Assignment Blog Post #1 - Zoe Lemos
Reflection: Something that caught my eye during the glitch art videos was the fact that computers and types of files and everything reflects the creators’ beliefs. It’s something that I only realized recently with the examples of racism that comes up with different google searches and their algorithm. I thought that the text file type that didn’t allow printing was a cool way of activism.
My understanding of glitch art is that you take a piece of digital information and put it into a program that I wouldn’t normally belong in. I was wondering how the audio came into play...would it still be considered glitch art to take a screenshot of the audio and make it an overlay or something or is going into photoshop not really allowed or frowned upon.
I also found it interesting how computers kind of grew apart from art. How people tend to think of computers and computer science, coding and such as science and math removed from art. I also found Digital literacy interesting and eye-opening how every media revolution offers new perspectives. I liked that he said everything is in a state of perpetual beta. I thought that was clever and true.
(this section ended up just being a long rant about copyright and the thoughts that he made me think about)
There were some things that he said in the copyright video that I didn’t necessarily agree with. For instance, as a recording artist signer-songwriter person, I don’t necessarily want my songs being used In ways that I didn’t intend them to be. For example, if for some reason trump decided to use one of my songs, thank god he would hate the content and wouldn’t but hypothetically if he did I would absolutely sue him. I feel like when people ask and tell me what it’s for, why would I say no but you don’t want your work to be taken out of context and then there’s also credit. I don’t think it makes you a bad person to want credit for work that you’ve done. It’s like when you pay creative cloud 20 dollars a month, many many people use adobe as part of their job or they make money off of it. So it makes sense that Adobe is making money from you because you are making money using Adobe, I think this also applies to music. If someone uses your song and is making money off of it...shouldn’t you be able to benefit too? This is a world where you have to work to survive unless you were born rich and your parents worked so you could survive, and while I think the concept of anyone being able to use other people’s creations, it just isn’t sustainable if someone wants to make a career out of making art or just being a creator or innovator/ euntraprunier (I've tried so hard to spell this word, spell check can't figure out and google isn't registering my badly spelled attempt)in general. Especially in this time where you can’t have an art gallery and you can’t go on tour, for musicians most of their income comes from touring and merchandise. But on the other hand, copyright and streaming are killing the music industry, but I think the copyright issues with labels and whatever is becoming less of an issue because I don’t think labels work the same way that they did long ago. Labels used to find you and then build you up but I think now you have to really build yourself up and then they find you and add connections. (sorry I got off-topic) I thought he made some really good points thorough in the video and I think it was fascinating to learn about how we adopted the copyright law. (wasn’t sure how long this was supposed to be so I hope this is good)
Great thoughts here, Zoe. To answer the question about response length, 10-12 sentences or so is sufficient, but you're always encouraged to rant! You make some solid points about copyright, and I think the major take-away from Briz's essay is that copyright is, and always has been, a grey area. As producers, it's good for us to appreciate the ins and outs of copyright, and always take a hard look at who is truly benefiting from it. Youtube, for instance, has its own profit incentive to clamp down on copyright, and trolls, as Briz discusses, take advantage of it. As artists, we have to navigate all of this, especially because the creative culture of sharing is not suddenly new in the digital age, rather it is how culture has always progressed. Such a good debate, let's keep it going in class! On another note, your question about sound and glitch art is a great one. Yes, there are lots of ways of integrating sound into the process, for instance by opening an image file (bitmap files seem to work well) in a sound editing program (most folks use Audacity). You'll get a blippy noise sound that can be manipulated and layered like any other sound element. Audacity is also interesting when used to apply visual glitches, by using filters like echo and reverb.
ReplyDeleteI cannot remember how to spell entrepreneur for the life of me, I always look it up.