Shmedia Shmashup!

Hybrid Cars is an example of hybridity since it can use both gasoline and water to run its engine. Hybridity has been around us since we were born. Televisions that uses VCR boxes to view movies is a hybrid. Pens that has a highlighter at the other end of the tip is a hybrid. Objects that has a combination of multiple things or uses is part of the hybrid community. Hybrids helps us to do more with only one tool!

Hybrid in Art is similar, because there are many "characters" (objects in a way) included in the portrait. All of them are made into one with the use of photo editing, or just pure imagination. Many of these hybrid arts are now in the internet, but most of these are done with a photo editing program such as Photoshop. However, hybrid art doesn't usually mean that the art is made with just a digital photo manipulation software, but it could be combining two things into one. There are also many artists that can do Hybrid Arts, one of them being Stelarc who is an Australian performance artist. He uses robots to be part of his body to be part of his performance art.

How we experience Hybrid in our lives is that there is something for everything. Not just for us humans. Hybrid helps the environment clean with the use of hybrid cars, however in art it is visually more interesting to look at and even know about Hybrid art. Making hybrid art will make you use more of your imagination to make a hybrid art, but at the end everything is worth well done.

Technology+Art=Wha??

During the introductory seminar, I personally have never heard of the term, "Victimless Meat", or turning living things into art. I believe turning meat into art can be controversial, but from how I saw it by critically thinking about this issue that if you are for this idea of turning meat into art, then you must be a kind of person that doesn't care for cows being manually slaughtered to art or a kind of person that do care about cows because they are living creatures and God gave them life for a purpose, could mean that you're a religious person too.

Using any kind of living things in my personal view calls for either an alert to the government of Canada or US or any country in the world that actually knows about this to give them a poke against this issue. I am 50% against and 50% for using living creatures as art. I am against it because its like killing a human being, I know that any creatures in this planet have a purpose like cows produces milk for everyone that needs it, and I am for it for scientific reasons. Zurr and Catts' Biology Art stated that they use any kind of cells and reproduce it for something similar, like taking out a cell from a cow and eventually making a patty out of that one lonely cell or similar to cloning. I would be totally 100% for it if that were what they actually would do with these cells in real life.

Now, I personally think about BioArt is that it visually looks good, but actually its not because we’re using real parts from real living creatures to use as art. There are other things that could be used as art, but using real meat and blood is something that’ll no doubt be a controversy.

Kumai Collective Weblog

Welcome to Kumai's Collective Weblog!

This blog is for Mary Ward Media Course TGJ4M1 with Ms. Largo, and will be filled with journal entries along with my opinions on the specific topics that Ms. Largo will be posting here.

The theme of this blog is inspired from the song by KOTOKO, a Japanese Pop singer, along with a production team named, I'VE Sound. If you would like to hear the song, enter here to listen! Its currently the first song on the playlist, so don't wonder which song I'm talking about.

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-Jonathan