Lev Manoich and Andreas Kratsky's Soft Cinema. Screening of ''Mission to Earth''.
Digital cinema is different from traditional filmmaking. The digital cinema, Mission to Earth is presented by dividing the shots in different frames. Some of the frames show computerized graphics. Sometimes, the content in the bigger frames have relation with the smaller frames. They may de the same scenes but using different angles or dimensions to shot. However, in the traditional films, it is impossible to add computerized graphics in it and cannot be shown in different frames in the same track. Traditional filmmaking uses raw camera and plastic roll to record and edit the film whereas digital cinema does not.
What is more, traditional film has a clear and logical storyline but according to Mission to Earth, it is just mixing different scenes together without a planned flow.
Mission to Earth also reminds me the art form of painting. At most of the time, the lighting and tone of the film is dull and grey. Some shots use many elements of shapes lines and movement. It makes me associate a style of painting.
2012年11月30日 星期五
2012年11月26日 星期一
Networked digital art: We feel fine
We feel fine
1. Introduction
We feel fine is a website created by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. It is an interactive online artwork established in 2005. The link of We Feel Fine is http://wefeelfine.org/index.html .
2. Details of We Feel Fine
Every particle represents a single sentence.
It is self-organized to collect people's feelings from online sources like Blogger, Flickr, MySpace and Google. Those data are mainly extracted from weblogs. The system searches automatically the newly posted blog for containing the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". Once the system finds those phrases, it records the complete sentences and then shows them on the interesting interfaces of the website. We feel fine presents the feelings in six different ways which call Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics and Mounds. The common existing form is Madness. The playful particles represent the feelings of the bloggers the system collects. They have different colors, shapes, and sizes which indicate the nature of feelings. For example, red represents happy, blue represents hurt. And square particle means feeling with a photograph. The particles move around the screen like bubbles. Each particle can be clicked to see the full sentence or photograph it contains. The bulk of information is came from a database of millions of people’s feelings all over the world. Every day, around 20,000 new feelings update to the database. Then, ‘’we feel fine’’ presents them into different aesthetic ways.
We Feel Fine is an interesting and playful artwork website. Despite it is just simply collecting the feelings of people, it is interesting to see a large amount of different feeling sharing at once. It shows that in the internet, there is no geographical boundaries and physical distance that all walks of life seems live in a small town and everyone knows the emotion or feelings of each other. As Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar said, ''We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.'' (from the website of We Feel Fine http://wefeelfine.org/mission.html)
They also said, ''We present We Feel Fine, an emotional search engine and web-based artwork whose mission is to collect the world’s emotions to help people better understand themselves and others.''This is the concept of the work.(from the We Feel Fine website http://www.wefeelfine.org/wefeelfine.pdf)
3. Evaluation
We Feel Fine shares one of the characteristic of earlier art movement, which is formal instruction. Let’s take a look at Shredder, there is a blank for audience to type a website link. It is formal instruction. Similar to Shredder, We Feel Fine has formal instruction for audience to follow.
Dada is no rules and it is anti-art. It is rather emphasizes on the concept of the work.I think the concept of We Feel Fine is important than the art and aesthetics just like Dada. It is because the artwork is driven by its concept. It is the concept first came out, not the art object. ‘’We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.’’ said by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Therefore, We Feel Fine would not appear without the fundamental idea.
We Feel Fine also shares the fearture of audience participation with Dada. Audience has high degree of participation in this artwork. We Feel Fine is similar to open source. Everyone can contribute to the website. As long as you post something about feelings on your blog, the sentences or pictures would be harvested by the system of We Feel fine.
We Feel Fine is random in form of showing the feelings. Although there are several millions sentences or photos screened from blogs as database, the feelings show on the interface are randomly chosen. Also, audience can randomly click a particle to see the feelings of others.
This is a brief introduction video of We Feel Fine.
Source:http://wefeelfine.org/index.html
1. Introduction
We feel fine is a website created by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. It is an interactive online artwork established in 2005. The link of We Feel Fine is http://wefeelfine.org/index.html .
2. Details of We Feel Fine
Every particle represents a single sentence.
It is self-organized to collect people's feelings from online sources like Blogger, Flickr, MySpace and Google. Those data are mainly extracted from weblogs. The system searches automatically the newly posted blog for containing the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". Once the system finds those phrases, it records the complete sentences and then shows them on the interesting interfaces of the website. We feel fine presents the feelings in six different ways which call Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics and Mounds. The common existing form is Madness. The playful particles represent the feelings of the bloggers the system collects. They have different colors, shapes, and sizes which indicate the nature of feelings. For example, red represents happy, blue represents hurt. And square particle means feeling with a photograph. The particles move around the screen like bubbles. Each particle can be clicked to see the full sentence or photograph it contains. The bulk of information is came from a database of millions of people’s feelings all over the world. Every day, around 20,000 new feelings update to the database. Then, ‘’we feel fine’’ presents them into different aesthetic ways.
An example of feeling with photo
We Feel Fine is an interesting and playful artwork website. Despite it is just simply collecting the feelings of people, it is interesting to see a large amount of different feeling sharing at once. It shows that in the internet, there is no geographical boundaries and physical distance that all walks of life seems live in a small town and everyone knows the emotion or feelings of each other. As Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar said, ''We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.'' (from the website of We Feel Fine http://wefeelfine.org/mission.html)
They also said, ''We present We Feel Fine, an emotional search engine and web-based artwork whose mission is to collect the world’s emotions to help people better understand themselves and others.''This is the concept of the work.(from the We Feel Fine website http://www.wefeelfine.org/wefeelfine.pdf)
3. Evaluation
We Feel Fine shares one of the characteristic of earlier art movement, which is formal instruction. Let’s take a look at Shredder, there is a blank for audience to type a website link. It is formal instruction. Similar to Shredder, We Feel Fine has formal instruction for audience to follow.
Dada is no rules and it is anti-art. It is rather emphasizes on the concept of the work.I think the concept of We Feel Fine is important than the art and aesthetics just like Dada. It is because the artwork is driven by its concept. It is the concept first came out, not the art object. ‘’We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.’’ said by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Therefore, We Feel Fine would not appear without the fundamental idea.
We Feel Fine also shares the fearture of audience participation with Dada. Audience has high degree of participation in this artwork. We Feel Fine is similar to open source. Everyone can contribute to the website. As long as you post something about feelings on your blog, the sentences or pictures would be harvested by the system of We Feel fine.
We Feel Fine is random in form of showing the feelings. Although there are several millions sentences or photos screened from blogs as database, the feelings show on the interface are randomly chosen. Also, audience can randomly click a particle to see the feelings of others.
Source:http://wefeelfine.org/index.html
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