Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
The design process in terms of design on the computer at present uses the human designer to complete the majority of the work, and the computer helps throughout this process by correcting any mistakes and providing a range of tools to help with the design, also giving suggestions as to where things should be, colour palettes, sizes, layouts etc… the computer is merely a clever tool used to design on and helps to produce the human designers expectations.
As technology and computers become more advanced I believe the role of the human designer and the computer will change dramatically, the computer will be given the job of completing a design and the human designer will be an observer ensuring the design was produced correctly. This way the human designer suffers no stress and simply has to provide small instructions to the computer of they need to – the computer does all the hard work.
Computers will have a far more active roll in the production of the design and will ask questions of the designer to problems which the computer believes it cannot handle itself, so the designer will still be making small decisions but only when needed, drawing work will be being completed by the computer and small changes will be being made by the designer if they are needed, computers will be participating more in the design process and this will also help the human designer to stop producing similar work over and over, making them to stay out of ‘routine’ work.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Machines and their developing technology are now used so frequently in the design industry I believe there will come a time in the near future where the machine is the only tool used in design, and humans may not even be needed anymore to help with the design process. As newer and more advanced programmes are introduced more artists and designers are using them as their ‘tool’, this is also because a computer, colour printer, scanner, modem and design package can cost as little as £1,500, and the majority of artists take advantage of this and the creative possibilities it can offer.
Gallery owners, they people who are commissioned to sell design/artwork are uncertain whether it is right to sell computer-generated work, they question if it is ethically correct to sell computer-generated work as fine art. The question is will technology become so clever that it can design everything itself, or for the final design to be successful does the computer also be able to think – like a human. “By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.” Donna Haraway’s interpretation of our time to come and that we as humans will develop to become part of the world of technology ourselves.
Will there become a stage where computer can also think? Research has already been done to determine whether or not a computer can ‘think’, part of this research was known as the “Turing test” provided by Alan Turing, he blinded folded a group of humans and told them to ask questions, these questions were then answered by either a computer or a human being and if the human could not distinguish the difference between a answer from a human or a computer then the machine was showing intelligent known as thinking.
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The design process in terms of design on the computer at present uses the human designer to complete the majority of the work, and the computer helps throughout this process by correcting any mistakes and providing a range of tools to help with the design, also giving suggestions as to where things should be, colour palettes, sizes, layouts etc… the computer is merely a clever tool used to design on and helps to produce the human designers expectations.