Category Archives: HW Blog 01

It is incredible to see how far video art has come since its beginnings in the middle of the last century. I think this progress is clearly illustrated by two examples: one from the earliest days of video art, and a contemporary one. When played side-by-side, John Baldessari’s “I’m Making Art” and Omer Fast’s “5000 […]

The following lines will show my own opinion about two pieces of art that arouse my interest In his piece “Guitar Drag”, Christian Marclay uses a one shot camera as a technique to communicate a no stop travel. His vision was focused in leaving the audience and keep the continuity of the trip, that is […]

In John Baldessari’s performance I am making art, he is either mocking modern art or contributing to it. The piece is from 1970 which is towards the end of the period of abstract expressionism. This video is in response to artist suck as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. After these artists became popular, everyone would […]

Two of the stand out pieces to me were Ever is Over All and the Guitar Drag piece. Ever is Over All struck me on an emotional level. My immediate honest reaction was, “what a prick!” I hate seeing destruction of costly property because I know that someone’s going to have to pay for it […]

John Baldessari: I Am Making Art I find this video to be actually really funny. I believe the artist’s intention was to mimic that everything and anything can be “art,” but also creatively mixing sarcasm and reality. John is doing nothing different that would otherwise consider his video not art. I like how John effectively […]

In the Fischli and Weiss collaboration, there was of course a lot of prep work. However, the way they set up their project in combination with the name of the piece, they seemed to have intended to portray a series of natural occurrences. By taking these familiar objects out of context and rearranging them to […]

Christian Marclay – Arrastere De Guitarra Arrastere De Guitarra is filmed in a very simple angle. It’s almost as though he wanted it to how simple it is. The one thing I believe that Christian is trying to show us is sound, to be able to visualize it. After watching this clip more than a […]

Douglas Stan The camera is proportional to the perceived emotion/feel of the shot. If there is a rant or fast movement, the camera tracks the object in unsteady “steps”. In contrast, a moody or relaxed shot is tracked steadily to keep a relative horizon line in each moment. A consistency to be noted is the […]

Semiotics of the Kitchen actually gave me chills because I was genuinely scared of Martha Rolser or I’m assuming that’s her in the piece. Her movements with every object were very stiff and sharp. There was a lot of tension in her body. The camera stayed in one place pretty much the whole time apart […]

Douglas Stan – “Television Spots & Monodramas” (1987-1991) As someone who wants to create ads for a living, I really enjoyed Stan’s pieces. Having actually purchased ad space, the irreverent nature of his work was able to capture attention and make people wonder. (So much so that some people called the TV stations to ask what […]