This week I took up a good deal of interest in a specific artist mentioned in the book for our class; "Digital Art" by Christiane Paul. The artist goes by the name of Kenneth Rinaldo and his piece that sparked my attention is titled “Autopoiesis”.
Autopoiesis is a unique installation that forms an interactive environment consisting of multiple infrared sensors equipped to robotic tentacle-like arms operated by a central computer. This combination allows for the arms to react individually, or in a grouped manner towards living beings that approach it. In addition the arms will make sounds according to emotion, higher beeps for excitement and lower beeps for a state of relaxation. So in a sense this digital environment has the power of “sight”, thought, touch, and communication. In this manner you could say that Autopoiesis surpasses some mentally disabled humans in the quality of what it is to be human. A sense of free will seems like the only element separating this creation from a life of its own.
Thinking back to older cartoons set in the future, such as the Jetsons, although we aren’t riding around in space shuttles to get from place to place or coexisting with robot servants who do chores for us, creations like Autopoiesis are a step closer to proving the past predictions of the future to be nearly legit.
If anyone else is interested in learning more about Kenneth Rinaldo or viewing Autopoiesis or his other artworks, they can be found at his home site “Emergent Systems“ (http://accad.osu.edu/~rinaldo/ )
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
ART 211W Post #9 Angles of expression
With every passing decade new methods of self-expression leak out into the Internet. Tagborads, Blogs, and Livejournals began the need to connect with the world until Facebook and Myspace came along. Every website started to coax people more and more to express themselves in different ways. What began as a personal diary/journal and public instant messenger connected and spruced up with the idea of gaming and personal-webpage development to create a site that causes people to want to “form an existence” and be noticed by others.
Now, the Internet has transformed once again to an even more personal manner. Instead of creating a page that reveals “who I am and this is what I like”, sites such as Twitter and FML exist merely to focus on the purpose of expressing a detailed “status message” about the highlights of someone’s day. Therefore these sites inadvertently create a way to rant, cure boredom, while forming a sense of connection between people having similar if not worse troubles. In this manner, the Internet has moved away from the detail about identity and into a world where anonymous people gather to share stories. At the same time, just like with the rest of the Internet these entries could be lies posted simply because they are humorous tales of what people would want to read. I agree that such sites as these are amusing but aside from a cure for boredom, FML and Twitter are practically pointless. Both are just different angles of looking into other people’s lives.
Now, the Internet has transformed once again to an even more personal manner. Instead of creating a page that reveals “who I am and this is what I like”, sites such as Twitter and FML exist merely to focus on the purpose of expressing a detailed “status message” about the highlights of someone’s day. Therefore these sites inadvertently create a way to rant, cure boredom, while forming a sense of connection between people having similar if not worse troubles. In this manner, the Internet has moved away from the detail about identity and into a world where anonymous people gather to share stories. At the same time, just like with the rest of the Internet these entries could be lies posted simply because they are humorous tales of what people would want to read. I agree that such sites as these are amusing but aside from a cure for boredom, FML and Twitter are practically pointless. Both are just different angles of looking into other people’s lives.
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