UWW310 Technology & the Arts

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.

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.

This has been big in the new recently, but what better marriage of art, design and technology is there!? Very cool and very accessible to all.

Quite lovely...magical. It brings to mind the interplay of atoms, or even particles...the unceasing movement of the universe. And, yes, accessible to all!!

Daniel Levitin is the Author of "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession". He is a musician and neuroscientist and this post is him giving a talk about his research and book at Microsoft Research. One of his main premises from his research is that music may be more fundamental to humans than language.

This is a very riveting talk. I didn't come away with the idea that music might be more fundamental to humans than language, but that music is fundamental, as is language, and that each of us is a musical expert, if not expert performers!

I have continued thinking about this topic...Levitin also intimated that musical capacity is similar to language acquisition in that there is a window of time in which that capacity needs to be triggered in order for fluency in music to be attained. The window for language acquisition is birth to puberty. If your language capacity is not triggered within this time frame, you can't learn to speak as we understand speech. I wonder if this is really true of musical capacity...perhaps, but perhaps not in the way that it is of language. Of course they massive amounts of research have been applied to the question of language.

This might be a little out there for some ... but this guy is brilliant. He is using a $2 app on an iphone to do this. Definitely worth a watch.

Very cool!! Creating one's own personal transportable accompaniment...and it was funny.

This blew me away completely. Bjork has always been on the cutting edge of tech with her instruments. This shows off a few of them. After you watch, check out some more videos on the reactable (the blue table with the shapes on it).... it's pretty nuts.

This triggered various images: instrument statues that are also kinetic...sound made visible...most intriguing!

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!

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

Copyright gets even more complicated!!

excerpt: "Science and technology research should be viewed more broadly than in the past: not only as specialized technical inquiry, but as cultural creativity and commentary, much like art."

"Could a visualization of a building's carbon footprint increase conservation behavior in resident populations?"

A cool article I stumbled upon

I have decided to share this, because of the impact that tiny desk concerts from NPR have made on today's music scene. Being able to share intimate performances in a digital space is incredible. I highly recommend perusing through their YouTube page and even subscribe on ITunes.

LOVE all of these guys. Great link !

An MIT course on the History Of Modular Synthesizers. Very fascinating if you are into electronic music.

"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!"

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

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!

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