Multimedia

When we think about what multimedia means we instantly associate it with things like Television, Radio, PC.

However, these things are not multimedia. Multimedia to do with things which you can interact with, so for example when your watching a program and the present mentions 'The Red Button' that is an interactive source, this enables you to view information whilst watching a different program, something similar can also be found on a blu-ray disc, where you are able to view behind the scenes commentary whilst the movie is still playing.

The other interactive source is of an ipod, because you see when you are using the spinning dial you are interacting with ipod as you scroll through your music, for other ipods like for example; Ipod touch, the interactive source would be that it is touch screen and the name 'touch screen' clearly says it all.

Something else which you would associate with interactivity would be the Wii games console, its controllers are interactive. These controllers allow you to move around and actually do the actions of the character, for example when playing boxing or tennis you would have to do the actions in order to play the games.

Manifesto! Modern Art, Big Ideas (futurism)

Futurism is an italian art movement which came about in the 20th century, some of the artists which were part of this movement were, Carlo Carra, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Luigi Russolo and also Sant Elia. These 5 artists were the founding fathers of futurism.

The ideas was of a more grand Itali because in that time Itali wasn't as well known as the other countries, so they sort to make great, they were infatuated with the development of the world and the future. there idea basis was to get rid of the old things and start to create the new things.

The artists used bright, bold colours and in most of there works there themes would be; nature, speed and violence.

As you can see below from Carlo Carra's work the theme is violence as you can seem a mass of people fighting, it resembles more of war as the are all on horseback with spears.

Umberto Boccioni art works were more energetic and has a lot more colour than Carra's paintings, he also focuses more on city life than anything else, as you can see below his art works resembles more of a cubist technic, this is quite ironic because although they are trying to look to the future, they failed to notice that there art technic's are of the past.

However, they use this effectively as it suits there bold and a little chaotic art works.

One of these paintings would be 'A Starda entra nella casa' in english this would translate to 'The street enters the house'.

Surrealism

Surrealism is a 20th century art movement, it was originally developed from psychology and trying to interpret the physical state of the human mind, this is why you would have the art work looking distorted and strange.

For example, Salvador Dali's art piece called 'The persistence of memory', as you can see from the art work below it is very different as in it is more like a dream or fantasy, like its beyond this world, these elements are some of the qualities you would expect in the surrealism movement.

The artist Rene Magritte is another surrealist, his work is more symbolic than other surrealist painters. For example one of his most famous piece or ark work is called 'The Treachery of Images', below you see an oil canvas of a pipe, however, below the pipe it reads 'Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe', in english this would read 'This isn't a pipe' so you could say it a representation of a pipe but its not actually a pipe.