presentation:Is Sims an art work?

Case study: Sims


















Sims details:

•The initial version starts at 1989, called “Micropolis”
•Designed by Will Wright
•Creating maps
•Developed different versions-Home Computer, Online, Phone Game, etc.
•The most updated version: The SIMS 3-Expansion packs: World Adventures, University, Nighlife, Open For Business, etc

How To Play Sims

• Create a “sim” (CAS, the character represent the player
• Control the action of the “sim” - working, building house, entertainment, etc
• Create a world (CAW, control the neighbors and town around the “sim”)

Videogame like Sims is a art from?
Is it videogame like film to be a art form?

Compare with film,

• According to Ernest W. Adams
  Films has established a cult of personality around the director
  Games may need to do the same around the game designer
  
  Reference: Ernest W. Adams, “Will Computer Games Ever Be a Legitimate Art Form”. In Clarke and Mitchell (eds), Videogames and Art,255-264
  ž“Fact Sheet: Video Games”, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Documentary Zone, http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/gamerrevolution_factsheet.html [accessed 12/9/2007]
  


• Video games like Sims also have narrative and personality around the maker.
  Like Sims, created by designer Will Wrigh
  
• A game of ‘Digital dollhouse’
• Create a reality that you can change
• Who you want to be(outlook, character, career) and live the way you want to live Create your story in the games
  In this radio, we can watch that we can be a creater in the Sims. We can create your own life in Sims.
  

Sims - create your own experience:

When you start the game, you can choose to be a young people or adult.
In the game, you will become old.
If you don’t want to be old, you can drink the magic medicine to become younger.












Fall in love







Interact with others
•as Sims 3 is a online
Videogame.


Unexpected accident











fire accident










Die in the swimming pool
No exit


Everyone play Sims that they can create their different life.
build and design own city without any required goalsThey can create their art work

ARTS created in SIMS

Sim (Character) Designing





Male or Female
Age
Facefacial features
hair style
hair color

Clothes types(eg:colour,pattern,texture)

for example, it is a Christmas wearing

Town Planning










Different style of planning
House Designing






Virtual sculpture, mold Design with creativity
Represent different style
Art works of the player


This radio say that a girl's mother and father is divored. Although her father go away,she miss her father. She affarid to love anyone. She can't have boy friend because she worry that she will look like her mother and father relationship.

Tt is a interesting radio that people are possible to use the Sims character to create their art work!

Conclude:
Sims is a tool for creating art.
Everyone is designer!

Cory Arcangel: Super-Mario Clouds, 2002

Cory Arcangel: Super-Mario Clouds, 2002

Features of the game

• an old Mario Brothers cartridge
• the image of the clouds
• use the Super-Mario Clouds

Art or not? Why?

• According to Baumgartel “art that deals with computer games has quickly moved beyond the often-formal boundaries within which much Internet and software art is situated. These explorations are frequently done in a fashion that is critical and ironic, disrespectful and deconstructivist/…these artists do not take technological dispositives for granted, but rather manipulate and abuse, circumvent and modify original games/data in order to generate new visual and behavioural forms that intervene in an emerging cultural and social phenomenon.”
• It means that Super-Mario Clouds can be a art, because it is a generate new visual forms to represent the Super-Mario clouds. Cory arcangel uses the Super-Mario Clouds to modify orginal games.

Digital Games- But are they art?

Discussion: Is it reasonable to consider computer games as art?

•a) How does Adams define art?Do you agree with his definition?

• Adams find that there is a grey area of art. Many different types can be art. Literary art like writing and drama, fine art like sculpture, painting, dance and music can be a art.
• Adams mention that art should have narrative aspect. Although there are many computer games belong in the category of literary arts with movies and contain narrative, most computer games do not have narrative aspect.
• Art should have message and a purpose.
• I agree that it is difficult to define the type of art.

b) According to Adams, what is needed for videogames to be considered as art?

• Art is a form of communication from artists to viewers.

Online Playing -The Ethics of Digital Games

Discussion:
According to the film, what are some pros and cons of playing videogames for individuals and societies?
Pros of playing videogames for individuals and society

• People especially young people who play videogames can have entertainment. They can enjoy the games to express the emotion and action on the games. For example, in the Sims, we can create a new character to represent myself.
• The youth may love the video games because they think the games are realism like 3D images. Like Counter-Strike -Schleiner, we can free to killing the people on the games.
• Young people enjoy it because we can't do it in the real life.Videogames seems the real society and life. For example, In Counter-Strike -Schleiner is a game about war. we can learn and train to use the guns.

Cons of playing videogames for individuals and society

• “Personally I would like to see computer games move towards fantasy, away from military fantasy which pretends to ‘realistic’ … “Japanese games for children and adults are engaged in this undertaking, filled with curious animal Pokemon creatures, Robo-cats, transformers, Anime people, monsters, demons and fairies, of all genders. I identify more with these characters than with counter-terrorist or terrorist soldiers and they are what I want to be my reality. Reality is up for grabs. The real needs to be remade by us” (Copyleft 03.02.02 Anne-Marie Schleiner)
• it seems that videogames aim at realism. Many teenager may addit to the game and follow the game character situation. For example, in Counter-Strike -Schleiner, the character uses the guns to killing people. Some young people may want to do this in the reality and become more violence.

8 Constructing Identity Online Discussion

How many online identities do you have?
I just have two online identity.Sometimes I use my fullname 'Wong Man Ting' on the internet. Also, I use the name of Cat like MSN, facebook because Cat is my nickname. However, there are lots of people who called Cat and Wong Man Ting on the internet, I need to add some number on my name behind to make a clearly identity. For example, I use mantingwong517 on this blog account.

In what way are they different from one another?
Some people may use the fake identities to instead the real identities,because they may not want to show their real identities. They can use different identities on online communication programme like MSN, facebook.

What are some benefits of expressing one’s identity online?
Many people may use the fake identities have many benifits. I can put a pretty photo and name to identity myself. Then, I may be more popular and more people want to chatting with me.

What are some risks?
We can't trust everyboby on the internet, especially new online friends. They may use the fake identities to interact with us.

Conceptual Art

What are some challenges digital art presents to the art world (ie galleries, exhibition goers, art critics and scholars)?
-Difficulties in classifying digital art because it is broad range of works and often interdisciplinary.
-Digital art need to use computer to make it. we must use the computer to watch the digital art.Because May be some video can't print out to see it.
-Digital art need the technical skills like useing the computer software.
-Digital art are difficult to set up the exhibition
-many people think that the digital art are not reliable and fake.

Digital cinema

Youtube

d)Consider Bus uncle or Chris Crocker's ''Leave Whitney Alone''

- briefly describe the videodescribe the video of Bus uncle



-is about a young man and a uncle conflict
-their interaction and dialogue are funny
-many people imitate their dialogue
-is a famous video

Microsoft and Apple software companies

Microsoft and Apple software companies

a) Is there any problem with simply using the products that Microsoft and Apple companies create for us?

• Microsoft and Apple softwares do not allow users to create content through incremental individual effort or through collabration. For example, we can not change system like Microsoft office.
  
• Obviously, Microsoft and Apple softwares do not freely available to the general publics. If we put Microsoft and Apple softwares on the internet, we may against the law of copyright.

• Microsoft and Apple softwares are expensive.
  

b)Why do some people choose to use open-source software such as Linux?

• Open source software like Linux, Firefox are more freely available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. So, we can use the software like distribute copies and modified versions of works on the internet by law.



• Open source software allow users to create content through incremental individual effort or through collabration. It means that we can free to change and use the software just we like.

c)Who owns the right to modify your digital tools? Does it matter at all? Why or why not?

• I always use the Microsoft Office like Microsoft Words. I think Microsoft Words is an effective software for me to type my homeworks like essays and papers. When I use the Microsoft Office, I do not have problems to use it because I am not a expert and I use the software simply.Also, I do not need to a most update software or modify my digital tools likes the Microsoft Office system.

Group research: Who are these men? What do they in common? What make them different?

Bill Gates?

• Bill Gates is a chairman of Microsoft company. Microsoft involve Windows operating system and software. Window is a proprietary operating system. For example, when we use the Microsoft word, we can not change the inner system.

• He is one of the richest man in the world. Microsoft makes him to have lots of income.

Steve Jobs?


Richard Stallman?


Linus Torvalds?

what is the differemce between digital and traditional photography?

↑photofraph edited by photoshop

what is the difference between digital and traditional photography?

Digital photography

-is a electronic tool

-more convenient likes no need to use films

-can use Memory cards to save the photograph

-easy to save and delete the photography

-can be edited by softwares like photoshop and photo impact

Traditional photography:

-uses films

-need to print the photograph and then see it

-difficult to edit by softwares

Photograph

Information revolution and Wikipedia vs Encyclopaedia Brittannica

Wikipedia vs Encyclopaedia Brittannica

1.What is a brief history of the encyclopedia?

- According to wikipedia, 'encyclopedia is a comprehensive written compendium that holds information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. Encyclopedias are divided into articles with one article on each subject overed. The articles on subjects in an encyclopedia are usually accessed alphabetically by article name and can be contained in one volume or many volumes, depending on the amount of material included.' [1]

-encyclopedia means general knowledge
-first used the name of encyclopedia in a book in the 16th century

2.What are some key features of that encyclopedia?

according to wikipedia

-is the free encyclopedia on the internet
-adopts "continuous revivsion' policy in 1933 to update the information

-an open-source research tool

-have different versions of languages
-English-language based

according to Encylopedia Brittaannica

-English-language based

-a dictionary of art and science

-edited by scholars

3.Which encyclopedia was most useful for this research?

-Encyclopaedia Britannica is more reliable,correct and useful

-because the information is more arranged and edited

-the information only edited by scholar like experts in Encyclopaedia Britannica

-compare with wikipedia,everybody can edit the contents in wikipedia

4.can you trust this encyclopaedia 100%? why or why not?

-No.

-scholars may be wrong and not up-to-date.

Reference:

[1] "Encyclopedia.". Archived from the original on 2007-08-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20070803182506/http://library.rcc.edu/riverside/glossaryoflibraryterms.htm#e. Glossary of Library Terms. Riverside City College, Digital Library/Learning Resource Center. Retrieved on: November 17, 2007.

According to the short video, how have these technologies improved the way that knowledge is stored, created and shared?

In store:

In past:

-find the information in the library

(eg:books,newpapers,magazines)

Now:

-save time to store (eg: search on the internet)

-find the information easily

In create and share:

In past:

-can write books to share the information

Now:

-can upload and share the information easily

-eveywhere and everytime can upload the information

pros and cons of the new technologies

Pros
-convenient
-education (get information on interent)
-entertainment like computer games, movies and music
-improve the communicate with friends such as msn, facebook

Cons
- time consuming on computer games and msn
-use lots of money to buy computer products
-unreliable (our private data like HKID were stole)

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