{"id":9747,"date":"2018-11-07T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2018-11-06T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T20:20:11","slug":"technology-influencing-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2018\/11\/07\/technology-influencing-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Influencing Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout history technology has influenced art in different ways. \u00a0It was used as a medium, like photography and movies. It is also used as an enhancer, like photoshop and video editing. \u00a0Technology is also featured in art, with paintings of phones and street lamps. As technology progresses, it becomes easier for all people to use it. \u00a0The biggest example for most millenials, including myself, used microsoft paint at one point to make their own art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Computers have influenced art in a very profound way. \u00a0The internet is the biggest factor of this, but it is not the only thing you can do on a computer for art. \u00a0The biggest example that I can think of, and that I personally use is microsoft paint. I would spend hours on paint making circles and coloring them in different colors to make an abstract painting. \u00a0Another example of non-internet art is photoshop and photo editing. It is very common for people to take their photos and change them to black and white or putting another filter on it. It also used to be a fun past-time to photoshop celebrities into pictures and onto funny backgrounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

The internet is a big proponent of making art more tangible for the public. \u00a0Now people can look up famous artists from the past and present. With a quick Google search one can find out the personal information and art styles of famous artists throughout time. \u00a0This means that art can now be seen in more places than just a museum. Schools take advantage of this when teaching students about art. Now they can pull up photos and video tours of large and expensive museums that they can not afford to take their students to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Social media in particular allows people to be more creative themselves. \u00a0It creates a forum for people to express themselves by posting their art online. \u00a0Whether that be art that they did not create using technology, like drawings, or art created by technology, like photos. \u00a0Social media also allows people to learn how to create art. The biggest example of this is Pinterest, where there are thousands of DIY art projects for whatever you could possibly need. \u00a0Youtube also has a lot of DIY content for people to learn whatever they need. I personally use Pinterest on a regular basis for DIY ideas and art projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall technology, computers specifically, have made art more accessible to the public. \u00a0This has helped make people more creative and learn more about art technique and art history. \u00a0The internet pushes people to explore their creative sides and to try new things that they never thought they could do before.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout history technology has influenced art in different ways. \u00a0It was used as a medium, like photography and movies. It is also used as an enhancer, like photoshop and video editing. \u00a0Technology is also featured in art, with paintings of phones and street lamps. As technology progresses, it becomes easier for all people to use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"featured_media":9748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,776,1195,1196,34,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9749,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions\/9749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}