Final

For this final performance art piece, I knew I wanted to do something that represented me. Swimming has always been a part of my life. I was on the swim team for 12 years, have taught swim lessons since 2010 and been a coach since 2013. I didn't know if this was considered performance art, but it is to me.

Minecraft

Minecraft has been a very popular game for years now for a large range of ages. It's simple enough to where kids can grasp and play it, and it's more complex aspects allow for people with too much free time to create elaborate and massive to scale works of art. I've seen everything from complete replicas of towns from Skyrim and World of Warcraft to modern cities like Tokyo and LA. It's such a simple game design, but people get sucked in to it for hours. Now I don't have the patience for these types of games, but I admire the people who create these masterpieces. And considering it's creator Notch had issued a statement to fans explaining the decision to sell his studio to Microsoft back in 2014 FOR 2.5 BILLION, I'd say Minecraft is here to stay. 

Bored Panda

Craig Allan creates unique portraits of pop-culture icons using people as pixels to create portraits. Some of his famous pieces are of Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy and the Statue of Liberty, but probably the coolest oneI see is the portrait of Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
From the site: "Craig’s earliest experimentation took the form of street portraiture, an endeavor that helped him perfect his flair for replicating the human figure and afforded the budding artist a sense of economic autonomy."
I enjoy art from people who look at life from a different point of view, which this definitely is. Anyone can paint a portrait, but it takes a lot of preparation and effort to create something this detailed of that scale. He took something as modern as pixels and made them organic as the medium and the subject. 

 

Tech+Music

The 5 music videos in this link are probably the most advanced and creative music videos I've ever seen. They aren't creative in the Lady Gaga or Bjork kind of way, but more so in the future. They use incredible technology, and even something as simple as HTML 5 to create a music video that whoever is watching it will be amazed and mesmerized. This is the future of music. 
Videos

LED

I think in the past couple years LED lights have grown more popular, and are being used for more than just Christmas lights and household bulbs. They're being used for art, and even clothing, which was difficult to do pre LED. Yes fiber optics were around, but they were expensive and limited. LEDS open the doors for light artists to expand in color and versatility. 

"Handbags that display tweets. Bracelets that charge your phone. Bangles that light up when you get a phone call. Tech and fashion are teaming up to make wearables more wearable."

LED Clothing
Technology and the fashion world are beginning to merge and the results are amazing, I can't wait till all of this stuff is affordable and we can start "looking" like the future. 
Wearable Technology

Gorillaz

We talked quite a bit in class about Miku Hatsune and her virtual vocals and persona, but we forgot to mention the Gorillaz, who have been doing it for much longer than the Japanese. Gorillaz are an English virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. The band consists of four animated members: 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs, all who have a simian/human appearance. Feel good inc. was their first and very revolutionary single and album. I remember when it got to the radio, people loved the song and the music video, but we weren't aware that the members would never be seen in person. I think this threw people off, I think they were ahead of their time. If they tried to make a comeback now, they would be much more widely received as we burst into the digital future. 

Warcraft

The world of Warcraft universe has grown immensely from a simple RTS game in 1994 to a now fully realized full length movie. The aspect I want to talk about today is the art development. In an age of super realism and immersive world game realm, world of Warcraft has stood as a staple and grandfather to modern RPG's and MMO's. Blizzard has done a great job at modernizing and updating it's games for two decades. Now all the people that have played their games for so long are very excited to see what this movie will be like. Just from the trailer I'm ready to go see it just for the cgi quality. It seems like they put a lot of time and effort into it and it will be interesting to see years of ideas come to fruition. 

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