Final Project-Take a walk in my shoes
Immersive World – April 7, 2016
Before Lance Weiler did his presentation, he had all the audience write down on an index card a storytelling technique he uses on his own projects. Including a Sherlock Holmes project, he did at the Lincoln Center. The purpose of this technique is to help the creator/s of a project find purpose in a project and what is the core value of it. For example:
He paired the audience. Each person told a story and was asked why this story was important to them. As they told the story and ended their story, the person listening would ask why a total of three times. This technique helped the person telling the story to reflect on why this story was important and helped the listener understand why this story was interesting or important to listen to.
I think as a creator of our art, we should ask ourselves why are we doing this and why is it important to us. When we understand this information ourselves through self-reflection, we are able to create something that people will also understand. I think a lot of time we start working on a project and jump right into it without really understanding why we doing it. We have an idea, but sometimes it might be hard to get the messaged across if we ourselves don’t really understand why we are doing it.
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http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2016/03/23/baruch-college-performing-arts-center-presents-immersive-worlds-science-narrative-and-the-arts/
Immersive Worlds April 7, 2016
Lance Whiler
Story Telling
One of the 18 people who changed Hollywood
writer and director
allows people to interact with a project
“Outside the box”
the story is the same, it’s the telling of the story that is changing
Doyle –
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Project at Lincoln Center
Human Experience is important
the trace
1. granting agency
2.thematic frame
3.social movement
Sam Labs
Voodoo Monkey –
Rotary Phone that had a “GPS” that had a point where it was active
GIF HUB
Sherlock Homes
@columbiaDSL
Body Mind Change
POD Wants to Know You
Generating personal experience and how can ” people connect new emergent opportunities” People go through an Emotional and artificial intelligence installation and upon the different
LIKA
toy for kids
read data and collected data around the world
kids teach her things
teaching STEM
Welcome to an Experiment in Scarcity & abundance
Blog 2
Krauss speaks about how the early works of video art are narcissistic in nature. They revolve around the artists and their bodies and the way they move in front of the camera. They shoot themselves, direct themselves, and make art about themselves. This also relates back to art before video where there are artists that would make a plethora of self portraits and draw themselves over and over again feeding into the narcissism that Krauss speaks about. On the other hand, McLuhan speaks about different types of mediums hat are used in art. He speaks about hot and cold media. Hot being high definition, meaning that it’s very descriptive and leaves nothing to the imagination. Whereas cold media is something low definition that leaves the recipient with holes to fill in themselves. Forms of hot media include movies, photographs, and plays. Cold media could include paintings, cartoons, and sculptures. The difference between hot and cold media doesn’t only end with definition it also includes interactivity between the art and the recipient. Cold media is more interactive with the audience than hot media is because it leaves room for interpretation and input from the audience.
Three techniques that Krauss speaks about is reflection, feedback, and vectors. The one I would like use in my pieces would probably boomerang. It seems interesting trying to actually listen to yourself talk at a different pace than what you hear in your own head. This would lead to some pretty interesting reactions. Even replaying the audio in the video would be pretty interesting by putting the audience in the same position as the artist in this case. That would lead to another type of connection between the artist and the audience members and it could lead yo some deeper thinking. Maybe some questioning about how we communicate and whether we listen to our on voices when we talk.
Snatching Attention and Time
“I have been arguing that during the last century in and as cinema and other media technologies, capital, that is, leveraged exchange with productive labor for the purpose of profit, has undergone a metamorphosis” -Jonathan Beller
Here Beller makes in interesting point about where the future of the entertainment and art industries are going. They’re moving away from simply paying people for their work and moving towards a system that pays per view. There is now a large market for just consuming content and to companies are scrambling to monetize it. For example, YouTube pays content creators by they amount of views that they get on the ads on their videos. The incentive is no longer making something for the sake of art it is now making something in the sake of attention. Attention rules the way the internet makes money and those who keep the most attention make the most money. So the capital that you’re trading for your labor, in terms of how Beller is speaking about it, is attention for content. It makes an interesting dynamic in terms of content being put out into the internet and the true intentions behind them.
“The history of photography reveals a further motivation behind art’s experiments in stopping time: to escape death, to reel the body back from certain deterioration.” –T.J. Demos
This excerpt puts into perspective the human fascination with photography. It allows us to take a moment and take it out of its reality and make it yours. Photography allows us to keep a fleeting single moment and make it las a lifetime. There is something interesting about the connection people have with photography especially in terms interpretation. Interpretation plays a pretty large role in the draw of photography since there are no specific instructions when it comes to photography. It’s you look at the picture and see what you feel when you look at it. I think photography is mostly about snatching a moment in time and presenting it in a way in which others will feel what you felt in that exact moment. You experience someone else’s perspective in a single moment in time and that you were never a part of, but here you are witnessing it. The feeling of seeing someone else’s is so foreign that photography will always have people appreciating it.
Blog 2 hot and cold
This article discusses the types of information we receive and how some could provide us with a whole lot of info like photography and how some force us to go further to find more information like a telephone. The sources that provide with very little information are referred to as “Cold Media”, and the one’s that provide us with a ton of information is called “Hot Media
Artist Statement Video 3
Bryan Britt
Video 1
Artist statement Video 3
David and I made a collaboration video where we wanted to show a linear timeline of the evolution mankind. We wanted to show an aspect of man being evil, and subsequently man leading to the demise of man. We see things change over time, going from life being simple to life being more complex. With the Idea of Moore’s Law, things grow exponentially to a point where it’s out of control; the planet can’t sustain this grow and explodes. It’s leaner through time, starting at the ocean, life began at the ocean. It has four frames that are all lined up together to give a relaxing feeling. It then goes to the birth of man, and we see man fighting, this shows the beginning of the destruction. It then leads to the decay of the pyramids; this signifies the passing of great civilizations. We then see the Empire State Building raising before the native peoples of the lands. This signifies the loss of the lands and the introduction of industrial setting and the attacks on nature. The next scene we see a construction site where a portion of the city is being built on top of itself, this is to give you the idea of space running out. Where do you build when you can only build on top of something that’s already urbanized? We then see what appears to be a confused bird, this is supposed to be the downward spiral of man. It’s nature trying to coexist with urbanization. It then speeds ahead to the planet exploding, man is destroyed.
Nicholas O’brien
I had an exceptional time visiting the Nicolas O’Brian closing. I was very beneficial, because when making art there’s two sides; there’s making the actual tangible piece for your viewer, and discussion of your art. I felt what was most unique about Mr. O’Brien, not only was he an amazing visual/ interactive artist, but his ability to convey the message of his art through a deeper lens for discussion. It was clear that he loved making his art, but he also enjoyed the research portion for him to get information on the topic. His ability at critiquing his own pieces was one of the best I’ve heard. I loved how he was able to bring light to things that would normally get over looked. His perspective on the vacant buildings in Illinois helped me with some of the ideas that have been revolving around in my head with this idea of systems. I was amazing how he was able to uncover how the housing market was directly affecting this ecosystem of these buildings, and why they were being demolished. I was lucky enough to interact with Mr. O’brien and was able to ask him questions about his work. I felt that he was very helpful and very concise. I was most interested in his ability on keeping his personal bias separated without compromising his work. He achieves this by doing a lot of research beforehand and making sure that his sources are reliable. I was also interested in the undertone of anger in his delivery. He explained that it was the style of his delivery that would lead me to think this, it was all intended to be part of the experience. He was an unique mind to pick and I’m glad I was able to do so.