Feedback, Feedback and more Feedback! oh and art?

Alright so for this week I will be writing a bit about Cristiane Paul's article Feedback: From Object to Process and System. He talks about an exhibition, FEEDBACK, which presents different types of works that involves the new media arts and how also now some have achieve to create "art" through feedback and machines.


She explains the way in which the artworks presented in the exhibition exploit different mechanism uses and functions to develop some kind of art!

I find that it is interesting how people have been able to establish an interaction between spectators and the machines themselves. In a way one of the questions that may arise is if these types of things are what people expect from technology?

Many could object that for example 5voltcore's Shockbot Corejulio was not inspired in someway to create an image and therefore is art; rather what the machine is presenting is the idea of the entire process that takes place in order to create something else.

I believe that with the evolution of technology people are able to experiment in different grounds and with different types of art as Paul mentions in her article. Some concept art, optical art and kinetic art concepts are borrowed and presented differently in order to create new media art!

Thus I believe that people are using technology as a tool to create works derived from ideas of the other arts mentioned in Paul's article, to the point where one gets to believe that it is the machine that is creating the art and not the actual artists.

I have to say that I was a bit dissapointed by the article, it presents different projects and ideas that result interesting but at the same time it is very vague and the entire idea of "response" seems too repetitive. For this fact I have to say that I give the article a thumbs down on that aspect.

Either way I believe that the idea of presenting such projects is very intriguing since shows how society is changing the tools to create different artifacts and art forms! Who knows what else we will be able to achieve with these techniques and sophisticated tools!