Art and Technology Article 2

This time I found an essay that is talking about art and technology and the influence that technology has on art. The essay is really interesting, and discusses how the technology and the people that work in technologies are connected to art. And also I really like because one of the main points of the essay is that the role of the new technologies has changed a lot and its influence in artworks has increased in recent years. I like this main point because this is the point that I defend since I start to read about the topic art and technology. In my opinion the evolution of the technology has had an important influence in the artwork that an artist can create nowadays.
Another really interesting issue that appears in this essay is that with the new technologies “Interactive artworks that could transform viewers into participants were envisaged and created using the media available at that time. Today the opportunities for including audience participation have been increased significantly by the widespread availability of digital technology.”(Candy and Edmonds, 1). I think that this is really important because now you can use art in many different ways that maybe you could not use them years ago because the technology was worse or less develop.


“Interaction in Art and Technology”. Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds. Retrieved November 19, 2007 from http://crossings.tcd.ie/issues/2.1/Candy/

Art and Technology Article 1

The first website that I found when I was searching for the art and technology topic was a website about a company called Art of Technology. I found this company really interesting because is what they do is one thing that we are discussing in this week´s assignment. The company offers services to design a lot of different things but always applying the technology. They can help you to design in software and hardware. In my opinion this is a very interesting company because they can help you with a lot of different things and in different areas such as medical, aerospace or fixed and wireless communications areas. This is a company that is really creative and innovating in all the areas that they work in. This company has several different competencies such as studies and system design, electronics development, design and layout, software design and development or system miniaturization.
I think that this company is really connected with the readings of this topic because they combine art and technology b using the new technologies to design in the different areas that they work. So this is a clear example that with the improvement and advancement of the technology we can make art easier and the development of the art is clearly combine with the development of the technology. The better the technology gets, the better the art is going to get and the better the access that we have to art is going to be.


Art of technology. Retrieved November 19, 2007 from http://www.art-of-technology.ch/english/index.html

Creative Spirituality

How do you define “spirituality”?

You can define spirituality in a lot of different ways. It depends if you try to define sprituality through the religion or without the religion. In my opinion spirituality is somethig that the man uses to get away from problems and also to reach the satisfaction. Sometimes you can live hard moments but you can pass those moments if you go through spirituality. I think is related also with your imagination and is misterious. Is something that implies your soul,your thoughts, your heart, is something more than physical, is somthing that we can not only give one definitions becasue everybody have their own definition about spirituality.

Does spirituality differ from religion?

I think that spirituality differs a lot from religion. Sometimes spirituality and religion might be related and you can find spirituality through your religion or viceversa. But also I do think that spirituality does not neccesarily means that has to be related to religion. I think that there are a lot of cases of people who are spiritual active and make a lot of their life decissions based in spirituality and maybe these people don´t have a religion in what they believe.

How do you define “creativity”?

Creativity is something that a person creates and is original or a person´s imagination, something that is out of the normal status. A "creativity" person is somebody who is trying to do something new, something that a normal person won´t even think of it. I also think that "creativity" is one skill that you born with. In my opinion you can not become a "creativity" person by practicing or something like that. You just are creative or not, that´s it.

What is the source of creativity?

I think that there could be several sources of creativity. The first of all of that sources could be your own imagination, the creativity of an artist can come from his or her imagination, and in my opinion this could be the strongest source when you are looking for creativity. Also you can have external sources for your creativity. I t could be something that inspired you, a moment in your life, a person, a monument, a city, you can get creativity from several different sources but the first and more important is ypur own imagination.

Enjoying Horror Article 2

The second website that I found was this one person talking about his opinion about horror movies. He states his opinion, and then he formulates question so the people can put their opinion in the website. His opinion is that he does not like horror movies at all. He had such bad experiences in his childhood so he does not want to experience that again by going to the theatres to watch a horror movie.
I totally agree with him, in my opinion he is really smart because if you have bad experiences watching horror movies why should you watch them again? You are going to suffer and you are going to be scared for sure so I do not think that is a good idea to repeat such a bad experience.
But there are a lot of people that have a different opinion and do not agree with me. Some people in this website leave their comments and they say that they really like horror movies because they like the sensation that provokes to them the horror movies. I understand that not everybody feel the same and I respect the people that feel this way, I just do not understand it how can you find pleasure watching a horror movie.
“Horror Movies for People Who Hate Horror Movies”,(August, 2006). ´The Tattered Coat´. Retrieved November 3, 2007 from http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2006/07/08/horror-movies-for-people-who-hate-horror-movies/

Enjoying Horror Article 1

The first article that I found was about a professor of Kansas State University where it says the professor’s opinion on why we like to watch horror movies? Leon Rappoport, is the name of the professor, says that people like to go to watch horror movies because we live in such a civilized society that we feel really safe and we search in horror movies what we do not have in our lives. Also he says that there is much more teenagers that watch horror movies than adults. The reason, according to Rappoport’s opinion is that these teenagers are looking for something new in their lives. They are in a difficult stage in their lives, between children and men, and they are looking for different feeleings so they can find these feelings watching horror movies. Also according to Rappoport : “ There seems to be this general quality that almost all of us share in enjoying a certain level of threatening stimulation or hazardous stimulation,” “The ability to do something that seems to go beyond the usual range of things.”(1).
I agree with Rappoport in the way he thinks about why teenagers go to the horror movies. I think he is right because they go to feel like they are adults. But I do not agree with the last quote of the article, with this quote he is saying that we go to horror movies just for fun, or because horror movies are different but in my opinion there is nothing fun on going to have a hard time to the theatre to watch one of this movies.

‘Why we like horror movies’ Leon Rappoprt’s opinion, (October 1997). Retrieved November 3, 2007, from
www.k-state.edu/media/WEB/News/NewsReleases/listscarymovies.html