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painting and image transfer technique

Great website to look at other peoples creations in VR. It is an avant garde platform where artists can easily upload their work. But, the  problem is that while you are in the VR, you can not view these works three-dimensionally. You can open it in a browser, but it would still be flat! It is such a bummer, because it takes away half of the experience. Also, one can not save their own work to their computer. So it is technically only available on the web. I hope in the future they allow downloads as gifs or videos perhaps, or maybe a new format( VR format!), so it would be possible to mix them with other contents. Overall, this is a new thing in the art world and there is so much more to come.

VR is whole new world that is being explored. In the past decade technology and art have emerged together. More and more artists are interested in creating art in the virtual world. In the past few years, since VR headsets have been available to the general public, more people have got to experience creating virtual contents with programs like tilt brush or gravity sketch. It opens up a whole new medium with so much possibility. What the article talks about is a group of artists who have created a video game in two days using a very simple painting program in VR. Then exporting it to Unity program, which is famous for being the best free video game design program( You can also buy the professional version of course!). But the point is, that creating content has become so much easier and more accessible. How does the creativity play here?

Then, there is the Burning Man experience made in Second Life! The experience is very modern and different. Many hundreds of artists have made amazing virtual installations. You can walk around and experience each individual piece visually. But sometimes sound art is added too. You can also intact with other people that are there. I can't imagine how much time and effort has been put into this. Collective collaboration of artists creating something much bigger than themselves, which echoes in the Burning Man and Second Life.

Her work is so far from a conventional art work. The boldness with her words and the fact that she taps into a lot of social issues like gun control surprised me. She puts complex ideas into words and combines art and language together, making the boundaries less distinguishable.

processing exercise!

Agar art is as unconventional as you can imagine! This form art ,which is made in petri dishes, is alive! The scientists used agar jelly and cultured bacteria to create agar art.The petri dishes are painted with different color bacteria. The scienartists (!) have made beautiful works, which some of them are inspired by famous art work like stary night. Some have also made composition with several petri dishes. The interesting aspect of this form of art is that it brings science and art closer together. Agar art perhaps cant be kept for too long, so what is left of it is just an images. The short life of agar art speaks to the fluidity and the ever changing nature of the living world.

One look at these works and you would not have any idea that they are made of ceramics! Vanessa Hogge's work is astonishingly naturalistic. She disguises the material under the soft petals of the flowers. The malleable ceramic clay is turned into a pattern masterpiece. She gets her inspiration from flowers and she makes a wide spectrum of patterns driven from flowers. Putting so many  little pieces together to create a large work requires a lot of patience and love. Her work radiates positivity. The forms are something that you would expect to find in the natural world. But yet they are made with the hands of the artist and not the hands of nature.

The mesmerizing works of U Ram Choe spoke to me deeply. His kinetic art sculptures ring the question: what is alive and what is not? The details in his works shows the level of craftsmanship and time that was put into them. His flower chandelier had such an organic look to it. Aesthetically pleasing, organic, but 100% mechanical. His pieces confuse the brain and questions the perception. His works are great examples of art and technology (sculpture and mechanical engineering) coming together. He also talks about working with his group, and that working as a group can produce a much greater outcome. The process of engaging in making one thing with a group, is very important. Now that most artist are interested in creating individual works, it is very special when artists come together to create a single big project. I guess in a way a lot of eye catching and influential arts are made by groups of artists.