Final Project

Here’s my final project…

Anywhere But Here

DIVA – Digital Video Art Fair New York

A few weeks ago, DIVA set up shipping crates around the Chelsea gallery area. The crates housed digital and video art installations from surrounding galleries like, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts and FRAME.  

Paper Deviations by David Caspe is one man’s tirade about his fears of getting married. The artist animates himself in underwear then video records the drawings in a flip book like style, the funniest and cleverest of the piece is the voice-over neurotic rant of a stereotypical New Yorker.

On the Homefront by Lisa Dahl, you step into a grassy container (Astroturf) with the faint smell of cut grass in the air, I was quickly shaken to my senses with the sounds of machines guns and shouting.  The artists’ video projects suburban homes with picket fences through the lenses of infrared goggles.  The artists’ commentary is on the war in Iraq.  It was pretty powerful, but loud and scary. Certainly a dose of reality. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moma Review

Since i was not able to go to the Moma Show, “Design and the Plastic Mind”, i went to the website and took a peak at the online exhibition tour in which I found quite interesting…   What caught my attention was “Smell +” under Sensory Design that explains how people can be attracted to one another by pheromones.  This experiment is a couple divided by a wall connected only by tubes that are attached to their noses, armpit and sexual organs. Each person has different smells and diverse olfactory stimulations which can lead to match individuals according to their odor formula.

Ps. Online there are fifty extra works that are not shown in the exhibition at Moma.

MOMA show

I went to see the MOMA show Design and the Elastic Mind, I found it overall quite a good show, although I did feel that as the MOMA tends to do they lumped art and design together based on something random in this case technology.  My favorite pieces were Troika piece titled Newton Virus, in which a virus is inserted into a laptop and it causes the Mac user’s interface to fall down and be subjected to Newton’s theory of gravity.  It’s almost a one liner but it’s funny so it gets away with a lot in my book.  On the other hand I felt Simon Haldane Lightweeds was more of a commentary how we experience nature these days and how little of it is real. Lightweeds is a living piece of art they grow indoors but rely on the sun and rain in the real world to do so.  I also enjoyed Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin it’s an animated piece which documents the flight pattern for domestic flights in a 24-hour span.

Experiment for Final Project

Hey all,

I was playing around with ideas for my final project (which will hopefully turn out to be an audio composition consisting of samples from the geotagged sounds on freesound.org), and I thought I’d share the product of today’s work.  It’s far from what I want my final project to sound like, but it’s a start!

The samples I used for this mix came from Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and I think there might be one sample from South America.  Enjoy listening to the whole world all at the same time!

Collage One

Show opening

If anyone happens to be in Bloomington, IN this summer I’m in a group show at the Kinsey Institute.

Sonia Andrade – video artist

This is a video of Sonia Andrade’s work. This is her showing in Rio de Janeiro Brazil at Galeria Tempo.    

The Most Wanted Paintings

Komar & Melamid: The Most Wanted Paintings

http://www.diacenter.org/km/painting.html

http://www.diacenter.org/km/index.html

The Job Interview, Starring Your Avatar

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Here’s the NYTimes article about companies hosting job interviews in Second Life. Imagine, interviewing from the comfort of your office computer– no more sneaking out for 2 hour lunches.

the getty

Sorry I missed class last week I was in LA on business but I did get a chance to go to the Getty, which was amazing.  I saw two shows there that I thought everyone might enjoy in context of this class.

The first is a video piece by Nicole Cohen, which reminds me of the Telematic Dreaming piece we saw in class.  See the link and a few stills I took while there.

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/nicole_cohen/

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The second is a Bill Viola video see some stills and a video (although it’s on it’s side)

http://www.getty.edu/news/press/center/viola_release_110807.html

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