Computers and Fine Arts
• Art Museums and Computers
• The Artist and Computers
• Computers and You
Art Museums and Computers
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Computer Maintained Archives
Online Advertisement and Self-Endorsement
Art Restoration
Digital Art and Museums
Computer Maintained Archives
• Private Archives
Most art museums have enormous inventories,
most of which are not displayed to the public, but are
constantly rotating through storage. It is quite a task to
keep these collections organized. Before, archives were
maintained only through log books and paper files.
Today museums use databases to keep track of their
inventory, a faster and more accurate method.
Computer Maintained Archives
• Online collaboration between museums now makes it possible for the public
to view their inventories.
“The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit
association of art collecting institutions, including the Whitney Museum of
American Art, SFMOMA, the Getty Museum, and the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery. Through AMICO, these and other institutions provide access to
digital documentation of their collections for educational use. Their digital
library is available to universities and colleges, public libraries, and elementary,
middle, and high schools, and the 2001 edition includes more than 65,000
different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary
sculpture. These works are fully documented, and all entries include basic
cataloging information and may also include curatorial texts, detailed
provenance information, multiple views of the work itself and other related
multimedia.”
http://www.albrightknox.org/online_info.html
Online Advertisement and SelfEndorsement
• Websites provide a inexpensive and convenient way for museums
to promote themselves. Not only can they announce coming
attractions, but museums can give sample virtual tours of their
new exhibits.
• Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) receives far more hits to their
website than visitors to their actual location in Boston.
Art Restoration
• Nanotechnology is now used to salvage aging artwork.
“Nanoparticles of calcium and magnesium hydroxide and
carbonate have been used to restore and protect wall paints, such
as Maya paintings in Mexico or 15th century Italian masterpieces.
Nanoparticle applications were also used to restore old paper
documents, where acidic inks have caused the cellulose fibers to
break up, and to treat acidic wood from a 400-year-old
shipwreck.”
http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/
Art Restoration
• Examples:
Digital Art and Museums
• MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) recently featured an
exhibit called “All Digital”.
Index – a large scale installation of projected data.
Life-writer - interactive installation of a type-writer that prints
on a light sensitive screen.
John Simons’s Code Art – kinetic compositions that move in
patterns on laptop screens, or wall-projections
Digital Art and Museums
• MOCA (Museum of Computer Art) exclusively
features digital art.
The Artist and Computers
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Computer Aided Design
Creating Digital Art
Finding Career Opportunities
Visual Communication Design
Computer Aided Design
• Computer-based tools that assist in creating models of three-dimensional
objects. Not only does CAD enable users to create better structured results,
but allows them to better predict cost and time consumption of actual
construction before manufacturing the project.
-Architecture
-Water and Sewer Systems
-Roads and Highways
-Automotive Vehicles
-Aerospace
-Software Applications
-Digital Circuit Design
-Fashion Design
Finding Career Opportunities
• Web Forums
Web forums allow art students to communicate with each
other and employers by posting threads requesting job
information. Many employers looking to hire artists will post job
openings on the forums. In some ways, these forums are more
beneficial to the companies that hire the artists than the artists
themselves. Forums provide limitless information of work
opportunities, but also provide limitless competition.
Finding Career Opportunities
• Online Portfolios
-Online portfolios provide new artists with a means to
expose their work to the world without paying astronomical
gallery fees. They have the option of adding their portfolio to
their myspace or facebook accounts, creating a personal web
page, or for a small fee, posting their portfolios on a professional
portfolio website where it will be viewed by more employers.
Downfall-larger risk of having work plagiarized.
Creating Digital Art
• Fine Artists have lately incorporated traditional mediums such as painting,
sculpture, printmaking and drawing, with digital or graphic art.
– Thomas Vilot
– Oliver Gili
Visual Communication Design
• Visual Communications Designers or Graphic Designers are artists that
actually find employment. Careers include:
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Video Game Design
Card Companies
Magazines
Illustration
• Novel covers
• Children’s Books
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Commercials
Logos
Brochures
Billboards
Websites
– Hollywood
• CG Special Effects
• CG Films (Pixar)
Visual Communication Design
• Software Used By Graphic Designers
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3D Creator
Amorphium
Mystica
Xpressionist
Internet Space Builder
Pandemonium
Deep Exploration
Easy Model 4.0
Genesis II Professional
Alambik ProExporter
Face Ace
Partica
Rhino
3D Field
Computers and You
• Adobe Photo-shop
• Adobe Page-maker
• Online Profiles
Adobe Photoshop
• A graphics editor popular with professionals in the
visual communications field. Adobe produces basic
programs that even amateurs can use to touch up, edit,
or just play around with their own images.
Adobe Photoshop
• What You Can Do with Adobe
Adobe Page-maker
• A desktop publishing program suitable for beginners.
Page-maker is primarily designed for publications such
as corporate newsletters and the straight-news sections
of newspapers, and brochures. It provides a very basic
format for novices to create web pages with.
Online Profiles
• Personal profiles are a new way for people to express themselves.
Using MySpace or Facebook, people around the world can
personalize their profiles by choosing different layouts,
backgrounds, graphics, and photographs to decorate it. They can
also post video and music clips if they so choose. These social
networking website enable users to view and comment on each
other’s work.
Summary
• Art Museums
-Computer-maintained Archives
-Online Advertisement and Self-Endorsement
-Art Restoration
-Digital Art Exhibits
• Artists
-Computer Aided Design
-Combining Digital Art with Traditional Art
-Finding Career Opportunities
-Visual Communications Design
• Computers and You
-Adobe Photoshop
-Adobe Page-maker
-Online Profiles