Speech Presentation about Video Art (Speech Presentation Sample)

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Specific Purpose: Highlight on video art specifically on Lev Manovich’s The language of new media, and Bill Viola’s Reasons for knocking at an empty house.
Introduction
I. Attention Getter: Have you ever wondered what is the impact of visual arts on the society, then be attentive?
II. Audience Relevance:
The new media has allows artists to rely on diverse tools when presenting their work,
Technology has redefined visual art, enabling artists to engage the audience more directly when focusing on contemporary issues.
In a world, of rapid technological innovations and instant communication, visual art stands out to represent the past and changing phenomenon.
Thesis statement: It is important to highlight on concepts in The language of new media, and Reasons for knocking at an empty house, as well as there relevance to video art.
Article one: The language of new media
In the Language of the New Media, Lev Manovich focuses on various perspectives related to the ‘new’ media.
It is pertinent to focus on the question, what is the impact of the new visual media on the society?
Even though there are various theories on the emergence of the new media, Manovich attempts to draw upon the cultural phenomenon associated with the new media.
In order to emphasize and draw attention to the changing nature of the new media, the author highlights on association between the media and cinema
In other words, it as though old forms have been integrated to form the new media, with cinema providing the cinema being the main source of motivation.
Even though, there are new aesthetic forms, which have occurred within a cultural context, and they have influenced cinema and also altered cinema.
One of the most profound changes associated with the new media is reliance on computer generated images.
Overall, the visual culture is one of the aspects defining the new media, and adoption of images and technology over time has led to cinematic development and better dimensional representation.
In a lecture conducted at the European Graduate School, Manovich further delves into the interaction between visualization and use of computers. In other words, new forms of media have relied on visualization techniques by integrating the methods to produce special effects in visual and video arts (EGS).
Concepts in the book
Digital materialism
One of the aspects in the book is digital materialism, and Manovich surmises that there are principles which define the transformation of the new media over time.
Manovich points out on the importance of numerical representation, modularity, automation as well as variability and transcoding.
The concept of numerical representation symbolizes the notion that digitization has played a more prominent role in culture more than ever before. In many cases media objects are quantifiable just like in the field of computing.
Modularity represents the merger of independent parts in the new media objects. Automation is one of the aspects that characterizes the new media age since the advent of computers and the internet.
Despite similarity of many digital objects, there is also variability related to formation of new media interfaces where morphing is common.
The aspect of transcoding is important in the new media, whereby people computerization to translate objects into new digital formats. At the same time, the new media provides an opportunity for cultural conceptualization.
Frame
Another concept related to the new media is the role of a frame shaping the world of visual arts. Essentially, people require a visual frame through which to see the world around them, and development of cinematic ways is a prime example of people’s desire to use cameras to represent what they see.
Even the mere act of painting focuses on the need to have a frame, given a perspective on the surrounding, inside and outside of an object.
Equally, both the TV and the computer have allowed artists to use a frame, where the moving images can capture the audiences attention
In any case, the advent of cameras shows that it is possible to take many different pictures form diverse locations and various frames can emerge, providing an opportunity to tell a story.
The frame is important in the new media age since the digital interface, digital composition and illusions interact to provide an avenue where it is possible to give differ narrative forms.
Manovich, highlights on transformation associated with the new media where it is possible to rely on databases and split screen platforms to tell various aspects of a story at once.
Cultural interfaces
Now, allow me to highlight on another concept that has not received much attention among visual artists.
The role of technology interface is to allow connection of networks among people, machines and the new media (Manovich XXV).
As such, the concept of cultural interface is important for the understanding of the new media.
Engagement with communication media has been possible because the traditional media is an interface that allows participants to engage in written narratives, while the cinema is a physical interface that shape the experience of film.
The need to underrated cultural interfaces is highlighted through human-computer cultural interfaces, where using computers allows interfacing with culture through digital forms.
Manovich points out that interfacing is not a new phenomenon, since even reliance on human –computer interfaces is simply an extension of previous cultural forms.
It is noteworthy, that the new media developments are remediation of past technological forms, but the progression has not occurred linearly, since audio-visual is the most common aspect through which people interact with cultural data.
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Cultural interface
The concept of cultural interfaces is captured in the work of Tony Oursler, The Influence Machine.
The aspect of the influence machine integrates the psychological condition as well as the cathode ray tube machines.
The machine captures the essence of changes in technology especially in the telecommunication sector.
Through using the example of the telegraph, Oursler shows the importance of technological development as well as interface between technology and users.
The relevance of the Influence Machine, as well as film, video, photography and computer technology is that there has been some form of standardization, but new interfaces are easily learned and used.
Article two: Reasons for knocking at the door of an empty house
In Reasons for knocking at an empty house, Bill Viola delves into artistic experimentation, where the physical environment plays a prominent role towards inspiring artists, and Viola has integrated ideas from various disciplines to the rise abut artistic impressions.
Viola goes on to record the observations related to a person put in isolation, and in these circumstances it is possible to understand the extend to which awareness affects a person.
This work of art is relevant to understanding the impact of light ad sound on people, as well as the need to capture images thr...