MailTribune.com: Three college professors create dialogue between technology and art in the Schneider Museum of Art's newest exhibit, "Three Tales: Narrative, Mechanism and the Digital Thread." The exhibit, which contains live and static works, will be displayed through Saturday, April 28, at the museum on the Southern Oregon University campus, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Automation in art
MailTribune.com: Three college professors create dialogue between technology and art in the Schneider Museum of Art's newest exhibit, "Three Tales: Narrative, Mechanism and the Digital Thread." The exhibit, which contains live and static works, will be displayed through Saturday, April 28, at the museum on the Southern Oregon University campus, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.
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Of course I'm going to comment on this - it's right out of my home town! As someone from Ashland, I'm really excited that a professor from Southern Oregon University is collaborating with a professor from Carnegie Mellon. And, because I like to look for patterns where they don't necessarily exist, I think its a bit spooky (considering I'm from Ashland and now go to Carnegie Mellon).
The concept behind the exhibit intrigues me. Right now, I'm much more interested in art that uses technology as a tool, rather than just make art using technology for the sake of technology. These pieces seem more in-line with the former, rather than they latter. Then again, I might be misinterpreting the article.
This exhibit will be a great combination of art, technology, and automation. As Pia stated, this is using technology as a tool in art, rather then for the sake of technology. It seems that we might have to manipulate the definition of technology for technology's sake deepening on the application, but the creation of something specifically from the technology rather then using it to solve a problem is definitely acceptable. It would be interesting to see the use of technology which they automation because the process that the art does it self, and how much is really automated or created, rather than looped or pre-programmed.
I am always amazed at things like this. I've never seen a piece of art that equips technology as much as these but the pieces that I have seen tend to give me the same reaction every time, shock and awe. This is also the same reaction when i see robots wandering across campus. It's amazing what are generation is capable of and I can't wait to see what comes. The most incredible part of this article is that technology responds to living beings rather than another part of its machine. 'Tis almost like Siri....
I was never so much aware of how awe inspired I am by automation than I have been after getting a glimpse of automation at this school- and to see that such technology is being steered towards kinetic art is really something else. It not only requires a great deal of knowledge, precision, and intelligence, but you also have to have an artistic purpose- a message, and concept in creating this piece. That combination of skill, both conceptually and mathematically is what blows me away.
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