There is an old adage that perception is reality. This is 100% true. People are so used to being spoon fed information that they rarely examine for themselves, preferring to accept whatever is handed to them. Advertisers, lawyers and other bastards of the world have exploited this side of humanity for along time. So I agree with the concept of altered photography being an altered reality. You skew our beliefs of what was there and suddenly history was changed. 9/11 hit us all in same raw way, because we were there, portrayed as camera lens looking upon the impacts. Images have the magical ability of teleport in that way.
This Chapter is the best yet talking more about the technological side of some of art work today.This chapter covered the important themes such as artificial life, Artificial intelligence and intelligent agents, body and identity, etc. The first part I enjoyed happened to be on the first page from Norbert Wiener. He said that the digital computer had raised the question relationship between man and machine and also that it was necessary to explore that relationship in a scientific manner. In another book, cybernetics, he defined three central concepts which he said were crucial in any system or organism. The 1st was communication, the second was control and the third was feedback. What he was getting at was that computing was developing into this model and was going to be going through this evolution. One example of this is this telegraph. In the book on page 154, it talked about how we started from the first telegraph message from Samuel Morse; this in part led to the telephone which led to the cell phone and other technologies. This also leads up to our word for this week, Tele-presence. This is not a new word. Tele-present is basically showing you in two places at once. For example you see a live video with me in it while we have a meeting and you can interact with me in real time but I am not in the office at the meeting in real life.. I am in two places at once. Some futuristic movies have been playing with the idea of Tele-presence for years, might not seem that new but now a days technology is working to make cell phones with this virtual hologram of people. Another part I liked was on page 165; it was talking about the ideas of people’s online identity. This part really resonated with me because in more than one class we are talking about our online identities. In the Fa332 we are doing projects in Second life, and in DTC 356 we are talking about social networks. Both are similar in which the individual can be whoever they want and portray themselves how ever they want. I think that there will come a time when college classes are taught through networking sites like Second life, in which you interact and do learning and Homework in second life, not in the real world.
This chapter takes turn on photography as a form of art. The chapter explains how, "a photograph provides evidence from a scene, about the way things were…it proves better evidence then any kind of picture" (Reconfigured Eye, 23). Photographs do in fact give us sense of reality. Personally, I think photographs are portrayed completely different today and are a much more fun and advanced form of technology. Like in the previous chapters, it was hard to decipher what is real and what is digitally enhanced. But I think the best kind of picture is original and untouched. The great thing about photos is that that do represent reality. Even though, it is a distorted reality used today, it is still a reality. Furthermore, its what makes it stand out from paintings and sculptures. They can never depict an actual reality like a photo can. I don't care how good of an artist you are, I don't think it is the same. Anyways, I find that even though photography and digital imaging is changing drastically, it stills allows us to capture a sense of reality from a photograph. -10603719
When Aristotle's comment was brought up about truth and what is and what is not, I have to admit I had to pause and read it over once or twice. What he comments about truth seems so obvious, but when put into words (even as simple as they were) that remind me of a complex nursery rhyme, I tend to stumble a bit. When they asked the question as to why the foundations of photograph's stake on reality is so high, there was one main answer that my thoughts turned to. It is the undeniable evidence that human beings are very driven by visual stimulation. We are a symbol-driven species, creating our own words and languages and pictures. However when you place the word love next to images of just that, more power is derived from the photos, in both viewing and response. You can read about a boy in a distant hovel scrounging on whatever he can find to survive, but for some reason when we actually see the image of this poor child with a swollen belly and a heartwrenching expression, it somehow brings viewers closer to tears at a faster pace than the previous method. 11033117
The digital world truly has changed our lives entirely. Not only in the art world either. It has transformed the way we look at time, patience, etc. I think it is crazy how we are slowly adapting the human mind to think more machine like, and some of us work so hard against that.
We also transform the way people look at us online, and our online personalities show the people we want to portray ourselves as.
I have to agree with preacher on this, people are being "spoon fed" information that they examine for themselves and preferring to accept whatever is handed to them. people need to stop and think for themselves before it is to late. And I also believe that Advertisers use this to their advantage. I also agree with the concept of altering photos because it distorts the image and can turn the original idea around and make it give the wrong message.
Once again, the author brought about a seemingly obvious notion that I had never thought about before. I found it so interesting to read about the first few situatios in which a photograph was doubted for its truth. Before then, specifically the libyan missile case, a photograph was proof, evidence, an image of reality. When people began realizing that photographs could be doctored, they lost all their validity as images of fact. Although this ushered in a new era of speculation and distrust of photographic evidence, it also I think birthed an era of flourishment for digital media.
I found this chapter really interesting and true. I say this because it's really interesting how people would rely on photographs credibility 25 years ago. However now it's hard to believe anything we see. I think it comes down to technology de-sensitizing our world. It really made me interested about how we interpret photo's today compared to 25+ years ago. I believe that we're only going to get more de-sensitized about things we take have right now. However only the smart people will re-interpret them, everyone else will be lost and like preacher said "spoon fed information." We can all thank the media + technology
I think its crazy how technology is advancing so rapidly, in the digital media realm as well as the mechanic and engineering realms. It has left, and will continue to leave major impacts on the rest of our lives. Computers are getting so advanced that, perhaps even in our lifetime, machines (AI) may surpass humans in every intellectual and creative dimension. Technology is all gravy but its almost coming at us too fast. The part where Weiner talks about online identites is also very intruiging. Its cool that you can create what ever kind of person you want on a program like second life but I also think some people get way too into it. I would not dig it if most of our social networking was done strictly through programs like second life because it takes the human element out of life. 10797926
One major point in this chapter is that your digital self is separate from your actual self. Its a bit of a cliche, but you can be whoever you want online. And that ties back to what we previously read about how digital art is by nature artificial, how it can be photoshopped, reimaged, or outright created. Digital reality is different from actual reality. And while that can be a good thing, allowing us to try new things, explore ideas that the physical world doesn't support, there is a real danger there. What if we lose track of what is real?
Chapter 3 of "The Reconfigured Eye" seemed more like a math book than the rest of the book. It almost sounded like a series of math problems that were then explained how they work. It was also the longest chapter who felt the longest to read. I liked the explaining of the horse again. Which gives a example that is connected to the throughout the other chapters.
Chapter 3 of "The Reconfigured Eye" seemed more like a math book than the rest of the book. It almost sounded like a series of math problems that were then explained how they work. It was also the longest chapter who felt the longest to read. 10724688 I liked the explaining of the horse again. Which gives a example that is connected to the throughout the other chapters. I forgot to add in the last post. The other thing that stood out about about this chapter is it also started explaining about how a person can mulitple an image or idea.
When I started reading this chapter I came across a thought that i had to stop reading and actually think about. What will our cell phones be like in just two years? I recently got a two year upgrade and wondered what would the phones be like two years from now for another upgrade. This thought stemmed from the ideas of how our technology and computers are sky-rocketing in their abilities. Its absolutely insane. A phone is technically a computer today and now we have touch screen cell phones with every possible ability. The the artificial life aspect came up and its almost creepy how it all works. We can literally be whoever we want to be, just like were experiencing on second life.We are becoming pieces of technology our selves. 10952248
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There is an old adage that perception is reality. This is 100% true. People are so used to being spoon fed information that they rarely examine for themselves, preferring to accept whatever is handed to them. Advertisers, lawyers and other bastards of the world have exploited this side of humanity for along time. So I agree with the concept of altered photography being an altered reality. You skew our beliefs of what was there and suddenly history was changed. 9/11 hit us all in same raw way, because we were there, portrayed as camera lens looking upon the impacts. Images have the magical ability of teleport in that way.
This Chapter is the best yet talking more about the technological side of some of art work today.This chapter covered the important themes such as artificial life, Artificial intelligence and intelligent agents, body and identity, etc.
The first part I enjoyed happened to be on the first page from Norbert Wiener. He said that the digital computer had raised the question relationship between man and machine and also that it was necessary to explore that relationship in a scientific manner. In another book, cybernetics, he defined three central concepts which he said were crucial in any system or organism. The 1st was communication, the second was control and the third was feedback. What he was getting at was that computing was developing into this model and was going to be going through this evolution. One example of this is this telegraph. In the book on page 154, it talked about how we started from the first telegraph message from Samuel Morse; this in part led to the telephone which led to the cell phone and other technologies. This also leads up to our word for this week, Tele-presence. This is not a new word. Tele-present is basically showing you in two places at once. For example you see a live video with me in it while we have a meeting and you can interact with me in real time but I am not in the office at the meeting in real life.. I am in two places at once. Some futuristic movies have been playing with the idea of Tele-presence for years, might not seem that new but now a days technology is working to make cell phones with this virtual hologram of people.
Another part I liked was on page 165; it was talking about the ideas of people’s online identity. This part really resonated with me because in more than one class we are talking about our online identities. In the Fa332 we are doing projects in Second life, and in DTC 356 we are talking about social networks. Both are similar in which the individual can be whoever they want and portray themselves how ever they want. I think that there will come a time when college classes are taught through networking sites like Second life, in which you interact and do learning and Homework in second life, not in the real world.
This chapter takes turn on photography as a form of art. The chapter explains how, "a photograph provides evidence from a scene, about the way things were…it proves better evidence then any kind of picture" (Reconfigured Eye, 23). Photographs do in fact give us sense of reality. Personally, I think photographs are portrayed completely different today and are a much more fun and advanced form of technology. Like in the previous chapters, it was hard to decipher what is real and what is digitally enhanced. But I think the best kind of picture is original and untouched. The great thing about photos is that that do represent reality. Even though, it is a distorted reality used today, it is still a reality. Furthermore, its what makes it stand out from paintings and sculptures. They can never depict an actual reality like a photo can. I don't care how good of an artist you are, I don't think it is the same. Anyways, I find that even though photography and digital imaging is changing drastically, it stills allows us to capture a sense of reality from a photograph.
-10603719
When Aristotle's comment was brought up about truth and what is and what is not, I have to admit I had to pause and read it over once or twice. What he comments about truth seems so obvious, but when put into words (even as simple as they were) that remind me of a complex nursery rhyme, I tend to stumble a bit. When they asked the question as to why the foundations of photograph's stake on reality is so high, there was one main answer that my thoughts turned to. It is the undeniable evidence that human beings are very driven by visual stimulation. We are a symbol-driven species, creating our own words and languages and pictures. However when you place the word love next to images of just that, more power is derived from the photos, in both viewing and response. You can read about a boy in a distant hovel scrounging on whatever he can find to survive, but for some reason when we actually see the image of this poor child with a swollen belly and a heartwrenching expression, it somehow brings viewers closer to tears at a faster pace than the previous method. 11033117
The digital world truly has changed our lives entirely. Not only in the art world either. It has transformed the way we look at time, patience, etc. I think it is crazy how we are slowly adapting the human mind to think more machine like, and some of us work so hard against that.
We also transform the way people look at us online, and our online personalities show the people we want to portray ourselves as.
10884524
I have to agree with preacher on this, people are being "spoon fed" information that they examine for themselves and preferring to accept whatever is handed to them. people need to stop and think for themselves before it is to late. And I also believe that Advertisers use this to their advantage. I also agree with the concept of altering photos because it distorts the image and can turn the original idea around and make it give the wrong message.
10837339
Once again, the author brought about a seemingly obvious notion that I had never thought about before. I found it so interesting to read about the first few situatios in which a photograph was doubted for its truth. Before then, specifically the libyan missile case, a photograph was proof, evidence, an image of reality. When people began realizing that photographs could be doctored, they lost all their validity as images of fact. Although this ushered in a new era of speculation and distrust of photographic evidence, it also I think birthed an era of flourishment for digital media.
10796594
I found this chapter really interesting and true. I say this because it's really interesting how people would rely on photographs credibility 25 years ago. However now it's hard to believe anything we see. I think it comes down to technology de-sensitizing our world. It really made me interested about how we interpret photo's today compared to 25+ years ago. I believe that we're only going to get more de-sensitized about things we take have right now. However only the smart people will re-interpret them, everyone else will be lost and like preacher said "spoon fed information." We can all thank the media + technology
#10803454
I think its crazy how technology is advancing so rapidly, in the digital media realm as well as the mechanic and engineering realms. It has left, and will continue to leave major impacts on the rest of our lives. Computers are getting so advanced that, perhaps even in our lifetime, machines (AI) may surpass humans in every intellectual and creative dimension. Technology is all gravy but its almost coming at us too fast. The part where Weiner talks about online identites is also very intruiging. Its cool that you can create what ever kind of person you want on a program like second life but I also think some people get way too into it. I would not dig it if most of our social networking was done strictly through programs like second life because it takes the human element out of life.
10797926
One major point in this chapter is that your digital self is separate from your actual self. Its a bit of a cliche, but you can be whoever you want online. And that ties back to what we previously read about how digital art is by nature artificial, how it can be photoshopped, reimaged, or outright created. Digital reality is different from actual reality. And while that can be a good thing, allowing us to try new things, explore ideas that the physical world doesn't support, there is a real danger there. What if we lose track of what is real?
10849437
Chapter 3 of "The Reconfigured Eye" seemed more like a math book than the rest of the book. It almost sounded like a series of math problems that were then explained how they work. It was also the longest chapter who felt the longest to read. I liked the explaining of the horse again. Which gives a example that is connected to the throughout the other chapters.
Chapter 3 of "The Reconfigured Eye" seemed more like a math book than the rest of the book. It almost sounded like a series of math problems that were then explained how they work. It was also the longest chapter who felt the longest to read. 10724688 I liked the explaining of the horse again. Which gives a example that is connected to the throughout the other chapters. I forgot to add in the last post.
The other thing that stood out about about this chapter is it also started explaining about how a person can mulitple an image or idea.
When I started reading this chapter I came across a thought that i had to stop reading and actually think about. What will our cell phones be like in just two years? I recently got a two year upgrade and wondered what would the phones be like two years from now for another upgrade. This thought stemmed from the ideas of how our technology and computers are sky-rocketing in their abilities. Its absolutely insane. A phone is technically a computer today and now we have touch screen cell phones with every possible ability. The the artificial life aspect came up and its almost creepy how it all works. We can literally be whoever we want to be, just like were experiencing on second life.We are becoming pieces of technology our selves.
10952248
Sorry forgot to include my number in post. Preacher = 10921850
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