ART AND TECHNOLOGY

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ART AND TECHNOLOGY

• MET 531

• MET 531
• TIAN YU
• JUN OF 2005

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What is art? According to the definition from
Oxford Dictionary, arts are subjects of study
primarily concerned with human culture, as
contrasted with scientific or technical subjects.

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Art and technology are different subjects, but,
they are converging.
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In our human history, arts at different ages are
always developed combining with the progress of
different technologies.
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whether the materials of visual art, or the
instruments used to created music, or the
structures and materials of architecture, the art
most readily associated with the shaping of
technological form. -by Andrew Murphie and
John Potts
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• In ancient China, pottery art and bronze art
  were greatly developed as a result of progress of
  ceramic making and bronze casting technologies.

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• Chinese black ceramic

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• Chinese Qin Dynastys Bronze ware

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• The Frenchman Louis Lumiere's invention began the
  motion picture era.

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• With the appearance of computer technology,
  computer drawing, music and design are produced
  and developed accordingly.

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As an artist, inventor and scientist, Leonardo
thought that arts could fly higher in the sky
with the wings of technology.
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New art forms appear.

• The traditional, distinct boundaries governing
  media in art, such as painting, sculpture, film,
  performance, architecture and dance, now are also
  being blurred, as artists have begun converging
  media to create hybrid art forms.

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Postmodern artists desired to produce art that
was more accessible to a general public than had
been the case in much of modernism.-by Andrew
Murphie and John Potts
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Art can be interactive

• With the advent of digital technology, the
  audience can play integral participant roles in
  front of interactive artwork, which realize that
  artworks could transform viewers into
  participants.

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• In the Data cloud, users fly through the entire
  collection.

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Technology is claimed to be able to make everyone
an artist.
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• For example, with the emergence of portable
  video device, the video art is brought into life,
  and everyone can make their own film.
• You yourself can be the director, the
  photographer, the editor and even the actor.

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People even without much formal art training can
create their own artworks with the help of
technology.

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Artists once working in a single discipline are
finding new ways to weave other mediums into
their final bodies of work.
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Digital art is art created on a computer in
digital (that is, binary) form.

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Art and technology are converging.
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Resources

• Murphie, A. and Potts, J. (2003). Culture and
  technology. New York Palgrave Macmillan.
• Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds, Interaction in
  Art and Technology, http//crossings.tcd.ie/issues
  /2.1/Candy/
• Pictures from world wide web.

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Thank You