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| 'Technology
\tech*nol"o*gy\, n.
[gr. ? an art + -logy; cf.
gr. ? systematic treatment:
cf. f. technologie.] industrial
science; the science of
systematic knowledge of
the industrial arts,…..' |
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Webster's
Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
© 1996, 1998 MICRA,
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| Technology
is not an independent science
having set of rules of it's own
but it embraces mechanical appliances
and their scientific processes,
which are based on developments
and principles established in
other sciences like engineering,
mathematics, biology, chemistry,
medicine, architecture, arts,
language and manufacturing, where
knowledge is apply to solve practical
problems and creating a product
that aids these scientific processes. |
| That is where we
can see the connection between
technology and graphic design
[GD] as GD also provide solution
in solving practical problems
by creating a simple visual interpretation
of knowledge that has impact on
the way we understand and further
pass on that information within
various sectors as needed. |
| Historically,
development in technology can
be trace back to Prehistoric Era
when simple natural tools and
processes were used to aid everyday
activity and with time more complicated
technological appliances were
produced for e.g. from simple
mathematical and numbering device
as abacus,
through to the more technically
advanced digital systems as computers. |
| In the early 19nth
century the key
inventions were already well
established as: electric light,
transport, telecommunication,
photography,
television, calculators, computers
and other devices within industries
and by the mid of 19nth century
attention was directed on developing
Global Communication Networking
System which is the Internet
and World Wide Web. |
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| 'Computer,
machine that performs tasks,
such as calculations or
electronic communication,
under the control of a set
of instructions called a
program.' |
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"Computer," Microsoft®
Encarta® Online Encyclopaedia
2005, http://encarta.msn.com
© 1997-2005 Microsoft
Corporation. All Rights
Reserved
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| "Then
graphic designers loved
the new desktop publishing.
But it took away a lot of
our low end projects, gave
us the additional responsibility
of typesetting and pre-press,
shortened our deadlines,
and ultimately reduced our
fees. Now graphic designers
love the new Internet. But
maybe this time we should
stop and ask: "Does
the Internet love graphic
design?"
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By
Mr.
Keedy, Graphic Design in
the Post-modern Era, published
in 1998 in Émigré
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| It took us another half
century in perfecting and assign some basic
guide lines on possible uses of the new medium.
Internet does not belong to anyone -
'Internet is a free spirit'
- in which environment
exchange of information, ideas, entertainment,
communication,
education and further developments are continually
in progress. |
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There are many ways of looking
at the progress of technological innovations
as some of us want to know the historical
facts - of When?, the dates, or Who? Did
this or that, and some might want to look
at the science behind it and find out How
it works?, others might just Want to learn!
the basic - on How to use it? to get maximum
satisfaction and others still want to Know
why? - Such object was design or developed
and for what purpose it serves.
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communications, the dominant lines of development
are those established before or during World
War II, in particular, the rapid growth of
television services, which serves as mass
media communication. |
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television services and technology is an ongoing
lengthy process of developments based on foundations
laid in the 1920s and 1930s, followed by the
invention of devices that give early warning
of aerial attack and the later space age has
produced important innovations too as in sequence:
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First, the
transistor, significant in engineering,
and made a large contribution to communications
technology. |
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Second, the
establishment of space satellites, considered
to be a remote theoretical possibility
in the 1940s, had become part of the
accepted technological scene in the
1960s, and these have played a dramatic
part in telephone and television communication
as well as in relaying meteorological
pictures and data. |
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Third, the
development of magnetic tape as a means
of recording sound and, vision, has
provided a highly flexible and useful
mode of communication. |
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Fourth,
new printing techniques have developed
too. In phototypesetting, a photographic
image is substituted for the conventional
metal type. In xerography, a dry copying
process, an ink powder is attracted
to the image to be copied by static
electricity and then fused by heating.
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Fifth, new
optical devices such as zoom lenses
have increased the power of cameras
and prompted corresponding improvements
in the quality of film available to
the cinema and television. |
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Sixth, new
physical techniques such as those that
produced the laser (light amplification
by stimulated emission of radiation)
are making available an immensely powerful
means of communication over long distances,
although these are still in their experimental
stages. The laser also has acquired
significance as an important addition
to surgical techniques and as an instrument
of space weaponry. |
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The seventh
and final communications innovation
is the use of electromagnetic waves
other than light to explore the structure
of the universe by means of the radio
telescope and its derivative, the X-ray
telescope. This technique was pioneered
after World War II and has since become
a vital instrument of satellite control
and space research. Radio telescopes
have also been directed toward the Sun's
closest neighbours in space in the hope
of detecting electromagnetic signals
from other intelligent species in the
universe. |
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| Together with the grow and
use of all these technically advanced products
artist and designers from all cultures are
able to join together in producing new 21st
century imaginative trend in communication
and self expression. In summary technology
has helped us to work faster in passing on
information with special effects, precision
and with minimum physical effort. |
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| 'If today's
arts love the machine, technology
and organization, if they
aspire to precision and
reject anything vague and
dreamy, this implies an
instinctive repudiation
of chaos and a longing to
the form appropriate to
our times.'
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By
Oskar
Schlemmer (1888-1943), German
artist. His diary, April
1926 |
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| Adaptation
of new styles, methods, techniques
and analytical approach to communication
and to pass on relevant information
by electronic equipment is much
quicker in achieving the final
goal. |
| This popular forward
moving technological developments
lead in producing new branches
for education, businesses and
art with which the artist can
explore the traditional and the
new digital art and design techniques.
It also created a negative aspect,
that artworks and ideas can be
reproduced and distributed with
ease. |
| Nevertheless, research
and development platform, of digital
foundries (using film, video,
music, audio) is a journey, where,
artists are invited to experiment
with, and reflect upon the web,
radio and television as a medium,
and as a means of distribution
for their work. |
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| 'This willingness
to accept reproductions
in place of the original
occurred centuries ago.
It is the 'great compromise'
of art history, made necessary
in order for the discipline
to continue to function.
Technology has provided
art historians, and others,
with the means to make multiple
reproductions of ideas and
artworks.'
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Chris Witcombe, Art History
and Technology, Sweet Briar
College, 2001 .... more |
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