Cultural Transformations:Morphing Sensibility Cynthia Beth Rubin Department of Art, University of Vermont Impassioned teachers, trained in the old ways of process-driven media such as paint, and teaching computer image-making with commercial software, are faced with two basic obstacles in encouraging students to use the medium of computer art to personalize their work and to expand their own visual vocabularies: ⢠The popular assumptions of Western art which are prevalent in the interface of most commercially successfulsoftware, including a pro-disposition to place Realismand Renaissancespace above other compositional concerns, such as decoration and pattern or symbolism. ⢠The facile scanningof imageswhich can be mindlessly manipulated and combined, turn. ing artists into hunters and gatherers, rather than eng~ng them in thoughtful visual diaIolue with their sources. Cultural Transformations, taught at the University of Vermont as an advanced computer art course, aims to turn the computer into a tool of cultural and visual investigation. It takes exactly those qualities which are generally obstacles (Western assumptions and facile scanning) and turns them into the core of the course, thereby confronting students with the limitations of this way of working. Expanding sensibilities to include consideradon for diverse cultures is particularly challenging for all of
End of preview. The entire article is 2 pages. To view the full-text, please rent this article to continue.
/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/cultural-transformations-morphing-sensibility-09HG0KpmHV
Welcome to DeepDyve! Rent Premier Research Articles and Save Up to 90%
Cultural transformations: morphing sensibility
Rubin, Cynthia Beth
Follow ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
, Volume 29 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1995
More Info
More Like This Article
View All dataSource[]=actageo&dataSource[]=aspet&dataSource[]=aaos&dataSource[]=aacc&dataSource[]=aacr&dataSource[]=aea&dataSource[]=aip&dataSource[]=ajnr&dataSource[]=ams&dataSource[]=aps_physical&dataSource[]=appi_book&dataSource[]=appi_journal&dataSource[]=apha&dataSource[]=asip&dataSource[]=asm&dataSource[]=asn&dataSource[]=aspb&dataSource[]=avs&dataSource[]=annual_reviews&dataSource[]=arxiv&dataSource[]=acm&dataSource[]=berghahn&dataSource[]=cabi&dataSource[]=clinical_trials&dataSource[]=dailymed&dataSource[]=degruyter&dataSource[]=du_press&dataSource[]=esa&dataSource[]=eu_press&dataSource[]=elsevier&dataSource[]=emerald&dataSource[]=ejtr&dataSource[]=emea&dataSource[]=epo&dataSource[]=faseb&dataSource[]=gsa&dataSource[]=health_affairs&dataSource[]=hindawi&dataSource[]=imanager&dataSource[]=imedpub&dataSource[]=informa_healthcare&dataSource[]=informs&dataSource[]=iop&dataSource[]=iucr&dataSource[]=iospress&dataSource[]=jbjs&dataSource[]=leftcoast&dataSource[]=lu_press&dataSource[]=mesharpe&dataSource[]=mary_ann_liebert&dataSource[]=medline&dataSource[]=mit_press&dataSource[]=nature&dataSource[]=oxford&dataSource[]=pier_professional&dataSource[]=pnas&dataSource[]=portlandpress&dataSource[]=psyc_articles&dataSource[]=psyc_books&dataSource[]=psyc_critiques&dataSource[]=plos_journal&dataSource[]=pubmed_central&dataSource[]=rsna&dataSource[]=rockefeller&dataSource[]=rcn&dataSource[]=ria&dataSource[]=rsc&dataSource[]=sage&dataSource[]=spie&dataSource[]=springer_journal&dataSource[]=springer&dataSource[]=taylor_francis&dataSource[]=aps&dataSource[]=the_scientist&dataSource[]=uc_press&dataSource[]=uspto_abstract&dataSource[]=wiley&dataSource[]=pct
© 2012 DeepDyve, Inc. All rights reserved.
Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
