Final Writing Assigment

Technology has had a major affect on the artistic experience. As technology improves the options artists have increase dramatically. Art is no longer simply painting and drawing but computers have brought a whole new component to the experience. Technology and art are not longer two separate entities. In recent years they have meshed and technology works to enhance art. In the situational tour that we conducted we were able to take photographs and crop them and change colors in order to make them represent an idea that we wanted to portray. Without recent technology we would not have been able to manipulate our images to fit the themes we had in mind. We captured a single moment on film and although the image may not have accurately portrayed what was going on, through the use of the computer we could use them the way we wanted. Creating the situational tour after completing the drawing section of the class truly showed how art differs. In a drawing once it is completed there is little that can be done to change or take away part of the image. Drawing feels more permanent and has a different feeling than a computer generated image. The multimedia section allowed me to see how differently art can be interpreted when other things are incorporated. Also, after seeing everyone else’s projects it amazed me at how different images of similar subjects can be interpreted. Technology has changed the way artists work and has broadened the idea of art in general.