Cyborg Camp Session 4: How Art Influences Technology
Discussion centered primarily around film but touched upon other media. Highlights:
- Low-tech effects can serve an artistic purpose. We are willing to suspend our disbelief if the representation is more stylized and less literal, but representations/special effects/computer animation effects that are almost literal come off as plastic-looking.
- Lack of resources (low-budget films) forces creativity in production process and results in a grittier feeling, which has an aesthetic value. For the people in this discussion, the more elaborate, realistic-looking computer animation in recent films feels colder and less intimate.
- Discussion of the graffiti artist Banksy, who painted blank speech bubbles on billboards and then came back later to read what others had written in his speech bubbles. (What a fascinating experiment!)
- I need to check out the blog Photoshop Disasters.