Harold Cohen / Aaron

Prof Harold Cohen spent like 30 creating Aaron, a computer artist type thing! Aaron is the first computer to create its own original painting. Aaron also makes his own paints and colors this only shows us how far technology has really come! Pretty soon we are going to go to museums to look at art that a computer has made rather than a person.

Aaron can make paintings about anything that it has been taught. And it probably something way better than i can do!

Christophe Bruno

He was my favorite person to hear about in class probably because he was the most interactive. There are many things that he has created that allows you to interact with his art. One of them being this. It is kinda like mad libs where you insert your own words as you please. I did it and took a screen shot but there is so much that you can do. It is not really appropriate for everyone but still fun!:)

Jeffery shaw

He is another artist that has taken then movement society is headed in and made art out of it. In this piece he take a bike and connects it to a large screen..kinda. Then he made a city out of words. So instead of just riding a bike. Or riding in a bike in a gym and watching commercials the entire time. Or even riding in a virtual world but it still looking the same like ours, this way you are riding into a world or city like you have never even seen before. It is a city made of words. I don't know if the words tell a story or if the words have a meaning but it would still be entertaining to read not just a book but an entire city made out of words as you exercise!

Knowbotic Research

"My Black Cat" Is a room a controlled space. It is a black room w/ black balloons and once in the room you are asked to stand still. Then a voice will talk to you about the black cat. At first you might think that the balloons are supposed to represent the black cat, but those are simply black balloons. Society is so set on everything being done for them such as pushing a button and getting results but this room actually forces the viewer to think and imagine the black cat in the room w/ them

Masaki Fujihata

This artist is also very futuristic in this photo he is riding a bike, which has already been modified at the gym instead of actually having to go out side and get some fresh air you can now stay in one spot and read or listen to music instead of actually paying attention to the world outside. This is taking that even further instead of having to read or listen to music while riding the bike you have your entertainment right in front of you. Right now it is just art, but in the future it will most likely be a reality, like most artist Masaki Fujihata is just making art, but he is also trying to say something about the human race.

Stelarc

So a lot of his art is like futuristic and to me a little disturbing. I might only feel that way because he is standing on a spider like machine and i HATE spiders, but his other art work involved ears on arms and faces merging. Like most other artist it is probably just his way of seeing the world and what it is becoming. Maybe the ears on the arms could be saying like with all of the surgery taking place, and all of the technology where will it stop? This one i think is saying, like since everything is moving forward, whose to say that we will not all be riding on some kind of machine sooner or later, thats fine w/ me as long as they are NOT spiders.

Erwin Redl

Erwin uses LED lights to make his art work. He is a very acomplished artist and has his art in large museums. Including one right down the street in LA !(: It doesn't have a deep true meaning like i like sometimes but it still looks cool. It also looks like it needs A LOT of patience and thinking to get every single individual light into place. I found a lot that looked cool but this was one of the larger pieces which shows how much time and patience it must take to make one single piece !(:

stop the traffik

Scott Blake:

I have looked up almost every single artist there is too look up, and out of all of them i liked this piece the most. I admit i didn't do like thorough researching but this one spoke to me right away! Human trafficking is something real and something serious. People don't think it happens here but it does, all the time it is just pushed under the rug. This huge bill board kinda forces people to think about it, and maybe someone will decide to do something about it. People don't look at much, but people do look at bill boards.

It is a good bill board because instead of just saying, stop the traffik it has his own twist on it, considering all of his work is out of bar codes. And bar codes are how we but and sell. By putting people into the bar code it forces the viewers to actually think that this is happening.

This was his first piece using barcodes, he did it in 1998. What inspired him was the Y2K. He first tried using squares and circles, then he figured out that he could do this and liked it a lot more. What i really like about this is well i have a good relationship w/ Jesus so of course i like portraits of him (: but its kinda contradicting, because if you know anything about religion barcodes in humans are kinda sign of the beast. But anyways its really good!(:

MY fav is that u can actually scan the bar codes and differnt songs play!

http://www.punklist.com/~blake/art/drugs/drugs.html

Thats Scott Blake !:)

Flipped clock

Thomson & Craighead do a lot of online virtual work but my favorite piece by them was flipped clock not because of how it looked but because of what it meant

Every single person in this world is so rushed by the clock, everyone is constantly asking what time is it? wondering if it is time for them to leave. But When you flip the clock it reminds you that time is really nothing. It is just a clock or a watch or cell phone. In the gallery where the flipped clock is located it is a functional working clock but when someone looks at it, the numbers flipped bye 180 degrees allow them to stop worrying about time for just one second. The flipped clock takes them by surprise and should remind them that timing is NOT everything

I was going to do a video on time, but i thought it might be too original, so i didn't but class has really showed me how fast in life i am moving. I go from school to work, or from work to work every single day not paying attention to anything that is going on around me. In my spare time i sleep, which i could say is a waste of time, but then again time doesn't really matter. If the whole world would just drop their  schedules for ONE DAY, put away their cell phones, watches, and clocks this world could be a much less selfish place.