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ANIMATION!!!....f***ing finally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xa9zIpFF4o

READING #2 RESPONSE---

1. how has technology changed the integrity of art? if we can so easily open something, edit, or press undo if we dislike the product, does that actually take away the credibility of the artist? does it make them any less creative, or does it raise the standard by which people are deemed artistic? can someone who is not technologically advanced still be an artist?

2. is the value of an original piece destroyed by the ability to duplicate and distribute that piece across multiple media? if so, do watermarks serve as a way of preserving integrity, or do they simply obstruct the artists ability to reach the viewer by indicating a lack of trust?

animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0TaZVeu5A8&feature=youtu.be

Walter Benjamin Discussion

• is technology, in a way, killing the original idea of art? has our affinity for electronics caused us to become reliant on their advanced capabilites to express our own creativity? is our own distracted society making it difficult for us to express our creativity? or is our creation of these technological distractions (movies, tv shows, dubstep music) the art of our time?

• Benjamin says, "The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses".  if this is true, does the use of technology designed to alter and enhance photos, such as photoshop, prove to be a way of delving into our own perceptions of what we see, or does it serve as a way of allowing us to mask what is happening in that millisecond the photo was taken, with what we WANT to see and show others? 

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Apocalypse of Innocence-Anneliese Hucal



















artist statement---children today are so different than i was as a child. when i was little i used to help set the kitchen table, play outside, and cringe at the screwball violence in bugs bunny cartoons. now, children are watching MTV and cutting themselves for Justin Beiber. little girls are becoming more and more comfortable with the sexualization of our culture and little boys are becoming more and more violent. my piece represents the almost uncontrollable training they recieve from birth to mimic the behavioral patterns of those around them. we try to put them in classrooms and teach them to behave but the worst of the negative education occurs within that setting where children are given instructions and left to their own devices to interpret the behavior of others. babies are born with a clean slate, but we are the ones unconsciously who f*** them up. innocence is disappearing as we become more and more prone to expose our children to our own dark truths.

A'Riane Holliday