Wikipedia Experiment

I attended Cherry Creek High School. For my edit I went to my high schools wikipedia page and added myself to the list successful individuals who have graduated from Creek. I wonder how long it will take for them to take this off.

GigaPan ("Hybrid" Art)

  http://www.gigapan.org/

             Hybrid art is a contemporary art movement in which artist work with frontier areas of science and emerging technologies. During my numerous art classes my understanding of hybrid art was the process of combining two different mediums to create one piece of art. I learned about the traditional forms of hybrid art but in the 21^st century technology has presented itself in art. Technology has transformed they way we view and explore art. Artist now undertake research projects, view results in a new way, and use these results to evaluate the social implications. Today’s artists are free to make art with whatever material or technique they can imagine. This freedom creates new opportunities to express ideas and concepts. It also opens up a number of challenges, choices, and decisions for artists

            The GigaPan is a piece of art that can only live on the computer. It cannot be displayed in a museum or over the mantel. To appreciate the beauty and creativity of the GigaPan you must see and interact with it online. This breaking edge technology of photograph mixed with the controls of the computer form to generate the largest projection of the world.

            First we need to fully understand the concept of the GigaPan. GigaPan is the newest development of the Global Connection Project, which aims to help us meet our neighbors across the globe, and learn about our planet itself. GigaPan will help bring distant communities and peoples together through images that have so much detail that they are, themselves, the objects of exploration, discovery and wonder. They believe that enabling people to explore, experience, and share each other's worlds can be a transforming experience.

            GigaPan consists of three technological developments: a robotic camera mount for capturing very high-resolution (gig pixel and up) panoramic images using a standard digital camera; custom software for constructing very high-resolution gig pixel panoramas; and, a new type of website for exploring, sharing and commenting on gig pixel panoramas and the detail our users will discover within them. The GigaPan website allows hosting and sharing all kinds of panoramas.

            The Gigapan process engages with the user in four steps. First you can search and explore all the panoramas that are available on the site. Exploring the scenes that others have posted and discovering what they found. The second step is to start creating your own content for the site. You will be included into the community of GigaPan. The third step is to create your own Gigapan creation. There are special GigaPan robotic cameras but apparently the use of a high-quality digital camera will do. The process is really taking hundreds of pictures and stitching them together to create one large image. The last step is to share your creation.

            While exploring the site I found one very interesting GigaPan. Created by Davis Bergman is a large photo of President Obama’s Inaugural Address. Bergman photo description is “I made this Gigapan image from the north press platform during President Obama's inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2009. It's made up of 220 images and the final image size is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 mega pixels.” This amazing picture gets more interesting when you and able to zoom in on any area of the picture and get a clear picture of the President speaking. You can zoom in and out of the picture and explore the details of the scene. Each artist can select a few zoomed in images that they would like the view to investigate. In this example, there is a picture of a man taking a picture of the president, or a picture of a man that looks like a version of Frankinstein. The pictures can entertain the viewer for hours, but also allows the viewer to discover the world though the GigaPan.

            All in all, the GigaPan is current example of hybrid art. These interesting picture allow the viewer to play with the image and see all the pieces of the art up close. The GigaPan truly allows the viewer and artist to explore the world and see the things that aren’t possible with the human eye or without the tool of the Internet.