Vanessa NMA 2050

Self portrait and animation!

My work explores the moment of escaped emotions. It captures the quick seconds of bliss, anger, affection, or confusion, where a person is no longer posing but reflexing how they truly feel at the time. 

I enjoy the mysterious element emotion adds to photographs, videos, or sound because it creates a genuine atmosphere, which can invoke a personal connection with the viewer. I want viewers to understand through my work, the unspoken language is just as important as the words we speak. I often find myself, trying to add humor to my work because it allows for silence to break between viewers.

Through my art work, I want others to add their own personal lives to the images they see. My art pieces are not meant represent just someone’s face but through the persons eyes or body expression the viewer can see a mirror reflection of the world that hides in their minds.

I really enjoyed that “RiP: A Remix Manifesto,” is an activist documentary about copyright against the limit in freedom of digital art. It’s interesting that art has many political and business restrictions. I found that we have the ability of creating anything but the issue starts when the artist want to publish their work to share with others.

I had to laugh when Marybeth Peters the resister of copyright worker said, “you can’t base your creativity off of other people’s stuff.” This made me think of artist like painters and photographers who are inspired by other artist’s work and create their own unique piece that are completely different. In interview featuring Florence the main singer of the band Florence and the Machine, she said when she was writing one of her songs; it was inspired by a beat from a Rihanna song. With that beat she started she developed her top hit song “The Dog Days Are Over.” Artists are usually inspired by other artist’s work and by being inspired they create a piece that is unique to the creator.

The documentary expresses that when people are enjoying listening to music they don’t think about what copyrights the song may be facing, I’m just feeling the emotions or the vibe the music is making me feel. It’s like when we watch movies, many of can say we aren’t thinking about the company’s that own the rights but about the characters. If you like filmmaking you might be paying attention to the production and the budget of the film.

I do think it’s sad that there are so many restrictions in movie making, music, and art because it creates a larger antisocial creative environment. There was a part of the documentary where they spoke about artist having a conversations with each others work. This brought me back to a time where I was taking a creative writing class where we we’re focusing on writing and reading poetry. One of the students wrote a poem and read it out loud. The professor commented saying that one of the lines of the poem was the exact line of a poem we had read. The student frankly started to say he didn’t notice but she stopped him and said that he was having a conversation with the poet. No penalties, this experience has stood with me and I enjoyed that the documentary mentioned that.

I do believe that credit should be given to all artist that contribute to an artist work. Sampling is a bit more sensitive since the artist like Girl Talk, is using bits and pieces of others work and manipulating them to their own. Since these artist are working in collaboration there should be credit given.

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http://www.ubu.com/sound/bayle.html -Oiseau Chanteur – 1964

I initially picked this sound because I liked the speakers voice in the beginning. I like how the sound the sound goes in and out and sounds like someone is tuning a radio to different stations but it might just be all instrumental. The sound also remains me of a cartoon character getting away with something because it sounds like someone is laughing and the sound that backs it up is intense.

I enjoyed how Russolo introduced our relationship with sound in “The Art of Noises” by stating “in antiquity, life was nothing but silence….In fact, nature is normally silent, except for storms, hurricanes, avalanches, cascades, and some exceptional movements.” The start of noise was natural and unconscious because it was not man made or manipulated. This is why he goes on to say “the ear of a eighteen century man never could withstood the discordant intensity of some of the chords produced by our orchestra, on the other hand our ears rejoice in it, for they are attuned to modern life.” This makes me wonder if Russolo would be able to withstand the music we listen to in the 21st century.

It is important for noise or music to evolve and change over time because it adds to the diversity of sound that can be produced. It also allows us not to be bored or annoyed by the current state of noise. Russolo mentions that we appreciate the classics but in a way they become a cliché and we don’t want to hear them as someone from that era would. I can say that music from two centuries ago might sound outdated or overused but I’m grateful for them because they have influences in modern music. I think it’s cool that every different generation has a new library music that is created and is always available to listen.

A great fact was that “each noise possesses among its irregular vibrations a predominant pitch.” I was intrigued to learn that no matter the difference of each pitch it does not drive the noise from it authentic. This reminded me of singers who may perform their most popular songs even though the words are the same, the noise their voices make will not be exactly the same from their last performance.

Wark’s work “A Hackers Manifesto,” was written in an interesting way.” I found myself reading it like it was a code or like a poem because all the subjects that Wark writes about seemed to connect like hackers connects with manifestation, production, etc.

A quote I enjoyed was “To hack is to produce or apply the abstract to information and express the possibility of new worlds.” I think he is trying to say that hacking simply comes from an idea that is abstract because at the moment it doesn’t exist only to the mind of the creator but then it turns into something real.

Many people would give hackers a bad reputation like the freaks and geeks that are mentioned in paragraph 03, because hackers are known to tamper with what is not theirs. But in this text he doesn’t give the impression that he is blaming them for doing something that people may consider as illegal. Instead, Wark’s writing has a tone of respect of the process and explains of a hacker.

In paragraph 03, I think Wark is trying to say that we don’t know how to explain how we are different from other individuals from the class we choose to be in. He gives us different sections that can help us better explain how we produce, abstract, and manifest what we do. Although “A Hackers Manifesto,” mainly explains the process, influence, and impact hackers have to the world, I think it can be abstract to other classes. In a way, we are like hackers because there we are more involved in many aspects of life than just being a hacker, artist, philosopher, and other classes or professions. I would have to agree with Warker’s point that we are all hackers because we are influence by other and history. We take what we learn and manifest it to our own art in life.