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After reading Chapter 1 of The Language of  New Media by Lev Manovich, I found the third of the five principles of new media outstanding. As Manovich said, all five principles depend on each other but are arranged logically. From numerical representation to modularity, automation made me understand how games are made, “Almost every commercial game included a component called an “AI engine,” which stands for the part of the game’s computer code that controls its characters–car drivers in a car race simulation, enemy forces in a strategy game such as Command and Conquer, single attackers in first-person shooters such as Quake ” (Manovich, 33). As a gamer, I’ve always wondered how someone can program all the movements a character can make, from attacking to even walking. All it takes is codes that we make for an AI engine, and it will have the characters do human functionalities. Aside from gaming functionalities, we use automation to automate searches that we put, “ Finally, in what may be the most familiar experience of automated media generation, many web sites automatically generate Web pages on the fly when the user reaches the site. They assemble the information from databases and format it using generic templates and scripts,” (Manovich, 32). Automation comes from the first two principles of new media, numerical representation and modularity and without them, automation to even AI engines would not be here. I personally never knew how much coding, maths, quantitative work there is to have a photograph, films and cinema to come out the way they are. However, I do find it interesting how with the five principles that is how new media came to be.

After reading How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz, lesson 4 of “Art Is Not About Understanding. Or Mastery.” stood out the most. Even if your art piece is not perfect or mastered at its peak, it is still your work and has put into what you love in it. I’m not sure, but I believe that whatever people make, even if it is copied and pasted like said in lesson 3, it is still an inspiration. I draw things based on pictures even if it’s not picture perfect, but it’s also something I love because it has something I love in there that I want to draw. Additionally, I take a part of what I attempted to draw in my free drawings as an inspiration. As Saltz said, “Forget about making things that are understood,” you can draw anything and it doesn’t have to be understood by other people, but you. Even if you draw a line, it still has meaning even if it is something as simple as, “a skinny line,” or “loneliness.” What I’m saying simply is even if it’s something so small, it still has meaning and people don’t always have to know or understand the message behind it. The beautiful last line as Saltz said, “All art comes from love – love of doing something,” because all art does come from the love of doing something, even if the art looks different, it is something that a person loves to do to portray what they want the world to know or even as small as someone close to them or in their circle. All art has a different meaning, but it comes from their hearts, minds, feelings, and body movements. Lastly, love of art comes in many different forms such as cards, singing, pictures, etc., and there are always many meanings behind it.