For my last entry for now i found the artist James coleman to be extremely interesting. In this articles it was written by Tim Stott from After All magazine in the most recent issue. James Coleman works with film, as well as sculptures. He just recently finished his trilogy of slidtape projections. I had the chance asside from reading i also got to view pictures of his sculptures.After viewing a few pictures of the three pieces in the trilogy Tim described his work as
"the concern processes of reconstruction and examination, the documentary potential of photographic imagery and the uneasy proximity of voice and image; but also, unavoidably, remembrance and the uncertain and fascinating passage of the dead amongst the living" ( Tim Stott, After All magazine)
Not only does James create art he puts even more into it than that. He creates a story, gives them names and personality. This makes the art just that much more realistic. His work is more contemporary and not so much as international as the pervious artist i mentioned in my last paper. But he is pretty well known. You can view his work in a gallery, it never really stated where so much. i would highly recommend looking for it online to. Even just seeing the pictures you are blown away.
The reason why i choose this article is because as lame as it may sound. just by looking at the thumb nail online, your first intential thought is that they are real people. Then when you read the bigger article you can see that they're not real at all. Sure they all have names, and a conflict going on between the four. Then you go on to read n how it's a slidtape, images, as well as a sculpture! So it's a trilogy art. I really haven't seen sculptures as life like as these and reading the name of the piece as background i couldn't help but read on.
Friday, October 24, 2008
journal number 1
After reading quite a few articles from the After All magazine, i've found quite a few interesting articles. The one i have choosing for this entry is on the artist Haris Epaminondar this was writting by Sonia Campagnola. In this article it discussed some of Haris's newer work, she tends to take alot of photography and publish books. But, however she has been working more on contemporary short films lately. Since july of 2007 she started living in Berlin, She is very well traveled so her she is known pretty internationally. Most of her work has magnified colors, repetition, and symettry. Depending on her works subject matter will impact on how she goes about working with it. If you want to go and see her work you can purchase one of her books, go to a gallery, and if you look hard enough you could probably find most of it still online.
One interesting fact on her work is that uner each one of her images she usually will have a caption or a quote on the bottom.
The thing that attracted me most to this story is simply for the fact that someone incorporated photography into film.Anf right now with me that tends to be the hardest thing to do. Believe me your head can definantly get lost. But at least with Haris you get the best of both worlds.
One interesting fact on her work is that uner each one of her images she usually will have a caption or a quote on the bottom.
The thing that attracted me most to this story is simply for the fact that someone incorporated photography into film.Anf right now with me that tends to be the hardest thing to do. Believe me your head can definantly get lost. But at least with Haris you get the best of both worlds.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sorry for the confusion
Hey sorry for the confusion. I thought that i was only sapose to tell my dicussion leader which journal i chose and the reason why. But anyway i apologise and just wanted to say after much reasearch i decided to go with the After All magazine. Reading some of the articles and looking at the pictures i thought that this one would best fit my interest. It was the closest on to my interest and combines both so that i am learning new things as well as things i already love. Again i am sorry it took this long to post this. I guess i miss understood. I will post my 2 journal blogs before october 29th.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Art field report part 1 and 2
The act React exhibit over at the milwaukee museum was amazing! There was so many great peices to choose from to write about. However, after the dicussions in class, i decided to shine some light on how i feel on the main pieces that were discussed. So one of the pieces i choose to write about was the 20 x 30 floor called the healing pool, by Brian Knep.
For anyone was hasn't see this art exhibit, the healing pool is featured on the poster you see for the exhibit. But, it is brightly colored and form a pattern on the floor. When you walk across it you destroy the pattern and for a time laps the pattern wont go back. However when it does go back, the pattern itself doesn't go back to the way it was before. It is different everytime! The interactive part to it is no one person can wipe out the floor, so the more people you have working together the more that you can rearange. Sure it may not compare to any halo game that you've played but at the same time in a way it's getting a message across.
One of the message that they could be sending to people is simply, inorder to complete the act you need to work together and work as a team. Another way to look at it is, in this world we have destory and have altered the world. Whether it is building a new sky scrapper, cars poluting, or cutting down trees. After the damage is done, the planet will evolove and try to fix the damage done. So in other words it will never really be the same ever again.
The second piece i decided to write about was the line floor that i believe was built by the same artist. This art piece again is a mat on the floor. If one person is standing on it nothing will happing. Now if two or more people are on it there is a line that will show up and divide the people with a line. So no matter where you move that line will still be there.Now if two poeple decide to hold hands, then there space will combined and the line will desipear.
To me this piece went on to show me again how important it was to work together, no one person could interact or complete the art by themselves. So you need team work other wis eit would just simply be a blank floor. Sure the graphics aren't out of this world. But watching walk up to it and try and figure out this art piece works Is quite interesting. And sometimes people wont speak and they will just work together to create the art. So no words were even exchanged but art was just created.
George fifield, had a lot of good points in his essay when he talked about the differences between Video games and interactive art. Video games themselves as graphics are art yes. However, interective art isn't about the most kills, or defeating they alliens. it's simply about experiencing and completing the art itself. You get to creat the art and take what you will from it.video games art fun and usually have a plot and you get to choose what happens to you. Take guitar hero for example, The music exsistd before, and the artist themselves created a master piece. Now you take a condensed verson and play it, so now all the little things that they artist put in the work of art, is over seened and changed for the player to have an easier time.
Over all i thoughtthe act react exhibit was amazing and great i wish i could go in a further dicussion about other pieces that were there. But i feel that i have made a good selection choosing the ones that i did. i highly recommend you going and checking out this exhibited while it is still there.
For anyone was hasn't see this art exhibit, the healing pool is featured on the poster you see for the exhibit. But, it is brightly colored and form a pattern on the floor. When you walk across it you destroy the pattern and for a time laps the pattern wont go back. However when it does go back, the pattern itself doesn't go back to the way it was before. It is different everytime! The interactive part to it is no one person can wipe out the floor, so the more people you have working together the more that you can rearange. Sure it may not compare to any halo game that you've played but at the same time in a way it's getting a message across.
One of the message that they could be sending to people is simply, inorder to complete the act you need to work together and work as a team. Another way to look at it is, in this world we have destory and have altered the world. Whether it is building a new sky scrapper, cars poluting, or cutting down trees. After the damage is done, the planet will evolove and try to fix the damage done. So in other words it will never really be the same ever again.
The second piece i decided to write about was the line floor that i believe was built by the same artist. This art piece again is a mat on the floor. If one person is standing on it nothing will happing. Now if two or more people are on it there is a line that will show up and divide the people with a line. So no matter where you move that line will still be there.Now if two poeple decide to hold hands, then there space will combined and the line will desipear.
To me this piece went on to show me again how important it was to work together, no one person could interact or complete the art by themselves. So you need team work other wis eit would just simply be a blank floor. Sure the graphics aren't out of this world. But watching walk up to it and try and figure out this art piece works Is quite interesting. And sometimes people wont speak and they will just work together to create the art. So no words were even exchanged but art was just created.
George fifield, had a lot of good points in his essay when he talked about the differences between Video games and interactive art. Video games themselves as graphics are art yes. However, interective art isn't about the most kills, or defeating they alliens. it's simply about experiencing and completing the art itself. You get to creat the art and take what you will from it.video games art fun and usually have a plot and you get to choose what happens to you. Take guitar hero for example, The music exsistd before, and the artist themselves created a master piece. Now you take a condensed verson and play it, so now all the little things that they artist put in the work of art, is over seened and changed for the player to have an easier time.
Over all i thoughtthe act react exhibit was amazing and great i wish i could go in a further dicussion about other pieces that were there. But i feel that i have made a good selection choosing the ones that i did. i highly recommend you going and checking out this exhibited while it is still there.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Paper 1
Samantha VanderHyden
In the beginning of this semester when class first started I will admit I knew nothing about film. Sure, I know about photography and know about music and soundtracks nothing really about the art behind film itself. So when I heard the quote by Marcel Duchamp I used my knowledge as an over all artist to think deeper. I thought about the films we say in class and how they could relate to the quote. The quote was “all in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
In the quote mentioned above my very first thought was all he was saying is that without a viewer to look and connect with the piece, there wouldn’t be any art. Think about it art is pretty open ended and can be seen in many different ways, there is no one right answer. Art is what you make it mean. Say the artist did have something in mind, but how you see it might be different and that’s fine. Really you connection to it is what makes it complete. Otherwise what is a piece of art other than just a painting, of just a picture, and whose knows just a movie with film and no meaning?
What is a film? What makes it art? Better yet what makes it good art from bad art? If you asked me a few weeks ago I couldn’t tell you. In fact, even before this class I thought most good movies had a plot. But after watching some movies in class such as my favorite, Bear Garden. I was impressed! I watched that movie taking in everything; I found myself feeling emotions just by the way the movie was shot. I felt like humans and the dogs were the threats to us. Just by using film dye and red paint in her short film I felt fear, anger, blood was everywhere, and I felt like the bear. Even her camera angles added to the effect of how you the viewers respond. I felt by watching the movie the artist was talking to me, that her message was getting across to me. And she did it well enough that I was feeling during the movie. It was like being apart of the art.
When I reread the quote what Marcel Duchamp I think that in a way he was trying to say art is like a triangle. You have the artist who has an idea and creates the art. Then you have the art itself as a finished idea and product of creations from the artist. Lastly, you have the viewer who sees the art and finishes it but feeling and making there own connection with art. Art wouldn’t be art unless there was someone to see it and watch it.
Art is everywhere, no matter where you turn. It’s in the art you breathe or in the noise you hear. The world wouldn’t be the same if there wasn’t any art, and you as a viewer do make it whole. So really if you think hard enough the viewer is the most important piece when it comes to art. Sure the film, the camera, projector, or the paint is all important. But, what is the point unless you get through to someone and prove a point is probably the greatest Feeling an artist can have knowing there art had an impact on someone. So all in all Duchamp was right an artist can not preformed the creative act by themselves.
Samantha VanderHyden
In the beginning of this semester when class first started I will admit I knew nothing about film. Sure, I know about photography and know about music and soundtracks nothing really about the art behind film itself. So when I heard the quote by Marcel Duchamp I used my knowledge as an over all artist to think deeper. I thought about the films we say in class and how they could relate to the quote. The quote was “all in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
In the quote mentioned above my very first thought was all he was saying is that without a viewer to look and connect with the piece, there wouldn’t be any art. Think about it art is pretty open ended and can be seen in many different ways, there is no one right answer. Art is what you make it mean. Say the artist did have something in mind, but how you see it might be different and that’s fine. Really you connection to it is what makes it complete. Otherwise what is a piece of art other than just a painting, of just a picture, and whose knows just a movie with film and no meaning?
What is a film? What makes it art? Better yet what makes it good art from bad art? If you asked me a few weeks ago I couldn’t tell you. In fact, even before this class I thought most good movies had a plot. But after watching some movies in class such as my favorite, Bear Garden. I was impressed! I watched that movie taking in everything; I found myself feeling emotions just by the way the movie was shot. I felt like humans and the dogs were the threats to us. Just by using film dye and red paint in her short film I felt fear, anger, blood was everywhere, and I felt like the bear. Even her camera angles added to the effect of how you the viewers respond. I felt by watching the movie the artist was talking to me, that her message was getting across to me. And she did it well enough that I was feeling during the movie. It was like being apart of the art.
When I reread the quote what Marcel Duchamp I think that in a way he was trying to say art is like a triangle. You have the artist who has an idea and creates the art. Then you have the art itself as a finished idea and product of creations from the artist. Lastly, you have the viewer who sees the art and finishes it but feeling and making there own connection with art. Art wouldn’t be art unless there was someone to see it and watch it.
Art is everywhere, no matter where you turn. It’s in the art you breathe or in the noise you hear. The world wouldn’t be the same if there wasn’t any art, and you as a viewer do make it whole. So really if you think hard enough the viewer is the most important piece when it comes to art. Sure the film, the camera, projector, or the paint is all important. But, what is the point unless you get through to someone and prove a point is probably the greatest Feeling an artist can have knowing there art had an impact on someone. So all in all Duchamp was right an artist can not preformed the creative act by themselves.
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