Steven presents a lot of great background information on both articles.
Neidich: CAMP OJ was really interesting. I like how he documented it and shows us how what we see came to be from media information. It definitely seemed very interesting. Shot Reverse Shot is actually really interesting. That's my favorite piece. I like how five different couples were photographed. I like the theme of seeing different views of a conversation. I think it's my favorite because it's so interesting. In the Mind's I is also really interesting. I love how the viewer becomes the artist by expressing what he thinks or imagines in his head. It's really fascinating. This was definitely the coolest one, though not necessarily my favorite. Opti-Isolator has these "eyes" follow you around the room but looks away when you look at it. I think thats fascinating. It's too bad Matt didn't help Steve because the pieces seem really interesting. Steve does a really good job with "his" artist, but I would've liked to know about the artist. Pity. The theme of vision is really interesting. It's a very interesting and different exhibit that i would most definitely go to.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Aaron and Casey
They discussed Reuben Langdon and Trisha Brown. Their ideas about the exhibit sounds interesting. Making an exhibit with simply televisions with films is something I would probably be interested in. Both of the presenters give great background information on the artists.
Langdon's biography was really well presented. Interesting take on artists-Avatar stunt double. I'm a little confused how he himself is the digital artist, but rather a stunt double...The videos were interesting. Is it safe to presume that the artists are the stunt doubles because they allow for a great range of motion for digital artists.
The background information on Trisha Brown is also very well done. I found that her work was a more legitimate take on art. She actually created things and not simply followed through with instructions. I felt that her work was really quite beautiful and elegant. Like I said before, I feel that she is more important as an artist because she choreographed the dancers. I feel that Langdon is told to do something, and therefore he doesn't create his stunts.
Overall, however, the presentation was excellent. They gave a lot of great and interesting information. Some of the videos, perhaps, were a little long, but otherwise, everything was great. They definitely knew their stuff, I just can't accept the overall conclusion that Langdon is considered an artist.
Langdon's biography was really well presented. Interesting take on artists-Avatar stunt double. I'm a little confused how he himself is the digital artist, but rather a stunt double...The videos were interesting. Is it safe to presume that the artists are the stunt doubles because they allow for a great range of motion for digital artists.
The background information on Trisha Brown is also very well done. I found that her work was a more legitimate take on art. She actually created things and not simply followed through with instructions. I felt that her work was really quite beautiful and elegant. Like I said before, I feel that she is more important as an artist because she choreographed the dancers. I feel that Langdon is told to do something, and therefore he doesn't create his stunts.
Overall, however, the presentation was excellent. They gave a lot of great and interesting information. Some of the videos, perhaps, were a little long, but otherwise, everything was great. They definitely knew their stuff, I just can't accept the overall conclusion that Langdon is considered an artist.
Artist Comparison
By far, my favorite piece in the exhibit was "Smoke Knows" by Pae White. This piece is apparently one of a series of tapestries with photographic aluminum and clouds of smoke appearing digitally. There is this incredible sense of elegance that comes with the whirling smoke. White's inspiration for the piece was cotton's "dream of becoming something other than itself." She accomplishes this theme by pairing an immaterial object (the image of smoke) with the physical and very real sheet of black cotton. It's absolutely gorgeous and almost has a seductive quality to it. Her strength lies in using an everyday image of both smoke (perhaps cigarette smoke?) and a sheet of cotton. These everyday objects are literally transformed into a sense of longing and I personally feel that the artwork has a sensual and sexy quality to it.
Another beautifully elegant piece that I adored was Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher's collaborative project called "Better Dimensions." Both artists wanted to present a narrative story. The images were projected in a room by walled in sliding panels. At first there is an image of JFK's bust, and if I remember correctly, it was rotating. There are gorgeous organic images that are caused by painted slides. These images move across the room. I feel that it brings an almost alien quality to the piece. After some research, I found out that the text and graphics are based loosely on the American Illusionist Black Herman and jazz musician Sun Ra. By using both of these artists, especially Ra who claimed he went into outer space, the two artists create an incredible virtual and visual poem. I'm not really sure what was going on politically during the time of JFK (besides Vietnam) so I'm not necessarily sure what the political connotation is.
The artists, I feel, created incredibly elegant pieces by using video, projections and slides. However, White used a black cotton sheet and the projected images of smoke moving onto the cotton. She created a very sensual piece that projected themes of longing onto the viewer. I also loved her idea, allowing cotton to transform itself into a cloud of immaterial and digital smoke. Cleine and Gallagher created another elegant piece, except it obviously had some kind of political connotation. However, what I loved about it was the organic images moving around the wall which was created by painted slides. It was gorgeous. I didn't really care, if you will, that I didn't understand what the point was. Like I mentioned before, it was stunningly gorgeous.
"Smoking Knows"
"Better Dimensions"
Another beautifully elegant piece that I adored was Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher's collaborative project called "Better Dimensions." Both artists wanted to present a narrative story. The images were projected in a room by walled in sliding panels. At first there is an image of JFK's bust, and if I remember correctly, it was rotating. There are gorgeous organic images that are caused by painted slides. These images move across the room. I feel that it brings an almost alien quality to the piece. After some research, I found out that the text and graphics are based loosely on the American Illusionist Black Herman and jazz musician Sun Ra. By using both of these artists, especially Ra who claimed he went into outer space, the two artists create an incredible virtual and visual poem. I'm not really sure what was going on politically during the time of JFK (besides Vietnam) so I'm not necessarily sure what the political connotation is.
The artists, I feel, created incredibly elegant pieces by using video, projections and slides. However, White used a black cotton sheet and the projected images of smoke moving onto the cotton. She created a very sensual piece that projected themes of longing onto the viewer. I also loved her idea, allowing cotton to transform itself into a cloud of immaterial and digital smoke. Cleine and Gallagher created another elegant piece, except it obviously had some kind of political connotation. However, what I loved about it was the organic images moving around the wall which was created by painted slides. It was gorgeous. I didn't really care, if you will, that I didn't understand what the point was. Like I mentioned before, it was stunningly gorgeous.
"Smoking Knows"
"Better Dimensions"
Self Visualization
My idea for this triptych was to show how I see myself in the mirror. I wasn't interested in making a progression from different times of my life, but a general overview of how I feel. The feet represent my shyness. The pose is kind of a nervous stance, kind of like wanting to get out of a situation. The colors also make me a little uneasy. The photo of me represents the shame i feel when I see myself. The colors are dark and gloomy to reiterate the loneliness and shame I feel when I see myself. Lastly, the hands represent the pain I feel when I look at myself or when I look at my past. Sure, my life isn't the most difficult one out there, but it hasn't been a cake walk either. So these three pictures kind of wrap up how I feel/who I am as a person. I also wanted to unite everything by making each photoshop altered photo into live trace, and changing it from black and white to color. Each photo has 11 or 14 different colors.
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