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tuesday, january 23, 2007
Blah blah blah pictures

Following are some examples of what can be called “low-level” automation of media creation, in which the computer user modifies or creates from scratch a media object using templates or simple algorithms…Image-editing programs such as Photoshop…also come with filters that can automatically modify an image, from creating simple variations of color to changing the whole image as though it were painted by Van Gogh, Seurat, or another brand-name artist.

I don’t know if Lev Manovich understands anything he’s talking about in these long essays with titles like Principles of New Media, assigned as reading for my “Writing for New Media” class.

The citizens of net artistry understand, though:

seurat and photoshop

Update 2/1/07 3:36: Recreating Seurat, put through the same Photoshop filter:

teehee

comments (1)

Blag blag blag... Oh! That's what you were doing.
Douglas Thrift on 1/23/2007 14:34:09

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