UWW310 Technology & the Arts

I love the integration of technology with theater and dance. Liz Lerman in her Genome Project for Dance Exchange integrated dancers with projected images...it was very effective.

I do too. The interaction between the live and the pre-determined is very interesting to me. It also creates an interesting depth to the performance space.

I think this is such a very interesting intersection between live theatre and multi-media.

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.

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

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.

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.

Check out the video of the motion capture app. Pretty cool way to take live movement and transform it to the digital medium.

I thought this was an interesting intersection between a classic art form and digital technology. The article was written prior to completion but I love the concept of adding a new dimension to the live performance.

I love this! Canada, especially Quebec, seem so much more advanced aesthetically than us!

I know! :) This company has been around for a while too. I am always mentioning them but no one seems to have heard of them. I think the interaction with the 3-d projection is so amazing.

Pictify is Pinterest for artists and art lovers. A great way to curate your favorite artworks from around the globe. pictify.com

This site has multiple articles and reviews about art, design and technology. I can spend hours here just browsing.

You're right! There is a lot here worth exploring.

Just got completely sidetracked playing with this... and wanted to share

This could be fun to have going while doing work for this course. See what we come up with!

Although listed as an educational site, Storybird.com is a mini gallery of original artworks and a social storytelling website. As an interactive create-your-own self publishing site, users can combine original text with available artwork to create unique children's books that can be shared with others. http://storybird.com/

This is awesome! I love the artwork and the concept. I think I might join and experiment with the program.

Article about Google Art Project, a searchable database of museums and artworks from around the world. http://www.googleartproject.com/

This article is about Art.sy, which is an artwork bookmarking site similar to Pinterest. Here you can bookmark favorite art pieces from museums and galleries around the world. (You can actually bookmark favorite pieces in Pinterest). Artsy.net is an automated guidance system for art lovers that does for art what Netflix does for videos or Pandora does for music. It allows the user to sift through parameters using keywords to discover artworks from around the world. http://artsy.net/

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!