On Friday we went to The Morgan Library & Museum on Madison for the first time. We looked at mostly Dan Flavin's collection of sketches, drawings, and paintings. It was amazing how much of his work was compiled for this show. Seeing a wide range of the breadth of work he's produced over time was in little ways, almost breathtaking. It really felt as if I was in his secret room, where he would go and escape from the world into his drawings, thoughts, and imagination.
Dan Flavin was best known for his fluorescent light installations. His collection consisted of hundreds of drawings of light fixtures, landscape, and portraits. Along with his work, Flavin's personal collection of artwork was also displayed. Seeing the work of other artists he chose to collect, made me wonder if and how much ones possessions can tell about someone. As an artist, he exhausted himself, drawing for hours on end. What I liked about his drawings was they were not about "likeness". He draws or records energy, emotion, feeling, and atmosphere.
"With a dashing pencil I have such a sense of freedom."
"I worked through being tired until I trembled but I felt relieved and pleased."
- D. Flavin
We have to be observers of our own work, in order to know what our interests are.
I think of the discussion we had about our printing class session in New Medias. We discussed about how printing can be part of the process in figuring out what it is we are looking for. I'm really indecisive when it comes to how I want my work to look like. I may still be in an exploratory stage as an artist. I'm still exploring and trying to figure out who I am as an artist. Recently, after working with generating movie clips, I fell in love with it! It's so much fun and I want to keep learning and getting better at it. It's been a while since I've felt this way about something before. I may have found a step towards who I am as an artist.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Thinking About Context
"Media art is often site-specific and sometimes interactive. As mentioned in class, the circumstances of how a work of art will be seen or presented determines the appearance of the work itself."
My video piece was actually more of an exploration of the iMovie program. I had never used video-producing software before and the thought was overwhelming upon receiving the assignment. However, the way I know I personally learn best, is to when dropped into the wilderness of the unknown and forced to figure things out on my own. This is basically what happened with every kind of software that i've grown to learn and used throughout my life. Reflecting back, I have self taught myself many things . Part of it is because I get bored easily and am not fond of tutorials or instructional classes. I feel like such a teenager sometimes...a lot of times....
Through creating the video piece, I tried different options that iMovie offered. Honestly, it was really exciting for me to manipulate a video template and to make it my own. Getting a sense of it, I felt I gained some power or ability. I want to refine and learn further how to use all the possibilities to my advantage. I really found a new interest in video making and it all started with this exercise.
In terms of where I would place this remix video.....
I imagine it to be projected largely on a blank wall. Possibly an exhibition for a late adolescent audience of Pop Culture presented through new media. It would be one of many surrounding work representing new media. I think it can be a source of inspiration and possibility for young people to discover what kinds of things are possible for them to have the power to recreate themselves.
My sound piece was also an exploration of mixing sounds together through Audacity. I've used Audacity to cut and attach songs for my dance performances in the past. I recorded sounds using my iPhone and imported them into the program. I realized the idea of using my iPhone as a tool to capture or record things for the use of art making was very new to me. It is still fairly a new concept. The applications along with functions of the iPhone are rapidly advancing at this very moment. I still feel hesitant about sound art and it's still unfamiliar grounds for me. I guess every artist has different mediums that speak to them, and feel they can best speak through. I've been learning that lately. There is so much out there. So much art that can be produced through endless means. It's all about how one connects and is able to express through it.
If I were to place this sound piece......
I remember the Carsten Holler exhibition at the New Museum. There was a piece where you entered a small dark black room with headphones and vision goggles. You would see a pathway through the goggles as you listened. I think I can see this sound piece in a similar setting, arranged for the audience to experience viewing a scene while listening to this sound.
My video piece was actually more of an exploration of the iMovie program. I had never used video-producing software before and the thought was overwhelming upon receiving the assignment. However, the way I know I personally learn best, is to when dropped into the wilderness of the unknown and forced to figure things out on my own. This is basically what happened with every kind of software that i've grown to learn and used throughout my life. Reflecting back, I have self taught myself many things . Part of it is because I get bored easily and am not fond of tutorials or instructional classes. I feel like such a teenager sometimes...a lot of times....
Through creating the video piece, I tried different options that iMovie offered. Honestly, it was really exciting for me to manipulate a video template and to make it my own. Getting a sense of it, I felt I gained some power or ability. I want to refine and learn further how to use all the possibilities to my advantage. I really found a new interest in video making and it all started with this exercise.
In terms of where I would place this remix video.....
I imagine it to be projected largely on a blank wall. Possibly an exhibition for a late adolescent audience of Pop Culture presented through new media. It would be one of many surrounding work representing new media. I think it can be a source of inspiration and possibility for young people to discover what kinds of things are possible for them to have the power to recreate themselves.
My sound piece was also an exploration of mixing sounds together through Audacity. I've used Audacity to cut and attach songs for my dance performances in the past. I recorded sounds using my iPhone and imported them into the program. I realized the idea of using my iPhone as a tool to capture or record things for the use of art making was very new to me. It is still fairly a new concept. The applications along with functions of the iPhone are rapidly advancing at this very moment. I still feel hesitant about sound art and it's still unfamiliar grounds for me. I guess every artist has different mediums that speak to them, and feel they can best speak through. I've been learning that lately. There is so much out there. So much art that can be produced through endless means. It's all about how one connects and is able to express through it.
If I were to place this sound piece......
I remember the Carsten Holler exhibition at the New Museum. There was a piece where you entered a small dark black room with headphones and vision goggles. You would see a pathway through the goggles as you listened. I think I can see this sound piece in a similar setting, arranged for the audience to experience viewing a scene while listening to this sound.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
New Media Final Project
For my New Media final project, the words I rolled were:
Community
Painting & Drawing
Photography
I'm excited to have gotten these three because they each relate to me in different ways. I wouldn't have thought to bring all three mediums together but it could produce something worth exploring. Community is something that really hits home to me because my mission and long term goals directly aligns with building community. Community can mean many things. It can be local or global. I've been involved in building both the local and global communities through various projects i've been a part of.
Powerhouse is the inner-city outreach program in Queens that I'm teaching at. I have a compiled database of my experiences in working with the students there including their artwork, photographs, and clips of interviews. I wonder if there's someway I can connect all of it together.
Because of my new found love of video-making, I really wanted to try and make a small clip representing what community looks like? I'm not sure about what theme I want to explore or represent.
Community
Painting & Drawing
Photography
I'm excited to have gotten these three because they each relate to me in different ways. I wouldn't have thought to bring all three mediums together but it could produce something worth exploring. Community is something that really hits home to me because my mission and long term goals directly aligns with building community. Community can mean many things. It can be local or global. I've been involved in building both the local and global communities through various projects i've been a part of.
Powerhouse is the inner-city outreach program in Queens that I'm teaching at. I have a compiled database of my experiences in working with the students there including their artwork, photographs, and clips of interviews. I wonder if there's someway I can connect all of it together.
Because of my new found love of video-making, I really wanted to try and make a small clip representing what community looks like? I'm not sure about what theme I want to explore or represent.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Teen Power
I can’t believe it’s already the end of April, almost the end of my first year in grad school. who would’ve thought I would be here. God works in such mysterious ways. reflecting on these eight months, I can’t wrap my head around all the things that have happened; things i’ve learned, realized, thought, felt. It’s been a ride. I was a bit distracted at one point but I’m getting back into school and being engaged again. school was never for me but I know grad school’s different. I feel my mind absorbing and growing, finding myself wanting to listen to professors about what they have to say. Yea…I have never felt that. It’s a weird feeling- pretty foreign to me…maybe it has to do with the fact that I’m realizing now, that I’m paying massive amounts for every word spoken.
yesterday in development of adolescences we had a few high school students from the frank sinatra high school come in our lecture to speak and answer questions. I was really taken aback by their level of maturity through the way they were able to express themselves. they were so insightful and well articulated. their visual language and repertoire of vocabulary was far more advanced than even some of the grad students in our program....
Roberto- 11th grade
Margarita- 12th grade
Samantha- 10th grade
Zahra- 10th grade
Margarita- 12th grade
Samantha- 10th grade
Zahra- 10th grade
a few words from our dialogue from the awesome teens:
“You say what you don’t wanna say in artwork.” – R.
“You get to try out different personalities like you try on your clothes.” – Z.
“I wanted to mix the colors and seems like the hues are swimming together.” – S.
“Watercolor is still difficult for me, its like dancing on the paper.” – S.
“Anger and frustration help me make the best artwork.” -Z.“It’s important to inspire your students to want to do art.” – M.
“Advice I would give you is to make yourself available.” – S.
they brought in some of their artwork to show us.
1. Samantha's Self Portrait
Acrylic on Canvas board
2. Zahra's Portrait of a Celeb
Acrylic on Canvas Board
'Caravaggio'
Rafaël Rozendaal
Rafaël Rozendaal
Born 1980, Dutch-Brazilian, lives and works everywhere.
His work researches the screen as a pictorial space, reverse engineering reality into condensed bits, in a space somewhere between animated cartoons and paintings. His installations involve moving light and reflections, taking online works and transforming them into spatial experiences.
Born 1980, Dutch-Brazilian, lives and works everywhere.
Rafaël Rozendaal is a visual artist who uses the internet as his canvas.
His artistic practice consists of websites, installations, drawings, writings and lectures. Spread out over a vast network of domain names, he attracts a large online audience of over 15 million visits per year.
His work researches the screen as a pictorial space, reverse engineering reality into condensed bits, in a space somewhere between animated cartoons and paintings. His installations involve moving light and reflections, taking online works and transforming them into spatial experiences.
"The idea is that you believe that you make something. Some people think the work is sort of a puzzle, and you have to pass the work and get to the meaning. The work is the meaning and the meaning is the work. It's as big as you want to make it." -R.R.
"I work on my computer so I can work anywhere. Tropical areas are usually cheaper."
BYOB: Bring Your Own Beamer
"Everything is cool. Let's just make chaos. It's just like a thrift store. Just bring your own mess and choose what you like. If anyone wants to do BYOB they can do it." -R.R.
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Website Projects
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I love his websites! They're so much fun and not so serious in the way that Art can be sometimes. Some of them are just so aesthetically beautiful. He uses vibrant and bold colors that awaken a part of your senses.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Lesson: Emotion Through Sound
I chose to explore my second potential lesson:
Objective: Through recording a sound they hear in their daily lives and depicting a memory or event that relates to it personally, using an audio recording device, students will learn that the sounds of their everyday can be experienced in different ways when put into other contexts.
My Sound Clip: Nightmare
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About My Process
I used two sound clips I hear in my everyday. The first clip was of the water faucet running and the second was of my footsteps. It was really good to try out this lesson because I realized more closely the restraints and freedoms it would give students. In reflection, I know my motivational dialogue and association need to be refined in a way that will guide students imaginative and creatively.
The memory or event I chose from my personal experiences, was a series of dreams that I've had since my adolescences. I've dreamt many times about finding myself in mysterious places where I'm running from something. I don't ever quite know where I'm going and I'm running from different things all the time. In these dreams, I often feel anxious, scared, nervous, and excited all at the same time. I wake up with my heart beating as if I were running. I still remember specific moments in the dreams vividly.
I combined the faucet running sound with the steps. The faucet sound clip had a crescendo effect that created a climatic sensibility. I felt it evoked similar emotions as those I've felt throughout events in the dream. I really liked the relationship of the rhythm of the steps and the faucet sound, and the way they emerged together creating a suspensful stage.
Objective: Through recording a sound they hear in their daily lives and depicting a memory or event that relates to it personally, using an audio recording device, students will learn that the sounds of their everyday can be experienced in different ways when put into other contexts.
My Sound Clip: Nightmare
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About My Process
I used two sound clips I hear in my everyday. The first clip was of the water faucet running and the second was of my footsteps. It was really good to try out this lesson because I realized more closely the restraints and freedoms it would give students. In reflection, I know my motivational dialogue and association need to be refined in a way that will guide students imaginative and creatively.
The memory or event I chose from my personal experiences, was a series of dreams that I've had since my adolescences. I've dreamt many times about finding myself in mysterious places where I'm running from something. I don't ever quite know where I'm going and I'm running from different things all the time. In these dreams, I often feel anxious, scared, nervous, and excited all at the same time. I wake up with my heart beating as if I were running. I still remember specific moments in the dreams vividly.
I combined the faucet running sound with the steps. The faucet sound clip had a crescendo effect that created a climatic sensibility. I felt it evoked similar emotions as those I've felt throughout events in the dream. I really liked the relationship of the rhythm of the steps and the faucet sound, and the way they emerged together creating a suspensful stage.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Class Discussion: Sound
Ideas we discussed in New Media class that stood out to me:
Visual Culture Vs. Sonic Culture
Sound is something that puts us in our place. It's a force. Something that we can't always choose to tune out like we turn away from visuals.
Think about the concept of listening.
When we listen, we are simultaneously thinking about other things. Other thoughts roam through our minds and we are constantly multitasking. It's difficult to tune out the noise of our own thoughts and to just simply listen. I think it's especially difficult for us living in a city such as New York where we're juggling different things is a constant in our lives.
Talking about types of communication, there is the visual and auditory. I don't think we think about the auditory form of communication as much as the visual. Possibly because we're here in an art education program, and in a generation where the visual culture is blowing up.
"Sound helps us to connect better to our feelings."
What does it mean to really listen?
What does it look and feel like when you tune yourself out and really listen to someone else.
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Silence can be healing.
Richard shared with us a story of when he was living in Austria by the trains. It took some time away from it all, being immersed into silence for these sounds to be accepted into his everyday.
The Absence of bodily noise; healing can come from the presence of sound.
Sound can be also seen and considered as a type of pollution.
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Websites to help with sound projects:
www.myfavoritesounds.org
www.nch.com
www.soundcloud.com
www.opsound.com
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"People who speak in their main language can get lazy.
You can only translate what you are certain of."
- R. Jochum
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Sound in the Classroom
Reflection:
I am not really quite sure how I feel about using sound as a material. The concept is so unfamiliar to me since I've never tried it and haven't seen much of it as an artist myself. The first step for me would be educating myself of the range that is out there within sound art. I can go about starting a sequence lesson with sound art as the main material. I can go about the umbrella theme in different ways:
1. I could start by introducing some sound artists that may spark interest to the students as a start, to expose them to it as a form of art as much as I can. I imagine the culture and atmosphere of every class to be different. I would carefully need to arrange what kinds of artists would best suit them to motivate accordingly.
2. I can have students listen to sound art, immerse them into the art without giving a framework about it. We can discuss and dialogue about their experience in hearing it. I imagine this to be interesting to hear. I would call this lesson 'First Impressions'.
Potential Lesson Ideas:
Material: Sounds
1. Objective: Through editing a sound that reflects a theme of something they feel strongly about, using an audio recorder, students will learn that sound can be used to represent a variety of feelings.
2. Objective: Through recording a sound they hear in their daily lives and depicting a memory or event that relates to it personally, using an audio recording device, students will learn that the sounds of their everyday can be experienced in different ways when put into other contexts.
I am not really quite sure how I feel about using sound as a material. The concept is so unfamiliar to me since I've never tried it and haven't seen much of it as an artist myself. The first step for me would be educating myself of the range that is out there within sound art. I can go about starting a sequence lesson with sound art as the main material. I can go about the umbrella theme in different ways:
1. I could start by introducing some sound artists that may spark interest to the students as a start, to expose them to it as a form of art as much as I can. I imagine the culture and atmosphere of every class to be different. I would carefully need to arrange what kinds of artists would best suit them to motivate accordingly.
2. I can have students listen to sound art, immerse them into the art without giving a framework about it. We can discuss and dialogue about their experience in hearing it. I imagine this to be interesting to hear. I would call this lesson 'First Impressions'.
Potential Lesson Ideas:
Material: Sounds
1. Objective: Through editing a sound that reflects a theme of something they feel strongly about, using an audio recorder, students will learn that sound can be used to represent a variety of feelings.
2. Objective: Through recording a sound they hear in their daily lives and depicting a memory or event that relates to it personally, using an audio recording device, students will learn that the sounds of their everyday can be experienced in different ways when put into other contexts.
Ryan Leslie
I'm not sure what the difference is between a sound artist and a musician. Don't they both make music with sound to make art?
Regardless, this is one of my favorite music producers.
Regardless, this is one of my favorite music producers.
Kitundu
Sound Artist: Kitundu is a sound/visual artist, graphic designer, composer and instrument builder. He uses an interdisciplinary approach to develop compositions-installations-instruments that blur the boundaries between media. He has constructed elemental turntables that rely on wood, water, fire and earthquakes for their power and pitch. Kitundu is the creator of a family of Phonoharps, beautifully crafted multi-stringed instruments made from record players. He strives to reconnect the technology of new music to fundamental principles from the natural world.
Marina Rosenfeld
Sound Artist : Marina Rosenfeld is an artist based in New York. Her hybrid
visual-musical works have been at the forefront of the redefinition of musical practice within
the field of contemporary art since the ’90s. Her performances, sound installations and objects,
including lenticular photographs produced in tandem with vinyl LP compositions, and custom
loudspeakers deployed in public and often monumental spaces, have worked to recast social and
sculptural relations as musical, blurring the line demarcating the improvised or incidental
from the composed.
Marina Rosenfeld -- leading her infamous electric-guitar ensemble, the Sheer Frost Orchestra
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
My Remix
This was my original video from youtube.
In college, I watched a lot of dance clips for inspiration when choreographing for my dance team. I often wondered what different moves would look like moved to different songs. This video remix project allowed for me to try one out. I had lots of fun with it....I think you'll be able to tell. Hope you enjoy!!! :D
Monday, April 9, 2012
Video Projects in the Classroom
I'd like to incorporate videos in the classroom connecting to what they're interested in. I would think of a list of projects high school students can incorporate using video as a tool. This would be an example of one of them:
1. What are is an issue that teenagers face? How do you feel about this issue? Portray your perspective on this issue through a video clip. How do you want to represent this issue? What images, visuals, or audio would you want to help get your ideas across?
I would want these projects to be focused on what is important to students and help relate to things that they are experiencing. Creating a video of any sort takes much analysis and orchestrating different things. I think it would be a great tool for students to think deeply about certain topics or to explore in depth about anything they are concerned with.
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1. What are is an issue that teenagers face? How do you feel about this issue? Portray your perspective on this issue through a video clip. How do you want to represent this issue? What images, visuals, or audio would you want to help get your ideas across?
I would want these projects to be focused on what is important to students and help relate to things that they are experiencing. Creating a video of any sort takes much analysis and orchestrating different things. I think it would be a great tool for students to think deeply about certain topics or to explore in depth about anything they are concerned with.
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Ken Allen Studio
As a class, we visited the Ken Allen Studio located in Brooklyn. It was really interesting to hear about the different processes that a printing studio goes through from start to finish. As an art student, I was always at the other end as a customer/client requesting prints of my projects. It was nice to hear about the different paper in association to the images being printed. It was informative and felt it would be essential to keep in mind for future printing of my work. Throughout Ken's talks, I kept thinking printing is very relative and depends on many factors. According to the customer/client, it can be a real tedious process for the printing studio. Everything comes into play and must be thought out: the paper quality, the image, the relationship of image to specific paper, the aesthetic desired by the artist or photographer, etc. Catering to artists must be very difficult especially if they are very particular.
Ken also touched upon important photography techniques to improve image quality accordingly. I've learned the functions so many times but when it comes down to it at the moment, it's hard to stop, make everyone wait, and change around the functions. I guess it depends on what kind of photos you're taking. If it's for your art, I'm sure you would have the time. I'm not much of a photographer so I usually take pictures to capture the moment. From what Ken discussed, I can see the processes of photography almost as baking a cake. Everything must be set from the start, and once it goes in the oven it's only a reflection of the ingredients put in and amount of time baked according to the heat. I see photo's going through quite a similar process. One must be very thoughtful in setting each function according to the environment, and also in playing with settings on any photo editor before printing. It's nice to be reminded of these processes although I am not a photographer myself. I'm afraid it may be because I'm too impatient to be thoughtful of all these factors that come into play.
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Ken also touched upon important photography techniques to improve image quality accordingly. I've learned the functions so many times but when it comes down to it at the moment, it's hard to stop, make everyone wait, and change around the functions. I guess it depends on what kind of photos you're taking. If it's for your art, I'm sure you would have the time. I'm not much of a photographer so I usually take pictures to capture the moment. From what Ken discussed, I can see the processes of photography almost as baking a cake. Everything must be set from the start, and once it goes in the oven it's only a reflection of the ingredients put in and amount of time baked according to the heat. I see photo's going through quite a similar process. One must be very thoughtful in setting each function according to the environment, and also in playing with settings on any photo editor before printing. It's nice to be reminded of these processes although I am not a photographer myself. I'm afraid it may be because I'm too impatient to be thoughtful of all these factors that come into play.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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