ARTS The Michigan Daily Monday, January 26, 1987 Page 7 Are computer graphics putting the art school out of business? By Joseph Steketee - A television screen opens to an advertisement of a popular brand ,name razor blade product. A larger than life male face begins to be meticulouslyy shaven by a space gaged, super modern disposable razor. The image is graphic, well pol - ished and very memorable. The col - -ors are striking, the movement is ,smooth and the look and feel of the ad are very chic. This is just one of -today's many newer advertisements #utilizing a technique called comput - er animation. Through the use of computer enhanced color images and mathematically calculated three .,,dimensional movements, designers and advertisers can create short "life like" films for ads, movie makers and educational media. The look of these images are new, so new in fact that that their newness can be captivating and exciting enough for viewers to take great notice. Advertisers have real - ized the capabilities of computer generated art and have flooded the market with these ads in hopes of a newer image and increased sales. A new form of art has branched off of this medium in the advertising world and into the galleries. Utilizing huge surfaces, computer generated designs, swirl - ing with mathematical color com - binations, have been created by mathematicians and have recently been shown at the Slusser Gallery at the Art and Architecture Building on the north campus. At first look the works take on a more light prism effect. The red, blue, green and various other color combinations used in these pieces are reminiscent of the psychedelic art of the 60's and early 70's. The mathematicians responsible for these creations claim they are not artists. The creators claim to have only taken designs made from mathematical equations, assigning different color combinations to various designs and letting the com - puter do the rest. It is this random effect that crit - ics claim these pieces not to be art, while followers believe these huge and colorfully symmetrical works to be beautiful and expressive and nothing if not considered an art form. So the questions arise for the new generation of computer art viewers. Where is the line drawn between the applications of this medium in the advertising world and the gallery? How much artistic input is required to create this art, and if there is no artistic input then is it art? The reserve of newer ap - plications of these formulas and color combinations have only been slightly realized. The art world has a new born to care for. How this new form of computer art is perceived by the masses will dictate it's future in the gallery. Asection of the Mandelbrot set, magnified at least 1 million times. The set is a mathematical "dictionary" mapping numbers in the complex plane. The pattern's beauty is not completely understood. Wan ted: A decent plot, cast, etc. By Karen Mattsson Nick Randall (Rutgar Hauer) is a bounty hunter. He plays the harmonica, hangs a cow skull on his wall, and is the great-grandson of Josh Randall. This film has no other kinship to Steve McQueen's old western series except the title,Wanted Dead or Alive. The movie is more closely related to Dirty Harry. Bumbling, inept cops can never handle major crimes, so they call in the stern, expressionless savior. Single-hand - ed, our man shoots down anybody he doesn't quite like. He can do that, because he is "outside of the law". This time the well-armed hero has carefully styled blond hair, and the bad guys are Middle Eastern terrorists. Gene Simmons, the lead singer of KISS, is the lead terrorist without a cause. He is perfect at looking nasty and malevolent, but then, he has had a lot of practice. The last time he played evil killer was in the sci-fi thriller Runaway, with Tom Selleck. The film is set in the grimy sections of Los Angeles, where there is no sunshine. The night is lit with the harsh glare of bare light-bulbs. The only color that interrupts the greyness and dark shadows is red. Blood splashes, and pours, and flows as people expire in great numbers. The story has been used again and again, so you know what to expect. The deaths are gruesomely explicit, Randall is hard to care about, and every now and then there is a laugh. Don't be too upset if you miss this film: you've seen it all before. {I tVV THE I \IVERSIT~ MUSICIANS WANTED ficeof rInancial Aid- DEADLINE SPRING/SUMMER 1987 RNANCIAL AID APPLICATIONS TO PLAY AT SOUNDSTAGE THURSDAYS IN THE U-CLUB rock/jazz/blues/reggae ALL TYPES OF BANDS and/or SOLOISTS WELCOME Cal 763-1107 for info and audition times 2011 STUDENT ACTIVITIES BUILDING DEADLINE: Friday, January 30, 1987 Application forms are available at the Office of Financial Aid. Students who will enroll full time may apply for grants, Perkins National Direct Student Loans and College Work-Study. Students who will enroll at least half time may apply for College Work-Study. Submit the application form by Friday, January 30, 1987, to insure priority con- sideration for available funding. V4 ndst 1; Totally tubular: The Swiss mask-mime theater troupe, Mummenschanz, will perform tonight and tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. at the Power Center. Ticket prices range from $15 to $18. For tickets and further information, contact the University Musical Society at 764-2538. OFFICE HOURS: Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri 8:15-11:45 and 1:00-4:00 Thurs 10:00-11:45 and 1:00-4:00 TELEPHONES: Information: 763-6600 presents 'KLAHOMA! 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