UWW310 Technology & the Arts

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.

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.

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

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/

A fascinating article about the melding of man and machine to create art. Rather than be a detriment to human creativity, this article discusses how technology can actually enhance the creative process and ultimately the finished product.

A variety of essays and videos by and about artists and actors. They discuss how technology has changed the entertainment industry.

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.

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.

This is more about using dance instead of technology to teach a concept. Less about integration but I thought it was pretty awesome.

What leaped to mind was choreographed speech...I enjoyed the dancing, but found it also distracting...still an interesting concept.

The end is kind of hilarious. When he proposes that with all the cuts in ed funding for the arts that you will be able to get dancers super cheap thereby making them a cost effective replacement. :). Some people have loved the dancing and others not so much. I am a dancer and I connected immediately. I thought it was hilarious but it was presented as a way to teach concepts to children and I think the context of live movement is so incredibly effective. I certainly understand a super fluid now. I can only imagine if I had actually danced the concept.

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 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.

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

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

A little history

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.

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.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins conducted a study on the neuroscience of creativity and our response to art. They have established a new field called "neuroaesthetics." The BSI website is really a thing of beauty: http://www.brainscienceinstitute.org/

Very interesting, it seems to me that these scientists are looking beyond the aesthetics of art towards it use as language or even medicinal. Look at an Escher and a Klimt and call me in the morning :)

The ability to create art and to think creatively is something that truly sets us apart yet they still know so very little about how it occurs in the brain. What exciting and important research!

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

Narrated tours of Art on exhibit and tours or artist studios. A wonderful way to get MoMA to the masses.