UWW310 Technology & the Arts

A great article on digital jewelry prototypes. Jewelry that has a computer in it. This is so great. I am in the jewelry industry and this is the first I've heard of this. I can't wait to share it with my co-workers.

This discussion-based blog explores the intersection of arts management and online technology. Technology in the Arts is a service of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts Management and Technology.

I'm sure you've all heard of crowdsourcing by now, but it really does seem to be the intersection of social networking & artistic entrepreneurship. Perhaps this will be how everything is funded in the future ?

This is great to know about...I am definitely going to explore this for projects that I am working on currently.

Interesting article about different cool tech things in various locations around Paris. A lot of the points have to do with art and culture. Bonus ! It was written by a friend :)

my sincerest apologies or this being in French, though I think you can view an English version... Ircam is internationally known as THE contemporary music research center... it's place in combining music in technology in the classical world is irreproachable.

I'm sure everyone knows this site, but I think it goes along well with the theme--providing a platform for artists to more easily share and sell their art around the world in one place.

I didn't realize WGXR had such a well curated and in depth website. The opera articles are particularly informative, and I've bookmarked it almost immediately in my newsfeed.

Is an internet based radio station that is listener supported. Live DJ's do the programming and match the tunes to me similar to one another. But they slide smoothly through many genres in the process. You could start listening and hear "A day in the life" by the Beatles and an hour latter be listening to "Blue on Black" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and never be shocked by the transitions of the 15 songs in between.

Because I believe that creative writing is an art, even though it is frequently left out of that category, I am posting this article on ways that technology is affecting books and writing...it covers several different areas of e-publishing and other electronic delivery methods for poetry, short stories, longer works, essays, etc... The article also mentions diigo.

Billy Collins' poetry made visible by animation artists...whimsical, quirky and evocative. He reads a poem while the animation plays; the words and the images are entwined. The only text for each poem is the title formatted in accordance with the content. Sherri Vanden Akker shared this with me in response to one of our assignments. I find them very enjoyable and provocative!

love love love love love Billy Collins. This is awesome !

Vine is an app for twitter that allows you to make short looping videos, which you can share with the world. I linked the wiki page here, as it has more information, but you can visit them on twitter at: https://twitter.com/vineapp The Tribeca Film Festival opened a competition for Vine videos for this year's event. http://www.tribecafilm.com/blogs/six-second-films-vine-competition

the ultimate young artist program resource for young singers.

informational site for opera performances, performers, and agencies.

great resource for informing oneself about arias and operas.

this is one of many sites I use to find auditions, competitions, and other resources for developing a career.

I use this site also, to look for jobs in arts administration...it's an excellent source.

Thomas Cott is the director of marketing for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. "You've Cott Mail" is a fabulous weekday email for arts enthusiasts, managers, administrators, or artists. He picks a different topic everyday and scours the web for interesting/good/useful blogs, articles, etc, compiles them into one email with several links, and delivers it to your inbox. I can't recommend "You've Cott Mail" enough.

University of Wisconsin-Madison offers summer classes for students completing grades 5-8 that integrate technology with the arts. It's great that people are beginning to realize that technology and the arts can complement each other, and are offering these kinds of classes to such young students. I wish I was young enough to take some of them!

Through the Education Leaders Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts will convene decision makers from several states to develop coordinated state arts education strategies to design public education with arts at the core. Rocco Landesman, former head of NEA, delivers a wonderful speech explaining why the arts are so important and why they need to be included in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

This is a really interesting article about technologies that have changed the jewelry business such as diamond cutting, synthetic stones, laser drilled diamonds etc...

This is a great article about art apps. The one that interests me the most is ArtRage. It is amazing that a computer app can mimic the look of a real watercolor. One color actually bleeds into the next.