Arubio3

4D studio foundations

[alenar3]

[alenar3]

20 verbs

to store

to tear

to disarrange

to spill

to mature

to survive

to collect

to distribute

to compliment

to surround

to erase

to twist

to splash

to dilute

to continue

to bundle

to split

to scatter

to spread

to support

[alenar3]

Reading 4 response

One of Marina Abramović’s goals is to expose performance art as “art” because it is often misunderstood. To do this she creates works that challenge the minds of viewers everywhere. She even uses herself as an element of her art sometimes. An example of this would be the performance she did at the MoMA. The artist sat down with thousands of her fans one by one. During this time she gazed into their eyes so they would share a very intimate moment. Marina talks about the distant relationship she and her mother had which leads to her explicit artwork. I believe this performance represents the connection and intimacy she would've liked to have with her mother.

[ecastelart]

For my video art project I used footage from 3 different time lapse videos of flowers opening and closing that I found on archive.org. I used instrumental music by the Piano Guys and I recorded myself reading a poem I found online. My goal was to use the flowers and their opening and closing process as an interpretation of vanishing and becoming. As the flowers are closed this is the state of vanishing and as the flowers open they are becoming. The poem is about a woman who is escaping reality and leaving her physical body and discovering a new world made of her inner desires and dreams. I felt that this poem and the flowers transformation, which all occur in one minute, shows how abstract reality really is. Even when we have an empirical sense of reality we immediately question it. I think it is hard for us to understand what is real or believe something is real unless it is our own reality. After completing this project and reading Vanishing and Becoming I have decided that reality is totally subjective.

[trudylovato-blog]

The video was beautiful and fit the poem and assignment perfectly.

[spiderscissors-blog]

The idea of using a poem in your audio works very well with this idea. It demonstrates further your point that reality is subjective and you are projecting your reality with your voice so that the viewer can hear and see an idea that you have. It works really well.

[mokenjirip]

Dude. this is intense. Odd. weird. I agree, reality is completely subjective. I like the poem and the audio layer on top of the video. Good work.

[alenar3]

Very creative. I like that fact that you read the poem yourself. This is powerful!

[mysticdefendordream]

I felt inspired by the reading and the discussions with my fellow classmates.  It got me thinking of the cycles within life such as the phases we go through as we age, cycles of flowers, trees, butterflies, and life and death.  

I recently had a death in my family, and so I was especially drawn to the cycles one experiences throughout life as well as life and death itself.  The idea that while we are here, we experience a sort of vanishing and becoming as we age and become different people in different stages of life, really struck me.  It reminded me that while we are here, experiencing our subjective reality, to become something beautiful and spread that beauty before we vanish into the ether, beyond, heaven, whatever you want to call it.

I fell in love with this portion of the Fantasia 2000 film!  I paired it with a favorite song of mine called, Blessed We Are, by Peia.  My hope is that the film and the song can convey my idea of the cycles within life that destroy and remake us, and becoming/sharing/spreading the love before we vanish.

I tried to be abstract as possible, cutting out parts of the storyline but ultimately feel like some of the events add to the overall idea.  I spent hours editing a 9 minute clip down to about 1.5 minutes.  I hope you enjoy it as mush as I do!  

[trudylovato-blog]

The song does go along with The images in the video. It is clear that you put a lot of work into this.

[spiderscissors-blog]

This is a very beautiful pairing of song and video. I really enjoy the emotion shown in the clip from Fantasia I think it mirrors the mood of the song very well. This was lovely to watch.

[mokenjirip]

This must have taken some time to edit. Good flow, I felt connected throughout the whole piece. 

[alenar3]

Such a great story and the music you added makes it even more intriguing.

[mountainorbit-blog]

For my Project #3, I chose to respond to Gorky’s ‘Kingdom of Shadows’. While reading his impression of B/W silent film, I was reminded of winters during my time in Wisconsin: a stormy winter grey sky blending into a grey earth, monotone and colorless. The first half of my video, I have captured images that had an absence of life. For my main audio track, I used NASA’s electromagnetic sound waves of Saturn’s rings as this was the loneliest, most distant and lifeless sound I could imagine.

From here I focused my theme into ‘becoming’. The B/W image starts to move, first monotone, then burst into color. I sampled parts of a U2 song, looping a musical phrase and layered lyrics on top of it, choosing key lyrics that  I thought would support my response to Gorky…”So many ways of seeing, this is no time, not to be alive”.

[trudylovato-blog]

The video is edited beautifully. The images went well with the music and the concept was cohesive.

[spiderscissors-blog]

I really loved the video footage you used. The swirling colors go really well with the audio. Where did you find those videos??

[mokenjirip]

It seems that the images which capture the “absence of life” actually captures life within a moment, don’t you think? Super cool.

[alenar3]

Wow couldn’t stop watching this. And the audio is perfect for the content

[alenar3]

Project 3 For this project I was inspired by a documentary I found on archive.org. It takes place in Africa and is basically about how these animals have to kill to survive (circle of life.) the message that I am trying to put forward is that even though one life vanishes another lives on; This is simply reality. I used IMovie to make this. The audio is an instrumental version of a song by J Cole.

[alenar3]

Response to reading 3

In the reading Projection: Vanishing and Becoming, The author Sean Cubitt describes many different definitions of projection. He first describes projection as more of an art form. A maiden traces the shadow of her lover on the wall with charcoal. What is left is simply what has been projected through light, his shadow. Even though the lover has vanished his outline is still there. This could be considered art because it has a significant meaning behind it.

Next the author describes projection through a more psychological point of view. Behaviors and feelings can be projected from a human to another human. This was the most interesting part to me because projection of inner life can change anyone's thoughts and views, which can ultimately change the world.   

[alenar3]

Exercise 3 This is my daughter. She will be one next month. My goal was to show her growth process. I’m not going to lie I cried a little while making this haha. The song is called “Mama’s Song” by Carrie Underwood. I used IMovie to create this.

[ecastelart]

For my exercise I used audio from the song This is America by Childish Gambino and a video of the television show Tarzan. I wanted to draw parallels between the dualities black identity in America from the song and the dualities of colonialism in Africa from Tarzan. I need to keep working on my editing but this exercise helped me with basics.

[alenar3]

Artist Statment project #2

For project 2 I decided to make GIFs from one of my favorite movies “Grease.” I chose this movie specifically because It includes a lot of choreography. Initially my first idea was to only capture moments of people dancing. However while I was watching the movie I realized there were several moments where there was a funny or emotional reaction or just something more intriguing than dancing. This lead me to make a combination of both. I used an app called “ImgPlay” to make my GIFs. there are so many ways to make a GIF more interesting. For example you could slow it down, speed them up, or even put it in reverse. I had fun with this project.

[morgangracelove-blog]

For this project I wanted to tell the story of the Wizard of Oz. I picked important moments from the movie to tell the story. I added one additional GIF at the end of the Cowardly Lion jumping out the window since I found that part very funny as a child. I wish Tumblr would allow for larger files to be posted as I think it would make a better impact, but that isn’t how it works.  I also wish I was able to find better clips online that didn’t have the logo or watermark, but there wasn’t a lot of options.

[andrewbissell]

I think that the variety of clips you chose are spot-on, and that you did a good job of picking scenes that both loop interestingly and look appealing.

[trudylovato-blog]

This is one of the greatest films ever and you chose really impactful images.

[alenar3]

Interesting choice of images. Well done !

[chataigneprsfr-blog]

Project #2

Movie 1

Movie 2

For this project I chose two different movies that I really enjoy, both are French films, for this I wanted to show the expressions of people during various acts and situations. For example the last one, it is after he has taken a shot of this very nasty alcohol, while his wife has just passed out. The first movie is Taxi (1-4), the scenes represent the absurdity of these cops, and the crazy things they do. This should be significant because most of them are basic human reactions, its a daily life event with which we pay little attention to, as well as the absurdities like the flying cars, and the ninja scene of the movie. Although I doubt a lot of us jump into a trash collector from a highway, but I thought the scene was funny and the GIF made me laugh. For this project the hardest thing was trying to slow down the gifs, they are much faster on Tumblr then on Photoshop, and I couldn’t figure out how to change them. My original thought was one movie, but I couldn’t find enough clips that I would have liked to use for these. 

[alenar3]

Exercise 2 Love the simplicity of this GIF

[alenar3]

Exercise 2 This reminded me of project one.

[alenar3]

Exercise 2 Put a smile on my face.

[alenar3]

Exercise 2 Passing of time and repetition