Monday, April 21, 2014
Tony Oursler
Artist page:
http://tonyoursler.com/work.php?navItem=work&subsection=All%20Exhibitions&year=0&page=1
Example video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aqIk_ynVak&list=PLC0VjaTrBG4KJCgd8Aq5yAFtdzig0V7lc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCndjNBfvfE&list=PLC0VjaTrBG4KJCgd8Aq5yAFtdzig0V7lc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyzCNKbcWi4&list=PLC0VjaTrBG4KJCgd8Aq5yAFtdzig0V7lc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E_-9tCOiQw&list=PLC0VjaTrBG4KJCgd8Aq5yAFtdzig0V7lc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV224Faxem4&list=PLC0VjaTrBG4KJCgd8Aq5yAFtdzig0V7lc
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Video instalation
1) questions asked:
What is a video installation? What are its means of expression? How do these differ from the media from other arts? What kinds of installations are there? What effects on a visitor does the art form promote? What cultural
function does or could this art form serve?
2) answers:
-artist must actually come and install the elements, including electronic components in the case of video, in a designated space.
-room = frame for installation, installation art depends on the existence of a space
-installation, because it is not tied down to its art of production, produces an aura
2) answers:
-artist must actually come and install the elements, including electronic components in the case of video, in a designated space.
-room = frame for installation, installation art depends on the existence of a space
-installation, because it is not tied down to its art of production, produces an aura
-video installation expresses the here and now, 2 planes of language
-video installation are the privileged art forms for setting this mediated/built environment into play for purposes of reflection
-video installation are the privileged art forms for setting this mediated/built environment into play for purposes of reflection
-in a larger
sense, all installation art is interactive, since the visitor chooses a trajectory among all the possibilities. This trajectory is a variable narrative simultaneously embodied and
constructed at the level of presentation.
-2 types of video installation: closed-circuit= live feed that relays image to one or more monitors, recorded art installation= performative/ declarative
-2 and 3 dimensions: Video- image on screen, the virtual space, light on the screen, surrounding sounds, tone and colors,
shift into 3D with the arrangement of the TV screens, the space in which it occupies
-1 or 4 dimensions- exploiting the body itself and the senses; experience itself and interpretation
-people can come and boas they please at any point during the work, it takes time, it requires the visitor to reflect on the experience
-vid art transforms the nature of the museum, begins to partake in a long overdue recognition afforded to the arts of presentation
-2 types of video installation: closed-circuit= live feed that relays image to one or more monitors, recorded art installation= performative/ declarative
-2 and 3 dimensions: Video- image on screen, the virtual space, light on the screen, surrounding sounds, tone and colors,
shift into 3D with the arrangement of the TV screens, the space in which it occupies
-1 or 4 dimensions- exploiting the body itself and the senses; experience itself and interpretation
-people can come and boas they please at any point during the work, it takes time, it requires the visitor to reflect on the experience
-vid art transforms the nature of the museum, begins to partake in a long overdue recognition afforded to the arts of presentation
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Video Art 20-25, 36, 54, 68, 76
- productive exchange between film and video: Film-1st born moving pictures , Video- new way to present
- new parameters set for film, projections without using paper.
- Janet and the stage with a projected opera singer
- 1990s: narrative videos- able to tell a story, video has become a contradiction: either its exclusively used or it is an item that is mass produce for the whole public
- Mother + Father: Candice Breitz- 2 part installation, collective memory, audio visual lingual franca and highlight the international community with mass media communication.
- Dan Graham: architecture and video, social codes/orders, work represents the convergence of public and private sphere, peer presence and self sufficiency
- Dispersion room: Aeronaut Mik- intuitive behavior of individuals in a defined social framework transforms events, Mis world is a mass media network, an image and copy, a stage, and a dangerous abyss for humanity
- Getaway #2: tony Oursler- creates dolls mad elf everyday fabric and projects faces onto the fabric. Mental Annexation, and the act of seeing.
Monday, April 14, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Utopian Plagiarism, Hypertextuality, and Electronic Cultural Production
"Plagiarism…has been viewed as the theft of a language, ideas, and images by the less than talented, often for the enhancement of personal fortune or prestige" (83)
After reading this article and considering what it had to say about plagiarism/hypertext; I think I can formulate my opinion. Plagiarism is present in every daily aspect of our lives. It has only become more relevant today due to the increase of technological productions. "Plagiarism is necessary…it often carries a weight of negative connotations" (85). Even though it does have a negative aspect to it, or people look at it as negative, I think that plagiarism is not necessarily a bad thing. It it going to happen because not one person can claim everything they do as their own work. Some other person earlier down the line may have thought of a concept or idea and not have had the technologies to produce or follow through with the concept, so if you are now producing that idea you are essentially stealing from that person. I believe plagiarism doesn't exist. Instead I think that every one should build off of others ideas, hence making it their own. Just like in the article, Marcel Duchamp would place an object in a different context, "repurposing" the object. As long as plagiarism is "productive", then I believe you are making it your own and not copying from the originator.
In terms of art and appropriation, everyone is going to have ideas that are similar or exactly the same as the creator. What matters is that you as the artist can make it your own and make it your passion. Even in terms of our upcoming project we will be taking clips or using clips that are not our own and repurposing the clips to have a different context. I think the last paragraph in the article serves as a great representation of how I feel about Plagiarism:
"The present requires us to rethink and re-present the notion of plagiarism. Its function has for to long been devalued by an ideology with little place in techno-culture. Let the romantic notions of originality, genius, and authorship remain, but as elements for cultural production without special privilege above other equally useful elements. It is time to openly and boldly use the methodology of recombination so as to better parallel the technology of our time". (102)
After reading this article and considering what it had to say about plagiarism/hypertext; I think I can formulate my opinion. Plagiarism is present in every daily aspect of our lives. It has only become more relevant today due to the increase of technological productions. "Plagiarism is necessary…it often carries a weight of negative connotations" (85). Even though it does have a negative aspect to it, or people look at it as negative, I think that plagiarism is not necessarily a bad thing. It it going to happen because not one person can claim everything they do as their own work. Some other person earlier down the line may have thought of a concept or idea and not have had the technologies to produce or follow through with the concept, so if you are now producing that idea you are essentially stealing from that person. I believe plagiarism doesn't exist. Instead I think that every one should build off of others ideas, hence making it their own. Just like in the article, Marcel Duchamp would place an object in a different context, "repurposing" the object. As long as plagiarism is "productive", then I believe you are making it your own and not copying from the originator.
In terms of art and appropriation, everyone is going to have ideas that are similar or exactly the same as the creator. What matters is that you as the artist can make it your own and make it your passion. Even in terms of our upcoming project we will be taking clips or using clips that are not our own and repurposing the clips to have a different context. I think the last paragraph in the article serves as a great representation of how I feel about Plagiarism:
"The present requires us to rethink and re-present the notion of plagiarism. Its function has for to long been devalued by an ideology with little place in techno-culture. Let the romantic notions of originality, genius, and authorship remain, but as elements for cultural production without special privilege above other equally useful elements. It is time to openly and boldly use the methodology of recombination so as to better parallel the technology of our time". (102)
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Life Feed: webcams, art, and people
This article by Brian Droitcour starts out by stating how readily available video has now become and especially the availability of the webcam or online video. Next he goes into talking about Rosiland Krauss' essay in which she discusses Richard Serra's Boomerang which focuses on Nancy holt. She is speaking and listening to herself at the same time. It is quite a captivating video in which the viewer is drawn in and interested in what is being said.
Boomerang:
I especially find it nice that Krauss describes video as the aesthetics of narcissism. Video draws attention from others objects and places the attention on ones self.
Towards the end of the piece, Droitcour talks about Myspace and the introduction videos kids made to express who they were. Guthrie Lonergan collected the videos and compiled them. "No matter how much users try to 'express' their 'true' selves, each becomes just one more piece of information, one more lonely avatar," Gene McHugh wrote. "And in the end, the avatar doesn’t express itself—MySpace does." In the end the kids aren't really being themselves but putting on a face that is expressing what they want to show the viewer. They are only showing the qualities that are most desirable to viewers.
This line made me think of a video trailer which I will share, it is kind of far fetched but it is what was brought to mind thats all.. "viewers could see how the prosthetically enhanced arts were poorer than their analogue predecessors. More recently, however, Bailey has moved toward an exploration of vulnerability, asking not what technology obscures or deletes, but what it can expose. He thinks of programming as a kind of drawing, and drawing— as the cliché of art criticism has it— is the most expressive and open of mediums, a record of the immediate contact between the artist's body and the surface he's working with."
Transcendence:
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