GLOSSARY & RESOURCES

GLOSSARY & RESOURCES

INTERVIEW WITH LEWIS OWEN

FINE ART


"Creative art, especially visual art whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content." (Oxford Languages; Google, 2023)

TIME-BASED MEDIA

"Contemporary artworks that include video, film, slide, audio, or computer technologies are referred to as time-based media works because they have duration as a dimension and unfold to the viewer over time." (Guggenheim, 2022)

PROGRAMMING

"The process or activity of writing computer programs." (Oxford Languages; Google, 2023)

VOLUMETRIC CAMERA

"Volumetric video capture is a technique that captures a three-dimensional space" (Wright, 2022)

LIVE CODING

"A performing art based on the writing of source code and the use of interactive programming in an improvised way, for example to create audiovisual effects." (Your Dictionary, n.d.)

AI LANGUAGE GENERATION

"Natural language generation (NLG) is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) programming to produce written or spoken narratives from a data set." (Wigmore, 2023)

AI IMAGE GENERATION

"n AI-powered tool that takes a text prompt, processes it, and creates an image that best matches the description given in the text prompt." (Akshita, 2023)

OPEN-SOURCE

"denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified." (Oxford Languages; Google, 2023)

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INTERNET ART

"Internet art is art that is made on and for the internet, also known as net art. It encompasses various sub-genres of computer-based art including browser art and software art" (Tate, 2018)

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JAVASCRIPT

"an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers." (Oxford Languages; Google, 2023)

PYTHON

"a high-level general-purpose programming language." (Oxford Languages; Google, 2023)

HTML

"Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, colour, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages." (Oxford Languages; Google, 2023)

NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS (NFTS)

"Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are assets that have been tokenized via a blockchain. They are assigned unique identification codes and metadata that distinguish them from other tokens. NFTs can be traded and exchanged for money, cryptocurrencies, or other NFTs—it all depends on the value the market and owners have placed on them." (Sharma, 2023)

POINT CLOUDS

"A point cloud is essentially a huge collection of tiny individual points plotted in 3D space. It’s made up of a multitude of points captured using a 3D laser scanner." (Geoslam, 2021)

STABLE DIFFUSION

https://stablediffusionweb.com

(Stability AI, 2022)

CREEPYPASTA

"Creepypasta is a genre of user-generated paranormal and scary stories distributed largely via internet forums. " (Dictionary.com, 2018)

GAN (GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS)

"Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are algorithmic architectures that use two neural networks, pitting one against the other (thus the “adversarial”) in order to generate new, synthetic instances of data that can pass for real data. They are used widely in image generation, video generation and voice generation." (Nicholson, 2020)

VJ-ING

"Vjing is a term that refers to the selection and manipulation of imagery using technological inputs to enhance the quality of entertainment at concerts, nightclubs, music festivals, and other visual performance arts. Vjing often results in a live multimedia performance that features music, actors, and dancers. " (Darvideo, 2021)