Here is my Art and Technology Final Project. It is a performance art piece. I have created a beat using household items. I edited the music using garage band and edited the video together using iMovie. It was filmed using an iPhone 6.

Art and Technology Performance Art

Pixelated Photo

Here is a pixelated photo of myself using the 8 bit digitizer.

Sheep Herding and Pixels

All electronic displays are shown as a pixelated image. Pixels are defined as, the smallest addressable element of a digital display. Pixels are square in nature and are often colored. Placing them in set patterns will create an image when done correctly.

 A group of men took to the hills to create their own version of a pixel image using sheep. By placing lights on the backs of their sheep herds they were able to organize them into coordinated patterns. They made moving images that depicted a game of Atari Pong, a fireworks show, and even a Mona Lisa.

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw&feature=youtu.be

Kinetoscope and Early Film

Before the days of Netflix and internet streaming of movies there was the VHS and DVD players. Prior to those forms of film playback there was the cinema. Prior to the cinema was the invention of Kinetoscope. The Kinetoscope was not the same as a modern movie projector but would be the precursor to such technology. The viewer could look through a small peep hole and view a short film that was about 30 seconds long. This was one of the first inventions that had 35mm moving film.

 The first time the public saw these films was at the Brooklyn Institute of Technology. This was also the first time that films were understood as a frames per second calculation. The more frames you could fit into one second the smoother the film would become. Most of the films were very straight forward shots with some sort of action happening within the frame. this was the true beginnings of film making.

Moving Photos

In the movie series Harry Potter many of the still photos within this magical world are shown as moving images. Whether its a newspaper of a small family photo the directors give them a magical quality by allowing them to be moving images. In real life we are not fortunate enough to have these magical pictures but technology has brought us much closer. The invention of the Gif allows users to watch small moving photos that last for about 10 seconds. Some of the Gifs are snippets from a movie or TV show and they are even the focal point in many popular Memes. Technology has also brought us the invention of the electronic photo frame.

The electronic photo frame was patented in 2005 (http://www.google.com/patents/US6975308) and can be found at almost any large electronics store. By loading your photos onto the frame itself there is a running slideshow that is randomly selected from your photos.

The Dawn of the Mac

In 1984 Apple Computers was a budding technology company. They were on the verge of releasing a new computer called the Macintosh. One order to advertise their computer they created a somewhat controversial advertisement to be aired during the Super Bowl. This was Apples first commercial for the new Macintosh computer. The ad is considered one of the most creative and influential of the decade. The advertisement depicts a woman spinning and throwing a hammer at a "Big Brother" figure in a dystopian landscape. The figure is representative of IBM the juggernaut of computer technology in 1984. The advertisement is a spin off of the book "1984" by George Orwell. The commercial was aired one time but it reached almost 50% of all American households. This was the dawn of what we now see during todays Super Bowls and the massive influx of creative commercials.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin is a Russina film made in 1925. This is one of the first films with clips cut and placed together to create a visceral response from the audience. The method of editing this film is known as montage. The clips are cut in 3 and 4 second intervals. Many regard this film as one of the most influential on modern film because of its use of montage. Much of the techniques that the director, Eisenstein, used are still being used today.

One of the most famous scenes is called the Odessa Steps. This is a scene depicting Russian soldiers marching and killing civilians as the descend a stair case. The scene has been remade many times.

Here it is (above) being copied in the movie The Untouchables. Much of this film is considered propaganda as Eisenstein was very much in favor of the Bolsheviks revolution.