Reading Twelve: New Media from Borges to HTML

The final reading twelve was on an article called "New Media from Borges to HTML" By Lev Manovich. This was a long paper written on the first appearance of new media and how historic it is to technology. This article was very long but HTML as a language is a major innovation to computer code/ code writing.

http://manovich.net/DOCS/manovich_new_media.doc\

Reading Twelve: New Media from Borges to HTML

The final reading twelve was on an article called "New Media from Borges to HTML" By Lev Manovich. This was a long paper written on the first appearance of new media and how historic it is to technology. This article was very long but HTML as a language is a major innovation to computer code/ code writing.

http://manovich.net/DOCS/manovich_new_media.doc

Some Music; Pogo

Pogo is an extremely amazing artist who creates his music ONLY by taking small noises in popular movies also known as samples and puts them together to make a beat and a song. He then DJs the music using very advanced touchpad DJ equipment. Here is DJ Pogo's newest song, Using noises from Monsters Inc., Boo Bass

Hackintosh

A "Hackintosh" is a Mac created by any builder at home. You can buy all normal computer parts that might run better with Mac and install the OSX os over top of it. They are an underground phenomena and very interesting to learn about.

Reading Eleven: Risa Horowitz

Risa Horowitz was a really fun speaker to have into the class! Risa really made some people in the class look up and say "did she just say that?". Risa was very open about her work and let us know that she made a calendar that showed which days she had sex, had an orgasm, etc. This made the whole presentation very fun and interesting to listen to. Risa is a very creative person and all of her art work is very deep and meaningful to her. Risa seems to have n infatuation with wasting her time because every project she takes on seems to take more than a year of constant everyday work from 9-5. Risa drove across Canada, Risa said every word in the dictionary and then compiled them. Her website is very professional and up to date, It would be the perfect reference if she ever was looking for a job.

http://www.risahorowitz.com/

Reading Ten: Ex Machina

In this weeks reading we looked at the Ex Machina website. The site was alright to navigate but nothing special. I really dont have much to say about the class or the reading because I found that the material I read about just entered one ear and went right out the other ear. I have no interest in theater. It seems that the closest link I can make from theatre to creative arts studies is how the lights are controlled and mixed along with the audio of a bigger room.

http://lacaserne.net/index2.php/exmachina/

Nyan

Nyan cat is a cool mix of art done on the computer that was turned into a .gif image and put to some annoying yet oddly catchy music, most likely made on a computer as well!

Reading Nine: Max/MSP Basics w/ David Gerhard & Why Computer Music Sucks

David Gerhard was our speaker this week and he is by far the best lecturer we had this semester. David spoke to us about Gadgets and Devices. His speech was about mostly how to use a program called Max/MSP and how we can basically get it to do whatever we want. Davids example was creating a noise feedback program were he could change the pitch and tone of the noise he recorded in the mic. This really took me back to the lecture with Ian Campbell and VJing because he changed the visual aspect of his performance and David built the program that would do that.

http://tinyurl.com/6vz249c

The Article "Computer Music Sucks" By Bob Ostertag (link below) is annoying, to put it nicely. I wont even overview the plot of this article because it is pure nonsense. Basically Mr Ostertag things he is the deciding person in whether music is good or not. He needs to realize that at one point his music and instruments/ tools, at some point, were considered to be quite futuristic and technical. The same way Bob thinks of "computer music" to be a fad I'm sure back when he was using Synth's people thought his music wouldn't be very good or have much longevity. Mr Ostertag is an old hypocrite who need to open his eyes and realize everything is being done on computers and its only a matter of time music fully exists on/ through computers.

http://bobostertag.com/writings-articles-computer-music-sucks.htm

Daft Punk: Most successful Creative Artists of all time?

Daft Punk is a electronic band that uses synth's, mixers, computers to make their music. They use samples and MPC to create their unique sound. Their innovative techniques using computers and computer generated sounds have put them at God status among the Electronic genre. Daft Punks shows are no slouch either. Their stage is littered with lights, LEDs, smoke machines, light structures, and their amazing costumes are also a work of creative art. If I had to think of ONE band that summed up everything we learned this year it would be DAFT PUNK.

Reading Eight: IMP Labs & Owen Chapman

This is the week I had really been looking forward to. We were finally going down to the IMP Labs (link below). The cool part about the IMP Labs is that they have tons of Midi controllers, turn tables and other cool audio gadgets that you can play around with every Tuesday and Thursday after 6pm. Unfortunately the lecture was painfully boring. I thought the class was going to be on DJing and it ended up being about Charity Marsh's work with inner-city kids using the IMP labs. It didnt really give me any insight into what the IMP labs are all about just information on something the IMP labs is involved in. I was pretty disappointed, as a person who always wanted to check out the IMP labs.

Owen Chapman was the guest lecturer who came to the second class in the IMP labs. Owen chatted with the class about his project that used every days sounds and extracted them to a site for people to listen to all over the world using their site and its interface. I thought the idea was really cool if thats what you're into.

http://www.interactivemediaandperformance.com/
http://coms.concordia.ca/faculty/chapman.html

Reading Seven: Rough Music and Audio Digital Interaction Lab & Instructables

Reading Seven took us to an article about the aRMADILo lab here at the University (link below). This lab is tied to the work of David Gerhard. David was probably one of the top three speakers that we had all semester. David's example of the 3D printer was a perfect example the ever expanding field of Creative Studies. Its for devices like this that make me feel that Creative Studies is all about innovation. The components that are used in the 3D printer weren't around when the first printers or even colour printers. When those components did become available a smart mind put them together and innovated the way a printer can work.

http://armadilo.cs.uregina.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=60

Creative Technology

The meaning of Creative Technology is innovation. Using new technology and old technology separate, or together to make a new and interesting creative activity. That could be visual, technological. Its all about Innovation.



The Gorillaz were the first break through band to combine music and visual characters together. They were in the Guinness book of world records for the best selling (10million copies) band to use music and visual components

Reading Six: Devices of wonder

The Devices of Wonder site really freaked me out. The half human half robot looking right at me really made me feel uncomfortable. These two sites really tie into what we talk about in class because the innovation that's going on not only with the technology used on the site but the flash based interactive site its-self are steps in the right direction. The yellow background on the site gave me a headache and although I did appreciate the flash site it wasn't very straight forward or easy to use.

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/devices/choice.html
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020124/devices.shtml

And now... CATS!

Who doesn't love CATS?! They are the poster child of funny YouTube videos which therefore associates them directly to technological creativity!





Meow!