Thursday, September 6, 2012

Technology, Humanity, Imagery


The technological experiments and art forms in the video show how people anywhere can be linked by just one common factor. A variety of people from different parts of the globe brought together by one piece of artwork without knowing the future outcome has been made possible with technology. Humanity in the digital age appears random and unpredictable as the interface can change to the parameters of the people. Each individual on this world is different in their own way allowing technology to expand to our needs. These people who contributed did so without much of any compensation, whether it was 2 cents or just remembering a musical icon, inferring that people care or just get bored online. Experiments such as those in the video exist because someone believed in them and trusted the rest of humanity to attempt to make it work, not because they had to but because they want to.

At first, the examples used by the speaker showed people traveling on planes throughout the day and communications going around the world. Only identifiable by data these people are visually represented to show how they all flow together.

Then the examples start to become personalized by the people who create them, again showing how people can work together and produce something in the end that is truly amazing. The drawings of sheep, $100 bill, and Johnny Cash and the recordings of people when joined together create something that describes the original while keeping the diversity of the submissions.

The statement the speaker makes at the end of the video is meant to inspire those who use technology to express themselves because that is the medium in which culture is said to be defined in. Everyone is different and can be shown by the difference between each art form when put together as a whole.

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