I am fascinated with old pictures. I don’t know if it is because I feel that black and white photography is becoming extinct, or if I simply value the art of its craftsmanship. What I do know is that I am driven by the anticipation of discovering if any of them still work. I enjoyed using cellphone to take the old pictures. Differ by the uniqueness of their limitations in relation to shutter speed, focal length, depth of field, camera model and type of APP. I feel like the black and white pictures can exactly tell people what I want to say.

All aspects of a cellphone camera have an effect on the quality of a photograph in which aesthetically could be utilized as and advantage. And although cellphone cameras could never produce sharp images like a digital camera, it does not matter because strong photography is not dependent upon the camera used, but upon the photographer. So I’m still learning how to use cellphone camera to tell the stories.

After reading “The Language of New Media”, I’m getting to know more about the new media art. In The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich proposes five “principles of new media”—to be understood “not as absolute laws but rather as general tendencies of a culture undergoing computerization.” The five principles are numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding. I focus on numerical representation.

Because all new media objects are composed of digital code, they are essentially numerical representations. That is, all new media objects can be described mathematically and can be manipulated via algorithms. According to Manovich, the key difference between old and new media is that new media is programmable. The closest we can get to the ‘materiality’ of a new media object is to talk about the numbers and formulas that constitute it. In new media compositions, the opposition between visual and verbal is bridged in the sense that both are code—both image and texts are programmed and programmable.

An example of this is an analog photograph sampled by a scanner in what we call a digitization process. This process turns a continuous surface into a set of discrete units (the photo and its points) but like letters in a word, these units construct the object are not the meaning itself. Some other mathematical patterns appear in the production side of new media objects. As a modern factory, the process can easily be split in small activities where different tools/people help to build the object. Here we find a clear difference between modern industrial processes and artisan procedures, and we can also extrapolate this from digital to analog.

Robert Lazzarini is an American sculptor whose work combines extreme realism with extreme distortion. Combining advanced digital technology with traditional sculpting methods, Lazzarini recreates familiar objects to scale out of their original materials, while deforming them in seemingly impossible ways.Using the distortion of objects, Robert Lazzarini creates works that stimulate new ways of seeing. His flattening, stretching and twisting of items such as violins, cigarette packets and skulls, leaves the final work resembling a phenomenon of the ‘third space:’ an ambiguous point halfway between computer-based manipulation and physical deformation. His distortions deny optical reality as we know it, suggesting instead a world that is defined by false representation. Also, Digital technology plays an important role in his project.

As a tool, technology can be used in a specific aspect of creation. Digital technologies are increasingly being employed in various stages of the creation by artists working in more traditional media such as painting, drawing, photography, and sculpting. For example, sculptors may employ modeling software or manufacturing machines to create their pieces. Artist, Robert Lazzarini’s sculptures skulls are a good example of using digital technologies as a tool. Lazzarini’s skulls are based on 3D CAD files that were distorted and then made into sculptures.Robert Lazzarini’s skulls, anamorphic artworks explore the tension between mathematical models of vision and more fully embodied models of subjectivity. After reviewing the ways in which anamorphosis has been deployed as a philosophical tool for examining this relationship between technology and phenomenology .

It was a very interesting experience that met two very talent artists. They introduced how plastic effects people’s health, especially women’s health. Before, I usually thrown the plastic cans or cups to the trashcan, and never recycle them. However, when I exam the ingredient of plastic cups, I found they made from Polystyrene, “a synthetic aromatic polymer made from the monomer styrene, a liquid petrochemical. Polystyrene can be rigid or foamed. General purpose polystyrene is clear, hard and brittle.”(How stuff works). This material is widely used in our lives, for example protective packaging, containers, lids, bottles, trays, tumblers, and disposable cutlery.

Polystyrene is a non-biodegradable material. When people throw it the nature environment, it will take at least 500 years to decompose. When polystyrene is sent to the landfill, it is quickly covered and this process deprives it of water and oxygen, which would normally help it to break down.Much of the disposable packaging that we eat from today will therefore still be around in 500 years.  If the first settlers in Barbados in 1625 had been able to eat from polystyrene and the containers had been put into a landfill, the same containers would still be around today.

What happens when we use Polystyrene to contain hot food or drinks? Polystyrene contains the toxic substances Styrene and Benzene, suspected carcinogens and neurotoxins that are hazardous to humans. Hot foods and liquids actually start a partial breakdown of the Styrofoam, causing some toxins to be absorbed into our bloodstream and tissue.

So how can we do to help people away from polystyrene?

1. Be aware of the harmful of using polystyrene materials and tell others about the bad effects of polystyrene products.

2.Use reusable cups instead of foam cups.

3.When we shopping for groceries, select goods that are unwrapped or wrapped with non-polystyrene materials.

Marshall draw a map as how everything around us from relationship to others, the environment we are set in, public sectors are all turning to what was never before, due to the develop of the new media. I think that it’s not how important media are, but what role the media are playing. They are being the substitute of the previous organs we utilize and sometimes hold complaints of.Each kind of medium is the new tool. Once we thought human’s evolution was pushed by the usage of tools, but now we see how the tools are not only changing the outside world but are having more and more influence on our physical or psychological own self.

The electronic circuitry leads us back to the village. Because all of those new media, they seek participation as necessity. Meaning and content becomes once again significant. It’s as if reappeared, the ancient norm of living. Then the whole subject, environment and so on, are experiencing the result of a butterfly effect. Then the media forces human being to change other related public world. The education, the family, the job, the neighborhood, the government…

The invention of the Internet is the turning point of human history. The Internet totally changed human’s communication habit.

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