Art + Technology

What type of stuff do we express our thoughts without ink? Or simply to ask – what kind of tool could the humankind write in exclusive of pencils, pens or other relevant items? It is truly probable to make it real by virtue of potential trend on emerging technology. Most people have no idea about their living in the near future; few people have much passion in an attempt to discover the undiscovered world. Everyone could make decisions either on the former description or on the latter one while there might be tonnes of thoughts by other people to follow.

A lecture entitled Digital Arts and Interactive Technologies is delivered by Professor Dr Koong Lin (林豪鏘). To people’s interests, a wide range of techniques for the completion of audio-visuals had been inspired the audience. In the middle of the speech, Lin selected his well-known works to share with people. That presentation was extremely like his amazing portfolio.

Interactive technology is one of the keys to generating the relationships between humankind and something artificial e.g. machines. Lin encourage the audience to make a good use of something unexpected in the world with practical experiments. Not only do human beings cultivate their habits but do other creatures designate their remarkable significances.

Methods for the formulation of music and films by programming are extraordinary in some ways. How users control audio-visuals is a core value for this main point. Combined with photography and music, the computation of programming could be widely used for experimental creations towards interactive arts. Not only software but programming languages can create their mind and thinking.

• Digitalisation

It is something digital, simply to say. People can think of it as an item that could digitise in specific forms. A simple knowledge needs to be clarified – Analog was the only way of symbolisation after most of the things have been digitised. Meanwhile, it is getting more and more important over the past few decades owing to the invention of the computer. Some people would think any probability about the next generation after digitalisation. Who knows? The trend is sometimes unpredictable that we must not only rely on uncertainty or what we guess.

• Streaming technology

This is a signal by using mass communications which are applied to the streaming techniques. Without any download towards archives is in comparison with the concept of that towards data. Take an example for the conception – Internet television or the so-call online television: in accordance with contents providers, business models, mass communications and types of contents.

There are two kinds of Internet TV: over-the-top television (OTT: a type of digital televisions, especially for videos on demand) and Internet protocol television (IPTV). Both of these two types of TVs take advantage of streaming technology in order to provide signals for channels.

Dozens of panorama have demonstrated that nothing is impossible as well as anything is possible. As an advertisement has just announced recently, ‘Is it the technology or the vision?’ Perhaps we need to take a chance to wait and see in the hope of discovery towards all kinds of variety.