Finish watching the Ippolito video and discuss at least 2 concepts or issues raised in his lecture that intrigued you and why. How do they effect you directly? Have these issues been resolved since the time of the lecture (2004)? I thought it was interesting when John Ipolito talked about learning (and cheating) in universities….

Finish watching the Ippolito video and discuss at least 2 concepts or issues raised in his lecture that intruiged you and why. How do they effect you directly? Have these issues been resolved since the time of the lecture (2004)? In the John Ipolito video, he mentions students plagiarizing when writing papers. One issue he brings…

Vuk Cosic is one of the principal members of net.art, a group that works in the realm of Internet art. Cosic is known for converting pixels one would see in a standard photo into ASCII code. For instance, Cosic recreated the famous porno “Deep Throat,” in ASCII code. His work seems to accentuate values of…

Cory Arcangel “Holy Fire” The utilization of reconstructed video game and computer counsels to create new digital graphic art while innovative relies on many old concepts of other art medias like collage painting, deconstructivism, the found object concept, as well as others. I think that these historical modes of creating images combined with the conceptual…

Marcel Duchamp is a French painter and sculptor. He’s often associated with Dadaism, which is a term coined by himself around the time of his readymades in 1913. Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” is oil on a canvas. It’s known as one of the most famous of it’s time. The artwork was confusing for me…

I selected Experiments in Touching Color by Jim Campbell because I like the idea of interaction in the concept. In the exhibit, a user selects a single pixel, out of a series of moving images, by the touch of his/her hand which causes the screen to change into a corresponding single dynamically changing color. I…

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is an electronic artist originally from Mexico who creates interactive installations that involve robotics and usually combine performance art with social issues. ‘1,000 Platitudes’ is a project he describes as an “intervention” in which he projected words and expressions commonly used to describe modern, globalized cities on the sides of buildings, churches, and castles,…

Feng Mengbo – Q4U(2002) Chinese new media artist Feng Mengbo brought a novel, personal spin to the 1996 computer game Quake. Q4U is a 32 minute video created from the Quake game engine, with a spectator’s perspective on an in-game battle. Instead of using the stock characters, Feng modified the skins and made the main…