Lecture 4

Week 4's lecture was from Phillip Glahn.  He was definitely my favorite speaker thus far.  He really knew how to address the crowd, and he was a really great speaker.  He mostly talked about the relationship between art and technology and what to do with our knowledge of both.  He did a great job of relating art history to our world of technology today and he did it with a touch of humor which is always nice to hear.  He mentioned how artists articulate their point and that we should consider this when we make art and look at art.  Art and technology fitting together has been around since the 1840s when the Panerama was invented and built.  Then, it progressed into photography and impressionism.  Then he moved on to talk about more of the things we see today.  When we walk down the street or into a store and we see signs that have been  mass produced art takes on a whole new meaning.  Mass production signs and designs represent anonymity and no one wants to associate it with those designs.  Everyone wants to be original.  Phillip then talked about re-skilling the artist's hand.  Design now in this age has completely changed.  We are now facing a world of technology and focusing less on making things with our hands.  We should be producing art and things that are interactive and artists should think of themselves as the producers of meaning.  As a producer, our hands are liberated and it will expand our skill.  Interacting with art is vital to its meaning.  Creating the relationship between the subject matter and what is being produced is what makes art interesting.