Media - Digital Art

i wanted to assure that digital art is related to media because maybe some are wondering how it is related ?! click on new media art . Media is about communication, its a wide field that has many ways of communication or learning certain information or to entertain ! it can be mass media(tv, radio, films, books) or digital media( computer,video games,virtual reality,digital art..) getting you into more details, for video games you need digital art to design your game and images.. or what about second life! also it use digital art to digitize the character you chosen or anything else.. this is some terms related to new media : digital television, video games, digital art, internet, digital audio ...

By Farah

Darfur is Dying

Darfur is dying this game is to help stopping the crisis in darfur its a good experience which u can choose from it a caracter you want or "darfurian" to represent your camp the caracter are from age 10 till 30 then you start your experience. it is a serious game, where you feel that your are living in Darfur really, you should search for food, build shelters, collect water, stay healthy, help others... and you should beware of the attack that will destroy everything you do, so beware or you die. play this game so you can feel how other humans like you are suffering instead of playing a game where you kill and rob and steal..

Finding Zoe

Finding Zoe is a game that ecourage children to report domestic abuse, it is a game for childer between 8-14, Suzana Ruiz designed this game after the game Darfur is dying that was sponsored by mtv.

Susana Ruiz: RePlay: Finding Zoe is about a girl in trouble and her friends that act on their feelings of concern in order to help her.

The game requires players to make decisions surrounding a scenario in which the character Zoe is presumed to be in an abusive relationship.

try out this game even if you are old enough but maybe you can help your siters for example or their friends or the kids you know to live a better life. Maybe the questions that are asked in this games are dull for you, but maybe you will find urself not able to answer or to choose an answer for it. just check this and advice kids to stop playing violent games, these types of games is more helpfull.

Its all about the idea not the medium !

while reading a magazine on the web, i was attached by this article : Digital art Media, talking about how nowadays artist are using digital tools to create fine art. and how all these latest technological digital tools has opened a new wide window for artist sharing more creative ideas for media. now that i am talking about IDEAS AND MEDIA , Catharine Clark, owner director of the Catharine Clark gallery says "I’m interested in content, not media," explains,Good art is not about the medium; it’s about the idea. The artists’ ideas drive the art, not their choice of tools, technology or media. For Clark, art is content-driven, not media-driven.

And when talking about Digital art, Clark says : I describe my paintings as “combined media on canvas.” They originate as paintings created in Corel Painter (sometimes based on photographic reference); they are printed out on canvas and then have various media, such as acrylic paint and pastel, applied on to the canvas surface. I avoid using the terms “digital art,” “computer art” and “computer-generated art,” all of which imply that artistic skill is secondary to the fact that the computer was used. After all you’d never describe a Van Gogh painting an example of “oil paint-generated art!”

so we can summarize that,nowadays we're living in a digital world,everybody using computers in all fields. Media needs creative ideas: the content is very important therefor, the digital work help the artist to be more creative with using an infinite type of tools, but first the concept of the idea must be found, this is what enrich the digital art! .. the idea..

By Farah

TwistedBrush Pro Studio.. so amazing !!!

while searching on the web, i found this amazing website for professional artist, and it is easy to use, it has more than 3,000 brushes and it goes along with all the themes or features that you care to for. I just love it, i loved the pictures they are amazing. Well i guess any company related to media will be concerned to check out this website, because its very helpful to create still images for billboards or for any other type of media. The features are really interesting:

-layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic palettes and a whole lot more..

when it comes to cinema(movies) , there is a special type of drawing which is amazing that artists use while drawing an image related to a movie, that is being released like this picture of Johny Depp taken from a certain movie for him.

you have digital painting and also photo editing, and this program goes along with all windows operating system versions. So you can visit this website http://www.pixarra.com/index.html and find more information that you need if you were interested in this twistedbrush pro studio.

By Farah

Digital Art

i couldn't wait to talk about arts because for me its the best way of communication but when it comes to Digital arts it is more used for media which is a creative way of understanding a message whether it was billboards,video games,music,digital paintings..

First of all to understand digital arts you must know what Art and Digital mean

ART :

the most expressive activity for humans that use to show their emotions by it and by showing what they have inside and want to be expressed by a way which can be like i said before there is many ways of expressing yourself or you want to send a certain message to people by music,cinema or painting ....

Digital :

it is a computing and electronic system that follows a certain binary codes that are : 0-1 this is how it reads programs.

So digital arts are arts used by a computer system in a digital form, it is usually used to facilitate for the media to achieve its message for the audience and make it more understandable like billboards use digital photos.. are you feeling anxious ??? what to release your worries ??? you have free time and you want to be useful? check this website http://artjournals.suite101.com/article.cfm/art_journal_why_youre_anxious

well, we all know that painting is a way of expression in the art field,t has a certain communication between the human and the painting, but nowadays digital painting is growing and growing and people are becoming more creative that makes you fly away beyond all your imagination to another world, the imaginary world, i was attracted by this artist called Sylvie Robert she was born in Paris, she was a passionate for art specially digital painting, and she specialised in a very original way : The fantasy vision

By Farah

Anti-violence Games

We always think when it comes to games and video games about football, violence, blood, fast cars, etc.. Ian Bogost had chose to change this theory and create new games that will go beyond entertainment to education, art and peace. For example games to solve the middle-east problems or games regarding the immigration or food ..

Persuasive Games :
Our games influence players to take action through gameplay. Games communicate differently than other media; they not only deliver messages, but also simulate experiences. While often thought to be just a leisure activity, games can also become rhetorical tools.

One of the games that Ian Bogost created and really attracted me is "Selene", it's a game about Lunar Geology founded by NASA and created by his students.

To play this game you must be sponsored by a Selene recruiter, youth who have parental permission can play for about an hour, this game teach kids and youth science while they are playing. The Selene project is a part from the NASA programs to teach youth and to help them know more about science, technology...
visit the Selene website to learn more about the game.

-mayssa

Smart Clothes

Ever heard about smart clothes ? , i heard few month ago someone asking why old fashion is coming back, so a friend of mine answered that they are doing this because after few years all this clothes won't be used again, they'll disappear and SMART CLOTHES will take its place.of course now you are wondering what smart clothes are.
Smart clothes are clothes that are made with fabrics that have numerous sensors, which they every second check your vital sign, if any danger sign is detected they are programmed automatically to contact your doctor or to send information to the nearest hospital or to send you a text message warning you, that's on the medical side and if you get really cold with the solar power that is stored in your clothe it will make you warm.
For work, in your suite jackets their Will be implanted phones in the lapels and the pockets could record meetings.
As for night life, what's better than a smart wardrobe? that lights when its dark, that always make you smell good, that will alarm when you drink more than the average, that will control the temperature of your body so u don't sweat while dancing or if its hot? . And you don't have to worry, to buy clothes that fits you a 3D measearing system is being developed that scans your measurements exactly and record it on a ship so people can view on the Internet the clothes they want to buy and try them in a virtual way on their body. And there's a company that advice you what to wear and what fits you more.
Smart clothes are being developed each day as Simon Jones said : Forget Parisian haute couture, the real avant garde rule breakers in future fashion will be scientists.
That's ironic right ? i think a Fashion design major will be under the faculty of science not arts in the future.So enjoy the old-modern fashion now cause tomorrow it will be dump with the Smart Clothes invention.

-mayssa

ROBOTS !!

nowadays, we can't deny that robots are a part of our lives ! we've reached a place where we can't limit this invention that is growing more and more reaching the : UNKNOWN ! so i chosed this topic because i find it very interesting, its also interesting to search about the latest technological robots.like you've read in my last articles im so into searching creative fashion styles, maybe one day robots will have their own fashion like we do.. !!

One of the latest technologies about robots is :

- Let robots get more sensitive

Scientist are working on a type of skin that will allow robots to have touchy feelings. it is a high-tech skin that have small buttons which are the sensors. the sensors allow a robot to "feel" changes that are surrounding him and move accordingly. and in the near future scientists will try to improve this new technology by adding more sensor buttons on this skin to allow robots to have different kind of feelings.

Farah.

Steampunk

well, it took us a while to really understand steampunk beacuse we've never heard of this word before maybe cyberpunk was a bit known because of the word : cyber, we can figure out what cyberpunk would be, steampunk is derived from cyberpunk so our definition of steampunk should tie-in to the definition of cyberpunk. Cyberpunk involves society's response to an ever advancing technology that transforms life faster than culture can adjust to it in a time when information has more value than material goods. Cyberpunk is traditionally dystopian, presenting a dark view of the future in which technology creates more problems than it cures. A starting point for our definition of steampunk, then, should be a dystopian view of the role of technology in the nineteenth century, the Age of Steam. Steam punk about technology that never existed , well but probably could . Steampunk is often outfitted with a variety of techological gadgets. Clockwork limbs, steam- powered automobiles, tanks and robots, aerial warships and an endless variety of modern-day inventions built using Steam Age technology .

Steampunk, like so many genres, is broad enough to allow great variety. As a world setting for gamers, it has the potential for great fun and appeals to players of all outlooks

lets see some of the steampunk inventions,

- The steampunk home: a way to combine the past and the future , its a living life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future.

- what about steampunk fashion ?? nice..

- Some Steampunk gadgets.. amazingggggggg !!!!!!!!!

Steampunk mouse

Steampunk MP3 Player

Cyberpunk

Introduction to Cyberpunk : the information is power ! free the information ..

The cyber world was created by human kind, it was known also as virtual reality which brings us to the new age " the cyber age" . Nowadays,communities rise from the data world. The cyberpunks-offspring of the cyber age become the culture of the new world. The cyberpunks are free thinkers who began to attract more people to the cyberspace which is their new virtual society, where they share new and free information without laws or rules.

Bruce Bethke published in a science fiction magasin in november 1983 a short story where "cyberpunk" appeared for the first time as a title for it. But his reason for publishing this story was selfishness ans market-driven. So William Gibson invented the cyberspace and the cyberpunk science fiction. Neuromancer, was the first novel about cyberpunk written by Gibson (1984) . The novel tells us about a washed up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to work on the ultimate hack.
Originally the term 'cyberpunk' was meant to be a only character type name, meaning "a young, technologically facile, ethically vacuous, computer-assisted vandal or criminal". Nowadays the term means much more, it's the name for whole subculture and movement.
words 'cyber' and 'punk' emphasize the two basic aspects of cyberpunk: technology and individualism. Meaning of the word 'cyberpunk' could be something like 'anarchy via machines' or 'machine/computer rebel movement'.

Cyberpunk games are extremly interesting, we really advise you to visit http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/cyberpunk-games/ and chose one of these games like : snatcher, i have no mouth and i must scream.