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 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.

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.    

Mashup Mishaps

Hi All,

It’s pure silliness…

http://www.jumpcut.com/view/?id=B8D85C50DDC911DC9038000423CF3686

Mashup

Pen Pencil Marker Chalk

jump cut

here’s my video, it’s 3 minutes, sorry folks.

enjoy

http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=B80BEA50DD8611DC9969000423CF385C

mash up

Hey! Toby – I really like the skype video-chat mash up!  That’s a great idea.  Here’s my mash up.http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=D7B2FE4CDFBC11DCAB44000423CF037A 

Umpa Lumpa What? Lampedusa!

Hello All,

I am hoping this post comes out correctly, here goes.I decided to lose myself in the world of net art, but soon became confused and my head started to ache. I didn’t follow your leads Josephine (darn)…that’s what I get for going off solo into cyber-space…he he he.

Anyhow, I felt a lot of the net art bled into each other & I could no longer tell what was what: interactive art, installation art, performance art, video art, net music art, collaboration net art, multimedia net art…aaaah, the information overload was ENDLESS!

I finally came across a project (which I am hoping IS net art but am unsure) titled “How To Reach Lampedusa.” I wanted to paste a visual but was unsuccessful. This project did have an affect on me & that’s what I was after: an emotion. This project was included in a larger art site called, “Cute or Creepy.”

A video begins with images of loads of people bunched up & sitting on an over-crowded rocky beach. Words appear in the middle of the screen, a martian-esq female voice sings the words as if they were lyrics to a song, and it has a very karaoke feel to it. (You, the viewer, are able to follow the singer along.) A strange vibe does enter the picture slowly (both visually & sonic-ly.)

The island of Lampedusa is teeny compared to a regular-sized island & exists in the middle of nowhere; a forgotten destination of sorts, only reachable by plane or ship. Some experts claim that it is one of the best beaches in the world.

Lampedusa seems awful: hot, desert-like and colorless. Why would anyone want to go there, I balked. But this is where I feel the artist connects w/ a deeper message.

I felt land-locked & trapped with nowhere to run or escape to. There are a few bizarre shots of small crosses sticking out of the earth (like tombstones in a cemetery.) The camera goes back & forth from the tourists to the starkness of the island. Not much is happening: life passes & the people sit passively by on Lampedusa.

There is symbolism woven throughout: boredom, death, passivity. Once you arrive on Lampedusa, you’re dead. There is no going back. But then the artist surprised me! From out of the blue, a gorgeous miracle of a shot saves the day! My whole perception was suddenly twisted…aaah, these crazy net artist.

Take a look & enjoy!

1. http://artonline.jp/lampedusa/index.html

   Comment by raiinthesky | February 13, 2008 <!– @ 3:06 am –>

Interesting Panel discussion tonight

I can’t make it tonight to this but I thought maybe someone else might be able to

Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context
“Parallel Worlds: Explorations in Second Life”

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 – 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Free Admission

Related to a series of articles in Aperture magazine wherein Fred Ritchin explores postphotographic media and emerging technologies, this discussion focuses on the 3D virtual world Second Life, created entirely online by its residents.

Panelists:
Richard Minsky, founder of SLART magazine, a critical review and journal of Second Life Art
Fred Ritchin, New York University professor and a contributing editor of Aperture
Michael Van Horn, curator, the Joseph Monsen Collection, Seattle