Technology in the Art World!

Working with technology has alienated me from the art's community for many years since college.  For my undergraduate studies I received a Bachelor in Fine Arts, taking a hit from a traditionalist for using an airbrush in an illustration program,  It was considered a commercial artist tool, and did not belong in the same room as charcoal and oil, although running an air-compressor the sound factor I felt was the only thing that set them apart.

I was wrong, I guess until one of my pieces got accepted in the student art show, and asked to be in a national competition.  Additionally it was portrayed in the newspaper to help promote the show.  It was photographed essentially representing the illustrations one might expect if they wen to the Gallery Show!

It really dawned on me yesterday at the Faculty Orientation Day at one of the campuses I am teaching at, when deciding to pick which of the faculty development courses I would attend.  One of my cohorts tagging along with me to the next venue, asked 'which one I was going to' and responded to my choice with reluctance and sighing said "oh yuck a technology thing, aye!"

My hart sank,  I did not want to have an afternoon with earful-wining about how technology-this technology-that, nobody communicates anymore, the computer is ruining everything.  No real art comes from a computer.  I did not want to spend the afternoon not listening, and having to try to win over the creative soul of another.  Jump on in the water is just fucking fine! How about you jump off what every you want, just don't land on my parade.

I would rather spend my chum time in forward dialogue.  I am toying with really interesting tools, I'd like to share my experiences, and not have to explain why, and or how I got here.

Discovering:

VR Oculus  Quest 

Purchase (LINK)

Open source painting programs

• krita
• fire alpaca
• my paint
• pixlr
• Gimp

Open source operating systems

• android
• Linux

Cloud

• oneDrive microsoft
• PCloud
• Box
• Cubby
• Dropbox (Please use this link to download the latest version)
• creative cloud adobe
• Autodesk Drive (Student)

3D Printing,

online tutoring
autodesk
audacity
screencast-o-matic

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