New_Media_Wayne McGregor | Random Dance in the Rain Room

Amazing how one can walk through the rain and not get wet. how do they do it?  The future of  technology seems endless. I would love to create something with technology that has never been done before and wow the world.

New_media_Inspired Experiences from The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

Amazing what the artist have done with technology. I have never seen anything like the art pieces that are on display at the cosmopolitan. this is definitely "New Media". It's amazing what one can accomplish today with the new technology.

New_Media_145-inch Ultra High Definition plasma display

wow, the advancement of television has come a long way. I remember my parents having a black and whit Television with rabbit ears (antennas). I'm overwhelmed with this new, first of its kind Plasma Television and the way the screen looks.

Music_Prince

Prince was ahead of his time. From the beginning of his career he infused technology with his music and live shows. although he has passed, his music will live on forever.

Music_Tiesto

As a Professional Disc Jockey myself, I have always had the highest respect for DJ Tiesto. Not only is he a great DJ and a producer, he also pushes Technology to the max especially with the use of lights during his live shows.

Music_I Will Survive

Gloria Gaynor is another timeless act. Her music and style of singing is loved by all. When she sings you can feel her emotions because she sings from her heart. Even today when her music is played at a venue the dance floor gets packed, and her song "I Will Survive" is a favorite among the Karaoke singers.

Music_The Bee Gees

The Bee Gees have proven over the years that the music is timeless. One can still hear their music on the air waves today although there music came out in the 70's. I love them because there were about dancing and having fun. All about the good times.

Performance Video by Joel "Joey Jam" Ellis

There is a parking problem here at the University of Tampa, although there is a new parking garage, there is still a need for more parking. This performance video brings to life the no parking problem.

Video Art Newsism - Video Art Project"

This was the best video art piece that I have seen amongst all the students submissions. He did a great gob withe the visual pieces, although the audio could have been a little better.

http://squid4u.blogspot.com/2009/05/video-art-piece-add-hd.html

the artist intention was to make a visual art piece that sucked, well he succeeded, because this visual art piece is totally trash the audio and video.

Video Art "Tremors"

I did not really this video too much, it did not create the effect intended, e.g. you could heat someone turning on and off the light switch.

The Grid

I enjoyed making my grid , simple and unique  afters hours walking around the store it finally came to me, and here you have it, My Grid.

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Another weird form of performing art. I really don't quite understand, are there two men wanting to become women? or is one a man and he wants to become a woman like his female lover? confusing, but different.

Psychic TV - Godstar

Good video and it has a nice beat and lots of cool effects, it really is Physic. I also love how it inter twines scenes from the 60's, flower child era. This giver the impression that someone could be hallucinating on some sort of drugs.

Performance Art

Hermann Nitsch - Maria - Conception - Action (1969)

http://www.ubu.com/film/nitsch_action.html

This must have been the weirdest and freakish thing I have
ever seen. Cutting open a Lamb, taking all the guts out
and spreading them over a naked lady tied to a cross,
then throwing the blood over her Virginia, and then
having sex with her...... Weird

Full Art History Timeline

Full Art History Timeline

I loved how the artist evolved an told the history of art through visual are and music. They went from, what they perceive how time began, and traveled through the centuries passing through the Roman era and ending in our century. great concept.

Marcel Duchamp - Anemic Cinema

Wow this video is hypnotic. I have seen the rotating lines before, but I have never seen words incorporated within
the rotating lines. Great way to send a subliminal message
or get a point across. The music complemented the artist's work also.

Artists & Technology 1900 – 1960

Man Ray. Le Retour A La Raison (The Return to Reason),
1923.
I like this video because the way the artist/s combined
Art and Technology was amazing, they worked together
very well. I also liked how the artist/s used a lot of natural
elements such as,the street lights, inside of an ice tray
and the human body.

Extreme Sheep LED Art

This Art piece is truly amazing and original. I love how
different this is, and the music/sound effects
adds to the drama. Who ever thought of this idea,
was truly think out of the box. I love it.

Video Game Revolution

The video revolution started on college campuses.
Since then the video games has spread all over,
bowling alleys,
 bars, game shops and many more.
Gaming makes over 100 billion dollars a year.

The First video game

First Video Game

The very first video game was introduced at a the World's Fair in 1940 at the Westinghouse display. It was designed by Edward U. Condon. The name of the original game was "NIM", which is still played today. The object of the game is to avoid picking up the last matchstick.

"First Apple Computer"

In 1984 Apple introduced to the world, by way of a commercial, the first Apple computer. The commercial was shown during the 3rd quarter of SuperBowl XVIII. The commercial was only aied once.

LUCY

 "I Love Lucy" was one of my parents favorite shows, she along with her cast of characters, Ricardo, Ethel and her husband, always made them laugh. She truly was one of a kind. I don't know anyone today that can compare to her.

Radio

Here are a few facts about radio:

1887:

Radio waves discovered. 1900: De Forest patents device to improve weak signals. 1895: Guglielmo Marconi performs simple experiments which convince him it is possible to send signals through the air using electromagnetic waves. 1901: Marconi transmits the telegraphic signal of the letter "S" a distance across the Atlantic Ocean. 1920: KDKA in Pittsburgh transmits the first commercial radio broadcast. 1926: NBC begins first network news on radio. 1950: 90 million radio sets, 10 million TV sets in use in U.S. homes.

Telephone

The telephone was first patented by Alexander Graham Bell hours before another inventor, Elisha Gray, filed a patent for his version of the telephone. A battle ensued as to who was the first inventor of the telephone,Alexander Graham Bell won. Some of the first users of the telephone were, Doctors, Pharmacists, early adopters of the technology, wealthy individuals which included Mark Twain.

FlipBook

My FlipBook is about a "CUP" that holds life inside of it and pours it out onto the world and the Life returnes back into it.

This is a clip from a NASA 30+ year employee. We learnt a lot from him an had an insight of future technology that they are working on.

Stencil

3-D Printing "Ring Destroyer"

silly symphony - the skeleton dance

Now that I am learning more about the in-debt nature of animation, I have a whole new respect for it and it's creators. I loved the skeleton dance a lot, it made me giggle through the whole episode. I could only imagine the long hours and hard work the animators must have put into this piece of work back in the older days, when there were not as much technology as we have today.

Fantasmagorie

I love this animation that Emile created in 1908, called "Fantasmagorie". I am impressed of the way it was created , by "drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing-with variations-on top of it until he had some 700 drawings". My first impressing was that it was created on a chalk board, but to my surprise it was not, ingenious.I love how the illusion was created by, "filming black lines on paper and then printing in negative Cohl makes his animations appear to be chalk drawings".

Wayang Kulit

Wow, The Wayang culture gives new meaning to the shadow world, since Wayang is an Indonesian word for theatre (literally "shadow"). I enjoyed learning about this culture. I never knew that the Indonesian took this form of art so serious, and I respect the fact that this is something that is learnt from childhood, and it becomes a lifestyle.

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    I found this read, "The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" very interesting. I loved how it showed the evolution of the process of Art Reproduction, and how photography took Art Reproduction to another level. The interesting concept arrises, is a reproduction is as good or as valuable as the original? Some would argue that in some given circumstance, "Yes", an example is with film, if you slow down the original, one might see things that the naked eye might have missed, making the reproduction more valuable than the original, Others may disagree and say that an original painting is more valuable than a replica, an example of this is an original painting from Micheal Angelo would cost more than a reproduced painting of his. I love Walter Benjamin's quote,
"The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition".

Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction – Summary and Review

Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction – Summary and Review

As I read the summary and review of Walter Benjamin I thought this statement was very deep, " Dialectical materialism holds that social changes are the result of power struggles that are present in all forms of material existence. When taking this line of thought to the field of art, Benjamin attempts at explaining how technological changes influnenced art and how these relations might have social significance".   I agree because art and technology is used in everything, in the early years propaganda posters were used by the Germans and the United States during war time, and now we have internet to filtrate the same propaganda all over the world. The social significance (art/technology helped to bring about), the internet, confirms Walter Benjamin's theory, with all the social media available today.

Future Technology

The movie Frankenstein came out years ago with many remakes. The cartoon, "The Jetsons" also  came out years ago with face to face video conferencing and flying cars. Today we have real time video conferencing and a car that can fly. Today Frankenstein, in a sense, is being pursued as a reality. The transferring of a human head to a different human body is actively being pursued.

Technology and Media

Bust of Nefertiti
Technology and Media
I am impressed of how far technology has come. I love how you can scan an object and create a 3D image, especially an image thats over 3000 years old. Its also sad that a lot of these artifacts are not for public viewing, I believe history should be shared between everyone.

Blacks and Vaudeville

As I watch the Minstrel Show, I was really entertained and a lot of it was funny to me. I know that during the time frame of the Minstrel shows, that there was nothing funny about segregation, and making fun of Black folks, I also know that it was wrong to steal the blacks talents and songs without recognizing them or re-embursing them. At the same time entertainment is just that "Entertainment", and like I said earlier, most of the video was funny to me and made me laught.

The Beggars Opera

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-19576763

Technology and art: Engineering the future

"Today, in our connected world, almost everyone creates. Almost everyone participates."

This article is very interesting, I agree that almost everyone creates and that almost everyone participates. The world is ever-changing and the internet/new technologies and software, are major players in this ever-changing world. I feel in this modern age the meaning of "ART" has taken on a new meaning. The Micheal Angelo and The Picasso of old are gone, and a new generation of artist has arrived and given a new meaning to the word. Virtual art, such as art created in Photoshop, and 3d printing,are a few of the new mediums that help define the new meaning of "ART". I also agree that it has become harder to define Great art, seem's that everyone that has a Photoshop or illustrator calls themselves an artist, and some of the worst art pieces seems to go viral and some of the best pieces seem to fall along the way side.
What I love about the new avenue that "ART" is taking, is that "ART" is evolving along with the ever-changing world.

As I watched "Ring Cycle at the Met #2#3", Opera gained more respect from me. I Heard the music before , but the way it was explained, I did not know it was so complex. The production of putting on an Opera is also complex, I learnt that other than the music, theres the acting, architecture, engineering and other disciplines, that go into producing a successful Opera. The Opera is also educational and sometimes people go to an Opera as a meeting place.

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/were-only-human/what-a-mess-chaos-and-creativity.html

After carefully reading the above experiment, in the link above, I agree that a little mess is good, in certain circumstances,  and that creative people are a lil messy, I love being creative, and I am not a slob., but I am a bit messy. I feel that when a place is too neat, a creative person have nothing to feed off, but with a little clutter will stimulate his/her mind.

As I watched the Movie "Diva" it gave me a chance to reflect on we're we were and where are now as far as technology. I saw the old cars with manual cool up windows old time radios and the over all look of the car, and comparing it to todays "Smart" car, we have made great advances, such as automatic windows, push button start, satellite radio, automatic stop if the car senses danger and also self driving cars. I also noticed the advances in the Arts when it comes to music, the recording of it and the means by which it was played back. reel to reel and cassette tape was the norm back then and we have made some leap frog advances, such as recording on our phones, or in a digital studio also we have done away with tapes, nowadays we playback our recordings digitally, by way of smart phones, satellite radio, and or computers. The movie was very interesting, and the singing was incredible.

Die Antwoord-Rich Bitch

Different and very interesting, I appreciate the way the Art and Technology complement each other in this video.
   1. The Art: i Love the colorful sets used in the background, the props and the costume changes. Some may not like the content of the lyrics, but the artist did a great job delivering her message, also the music was hypnotizing.
 2. The Technology: What ever software that was used to create the music and edit it, mate it sound great. The visual effects were awesome, and helped to enhance the video. Great use of Art and Technology.

Madama Butterfly

Altho I did not understand the words, I understood the story, because of the animation. The animation brought the words to life and as the plot evolves, the words seemed clear to me. The sadness of the story did not let my belief down when it comes to Opera, as I always believed that Opera tells a sad story, and this one surely did. The end of the story when the lady had a butterfly on her head, I saw this as a memory from her past when she was happy.

Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling"

I have never read or heard, wrestling being described in such a deep explanation. Wrestling is described as a play being performed in a grand theatre, and the actors/wrestlers  performing to the perfection and expections of the audience. I love how the writer describes to feelings portrayed by the wrestler by the anguish look on his face or the throwing up of his arms as a sign of defeat, and how the audience loves to heat the bad guy and are thrilled when he gets his just reward.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Michel Foucault opened my eyes when he gave the example of a "central Tower" in a prison setting, and the prisoners never know if they are being watched, but they live as if they are being watched, fast forward to today, I see cameras everywhere, at intersections, stores, private homes, computers and camera phones to name a few. In comparison , to the prisoners being watched, one never knows when someone is watching them in todays society. With all of these cameras, society in the most part, seems to govern themselves.

Dr. Raul Cuero

I agree with Dr Raul Cuero, in that to make significant change in one's own life, you must be able to set goals without the fear of failure. This is applicable to my life because I can apply this attitude to any job, my life, and any scenario I may encounter.

About Me

My name is Joel Ellis, i am a Professional Disc Jockey. I am a transfer student from HCC. I am originally from the Bahamas but now I live in Wesley Chapel.
I am really interested in this class and i expect to understand more about media and Technology and how they work together.

Joel "Joey Jam"Ellis

Welcome to the World of Joel "Joey Jam" Ellis