Reading Response #3

Is there a certain artist that is held most responsible for"breaking the boundaries" of art as the article describes happened by the 1960s?

Why are, as the article describes, the origins of video art a mystery? I feel like a new form of art, especially something as new to people as video art in former years, would have a well-known originator.

Reading Response #2

"The shooting of a film, especially of a sound film, affords a spectacle unimaginable anywhere at any time before this."
-I didn't really understand this section. How could a films final product be "unimaginable" when the whole thing is methodically planned out, scripted, and directed? Or is this talking about how it would be unimaginable to the audience?

"The painter maintains in his work a natural distance from reality, the cameraman penetrates deeply into its web. There is a tremendous difference between the pictures they obtain."
-How deeply one penetrates into the subject matter is based on skill I would presume? However, this topic seems to be implying that no matter what, a photograph has more depth than a painting. Maybe because of how easily a photograph replicates reality opposed to a painting containing human flaw. In my opinion, the distance from reality obtained from either medium is subjective.

Project #3 (animation and audio)

Project #2 Animation

Reading Response #1

"One of the most obvious aesthetic results of using preview-renders was that the image appears aliased or jagged." -David OReilly 
1. I honestly can not tell the difference between these two images. What are the specific differences between the two that makes one jagged and one smooth?


"We are used to seeing extremely smooth 3d animation (on 1ʻs, or movement in every frame). The eye will happily accept movement on 2ʻs but only if there is a static or slowly moving camera, if the camera is moving to much it makes the animation look choppy and unusual." -David OReilly 

2. Is this due to recent technological advances or has animation always moved on every frame? In other words, when animation first came out would the eye happily accept movement on 2's more so than today?
   

For this project, a partner and I each created a digital diptych collage which was centered around the theme of "Introspective." Together, we gathered a total of twenty-five images that we felt represented our personal interests. We both agreed that it was important to not only include tangible and realistic reflections of self, but abstract and fantastical ones as well. By doing this, we felt our emotional and physical traits would be captured creating a more thorough exploration of the theme "Introspective."

-Johnny Bennett

While gathering these images with my partner I was excited because both he and I have similar interests. I thought it would be great because it would be easier to make what both he and I thought introspectively tangible. Once they were gathered, though, I realized that many of the images we ended up with were conceptual things, and did not help make our thoughts any more clear. But what I found interesting is that we each brought forth images that represented these farfetched things, and much less so us. We each chose dark, spooky things and for the most part ignored the things that represent us in reality, so I arranged my collage to represent how our introspections are fantastical and eerie, and that we tend to ignore things that are considered to be reality or real.