{"id":202,"date":"2018-09-04T18:49:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T18:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/?p=202"},"modified":"2018-09-04T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T18:49:44","slug":"computational-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/2018\/09\/04\/computational-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Computational Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was browsing through the list of artists listed on the site, and I came across Mary Flanagan’s [unnatural elements: avatar portraits]<\/a>. The project initially took on a focus on how our “virtual personae and figures [that] we create in online space” compare to our personae and figures in reality. The team used computer software to construct a 3D portrait without using other commonly-used “Hollywood” software to smooth out the rough edges that most films do. During the project, Flanagan and her team realize that the computer is creating a portrait that has a stark resemblance to that of natural edges and shapes, specifically rocks and earth. Flanagan describes that the computer is disturbingly more “realistic” and natural than reality itself, in a way.<\/p>\n

What made me take interest in this project is the initial focus of the project: how our virtual selves compare to our real selves. Our generation grew up with social media and other mediums from a very early age–not as early as younger kids–but nevertheless, we are very accustomed to social media and online networking. The twist that this project took was very interesting personally: how our virtual figures, when constructed entirely by a computer, is disturbingly more realistic than our own selves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was browsing through the list of artists listed on the site, and I came across Mary Flanagan’s [unnatural elements: avatar portraits]. The project initially took on a focus on how our “virtual personae and figures [that] we create in online space” compare to our personae and figures in reality. The team used computer softwareRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paeb9f-3g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}