For my final project, I am working on a Degrassi fan based community on the Ning website. The site is called "The Grape Vine" after the school's newspaper title. The goal of the website is to unite members with other Degrassi fans, and give them the ability to leave their opinions on various aspects of the television show. I have always loved watching Degrassi. The Canadian television show is based on the lives of high school students. Each character has their own individual personalities, and every episode would touch upon an ultra-dramatic topic that frequently happens in real life.
Join The Grape Vine today!
http://degrassihigh.ning.com/
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Generative Topic
Watching clips from Aspect: Volume 6 was very interesting. I was drawn to a piece done by Pete Gomes. Using various forms of technology, Gomes uses chalk to create site-specific work in multiple locations. He creates plan drawings with white chalk that compose new boundaries, navigation, and territories. The points and lines he draws are architectural.
From seeing how Pete Gomes draws directly onto the ground with chalk to temporarily create various shapes and forms, I would like to focus on public/free art as a generative topic. The various messages, concepts, images, and expressions left on streets, buildings, and signs has always intrigued me as an artist. It is interesting to consider who the artist perceives the audience will be, and how everyone and anyone as access to the pieces. Gomes uses chalk and modern technology to trace and draw shadows onto typically urban streets. Many street artists use stencils, spray paint, wheat paste, and other forms of imagery to temporarily or permanantly make their mark and express themselves to the public eye.
It would be interesting to explore with a class different forms of public art in different parts of the world; differences and similarities, as well as different mediums used by different artists. Also, to learn about the different ways of communication that are effectively conveyed using public and street art.
In a video, street artist Shepard Fairey discusses his views on public art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awKJQ-HfEHc
From seeing how Pete Gomes draws directly onto the ground with chalk to temporarily create various shapes and forms, I would like to focus on public/free art as a generative topic. The various messages, concepts, images, and expressions left on streets, buildings, and signs has always intrigued me as an artist. It is interesting to consider who the artist perceives the audience will be, and how everyone and anyone as access to the pieces. Gomes uses chalk and modern technology to trace and draw shadows onto typically urban streets. Many street artists use stencils, spray paint, wheat paste, and other forms of imagery to temporarily or permanantly make their mark and express themselves to the public eye.
It would be interesting to explore with a class different forms of public art in different parts of the world; differences and similarities, as well as different mediums used by different artists. Also, to learn about the different ways of communication that are effectively conveyed using public and street art.
In a video, street artist Shepard Fairey discusses his views on public art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awKJQ-HfEHc
Monday, March 30, 2009
I am researching artists who are combining different types of 2D art that they create with their hands and scanning them to edit and manipulate with photoshop as well as other types of technology. Cristi Rinklin is a perfect example of an artist who combines her love of 2D work with the technology aspect of the art world. Rinklin, who takes an idea she has for a painting and scans it on her computer to open in photoshop, uses many techniques to alter and manipulate her piece. In her statement, she says a lot about what I feel my group's generative topic is about:
"In our current data-driven and media saturated society, the subconscious isinformed by imagery that
is virtual and synthetic rather than natural, and as a result of this ubiquitous technological presence
the human imagination has adapted to follow suit. A fantastical manifestation of this altered imagined
state is what I aim to present in my work. I seek to create a psychological space that is constructed and
manipulated through opposing forces and visual impossibilities through the use of high gloss vs. blurry
matte surfaces, eye-popping color, and hypnotic optical effects. I present to the viewer a way in which
the pictorial language of painting, altered by technology, becomes a lens through which we translate our
contemporary understanding of space. The result is a hybrid of imagery that combines dreamy, techno
-colored atmospheres with crisp, graphic organic forms, and luscious billowing substances that are vaguely
familiar yet at the same time- supernatural."
"...although the physical making of my work entails traditional painting methods, the means to obtain my
imagery acknowledges as well as involves digital processes. Images in my work are derived from
Baroque painting and architecture, cellular biology, natural history illustration, cosmological imagery, and
decorative patterns, which are collected, scanned and manipulated digitally"
Cristi Rinklin's website:
http://www.cristirinklin.com/
Monday, March 23, 2009
personal project
For my personal project, I explored an idea that the Yesmen inspired. When they presented the golden skeleton, Gilda, it gave me an idea to create drawings of different parts of a skeleton. This connects to my love of drawing different parts of the human anatomy. It also made me think about the idea of taking something morbid and making it glamorous. By creating a golden skeleton, the Yesmen were criticizing a company that made a decision based on money and not based on the lives that they would take away or dramatically effect. I want the viewer to consider different parts of the body that I draw like they consider different parts of themselves. I want the viewer to interpret the gold paint in their own way.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Yes Men
I was impressed, intrigued, and amused by the actions by the Yes Men. I found it so interesting how easy it was for them to make appearances and give speeches at different events that seemed so esteemed and important. I also found it hilarious that they made presentations that were so audacious and ridiculous with powerpoint presentations with images that could definitely be seen as offensive. The dvd clips that we watched in class portrayed people in the Yes Men to be creative, funny, and interesting.
Creating websites that look authentic, the Yes Men receive invitations to speak and participate in events representing the WTO, Dow, and other various organizations. With their own agenda to express their personal views, the Yes Men proudly accept to attend these events and to speak at them under false identities of real members.
In a hilarious presentation in which the Yes Men are disguised as partners of the Dow corporations, they make a presentation explaining the rules of "Acceptable Risk" and the way that they determine if a project is worth completing even if it could mean the loss of lives or nature. They offer pictures and keychains with a Gold skeleton that they name "Gilda," and no one questions them.
I admire that the Yes Men risk getting in serious trouble in order to express their views. It is amazing that no one questions them during their presentations at all, no matter how ridiculous they seem.
Also this week, it was exciting to get a chance to meet Brian Knep. He showed us a lot of his work, and told us about his experiences leading up to being an artist. He showed us an installation of a large face that smiles when it is not being directly looked at by the viewer which I found very interesting. Also, he told us about jobs he had leading up to creating installations. He worked on design and software for movies like Jurassic Park, which was very interesting for him. Though working in an office type environment was not for him, he was happy with the experience. He told us about upcoming projects he is interested in working with, and explained his processes for many of his works.
Creating websites that look authentic, the Yes Men receive invitations to speak and participate in events representing the WTO, Dow, and other various organizations. With their own agenda to express their personal views, the Yes Men proudly accept to attend these events and to speak at them under false identities of real members.
In a hilarious presentation in which the Yes Men are disguised as partners of the Dow corporations, they make a presentation explaining the rules of "Acceptable Risk" and the way that they determine if a project is worth completing even if it could mean the loss of lives or nature. They offer pictures and keychains with a Gold skeleton that they name "Gilda," and no one questions them.
I admire that the Yes Men risk getting in serious trouble in order to express their views. It is amazing that no one questions them during their presentations at all, no matter how ridiculous they seem.
Also this week, it was exciting to get a chance to meet Brian Knep. He showed us a lot of his work, and told us about his experiences leading up to being an artist. He showed us an installation of a large face that smiles when it is not being directly looked at by the viewer which I found very interesting. Also, he told us about jobs he had leading up to creating installations. He worked on design and software for movies like Jurassic Park, which was very interesting for him. Though working in an office type environment was not for him, he was happy with the experience. He told us about upcoming projects he is interested in working with, and explained his processes for many of his works.
Brian Knep & 2 Questions
Learning about Brian Knep was extremely fascinating. Knep is a New Media artist that studies the effects of changing, healing, and other types of growth and evolution in his pieces. By using many different types of new technologies and computers, it is possible for him to make works that are interactive with the viewers.
In his 2003 video installation titled Healing, the viewer is able to physically walk on and across the piece, causing tears and breaks that slowly heal themselves back together. One aspect of Knep's work that I find interesting is that he creates each piece so that it will never repeat itself or stays the same experience for a viewer. To make this piece work requires a size variable computer, a ideo projector, a video camera, and custom software. Healing discovers aspects of integration and interaction.
I was also very interested in his piece about frog evolution. In his piece titled Frog Triplets, different stages of a tadpole growing into a frog are depicted against a wall in a non-repeating video. The images are in motion, and moving at various speeds with each other. This 2007 piece shows the incredible journey that frogs go through in their lifetimes, and I think it is depicted interestingly and effectively through his projection.
Questions:
What triggered you to create your piece Healing?
How important to you is it to have your work be interactive with your viewers?
In his 2003 video installation titled Healing, the viewer is able to physically walk on and across the piece, causing tears and breaks that slowly heal themselves back together. One aspect of Knep's work that I find interesting is that he creates each piece so that it will never repeat itself or stays the same experience for a viewer. To make this piece work requires a size variable computer, a ideo projector, a video camera, and custom software. Healing discovers aspects of integration and interaction.
I was also very interested in his piece about frog evolution. In his piece titled Frog Triplets, different stages of a tadpole growing into a frog are depicted against a wall in a non-repeating video. The images are in motion, and moving at various speeds with each other. This 2007 piece shows the incredible journey that frogs go through in their lifetimes, and I think it is depicted interestingly and effectively through his projection.
Questions:
What triggered you to create your piece Healing?
How important to you is it to have your work be interactive with your viewers?
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