Major: DTC and Fine Arts (Studio) Major
Class: Junior
Occupation: Almost Broke College Student
We live in a Digital Age where technology is not only a source of entertainment, but a new pathway to create, communicate, and share. The world seems larger and smaller at the same time. Smaller because we're doing it from a stationary standpoint; face glued to a screen of some sort. Larger at the same time because of the unlimited access to people from around the world and such.
I'm glad that I'm taking this class because I do enjoy learning more and more about technology today and tomorrow, but it worries me also how technology is going to affect us in a negative way. Such as Instant Gratification where our minds function on short terms.
Ex: Many people that see an post that is more than 2-3 sentences will likely skip it because it's "Too long to read"
or
Ex: Imigur --> Gifs and pictures with 2-3 line statement are meant to instantly give us satisfaction or entertainment and we continuously use them throughout the day to keep us entertained when nothing is going on at that given moment.
I've worked more in the art side of digital technology using a tablet and using photoshop.
Last semester we did the most basic of basic with TextWrangler and made a web set from an existing format. So I've tapped into the programing side slightly, but not a lot. I did enjoy having a tumblr and posting nothing but cat pictures.
"New Media" --> New Media is anything that I can relate to sharing and communicating through new mediums. I consider the internet a somewhat new media that speaks to how we conduct online and offline personas. Video Games could also be a form of new media because it's connection to online gaming (Got to love and hate League of Legends for that). Tablets and cell phones (specifically smart phones) to be in the realm of new media due to the instant access to people and networks.
These blogs honestly are just "Self Rants" that we post publicly for the anonymous to view and criticize. So I can't this will be the cleanest and most professional posts ever.
So, it sounds like "new mediums" in your definition are always digital, and it also looks like they need to be able to access the web. Is your studio focus digital? I'm wondering because of things like art movements since the invention of the camera. The role of the painter changed since images and ideas had to be conveyed in ways that kept the artist from being totally redundant, but I might be splitting hairs with what's really "new" and what's just an evolution of something old. Likewise, I'm curious how important the network is to new media -- could old, non-networked games like "Civilization" communicate ideas to consumers in a similar fashion to internet games like "Papers Please?" (I like complicating things.)
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to see where the self rants go this semester. And, one thing we'll pick up on tomorrow: is it a self-rant because this is a blog space? If you submitted them via email, Angel discussion board, or handwritten on a notecard, would the medium change the formality?