Week One

First week of an Introduction Into Digital Art at VU. I am really looking forward to learning how to use all the amazing programs mac computers have to offer. I found an Interesting video on Rhizome.org called 'White Glove Tracking' in our class today. I found this video interesting as it showed me another form of art that i hadnt seen before that was really out of the box. The people who had created the idea wanted to track all of the times that Michael Jacksons white glove is shown in a world famous video of a live proformance of 'Billy Jean' and then create an online gallery to showcase this. The creators put the idea to the public to assist tracking white gloves and had a very overwhelming response, within 72 hours 125,000 gloves had been located, the information can be found at http://whiteglovetracking.com/. I found this very interesting that so many people were interested in being involved in this process and that this digital art could have that effect on people.