flipbook

My flipbook is of a rocketship taking off and landing on the moon. 

Xerox art

My project depicts thoughts and feelings that people who struggle with depression sometimes have. The piece shows how the words they tell themselves can be just as hurtful to their mental as a physical hit can be to your physical health. 

Art and Technology at the same time?

If I take away one thing from this class it would be that technology has created several new platforms for artists to create art. It is 100% possible to combine art and technology. Technology has been able to create more possibilities and opportunities for art to grow. I think this class made me realize that artists that use technology as their medium have just as much technique and discipline as those artists that use more traditional mediums. I never realized how much time and effort it takes to create things on the computer. There is an amazing amount of skill that goes into coding and creating something amazing from nothing. The most interesting thing I have learned has been that technology has been incorporated into clothing design. In class, we watched the video of the designer with the dress that changed colors based on the movements of the person wearing it. I thought that was an amazing use of both art and technology.

The Universe a simulation?

The Universe being a simulation initially seemed like a pretty crazy and unrealistic concept, but as I watched the video I learned that it might not be so crazy after all. I think this video made me realize that I shouldn’t reject a theory before I even hear it. I think that when information is presented that conflicts with previous knowledge it is quickly rejected without being given a fair chance at consideration. I honestly felt like the video made a strong case for itself. The video actually made me give some serious thought to what it was trying to say. We run realistic simulations all the time to predict outcomes and test hypotheses. I don’t think it is too far fetched that a more sophisticated species could be running a simulation to figure out the different possibilities of what happened to our planet. You can’t reject a theory unless you have evidence that proves it untrue. To my knowledge, there has not been evidence to definitively suggest that this theory is incorrect. The things that we run simulations on don’t know that they are part of a simulation, so we wouldn’t know if we were part of one either. I still think it is a pretty crazy concept and I don’t believe the universe is a simulation, but I did at least give it a fair chance of considering it as a possibility.