Comments on: Fingerpainting 2.0

By: Caitlin Weber

Caitlin Weber — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:02:51 +0000

This is crazy! to think that technology has evolved into creating art by just the touch of a finger instead of a stroke of a paintbrush or other tools. I guess it is important to recognize that technology really is creative in itself because having these recourses and advanced tools is something that we are privileged to have, but I don’t like how technology takes away tradition of how things were done and should be done. Art is know to be done in an old fashioned way, with a canvas and a paint brush, the same goes with many other things that technology is trying to advance and replace. I think that if everything is being categorized into touching based off technology then what is unique and creative about it really?

By: Mariya Wilson

Mariya Wilson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:56:41 +0000

I am an amateur artist and I do enjoy to draw, paint. etc. This is amazing! I actually have never heard of it before. I am really liking the mentioned “undo” feature…that is incredible…if only there was such a feature on real painting. However, there is only one concern that pops into my head–The medium is the message. We first shape the medium and then the medium shapes us…our way of doing the message. Can relying solely on technology to mediate our artistic talents take away from our physical intellect of art and the touch-feel phenomenon?

By: Derrin ford

Derrin ford — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:30:24 +0000

another cool feature by apple to revolutionize technology. i think this a very cool app of combining technology and art onto one canvas. also how detailed it is and professional it looks makes it something somone can take serious enough to make it a actual skill.i think it opens eyes up to the detail of art and technology, a person like me that as no art taste at all really shows me the beauty of art that i never notices before because im into computers. if computers can now take the work of art and turn it into a program on a computer it makes me think where else can computers take us and will people of this generation take for granted what are considers skills and just look at them as another software application?

By: Kaley Lindquist

Kaley Lindquist — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:28:16 +0000

I think this is incredible! Personally, I am not very technology savvy or to be honest supportive. It drives me crazy when my boyfriend will be on his iphone playing games, checking sports score, on facebook, or doodling with apps like the Brushes app. Yes, new technology like the brushes app and emailing works of art is new and fresh and amazing. But to say that it is the new canvas is kind of sad. It is disheartening the technology and the internet and media has not only taken over journalism, newspapers, and traditionally print but now it is starting to overcome art as well. We know that music is computerized and altered and “touched up” just as photographs in magazines are doctored and airbrushed. But art? This show and these pictures are wonderful expressions and the fact that the artist can email them to people in the morning from his bed is amazing. But does that make them art? Make them worthy of showcase? I don’t know.
I am not by any means an artist myself but I think we need to be careful how far we let the internet and technology overtake our lives.