documentary about copy right V.S. copy left

narrated in Engish and Japanese subtitle~
Youku is also a kind of open source software and was fined a lot for copyright. see how the documentary explains!
NHK纪录片 知识产权的保护到底是为了谁

another example of technologised body

LED Eyelash by Soomi Park

LED Eyelash is a clever product that speaks to many Asian women's desire for bigger eyes. It features an inclination sensor with mercury to turn on and/or off. The sensor can perceive the movements of the pupil in the eyes and eyelids. If someone wears it and moves her head, LED Eyelash will flicker following the movement.

 Soomi Park is a multimedia artist living and orking in Seoul. She received her BFA from Sookmyoung Women's University and MA in digital design from IDAS(international design school for advanced studies) Hong-lk University in Seoul, Korea.Most of her art works engage with her increasing fascination and banalization  of plastic surgery not only in Korea but also in many countries around the world.Her artwork has featured in many online/offline venues all over the world.

Her artwork has been acclaimed by international pundits for its ingenuity. Her LED Eyelash won her Honorary Mention under the section of Interactive Art at PRIX Ars Electronica 2008. The juries said, "Soomi Park's LED Eyelash is in a category of its own-glittering, yet profound,  yet extraordinarily beautiful and strange, and dealing with important issues of gender and identity with a disarming and charming sense of playfulness.".
Her artwork is a piece  of art as well as a design product that can be used in our daily life. Thus it’s a good example of the idea of human living with technology with joy and happiness. What’s more, she also make a good use of technology to reflect the environment and culture in a fresh way that catches peoples eye. 

thus, although technology has already changed our life in many aspects as well as brings the difficulty of identify the boundary of machine and bodies, it's also many positive example of how artists deal with machins.

LED Eyelash_ soomi park

Exoskeleton (Stelarc - 1999)

巴士阿叔 - Bus Uncle (雙語字幕 - Bilingual Substitle)

Digital games-But are they art?

Is it reasonable to consider computer games as art? 

•a) How does Adams define art? Do you agree with his definition?

         Art is not pedagogy-its purpose is not to teach.But still it is capable of making quiet complex statement.
         There are no-linguistic modes of expression.
         Art must have content. It should aethetic,it has rules for determining beauty and ugliness.
Art contain ideas, make you feel something.
Art is not formulaic.
         I agree with his definition.

•b) According to Adams, what is needed for videogames to be considered as art?

         computer games need an aesthetic.
game developers must experiment with the medium.They must take artistic risks and break new ground.
games must challenge the player as other art forms challenge their viewers. They must force the players to experience new ideas, to sea things in new ways.
games need not reviewers, but genuine critics.
prizes and awards must recognize aethetic merit and not merely technological prowess or craft.

 

The Ethics of Digital Games

a) According to the film, what are some pros and cons of playing video games for individuals and societies?
Video games is a new media that people can participate in which is different from TV shows. Thus, people playing video game not just join into a competition, but also enjoy the high quality of the images. With the narrative in the game progress, participants can influence the ending of the game so that they can try and play many times for different endings. The story telling feature is similar to TV shows or soap opera, but video game is more than that. Players can join in the game, to interactive.What's more, it's a way to release his or her pressure in daily life which may caouse him or her courage facing the trouble or may just devoted in the illution and ignore the trouble in real life. Different people must have different response to video games.
For society, the government benefit from, or rather utilize, video game to inluence young generation to reach their goals. Like the army tempt teenagers to join in through a free war game. They can get to know the latest weapon and be familiar how to use it. The quality of sound and image is very high that players can enjoy it. It seems like a new kind of advertisement. On the other hand, violent video game may cause real violence to danger the society. But if it's simply a relaxing soft video game, on the contrast, favoured the government that people are tend to ignore the ignore or avoid thinking about the problem of their living conditions.
b) According the film, is there any evidence that digital games can encourage aggressive values and anti-social actions in the real world? Do you agree?
Yes I think so.Through practice they know how to use weapon effectively and the many details of pictures make the world in game is closly similar to real life. Players may just releaseing their pent-up emotions at beginning but soon not enough for them.

There's a movie calld Elephant(2003), directed by Gus Van Sant, adapted from a news in  April 20, 1999, The Columbine High School massacre. From the movie people can know how teenagers are inhospitality and inhumaned. compare to their calssmate, vedio game, espacially violent games, have  inevitable responsibility .

c) Should governments have the right to ban certain games? Why or why not?

I don't think so. It's abuse of law.There's  no direct evidence that  most of the players of a certain game have negative effect on them and the society.It's more close to moral problem. But government should guid to a positive use of it.

we did a small research about what game they play and how do they fell about it.

my interviewers are 4(female), two of them like playing Cooking Mama because they like cooking and in the video game they can practice their skills and try efferent materials freely. One also said that she is not good at cooking and playing the game helped her wish come true in another way and she is encouraged to cook in real life. What's more, the game is designed perfectly that players feel it's true and really entertained. The other two like playing The Sim 3 because they can learn how to be a leader and to control people, escape from the pressure in reality for a while. Also, the visual quality is very high and players feel relaxed and one of the interviewers said that through the game she feel have a different life and she can control her life. But she also claimed that once addicted in the game she feel hard to maintain the relationship in real life well.