Our Class Wiki - So Far

In our Wiki page assignment I was assigned to be an editor of the page Art and New Media. I created this page and posted general contend to it. I also arranged several websites that are very useful in the art world and they provide up-to-date information about contemporary art scene in New York and internationally. I learned how to create the context, different pages, how embody external links and various images etc.

I worked on researching the artist that make and represent art through various aspects of new media as well as creating a summarized context and finding interesting video, images to embody on to the wiki.

Else than Art and New Media page I contributed to several other pages, such as New Media in Entertainment where I added additional sources. I also work on the Glossary as well on the outline of New Media page where I contributed new source image and introduction.

I find this process very interesting, but very time consuming. Through my research and screening through our Wiki I realized how much valuable information is contributed to these pages. This is defiantly a good source of information and I will continue to contribute and get informed through Baruch's Wiki.

The Nex New Thing

I think the next new thing will be virtual world! Not in the way of Second life but in the form of schooling. I think that in a decade or so technology will be able to advance so much that they will be able to create classrooms in which every student would have their own equipment for virtuosity and while a teacher would talk about history, geography, nature and other subjects that can be visualize these equipments will allow the kids to actually see, smell, touch, taste these topics right there in the classroom. They will be able to put on the virtual masks, gloves and similar equipment that will stimulate their senses and allow them to feel present in the given topic.

Of course this can be abused in a way that people would use it for pornography, violence or just personal cluster of social world. But if they would develop technology right, and program this equipment to function for only particular subjects-if not all in school it can defiantly advance education and motivate children to learn.

I could actually see this happening and I think we mentioned this is class throughout the semester. But it only makes me wonder what would be the next step…teletransportation into the actual space and time??? Awesome! J

About my term project

The main idea is to show how art ideas, media, techniques and their presentation changed over time and how they are complimenting new technology and new media in its structure.

By showing this transition chronologically I introduced the old art forms and the new revolutionary product-camera and photography that, in the arts, have brought us where we are today.

Chronologically I showed images and talk about topics that concern this.

I showed my point by introducing several artists and their work with new media and technology.

I started with Sam Taylor Woods who uses still video projection to capture the image of decaying rabbit that represents the beauty of life and the vision of how one life dies while the other one is being born.

The installation work of Marina Abramovic and her revolutionary involvement of people into arts, and a completely new perspective of looking and presenting art work.

Mariko Mori, the Japanese artist that uses light,video,sound, sculpture to develop the strikingly beautiful vision of cutting edge technology for the 21st century.

Olafur Eliasson's focus is on the light and the differences of preservations of colors. He uses mirrors, focused projections of light, and elements such as water, stone, and moss to shift the viewer's perception of place and self.

And finally the main artist that is completely involved in new media and our generation of technology is Cao Fei. She actually created an avatar on Second Life that serves to public and tells the story of the artist’s idea of life. . In here she projects her vision of the world and depicts Chinese architecture, landscape and images that echo tradition of China but also contrasts it to the dreamy world that second life can offer us.

This is the new form of art, a new vision of 21th century for which my main argument was that it needs to be accepted as art of new generations and that people need to shift from old traditional views of art to the new technological perceptions.

Privacy & Confidentiality

I would say that privacy and confidentiality is one of the major problems in social networking, internet and new media.

Privacy on the web is very unsafe, and everything and anything that we ever posted on line is available and permanently it is stored in the system. Therefore, as soon as we open a new profile, post or edit a line, or even if somebody else does that-mentioning our name on some webpage or anything of the similar manner we are exposed to the border public. Therefore our privacy gets lost and our identification can be seen across the world. In some ways it has a good meaning, because in our Western culture where technology, new media and advancement of communications are allowing us to progress and through this-on a business aspect we can easily be reached, and we can't hide anymore.

As of confidentiality, I think it is the same as with the privacy. Nothing can be safe and confident on internet, we shouldnt trust anything. There are many resorces but many of them can be and are wrong and people still trust them and get in trouble. For exemple the scams that we get through e-mail to invest money into certain things that will dobule after only a month or so. And people tend to be naive and trust these information. Also there is a enormus amont of scams through craigslist, when ever I would post somethig I would get different offers, that are composed very nicely, and seem very reliable but deep down I tend to get that gutts feeling through which I realise that this is wrong.

When ever we would send any kind of information via internet we should be careful because it can easily be exposed to everybody.