Thursday, September 6, 2012

Synthesis of Art, Humanity, and Technology


     Due to the recent influx of new technological advances within the world as we know it, technology has seemingly invaded every other part of our lives. From how people communicate, to how they get points across, and even now with art, technology is now embedded within our culture. Within this TED talk by Aaron Koblin, the cohesiveness and synthesis of something new entirely is described as coming into being.
      In the beginning of his talk, Koblin demonstrates a new creative idea of portraying the flights entering and exiting the U.S. as a piece of visual rhetoric. Through this simple work of art, he demonstrates that humans are art even in the way that we flow from place to place. This flow creates a beautiful pattern and sends the message that everything is art. We are art. In his next project, Koblin demonstrates that not only are humans art, we can collectively work together to create it. Technology has developed not only to allow us to create art but to allow us to become it. Koblin portrays many thousands of peoples’ individualities coming together to create a new work of art that melds them into a whole. By using sheep as the object of importance Koblin demonstrates how different people view the world while at the same time demonstrating that everyone has a common bond so that they still basically draw the same thing. When Kobling decides to bring classic and technology together, he came up with the idea of a Johnny Cash music video pieced together from different images drawn by people around the world. He uses this to tell the story of Johhny Cash by using one of his last songs and the ideas that people had about him. By doing this he combines the old and the new, and diverse ideas from multiple people combined into one single idea.
      Through the use of various unique forms of art, Koblin demonstrates harmony. No longer is the idea of art and technology completely separate fathomable. Through everyday travel to specific messages, humanism, art, and technology are now one.

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