Library Seminar 3D

        Digital files can in fact create a 3-dimensional solid object. By panoramic digital photography, online software's are able to create a 3-demensional model of the the object it exams. This postmodernistic form of art is now pushing artists imaginations to unprecedented limits. Preceding this from of 3D design, clay molds were often used to represent historical monuments. The precision that comes along with this new technology creates near exact replicas of the object it scans. In the lecture held at Loyola University's Library, the example displayed was a short video from former President Barack Obama. They used the latest in the most cutting edge scanning technology to then 3 dimensionally sculpt Obama. This not only creates a precise clone and history of an object of sentimental value but can be used medically as well. Despite artistic use this form of scanning can now produce tissue with blood cells, low-cost prosthetic parts, bones, and even heart valves. Many uses are available for this technology but the influence it has on art is still so young it is for now left up to the artists to etch into a new unique form of expression.

The Art of Data Visuailzation

               Data is a result of research alluding to a clue of the end truth, it connects deeply with culture. How does data inform the truth? Humans evolved to see the truth as a pattern in order to survive. Behavioral changes are forever altering via the way data is presented in front of our eyes. Seeing not to confirm but to learn, every pixel is connected to form a specific data gathered realty. perhaps avoid over simplification but also over ornamentation creates the beauty found within data visualization. The majority of time spent is usually getting design out of the way. Style and aesthetics cannot rescue failed content. It is the byproduct of truth of the work that makes visualizing data precisely the history and foundation of science. Data is measurements of human systems.

Postmodernism

"We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning"

     My collage centers a photoshopped picture of Einstein. He is wearing the the latest in trending technology; the snapchat glasses. Above him there is a photo of Adam and Eve picking an apple from a tree. This is no ordinary apple though, it is the the brand logo from the most influential technically advanced company today, Apple Inc. I pasted this photo on four pieces of different colored construction paper that is supposed to be a computer monitor. The upper right hand side of the collage features a burning tree. The lower right hand side shows a question mark, and the top and bottom left hand side hold natures most empowering size to scale, mountains. Last but not lease there is a thought bubble pasted on Albert Einstein with a few of the mathematical equations he used that lead him to his Theory of Relativity. 

         Connotatively: Einstein, Adam and Eve, and Steve Jobs all play into the theme of the impairment technology has upon its victims. Knowledge is "a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education"(Wiki Definition). My visual analysis is Adam and Eve plucking the seed of 'knowledge' in the form of Apple computers brand logo of a bitten apple. This represents the rush of information obtained within the reach of our fingertips via an IPhone. Knowledge is unnecessary to obtain when individuals now have a device that enables them to access what humans would formally call a 'memory'. Thinking with only the frontal lobe of the brain hinders ones sense of surroundings and simple understanding of why they do what they do. The question mark on the collage alludes to a never ending conclusion and the burning tree is almost a sarcastic impression. With so much knowledge we find no meaning with whats important in life, the health of our plant. The tree on fire represents the ignorance and greed that comes along with this information. We have tangible evidence and scientific facts that concluded our planet is damaging itself at a rate that is irreversible but until humans have to change is when they will do so. I believe this motto of thinking is best perceived through Einstein at the center. His pure innate knowledge contrasted by technological advances that narrow the chances of true pioneers our century will ever see. In the simplest form, all of this accesible information has lost the innocence that knowledge once loved.