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I see myself as an artist who doesn’t really have a comfort zone. I mean, I didn’t find one type of art and just trying to progress from there, I take into consideration everything that surrounds me and make something new out of it. Doesn’t matter how crazy or something that people probably don’t understand there’s always a really simple meaning to it.

My first project I’ve worked was probably the work that opened up my eyes and made me understand me more. I used photoshop on one of my photos to add wings, change the hair color and blur up the surroundings.

My second audio project was one of my best works I think. Because it is so many simple things put together and that’s what made it perfect to me. I recorded sounds my self, I played piano myself. When I was creating t I imagine myself being like in an old movie on the train where everyone is busy doing something. And I thought that that song was perfect for that.

When I look at my final project I feel like I connected the two most important qualities in people. One of them maybe not the best, but you meet it in a lot of folks out there. One guys ad a dicey nature, who deceives people around him to get what he wants and the other guy was the gullible one; oblivious to the nad hints around him.

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1) Numerical representation –all media is composed of digital code; as I understood the article it says that new media is programmable and that every picture is being measured in pixels and every video we can measure in frames.
2) Modularity – text, sound, images and pixels are combined and that’s how new media is created leaving those elements still independent as they can be easily used again or modified.
3) Automation means that a certain program has been programed to work a certain way. Let’s programs such as Photoshop, it automatically betters the quality of the picture by modifying the flaws. Or video games, if it’s for two players, the player who ain’t you has been programed for such and such.
4) Variability so variability gives us an opportunity to create something of our own rather than something already programmed. “New media objects assure users that their choices–and therefore, their underlying thoughts and desires–are unique, rather than preprogrammed and shared with others”. (p.42)
5) Cultural transcoding – “the most substantial consequence of the computerization of media”, it combines the “traditional ways in which human culture modeled the world and the computer’s own means of representing it”.

I learned a lot from this reading. It opened up like a new vision from me, how I look at media. Now working on my projects I will be thinking how, besides me just randomly clicking on different things to see how it works, I will now what exactly it does and I will obviously know what the process is called.
I’ll tell a little story. Before taking my first studio production courses, watching films or live shows was “just watching it”; now it’s more than that, I watch stuff and I pay attention to the frames that are being set up or if it was cut or dissolved, I know how it all works and I don’t look at it as just art I look at it as it is a hard work. So I told this story because that’s kind of how I feel about new media now; sounds, images, videos and how it all works. Great article.

I chose this picture because it kind of gives me shrugs. It’s just a picture of a hallway but it brings out so many different feelings and I’d say they are not the best feelings.  It holds such emptiness and uncertainty in it. Also it seems to me like if I took a walk in that hallway it’d be just a never ending journey for me since we cannot see the where it leads us. It just leads us nowhere.

Reading Response

The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLunah made me think that people these days are kind of self-policing themselves knowing that somebody out there is constantly watching. When he speaks about parents and that they are not the people who raise us anymore, media does, but I kind of think that it’s been like that for a while that parent’s don’t make us who we are anymore they don’t really have that power to discipline us. Back in the day, if you listen to all those rappers “streets raised them”. But I see nothing wrong with that. The part where he talks how easy it is now to reach to one other is super great but I think people might’ve lost that great feeling when they talk to somebody because it’s like they always there. When he mentions children he says that they grew up too fast in the past because their educational environment sort of looked like a factory but now with all the apps and technology kids “stuck in between two worlds”.

If I’m not mistaken the author says that technologies took away most of people’s jobs but on the other hand people work to create those technologies. Also he said and I kind of found it true that it doesn’t matter how old you are you will be heard. I think it was referred to politics since now everything is so accessible on the internet and anyone can just go there and comment and express their opinion.

So basically there’s no privacy in this world anymore and people these days believe in what they see but before it’s used to be that they believed in what they hear because you cannot shut down your hearing senses.

I’ve been drawing since I remember myself. It started off drawing bears that were like a real family to eventually attending art school where I learned how to draw pots and nature. I had to move to U.S.A. in 2010 the same year I was about to graduate from there, so I never got to learn how to draw people (that was the year they taught how to draw faces and human’s body). But this didn’t stop me from trying.
In 6 years I’ve drawn over 20 portraits, well of course besides that I have been drawing other stuff too. In my creations I like to connect something divine or weird with just people let’s say. Like in my project for NMA 2050 class I died my hair grey as well as my eyes to kind of give me that look of “wisdom”. (I’m saying that because people only become wise when they reach a certain point if their life and they are usually already grey-haired by that time). I’m into Egyptian stuff and in Egypt winged Gods were protective gods, not saying that I was aiming to be a goddess but by having those wings I try to tell that I am a protector that came down to earth, to NYC to save it from its chaos. My face expression looks kind of scheming; I know why I came down here and I know what I need to get.
Or I also like to draw girls’ faces and use unusual colors when coloring them. For example I like to draw purple, pink, or yellow eyes…different hair colors…I don’t know something that you do not really bump into that often.
Sometimes my art looks very abstract and I only use pens when creating it.