Stacey's Final Writing Assignment

Firstly I found this assignment to be a very unique and a great way to introduce us to technology in a manner unknown to most of us. In today’s society technology is becoming a huge and vital element of our everyday activities. We are continuously advancing and finding new and more efficient ways of living our life. In one of our lectures we spoke of artificial intelligence and the ability for machines to one day rule over us. This idea might seem farfetched to some, but when looking at how far we have come over the many years it is not so unlikely to think that we could progress to that point. A person would find it extremely difficult to live in this life without the use of some sort of technology. It has therefore already begun to control humankind and leave us at its utmost mercy.

Technology has infiltrated every corner of our life from our everyday activities to even the realm of the art world. Many people have only seen art through the traditional manner of a canvas, paint, or a pencil. However, it is important especially in today’s world to embrace the idea of technology as another way to express ones artistic abilities. In class we spoke of telematic art which is the interaction among the human mind and artificial systems of intelligence and perception. This revolutionary form of art helps to truly connect our creativity with our progressing society. It has also brought about so many new and diverse ways to express ones imagination and originality. Through our situational tours, we have learnt various concepts such as integration which describes the combining of artistic forms and technology into a hybrid form of expression. We successfully used our cameras and our blog presentations to artistically describe and articulate our perspective on an area of our choice. Through the use of narativity, we were able to in addition to our photos express ourselves through our words. I, however, found the idea of immersion to be the most exciting aspect of this project. It was stimulating to enter into a three dimensional environment and become aware of every detail that made up our experience.

Overall this project presented to me a new and exciting way to create art. Technology very much allowed us to manipulate our experiences and create a new process of showing others our artistic abilities.