because all media are new4D media 2 | a2z fileTypes Download sample file here File types and asset management for web graphics There are about 2000 multimedia assets embedded or linked in newMediaWiki that help it tell the tale of digital media for artists. Each one has an extension that lets the computer know what file type the asset… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z eTypography Typesetting tools for movable type. From Wikimedia Commons. eTypography Type spec’ing and setting Before the desktop publishing revolution, type specification and typesetting was a laboriously hand-crafted affair. In his illuminating blog post on The Lost Art of Type Spec’ing, font designer Mark Simonson says: We are so spoiled nowadays. We… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z alphaBravo Jasper Johns, Colored Alphabet, 1959 Alpha Bravo The advent of airplane warfare in the first half of the 20th century ushered in the widespread use of radio communication in navigation. Between static on the radio and the sounds of battle, the garbled “b” versus “d” sound in a message containing… read more »
4D media 5 | very interesting REFERENCES ||universes linkedInLearning EXERCISES production ARTWORK microFilm Introduction Audio-visual digital film production is a powerful addition to the multimedia web artist’s toolbelt. This kind of work speaks the language of cinema, even as it combines with many of the other expressions we have investigated in this wiki. This project… read more »
4D media artMachine REFERENCES deathOfFlash flipBook javaScript EXERCISES rhythm pacing interactivity ARTWORK (re)Animate Introduction In the Infinitely Indestructible Object project by williamCromar, interactivity stops when the eye is tapped or clicked by a hammer controlled by the spectator, then started again when the key is activated in the same way. Built in Flash/ActionScript3 in 2010,… read more »
4D media 3 | concrete poetry REFERENCES webOrigins sftp helloWorld EXERCISES videoMashHTML marinettiCSS marinettiJS ARTWORK .code {is: poetry;} Introduction The notion that there are such folk as “digital natives” strikes us as kind of hollow, unless and until the “native” has learned the language of digital stuff: coding. Coding is for many artists a bridge… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z REFERENCES alphaBravo eTypography fileTypes EXERCISES webGraphics wordImages webAnimation ARTWORK ABCnimation Introduction Think you know your ABCs? Think again! What distinguishes artists is not their skill with a pencil or cutting wood, but rather how they can see something others take to be common and mundane in an utterly uncommon and… read more »
Back to… 2D digital art 3D modeling 4D media Praxis Fabbing Build your own intranet Own your work With the web, an artist can be their own archivist, project manager, and publisher, by taking advantage of different kinds of management and publishing platforms available there. For this wiki, these can be classified as: How does… read more »