UWW310 Technology & the Arts

This is not surprising. I would say my 21 year old son is a "never-cord." Perhaps not entirely, but pretty much. I still watch television: HBO and a few other cable shows and news broadcasts, also PBS from time to time, but I have always thought televisions were eyesores, and cable subscriptions are outrageoulsy high...but you really can stay relatively current with Netflix.

This is a service, not unlike diigo in many ways, that some people at work started using during strategic planning initiatives

This is eery...that's the right word for it!

I think the left is CGI (tiny hairs on the right neck showing against the black background). It is crazy though, another vote for eerie.

Students from music, art, engineering and dance make up the ensemble. The director is a professor in the school of music and a composer. They collaborate on new works in an innovative manner and on works that have been traditionally overlooked. I really like the exploratory nature of this group.

There are orchestras being formed, mainly by students, to perform video game music, and they collaborate with professional orchestras i. Also, video game makers are turning to professional composers and musicians for musical accompaniment so that music for video games is becoming more symphonic. However, the performances with orchestras are not interactive, which seems to me to defeat the purpose.

Eric Whitacre, composer and conductor, leads a virtual choir. It started when a young woman posted a fan video on YouTube singing the soprano part from one of his works. That gave him the idea to have people upload recordings on YouTube so as to sing together in a virtual choir-a network of YouTube connected singers, each singing different parts. Whitacre's website: http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir

A free animation app for making videos. This site has more features in free mode than Xtranormal does. It is useful for students for use in alternative learning exercises or for anyone who wants to make a simple animated video. This site/app was recommended to me by my animation major daughter.

I always wanted to make an animated story. I'm going to use goanimate for this weeks technology assignment.

A selection of free and paid apps for use in stage and theatre designs. Especially useful for lighting designers and technicians is the portable gel book. Very cool!

A useful listing of apps related to the Arts and education for all age levels. I personally have used the Musee du Louvre app listed in the article and found it very useful when traveling to Paris, or just for reliving the visit to the Louvre. This site deals primarily with the fine arts, but is useful for anyone interested in the subject of art.

Several cool links to free and paid apps that are useful tools for costume designers or anyone working with textiles and designs. As a costume designer for my school's theater and musical productions, I have used several of the applications listed here.

For those looking for a good job search resource in the arts

I have used GIMP for years. It is a really powerful image program. But it does have a learning curve, that is well worth climbing. From their website: " It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X."

Interesting, I actually have this on my computer and never paid any attention to it...I will now!

"1.The world's largest online art community 2.Proudly showing 249 million pieces of art from over 26 million registered artists and art appreciators 3.Deviously serving the art and skin community for 4,598 days deviantART loves you!"

I found this interesting because it draws the connection between art, science and tech. Especially the first two are typically seen as such unrelated disciplines. Yet there is so much art in science and so much science in art. The correlation between the three disciplines is something that I would like to explore further.

A little history

Yet another dance company using technology to liven up the world of live performance.

a little perspective on how technology can change how we create and understand art.

An article discussing how the use of technology is changing the way art is made. Collaborative art is the new big thing, now outnumbering traditional forms of creativity. Because of easily accessible technology, everyone is mimicking everyone else.

A perspective on how technology is lending toward more collaborative art.