. But, there is excellent info in his daily emails that I often share with my staff at work. Great for new ideas and generating new conversations!

Frank is a performance artist, composer, humorist, musician who has compiled a website that is filled with an amazing assortment of how tos such as some tongue in cheek (or not) emotions for actors or how to dance properly, to poems where people can collaboratively contribute illustrations or prose, or "angrigami" where one can create beautiful origami out of a sheet of hateful and angry words and so much more. Inspiring, creative, funny. For an introduction to Ze Frank, here is a TED talk with him:http://www.zefrank.com/ted/2010.html

3D Printing is all the rage in hacker spaces around the world. Some people claim that 3D printers will be in every home within a few decades. To learn more about 3D printing in general try this wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing. But these folks at Bathsheba have refined a 3D metal printing process to make some really interesting art, the technique link describes their process. I purchased a ring at the New York makers fair that was made with a 3D printer and cast in bronze using the lost wax process: http://www.bathsheba.com/sculpt/process/cast.html