Microsoft Powerpoint Project

http://www.slideshare.net/xdorklander/digital-literacy-powerpoint-project

Take a look at my powerpoint presentation, a bit of fun with my gumboots and then a lovely slide of a set of stoneware vessels I made.

The animations ( Motion happening within the frame) and the Transitions ( Motion happening between frames ) may not be active in this link.

Electronic arts in the network with guest specker Dr Su Ballard

Wed 13 May 09
Dr. Su Ballard is a Principal Lecturer in Electronic Arts in the School of Art Otago Polytechnic. Her research focuses on digital aesthetics, visual culture, sound, and media art histories. She really likes art that experiments in the spaces between analogue and digital media, has a fondness for 1970s experimental film and video, and wrote her PhD on noise, error, frequency and materiality in digital installation art from New Zealand. She is also a curator, writer, and musician.

Today we discussed different electronic artists and how they use the internet/computer to form their art.
Two examples are :

THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD

A Short film about War is being developed into a two screen gallery installation, this should be up and running by the end of July according to Su Ballard. Thompson and Craighead are creating this film with a variety of war zones seen through the collective eyes of the online photo sharing community. Developing a film on war without leaving their room.

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/warfilm.html

Another excelent example of their work is A beautifully crafted set of four tea towels sporting a series of authentic search engine results.

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/towels.html



For this example they used phrase words "in quotes" and Googled them,
"Please help me" ,
"Is anyone there?",
"Please listen to me",
"Can you hear me?',
then the results of the engine search were printed out onto the tea towels and sold
Made by digital means, this poject has scope for me, as I am very interested in printing. Could this be printed onto clay ? How cool would that look !

Video on free software....

Stephen Fry on free software from DragonWeb on Vimeo.

A video staring Stephen Fry on free software. He talks about how Richard Storm 25 years ago wrote a new operating system which he called GNU - GNU is not UNIX. Supporting a community based software where the community was able to change and improve the system and it was spread around the community free like science and avalible to everyone. He calls this the operating system of the future. Have a look at the video.

Free Software....

FREE SOFTWARE is ...Software that can be used, studied and modified without restriction and can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form. Software is available free of charge in most cases.

Here are 5 software programmes that are free to download.

UBUNTU- is a free computer operating system software
OPEN OFFICE - A free software similar to Microsoft office Suite with programmes similar to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc
GIMP - Photo shop equivalent to modify photos
BLENDER - To create 3D animation
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION - Unbias information with no copyright issues


A Lull "Skinny Fingers" from A Lull on Vimeo.

A Lull "Skinny Fingers"

Dealing with the copyright issues

http://www.flickr.com/photos/melisma/
In(spector) April 7 2009
No true name given in profile

Using a picture off the Flickr website, I have uploaded the image along with the URL , Artists name and date of the image so that I am reconizing the artist.
This image fell under the copyright all rights reserved.
I am unable to use this image for purposes where I am trying to earn money from it.

Printmaking March 09

My first attempt at print making ever!

All towards my Diploma of Arts, here at Otago Polytech, it was so much fun, almost addictive. I began my project with a stencil cut out of a school of fish, which soon proved to be too rigid and not going in the direction I wanted so I started tearing the cartridge paper, tearing strips, circles, shapes and used these as the stencils. The torn edges were wonderful as they created a shadowing look. I used the "robbing" method of printing, which involves taking wet ink from an already printed board or print.
I presented the prints in a book, 4 x A3 sheets per page. It took many hours to arrange the prints into pages, so they worked. I sometimes added a blank page to rest the eye. These were then bound between cardboard by the local printers.

A great final look , ENJOY




A favourite print, using the robbing process to create a shadowing effect

Abstract Prints

Red must have been the colour of the day !