Media Arts and Technology

1) Color: The first obvious classification for these images is that they are all in black and white. Their lack of color plays upon the historicity of the images since black and white photos usually connote old pictures. These pictures are, in fact black and white because of their time era. Which le...

Ad Analysis voyeur.jpg I found this print ad online for a refrigerator that has a clear compartment in the door which serves as another area to store things. The compartment, however, is also transparent so you can see past it into the actual fridge or you can see it when you open the full fridge d...

In Steve Mamber’s article, he discusses Marey’s earlier work before his chronophotography. He “developed strip-like machines” which captured the motion of things like a person’s walk or a pianist’s fingers moving across the keys. In Marey’s book, “Animal Mechanism” he goes over these machines and st...

The camera obscura is a device that allows light to travel through a small hole in a dark room so that an image is projected on an opposite plane. As we can read from other posts on this forum, the camera obscura has been used in contemporary times as well as in the time of great artists such as Ver...