New Media

I'm not so sure I'm sold on this stuff yet. I like the idea of computer made art, and I even liked the idea of the interactive book (though I still think it would be too heavy and annoying to have a book made of screen pages...I'm not seeing this as being functional practically at all) But I must say, Ana's videos were horrible. Since when is art out of focus, low res images? I am in a film class right now that is all digital and published to the web, and we do whatever we can to get a good image. Why watch a film that is so low res that you can hardly see the picture? How is this art? I can see it as a true experiement with enough of an argument, but Ana's argument was not that great. Low res is the future of web technology? Hardly. Resolutions will get higher and cheaper! No one wants mushed images. It's called bad quality and I don't see that changing. Maybe if she had changed the film completely and made the low res work for her, it would be different...but she didn't. It was just another layered experiemental type video. Boring. I wasn't enlightened or challenged or even that interested.

Now as fpr using the computer for new media, I'm all for it! Websites, interactive games, even that interactive body thing were very cool. I can see these not onlt being art, but they can also be useful in everday life. This I like. It's hard to be creative in a new field, though. You have to be able to see new things, and then figure out how to accompish them. I loved the car with the screen on the hood idea. That's awesome! Why not try something like that? Or generate abstract colorful paintings in rames, only they'd be internet linked and can change all the time. Perhaps with your mood. How cool would that be? I saw that in a movie once. I loved it! I'd buy that. And I'd enjoy it, too. And can blogs be art? Sure. Anything can be art. Your face can be art! Girls, geez. Makeup is art, okay? All girls are artists. In my other film class we had to customize our blogs and make it beautiful and intruguing. This is art, whether it's truly free or not. Right now we are constrained to what the blogger code is and what we can do to manipulate within that code. If I was more computer savvy I'm sure I could figure out a way to make the blog really awesome. I have no idea how though. I am not technologically inclined, and neither am I all that creative. (unfortunately) Perhaps this is why I am interested in Hollywood film. I like a good story more than I like a colorful background and a carefully planned tracking shot. I like those things too, but I don't see them outside the story I have. Anything beyond that story is superfluous. Perhaps this is why I hate experimental film- I am not experimental or really even creative at all. It just isn't me. I can be, but I must have the story first.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'm not artistic and I'm not saying I don't appreciate or desire to make art. I just see experiments strictly for art's sake boring. Especially if the idea of the project is "expose film in a purse."Um...nice thought and all? But I'd rather see the contents of the purse then. I'd rather see the story unfold...not see overexposed yellow and orange film. One person might call this artistic and axperimental, but I see it as a lack of story, and it causes me to have no interest in what I am watching. One person's experimental art is another person's rejected overexposed film. Failure. Next time I fail I'll smile, make up some stupid but educational story, and publish it as an experimental piece. Hey it's good for the ego, and some experimental buff out there may actually like it.

Sorry, I went off on a tangent. Alot of experimental, truly experimental, film I actually like. But Ana's video...I mean why? Just that. Why.