Monday, November 28, 2011

Art Workshop by Mr.Kotaro

Last week we had a workshop hosted by Kotaro Tanaka, from Japan. He showed us some of his experimental photos of what he called the "unseen world".

Technical adjustments before the he started to talk.

In this photo, he was saying that it was actually a photography art but taken into a different way, at first I thought it was a painting.

One of sample pictures he showed us he described as "unseen world".

Couldn't snap other photos, phone was at low battery. Gotta save some to make some calls that time.

Mr.Kotaro was a very soft spoken person at that moment, so most of the time during the talk, I honestly couldn't catch what he was talking about (he didn't speak that much, maybe it was the language difficulties he had). I was able to concentrate on the pictures he showed us and understood what he tried to tell us.

So after he finished present us the slides, we moved on to our next activity, which we had to go outside and take pictures with our cameras of our own interpretation of "unseen word" and at the same time given an hour break. So we went outside, took a couple of shots of photos. I took a picture of sky with clouds.

This picture was taken at Cyberia apartment. My interpretation of unseen world, is beyond that blue sky shaded with clouds. What I exactly explained during the sharing session was that, beyond the sky is a huge space that is yet to be thoroughly traveled by us human with our current technology. We do not know yet whether we are the only living species in the entire space. We have urban legends and evidence saying that our sky is often traveled by UFOs or what we supposed to call as aliens.

So to conclude this post, I think it was a very informative workshop session. All of us were able to share our ideas of what we call as unseen world. Mr.Kotaro should be credited for trying his best to stand up on his own without a translator to share his knowledge of digital art and photography! :)

Sunday, November 20, 2011

What is Media Art Technology?

Media Art Technology for me includes art that is created through technology, or an art that has been manipulated by the current technology that has been known to us for example, a still photography that has been photoshopped, a digital art that was drawn from scratch using digital illustration softwares, interactive applications created using computers softwares with scriptings and codings, installation arts that is merged with hardwares and arts, videos, fims, music, sound, and etc.

Our lives by majority is surrounded by media ; our mobile phones now can read e-books, listen to songs and watch videos, some of us have laptop carried in our bags, those stuff are high techs compared to the days when people don't have portable phones and desktops. As for me, I couldn't live without a desktop or my mobile phones, it's a pain in the neck.

Media technology do gives us an impact in our daily lives. Through a portable laptop or a PC tablet alone we have all the access into every single information that we want to look into. For me, I do use my desktop to play games, but also as an art student, I also do need it to do my work, mainly to create a digital art or my favourite, Flash Applications, or rather, a piece of media art technology. I could create a digital art only by using complicated lines of Actionscript 2.0 & 3.0.





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Saturday, November 19, 2011

The Journey Begins..

Hello and welcome to my blog journal for Media Art Technology subject. This blog covers the journal that has required me to write the whole process of the class. Hopefully this will be a good start.