Deck 9: Digital Art

Question 1

The use of computer imagery to combine footage of real-life outdoor settings with computer-animated figures was pioneered by __________.

A) Disney Studios in Dinosaur
B) Industrial Light and Magic in Star Wars: Phantom Menace
C) Dreamworks Productions in Cinderella
D) all of the above

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Artists like Charles Csuri pioneered the use of computers in creating art __________.

A) in the early twentieth century
B) twenty-five years ago
C) in the 1960s
D) right after World War II

Answer 2

C

Question 3

For designing the Staten Island Institute for Arts and Sciences at the St.George ferry terminal,Peter Eisenman used __________.

A) computer models
B) physical models
C) modeling clay
D) both A and B

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The computer's ability to perform long strings of calculations quickly has made possible complicated forms in __________ to become realized in three-dimensions.

A) architecture
B) drama
C) nature
D) none of the above

Question 5

The name given to the global network of computer linkages is __________.

A) the fractal dimension
B) the global bitmap
C) hyperspace
D) cyberspace

Question 6

The clarity and sharpness of an image on a computer screen is called __________.

A) resolution
B) attenuation
C) computer-aided design
D) isometrics

Question 7

A viewer's experience of Jeremy Blake's digital art installation would differ from a conventional museum experience because __________.

A) there are soft drinks available
B) there are long lines
C) of the constantly changing optical and aural stimulation
D) the artist is available for questions

Question 8

Interactive art is outside the mainstream of the commercial world of art because __________.

A) it is viewed on the computer
B) it has a timing device that erases it
C) it can't be printed and sold
D) none of the above

Question 9

Just as early photographs tried to imitate painting,a major thrust of computer graphics has been to imitate __________.

A) photographs
B) realist paintings
D) animation
D) relief sculpture

Question 10

Artists use __________ to draw by hand and have the image show up on the computer screen.

A) an electronic stylus
B) silverpoint
C) a digital ballpoint pen
D) tactile input device

Question 11

The computer screen is divided into an invisible grid of points called __________.

A) bits
B) bytes
C) pixels
D) plotters

Question 12

When an artist creates a drawing on a special tablet,the computer transfers it to the screen by __________ it.

A) pixelating
B) resolving
C) realizing
D) digitizing

Question 13

The object in a virtual reality experience that transfers the movement of a participant's hand to a tracking system in the computer is a __________.

A) digital glove
B) sensory digitizer
C) tactile input device
D) access monitor

Question 14

Downloading digitized art onto a computer monitor is a different experience from seeing the original because __________.

A) one first sees the parts rather than the whole
B) one has no real idea of its actual size
C) color saturation may be brighter than he original
D) all of the above

Question 15

__________ programs allow sculptors and architects to experiment with forms and to see them in three-dimensions.

A) Digitizing
B) Computer-aided design
C) Scanning
D) Video camera

Question 16

__________ was(were)the technological advance(s)of the 1970s that encouraged more artists to investigate computer art.

A) Plotters
B) Microprocessors
C) Scanners
D) Electronic stylus

Question 17

The first feature-length movie to incorporate computer-generated animation was __________.

A) Independence Day (1996)
B) Star Wars (1977)
C) Tron (1982)
D) Fantasia (1940)

Question 18

Richard Voss uses __________ to create astonishingly realistic landscapes.

A) calculus
B) fractal geometry
C) a graphing device
D) all of the above

Question 19

Virtual reality is being adapted to allow visitors to walk through __________.

A) museums
B) architecture that has never been built
C) virtual interiors
D) all of the above

Question 20

Janet Cummings Good states the "digital technology has fed and fueled my obsession with __________."

A) machines
B) the properties of light
C) color
D) romanticism

Question 21

Artists can "paint" an image that appears on the computer screen.

Question 22

Fractal geometry must refer to a known landscape to create a similarly believable image

Question 23

Once an image is installed on the computer,it can never be changed.

Question 24

Even high-end computers have only a few thousand colors.

Question 25

Computer scientists of the 1960s created "photomosaics" in an attempt to determine the minimal amount of information the human eye needs in order to recognize an image as a three-dimensional figure.