Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Exhibiting Electronic and New Media Art

New media art encompasses artworks created with new media tech, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, internet art, interactive art, video games, robotics, 3D printing, etc. There are many different organizations in this field including the ISEA (Intersociety for Electronic Arts) Foundation, which is an international  nonprofit organization, and hosts the international symposium of art, which, rotates locations every year. Art Electronica is a festival, and is a combination between an exhibition and art school. The Guggenheim Museum in New York also has a floor dedicated to new media and electronic art. The Art Science Gallery is an art space and science communication hub dedicated to collaboration between artists and scientists, and does work closely related to ecology art and biotechnology. Artists in this area include Ed Wada, who after being involved in music, switched his focus to working with outdated electrical appliances, and HR Giger, who was a swiss surrealist. 

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Art and Ecology

The field of art and ecology explores how technology can interface with nature, wether that means to control, observe, or preserve. The Revival Field was one of the most important projects in this field, and used special plants to absorb toxic metals and oxides in the environment to bring life back. In the Biomodd project, plants were used in a symbiotic relationship to power old computers. There have also been many technological pieces, such as the installation that included combinations of the most popular passwords, or Yuk Cosic creating video using ACII characters. Ratios Smits was the founder of RIXC and Biotricity, where a bacteria battery created by RIXC artists and scientists interprets the bacteria "fuel into video and sound. This is also a very broad field that has many different areas within it.


Monday, April 18, 2016

Projection Mapping

Projection mapping is video mapping and spatial augmented reality. This usually involves projecting animation onto a 3D object or space. Michael Naimark worked with apple and google and did flyovers of the Golden Gate Bridge. Miguel Chevalier exclusively worked with computers and technology and used motion-sensing projection and used projections in large spaces, such as cathedrals. Sougwen Chung's projects used light, sound, and space, and incorporated music. Robert Siedel made abstract animations and projected them onto water, which really reminded me of what Disney does with their water shows. Claudio Sinatti des projection mapping for events and awards shows. There is a wide range of stuff you can do with projection mapping.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Web Art

Web art first makes me think of web design. Web design could be one for mom web art, as it is a profession all on its own, but there is a lot more to web art. The internet in its brief history has rapidly become an outlet for creators and artists. Websites are being used to make interactive pieces, like Alia Ialina does with her web stories. People like Amelia Ulman use social media sites such as Instagram for performance art, as she did with her "Excellence" project. Social media is also becoming a platform for editing and sharing photography as well. in the exhibit Electronic Superhighway, it was interesting to see how the internet has affected how we make art and how art is consumed.

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

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Dance
  • Of the 13 years I did dance, did ballet for 10 and jazz for 3
Travel
  • Of the places I've traveled, I flew to 18, drove to 8, and took a train to 1
Finances
  • Look at back account and look at the breakdown of the different categories



Video Installation

Video installation again overlaps with a lot of the other topics. Many of the artists who are classified in this category are classified in other categories as well, such as Nam Jun Paik. I am seeing that technology-based art is all closely related, it only depends on the context it is presented in. it was interesting for me to see the interactive video installations and the piece being affected by the presence of the viewer. It was also interesting to see the early forms of video installation that required the use of lots of machinery to make the sound work with the video.

Monday, April 4, 2016

Contemporary Animation

Whenever I think of animation, I think of the newest CGI Disney animated movies, such as "Tangled" or "Frozen". Obviously animation has had a much longer history since before then, and there are many other types of animation. The range of these different types is great, from 2D cell animation, to vector animation, to stop-motion, and 3D animation. They are all unique in their own way. I am curious as to what will happen to 3D animation in the future since is much more expensive to do than 2D vector animation and vector animation is becoming more popular again. I enjoyed seeing the different examples of animations being used as art in a gallery context, and think I would enjoy doing something like that someday!

Electronic Art

Before this presentation I did not know much about what electronic art exactly encompassed. I thought it was interesting that electronic art overlaps so much with areas such as video art. Video art, however, is  form of electronic art. Many of the predominant artists are the same, such as Nam Jun Paik. It was also interesting to learn that electronic art stamps from concept art. You never really think about how much is put into the concepts and ideas that go into a piece of electronic art. I also thought it was interesting seeing how electronic art was used in practical ways, such as in surveillance and how that situation was used to make an art project.

Monday, February 1, 2016

Picture links





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Rapunzel in Tower
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Tower Background
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Rampion
 





Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Ideas for Folklore



Tale of the Three Brothers



Snow White and Rose Red -Brothers Grimm
There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.
One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion - Rapunzel, and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, and had the greatest desire to eat some. This desire increased every day, and as she knew that she could not get any of it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable.
Then her husband was alarmed, and asked, "What ails you, dear wife?"
"Ah," she replied, "if I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die."
The man, who loved her, thought, sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost what it will. At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. It tasted so good to her - so very good, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before. If he was to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden. In the gloom of evening, therefore, he let himself down again. But when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him.
"How can you dare," said she with angry look, "descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief? You shall suffer for it."
"Ah," answered he, "let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat."
Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him, "If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world. It shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother."
The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window. When the enchantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath it and cried,
    "Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
    Let down your hair!"

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.
After a year or two, it came to pass that the king's son rode through the forest and passed by the tower. Then he heard a song, which was so charming that he stood still and listened. This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound. The king's son wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it. Once when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there, and he heard how she cried,
    "Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
    Let down your hair!"

Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her. "If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune," said he, and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried,
    "Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
    Let down your hair!"

Immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up. At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man, such as her eyes had never yet beheld, came to her. But the king's son began to talk to her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest, and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought, he will love me more than old dame gothel does. And she said yes, and laid her hand in his.
She said, "I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse."
They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day.
The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, "Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young king's son - he is with me in a moment."
"Ah! You wicked child," cried the enchantress. "What do I hear you say. I thought I had separated you from all the world, and yet you have deceived me."
In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.
On the same day that she cast out Rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the king's son came and cried,
    "Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
    Let down your hair!"

she let the hair down. The king's son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks.
"Aha," she cried mockingly, "you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest. The cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to you. You will never see her again."
The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife.
Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness. He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell on his neck and wept. Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before. He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.