life imitate art

Art 104I have found much more fun to read Gizmondo's story than others. For those who have not read it yet, it would be a real fansinating reading. Just look at these words that involved: 1million ferrairi crash, upper-scale mafia, CEO of big company in game system and high-tech industry...perfect, isn't it?
The story itself could be build as a role playing game. If we add some other mysterious peopple in this story, and the mysterious gun. In this case, the life imitates art.
But to many people who are in high-tech related industry, including gameing system, the story is not so funny. People might not to attend to find out what really happened, or really to catch who, but why. Why such a gangster(his history and hobby nothing can be relate with high-tech field) can lead a big high tech company and so many smart people? Who is the real genius? What is the weakness in new high tech industy?

Let's Face It, Transplants or Cosmetic Surgeries

Ther is a Mr. know-it -all in "WIRED", who is able to give help when you are nevigating life in the 21st century. IN the recent issue (October 2006), Mr. Know-it-all tells a lady that she need to confess to her fiance about her cosmatic surgeries if they want to add kids in their future marriage and also, it is about the genetic honesty.
How many people are involved to cosmetic surgeries or tranplantation?, since they are so common and affordable to many of us? The biotech is a real miracle. Do you still remember Isabelle Dinoire, who got a transplanted face few months ago? (http://www.kydepot.com/isabelle/) People debated, mostly around the culturual issues. Has the medicine gone too far? Is that face her face or the donator's face?
If I was in the same situation, i mean, If got somebody else's face, will I be able to face myself? I try to convince myself, a transplanted face is just like an transplanted organ but that is only in the theory of bio-tech. As a peoson, a face could be the primary organ of his/her personality.
But how about the cosmatic surgeries? A changed face is still her/his face? I guess most of us would say yes. I don't think we can look at a person and not see her/his face as her/his face. For example. we are easy to forget a person's old hair style when he has a new hair cut. But it is hard to people to accept Isabelle Dinoire's new face but easy to accept the changes after the cosmatic surgeries?

How Important to be Interactive?

Ellen says, in an interactive art work, "the andience is actually involoved in the artwork. tather than only exposed to the artwork". My question is : when the audience's reaction and the artist's creation involved at the same time, how important is the simultaniousness mean? Is there anything change in terms of "authenticity"? And, does the interaction have to be face to face?

I think another charming thing about digital media is, it can always allow the artist across the boundries, from photos to vidios, to films, we don't even know what is the next. It is not about the technology, it is about the concept, no matter it is interactive or not.

You and Me and Our Identity

In "The Age Of Cybernetic Systems". the author states that both camera and personal computers have become symbols. They are represent a set of transformation to the self and the reality. Thinking of the project(by Nikki Lee) we discussed during the class, we can see identity now is a subject that widely used by many artists. Why?
Our daily life today has become rationlized and assimilated more than ever before. It is all under the economic purpose. For example, for each season we have certain fashion style. Because the similarities among products(cloth) can promote the productes together, the similarities can be the link of personal likes. We are eating the similar food, wearing similar cloths, and have similar life style. The information we get is also mostly digitally duplicated. The information we get is also alike. Finding our identify is more difficult than before. Everybody wants to be DEFFERENT. Because of that, personal computers are so important. A personal computer indicate the owner has his own "screen" that different than others. The screen means he has his own path and his own selection among this inforamtion mass, in this informational age.

A splog is A Sign

In the artical "the article Spam + Blogs = Trouble", the author brings the problem but not offering any way to solve the problem. As one of his subtitle says, Splogs are annoying, but not illegal. To me, anything exist must has its season to exist.
A splog is a sign. Let's forget about how they make money first. If 1,000 people clicked on a same splog, can I say it must have something in common among these people? Why this particular splog talks to them but not others? In some points, all people are connected, but some are more connected than others. Splogger used this to creat their business.
To a reader, is a splog on net different with an ad on TV, when we watch a movie thru a television program?