Body Art: Experimental/Comfortable
This project brought me to understand that I can do just as well in an uncomfortable piece than I can do in a comfortable piece. With my uncomfortable piece I brought my full frontal attention to the camera without any leeway for distraction or interruption. Being calm was the easy part, but finding the right facial expression and posture wasn't nearly as easy. With a photo like this, which involves me being the primary focus and subject of the work, a lot of my thoughts became very self conscious and aware that I was naked from the waist up and people will be observing the image in this way.
The character role I played in the short film above was very conformative to my own actions style of movement according to my own personality. It was easy to play this character because I had already memorized my lines and practiced to be him in front of a camera.
The character role I played in the short film above was very conformative to my own actions style of movement according to my own personality. It was easy to play this character because I had already memorized my lines and practiced to be him in front of a camera.
In Class Performance Video
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This project, though witty and enjoyable, was a good look at the relationships between the hands and its interactions with other hands. Particularly the thumbs were the primary subject of interest in this film, since thumb wrestling is known to be the friendly competition of one's hand tricks against another's. The added humour of cartoon-like eyes and facial recognitions being drawn on the thumbs is one of the elements that brings these things to life. Overall, this video brings attention to connection of one hand to another and how variations of those connections can be interpreted.
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Making of Diagram
IDEA: My idea was based on the rights of women in the workplace and the struggle of being in a financially crippling position.
DURATION: 5min
MATERIAL: Two chairs
SEMIOTICS: I used a lot of verbal language in this piece.
AUDIENCE: Audience was facing in one direction and was actively attentive.
SENSES: Having a feel/sense for the environment I was creating in the moment and being able to see things that weren't present was a great use of my senses.
MODIFICATIONS: Next time I should memorize my lines instead of knowing the direction of the performance and simply improvising most of the dialogue.
DURATION: 5min
MATERIAL: Two chairs
SEMIOTICS: I used a lot of verbal language in this piece.
AUDIENCE: Audience was facing in one direction and was actively attentive.
SENSES: Having a feel/sense for the environment I was creating in the moment and being able to see things that weren't present was a great use of my senses.
MODIFICATIONS: Next time I should memorize my lines instead of knowing the direction of the performance and simply improvising most of the dialogue.
Reflection on Today's 9.15.14 Performances
Today's performances were well round and nicely thought out. My personal favorite performance with the use of just one word to judge or stereotype someone. Willing participants faced the wall and were told to stand still while words like "terrorist" and "Upper-class white male" were taped to the backs of each person. the audience wrote down words that described what each person was and when those people turned around, they were asked to identify what their person may have been. The work took a close look at how people judge others just by the use of one word. It really showed the power of identity and what others identify you as based on statis.
Sound Score
Art Word to Sound Score
Making of Diagram for Sound Score
IDEA: My idea compiled all of the sounds of a crowd that I gathered over time. It was intended to be a documentation of how we identify space and surrounding areas but the contrasts of the image and the sound implied a different approach that I didn't expect.
DURATION: 1min 34sec
MATERIAL: Sound, Audio and Image.
AUDIENCE: The audience interpreted the project differently due to the image I showed to support the sound. It's possible the the use of headphones may have changed the reception of my project, since speakers tend to spread sound instead of focusing it on the ears.
SENSES: Grasping of the understanding of space primarily through hearing.
MODIFICATION: I could have tried to include more delusions and less overlappings of crowds and occupied space.
DURATION: 1min 34sec
MATERIAL: Sound, Audio and Image.
AUDIENCE: The audience interpreted the project differently due to the image I showed to support the sound. It's possible the the use of headphones may have changed the reception of my project, since speakers tend to spread sound instead of focusing it on the ears.
SENSES: Grasping of the understanding of space primarily through hearing.
MODIFICATION: I could have tried to include more delusions and less overlappings of crowds and occupied space.
John Cage Response
John Cage implies that sound is its own activity. How it gets longer, higher, quieter or louder suggestion how the sound is communicating with the listener. Cage says that sound doesn't have to talk to him in order for him to understand it, since he doesn't see much difference from sound in relation to its relevance in time and space. He understands that there is little difference between music and sound because both can be heard as one or the other. In other word, sound can make music and music can be heard as sound. This even combination of the two allows for both elements to become one in their own space and time.
Making of Diagram
CORE IDEA
GROUP MEMBERS
DURATION
CHARACTERS
SOUND
IDEAL AUDIENCE
SHORT RESPONSE ON COLLABORATION
YOUR POSITION/PERSPECTIVE
MODIFICATIONS
GROUP MEMBERS
DURATION
CHARACTERS
SOUND
IDEAL AUDIENCE
SHORT RESPONSE ON COLLABORATION
YOUR POSITION/PERSPECTIVE
MODIFICATIONS
Labor Essay
Helen Molesworth describes a form of art to include the consumption of time by the physical performance of a task. An artistic experiment delineated by the assignment of tasks given to workers by their managers takes on a different role when the artist is both the manager and the worker. In this particular instance, the artist is focused more on the process of the tasks rather than the finished product. The emphasis on labor and the tolls it pushes on the physical body of the artist is a replica the repetitive nature of labor. Sometimes when the relationship between the managers and the workers becomes divided, the intended quality of the finished project tends to slip. However, when the artist is both the manager and the worker the creation and completion of the task derives primarily on the self-discipline of the artist.
Eleanor Heartney addresses the relationship between artist and labor through a series of other artists’ works that see labor as a political agenda. Images of “Occupy WallStreet” show rebellions of the political order. As more jobs seem to disappear, more Americans tend to speak their mind on the issues of the system. Other artists have also identified labor as a necessity that provides jobs. However, the distribution of those jobs is selective and does not include the greater majority of lower-classes citizens. The documentary film mentioned by Hearney, called “Socialism failed, capitalism is bankrupt. What Comes Next?” by Oliver Wrestler, is an example of the importance of labor. The film shows that during the Soviet Era of the Cold War many of the people of Armenia had jobs, but near the end of the Soviet Union these jobs were lost and the Armenian people suffered.
Even though I grow extremely bored with repetition and tire quickly from tedious tasks, I’m not at all opposed to completing a work that needs to be done. In the Sola Gratia farm, all I could think of was the amount of work that needed to be put into the farm nearly every season of every month, because if it weren’t cared for properly, then the farm doesn’t gain any income. In fact, a lot of farmers aren’t grossly rich since farming doesn’t provide a doctors income. Even though one task is more stressing to the body, the laborer will usually receive less than the lawyer or public speaker. It leads me to think how our economy identifies work and production, because the larger income is not given to the laborer with the most physically intense job but instead to the one with the higher degree and the more mentally intense job.
The checkerboard drawing exercise is a great example of how an assembly line of laborers are treated by their manager. Even though the task was simply, it still took a physical toll to complete it. But near the end, our work was treated as nothing when we were told to throw our own creations away. In this society, an education is needed in order for one to gain a larger paycheck. Our political economy glorifies lawyers and ignores the physical laborers.
The Sounds of Labor exercise helped me identify that labor is being produced all around us at all times. I find the value in my own daily life when I see how the simplest of my actions can actually ignite labor. As a customer of any business, I’m intending to give them my money not only to receive what’s being produced but to also take the pleasure in knowing that I don’t have to produce it myself. The workings of the economy help me appreciate the value in what I do everyday.
Eleanor Heartney addresses the relationship between artist and labor through a series of other artists’ works that see labor as a political agenda. Images of “Occupy WallStreet” show rebellions of the political order. As more jobs seem to disappear, more Americans tend to speak their mind on the issues of the system. Other artists have also identified labor as a necessity that provides jobs. However, the distribution of those jobs is selective and does not include the greater majority of lower-classes citizens. The documentary film mentioned by Hearney, called “Socialism failed, capitalism is bankrupt. What Comes Next?” by Oliver Wrestler, is an example of the importance of labor. The film shows that during the Soviet Era of the Cold War many of the people of Armenia had jobs, but near the end of the Soviet Union these jobs were lost and the Armenian people suffered.
Even though I grow extremely bored with repetition and tire quickly from tedious tasks, I’m not at all opposed to completing a work that needs to be done. In the Sola Gratia farm, all I could think of was the amount of work that needed to be put into the farm nearly every season of every month, because if it weren’t cared for properly, then the farm doesn’t gain any income. In fact, a lot of farmers aren’t grossly rich since farming doesn’t provide a doctors income. Even though one task is more stressing to the body, the laborer will usually receive less than the lawyer or public speaker. It leads me to think how our economy identifies work and production, because the larger income is not given to the laborer with the most physically intense job but instead to the one with the higher degree and the more mentally intense job.
The checkerboard drawing exercise is a great example of how an assembly line of laborers are treated by their manager. Even though the task was simply, it still took a physical toll to complete it. But near the end, our work was treated as nothing when we were told to throw our own creations away. In this society, an education is needed in order for one to gain a larger paycheck. Our political economy glorifies lawyers and ignores the physical laborers.
The Sounds of Labor exercise helped me identify that labor is being produced all around us at all times. I find the value in my own daily life when I see how the simplest of my actions can actually ignite labor. As a customer of any business, I’m intending to give them my money not only to receive what’s being produced but to also take the pleasure in knowing that I don’t have to produce it myself. The workings of the economy help me appreciate the value in what I do everyday.
Boneyard Creek
This photo of Boneyard creek is of the stepping stones that lead to the lower valley. As I was taking pictures, I found this particular image to highly resemble the stones used for the 10 commandments. So I implemented them in a way that reads from top to bottom, giving off the demands of the commandments first and ending it with "Thou Shalt Not". The image itself is meant to be read however one chooses.
Project Analysis
I enjoy the process of making because it allows me to express my own creative feelings because of this. I can be able to put a lot of effort into things that no longer can restrain my progression and my process. I am proud to tell my family and friends that I am an artist because I enjoy what I do and I love what I do and I will never not enjoy what I do. My family and my friends support that I am an artist because I am good at what I do it, since I'm good at what I do I can make a lot of creative works that expose their own sense of life and beautiful. When the ritual of my day begins to become boring, I start to draw in. The drawing help me break that ritual, and when that ritual is broken, I can then veer off into a form of expression that will allow me to express my own creative feelings. The thing that inspires or propels me to create is the allowance of freedom. Since I am free to create my own world and create an entire space where I can do whatever I like, it allows me to leave and stay true to my work of art. My works of art propel me to create because I love to create and do the work.
PDzilla-Extended
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