Art and Technology | Taylor Whitesel

   ASCII or  American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a type of character encoding system that is seen on computer platforms. It is a type of art that creates pictures completely out of text and characters that are available on a computer. The main reason why ASCII was developed was because at the time, computers didn't have the graphic capabilities to create detailed pictures.        With the rise of the internet and technological advances with computers, ASCII became very popular among users. One individual by the name of Christopher Johnson was known for his ASCII art designs that range from present day all the way back in 1994 when the internet was just getting started. He has a website (chris.com) that displays all of his ASCII art designs. People also used ASCII around this time for a game called "Multi-User Dungeon" which was a multiplayer roleplay game that was completely textual. ASCII art is still used today, usually on comment pages or forums.

For this assignment we had to look at a 21st century technology and talk about what influenced its creation and what future inventions could possibly be influenced off of it. I did the LCD overhead projector which is seen in almost every class and office now a days. However, It wasn't an original idea at all. It had a lot of previous influences that made it what it is today. Here is my paper on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 st Century Technology: The LCD Overhead Projector  There are a multitude of incredibly useful 21 st century technologies that we as society use every day. Almost every one of these technologies are mostly just ideas that were influenced by previous technologies. One great example of this that popped in my head as soon as I heard about this assignment is the LCD Overhead Projector.             These have become a pretty common appliance in cl

This was a pretty fun assignment. My flipbook tells the story of a kid who plants a tree and then destroys it when they're both grown. The remaining part of the tree then eats the man. Just kind of a little message to not chop down so many trees :)

    I found Angel de Quinta’s stage door blog very interesting. Similarly to the opera scene, I am not that big into broadway. I have seen a few before, but none of them really sparked an interest for me. I obviously hadn't seen enough examples because I found quite a few of the videos that Angel posted pretty interesting.     Probably the broadway that stuck out to me the most was HAIR. I watched both versions that Angel posted. The first one was from 1968 and had a very late 60's early 70's vibe to it. One thing I discovered while watching this performance was that there was a lot of color. Almost every character had a different colored outfit and the setting was covered with many bright, appealing colors. This feature really made the video pop and when i first saw it, it really caught my eye.     The other version of Hair that Angel posted was from 2009. It was a performance of one of the broadway's songs on David Letterman. Doing some research, I found out that th

The opera assignment was one that I didn't think that I would find myself enjoying that much. I knew that they were very dramatic, but I never thought that they could catch my emotions as well as they did.  Here is the link to my opera paper!