AI Medium or the Artist

Art by: Dolley 2 (AI)

There is no secret that art, like the artists who create it, is mostly influenced by the different aspects and situations around them; although endeavors to express this, use different techniques of creation, both consciously and unconsciously.

It is only natural that there is an involvement of science and technology for using these techniques, which often leads to the argument of how scientists and artists collaborate and contribute in promoting culture and knowledge. Any true lover of art knows that art is always associated with emotions by looking into the ‘why’, while science works to convince through raising the question of ‘how’. Artists are using science as an available mean to express their vision, as scientists use coherent lines, shapes, and models to explain the world. Here we will briefly explore the relation of art, science, and technology as three inseparable concepts, how they were able to explore new perceptions of the world, and how this relation has been useful in promoting culture and knowledge. However, we will leave it to you to determine how you view art and technology as an artist or a lover/collector of art.

Photography in Art

Looking at modern science and art, photography offered a new interpretation of our world and changed the artistic perception, technically and philosophically in only a few years. It rapidly became an art movement on its own. Photography led to a new perception for artists seeing the physical world becoming a tool for drawing in the 17th and 18th Century. Then From the 1850’s to 1870’s the emergence of illustrative Photographs (http://martademenezes.com/portfolio/proteic-portrait-2/), which was like the storytelling style of painting at the time. Much like today where there are some artists who protest AI, in 1862 there were artists who protested photography, considering it a mechanical process.

Impressionists being fascinated by painting nature, and, landscape, while photographers were affected by impressionists led to the emergence of “Pictorialism”, a style of photography that concerns with aesthetics and personal emotional response to a subject.

Modern and Contemporary Art Role

Important concepts of the relation between art and science are Modern and Contemporary Art which explore several aspects of science and technology. Several artists in contemporary life are creating artworks through the integration of art and science, developing a “critical thinking”.

Internet has also a great impact on the mutual relation of Art and Technology, which is represented in the field of digital art.

The Relation of Art and Science in an Academic Context

Yes, the previous examples show the contemporary contact of art with scientific and technological fields. Let’s not be slighted by those as there is always a need for discussing and exploring this subject in an academic context.

Here we find that the artistic interest in light, Kinetic art, electronic art, video art, and new media art, and the interaction between artist and audience through the artwork are very important issues for art and art education.

With the views of this short research… art, science, and technology cannot be separated. Many issues are reflected by this tripartite collaboration by many local artists and students of both artistic and scientific fields who debate various issues brought out by technology itself. What we find is, generating specific results are useful for accepting different possibilities, for taking advantage of new technologies to pursue more development, or to define “ethical boundaries”.

(Sobanova, P. (2016). Useful Symbiosis: Science, Technology, Art & Art Education. Palacký University Olomouc. Czech Republic. PP. 84-86. ISBN 978-80244-4853-4)

Creativity is nothing but a mind set free.

–Torrie T. Asai-

December 10th concert marked the 20th anniversary of the Manassas Symphony’s (MSO) family concert featuring local talent. John Ross, a senior at Patriot High School continued MSO’s tradition for featuring a high school student as soloist. John’s skillful rendition of Weber’s “Andante and Rondo Ungarese, Opus 35 for viola was a highlight of the show.

Christina Maxted, Gainesville High School’s theatre teacher, delighted the audiences with her rendition of favorite Puccini arias. This is the second time Ms. Maxted has performed with the MSO. This past summer she played the role of Mother Abbess in MSO’s and Prince William Little Theatre’s production of “The Sound of Music.”

Popular Director of Orchestras at Charles J. Colgan Senior High School, Ben Bernstein composed an original work based on Bob Staake’s new book, “The Path.” Bob Staake is a well-known children’s book author and illustrator for the “New Yorker.” Narration was provided by Dr. Rick Davis, Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University.

The symphony collected several hundred dollars in donations for Birmingham Green Nursing Home.

MSO’s March concert “Inspirations” welcomes back pianist Joseph Kingma with Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. Mr. Kingma receives rave reviews from music critics: “[He] coaxed the listener into the music’s poetry from the very first notes…though his technique emerged through the program as one which is capable of anything, it was always used in the service of the music itself.” -New York Concert Review. He won First Prize and Best Interpretation of a Work by Franz Liszt (Sonata in B minor) in the American Liszt Society’s 2017 Franz Liszt International Piano Festival and Competition. Mr. Kingma will be teaching a master class for advanced piano students. This is not to be missed concert.

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African American Voices and Visions Art Show

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African American Voices and Visions Reception

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The Business of Art –Preparing to Hang Artwork in Galleries

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Scott McDonald’s Bob Ross Investigating Oil Painting

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Page Turning Literature –Reflecting on Women’s Point of View in Art

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Reception for March Show

MAR TBA Lecture – Women Authors

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March 29- April 30

Emerging Student Art Show (Young Adults ages 15-25)

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The Business of Art –Preparing to Hang Art in Galleries