This course blog is where we communicate as a group, share responses to assignments, and post our work. You are required to publish posts according to assignments found on Moodle, and are encouraged to share images, make comments, and pose public questions throughout the semester.
Such a great concept to use the famous Windows screen image. Regarding your engagement with the recognizable image, however, there could be a bit more development. As we discussed in the lead up to this assignment, image manipulation, and appropriation as well, have ethical and expressive consequences. Engagement with this variables can be rich fodder for art making and cultural critique. In what other ways could this recognizable, mundane, and product-signifying base image be activated through your choices of layers and manipulation? Perhaps a comment on cultural ubiquity? On the short but frenetic historical trajectory of digital communication, thanks in part to companies like IBM? The manipulations you have composited do not seem to engage a particular intention. From a technical standpoint, they could use a bit more scaling, cleaner cutting, shadowing, and overlaying to truly set them into the perspectival space. Maybe a lot more trees, to turn the barren space into a forest? Great instincts at the start, Jon, just needs a few more draft and in-progress check-ins to push it further.
Such a great concept to use the famous Windows screen image. Regarding your engagement with the recognizable image, however, there could be a bit more development. As we discussed in the lead up to this assignment, image manipulation, and appropriation as well, have ethical and expressive consequences. Engagement with this variables can be rich fodder for art making and cultural critique. In what other ways could this recognizable, mundane, and product-signifying base image be activated through your choices of layers and manipulation? Perhaps a comment on cultural ubiquity? On the short but frenetic historical trajectory of digital communication, thanks in part to companies like IBM? The manipulations you have composited do not seem to engage a particular intention. From a technical standpoint, they could use a bit more scaling, cleaner cutting, shadowing, and overlaying to truly set them into the perspectival space. Maybe a lot more trees, to turn the barren space into a forest? Great instincts at the start, Jon, just needs a few more draft and in-progress check-ins to push it further.
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