alex fenton – mact input / output :: pop art factory ::
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Alex Fenton – MACTInput / Output
:: Pop Art Factory ::
Introduction
• What is it?• Why was it built?• Demo of Pop Art Factory• How was it made?• Beta Testing• Future developments• Conclusions
What is it?
• A website which allows you to upload your own pictures and create pop art style images from them.
• An animated gallery showing saved artworks from all users
• A forum that allows discussion and sharing of artworks and files
Why was it built?
• “The pop artist not only depicted mass products but he also wanted to mass produce his own works of pop art.”
• “Consequently he founded The Factory in 1962. It was an art studio where he employed in a rather chaotic way "art workers" to mass produce mainly prints and posters”
www.artelino.com/articles/andy_warhol.asp
Why was it built?
• "Once it has been invented, it is already in the process of destruction. Today, styles and genres change so fast that no artist can keep up with them.”- Jonathan Miller
Why was it built?
• "The thing that I like most about doing this kind of art on the Amiga is that it looks like my work”
- Andy Warhol(1986 interview for magazine Amigaworld)
Why was it built?
• "Oh yeah, [the computer] would save a lot of time. I wouldn't have had to do all these portraits all at once. I would have just picked out the colors I wanted and sent them out, and then picked the one I wanted.”
- Andy Warhol
Why was it built?
• Create a 21st century, virtual pop art factory in cyber-space
• Allows people to quickly create and mass produce artwork
• Speed and immediate nature of the web allows it to be current
Demo of Pop Art Factory
Demo of Pop Art Factory
How was it made?Software / Languages Used• Adobe Dreamweaver • MySQL (Underlying database) • Adobe Photoshop (Template and additional graphics)
• Pop Art Studio 3.0 (logo) • Larry's Paint (Java Paint applet) • Verot class.upload.php (Image upload code library)
• Flashmo (Flash Carousels) • Languages used: HTML / XML / PHP / SQL / Javascript / Java / Actionscript
How? Technical Architecture
PHP / SQL
HTML / FLASH
MYSQL DATABASE
SCREEN
Testing
• Alpha tested with 3 people • Beta tested with 40 people• 235 artworks• 55 artworks saved• 3619 images created• Feedback
Beta Testing - feedback
• “I'm yellow.. I'm red, I look funny, I've got funny glasses on.” -Summer Fenton aged 2.5
• “I’m not sure how to start”
– Heidi Ho
Beta Testing - feedback
• “Excellent idea overall, though I'd like to see some more parameters to get even more different things happening. I'm just being picky though mate, top drawer!”
– Marcus T
Beta Testing - feedback
• “As an amateur Photographer Its quite cool do stuff like that with my images” – Fraggers
• “Like it, it's a good way of letting everyone have a try at some image editing without the complications of a big prog like Photoshop, which takes a long time to learn to any great degree. Nice idea.” - andisnewsyncro
Future Developments
• Young people / Schools?• Further usability testing/dev• More development on montage?• More options?• Bolt on e-commerce?• Facebook application?
Conclusions
• Site and interface designed for a particular target audience
• A little quirky in parts• Quantity of people that used it, enjoyed it and used it to make presents
• Several people suggest turning it into a business
• Possibility of installation at Beatherder festival