FINAL BLOG: WRITING A BRIEF

THE USE OF TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN VISUAL ART
Some of the contemporary art and the new resources given by technology
By Sebastian Soto




INTRODUCTION

In the latest years - in the XX century - visual arts have been suffered many transformations and changes according the pass of time. The young emergent and the great consolidated artists are all involved in the use of new alternatives within art, they are more interested in mixing new technologies with the traditional resources of classic art, creating something interesting, with more visual diversity, somethig like a new a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art technologies, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology.

In terms of contemporary art, many art schools and Universities now offer majors in "New Genres" or "New Media" New art often involves interaction between artist and observer.

All this is derived from the big changes that the contemporary world has suffered - the globalization, being specific, and this kind of works come from the telecommunications, mass media and digital modes of artworks, with practices ranging from conceptual to virtual art, performance to installation.

Basically, the mixing of technologies with some specialities of art, consist in make a contrast between two different kind of techniques - for example a piece of work that mix painting with video.


BODY

In our art school, this kind of works is very well used. Even thought many teachers in school, are more comfortable working and studying the classic techniques of art. Many of them like to study the classic history periods like the Renaissance, the Barroque or the Romanticism. But some other teachers they prefer to introduce new alternatives in the creation of a piece of art, making a study program that work with something more conceptual that involves more personal interpretations.

Of course, the process of making a piece of art in this cases, sometimes becomes very hard. And we, as students, must try to think over and over and over again, until find the answer to the question of the propose or the objective. And that is one of the most important things in this kind of artwork; something called "the speech", and basically is your thesis, is the theorical part that explain all about your piece of work, why did you do that, why did you use that skill, or why did you put that thing there and no in other place, for example...

The introduction of new technologies in the artworks, is not easy. You have to create something from abstract forms, you have to start with a logic and coherent idea, sometimes you may expose a problem, or a basic thesis; then, you start drawing, taking pictures, writing and continue developing your main idea in some specific ideas. From there you can experiment with different kind of materials, technologies, techniques. The process is very important, and is nice to registrate the process of creation; in some artworks of more conceptual artist is more relevant the process than the piece of work, itself!

There is a lot of posibilities with the use of technologies, and there is a very big range with you can work. You can make something just visual and bidimensional, make an "installation", in which, the place around the object or the objetcs, take an important role and is part of the art. Or put things to antoher place and make something like a performance, in which, your body is a tool.

Anyway, you have a diversity of techniques that you can use for any proposes. You just need to make the correct question, and find the answer to that.


CONCLUSION

The world is giving many things, the human being is becoming a digital being, and the Art is not excluded of this process. Technologies are all around us, since we wake up in the morning until we fall asleep at night.

Art is giving new technologies too, and new posibilities of create an artwork. The tools are out in the table, and we must use it, but in the correct way.



That's all..