Allison 4D

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Project #4

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Performance: A Hidden History Response

Performance art, like the art of projection, is an artform people participate in on a daily basis.  Goldberg’s piece explores those boundaries between art and everyday behavior, and asks how we can use these artforms more fluidly in life.  “Performance is a catalyst for the culture of the future.” Performance art is more able to intimately emulates reality because it must be experienced firsthand.  Furthermore, it encapsulates all other aspects through which making art can manifest.  Fashion, for example uses multiple mediums and displays them through the medium of the body and the person wearing the clothes.  We perform important interactions with others by creating the right state of mind in ourselves.  Since performance is based so heavily on state of mind, it can help us understand the ways in which we are performing all works of art.

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1. To belittle

2. To withstand

3. To grow

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Verbs

To withstand

To control

To release

To fight

To harass

To criticize

To overcome

To seek

To subjugate

To demean

To belittle

To reject

To replace

To ignore

To surrender

To change

To grow

To ground

To uplift

To restart

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The Artist is Present Response

When we make 2 or 3 dimensional, the challenge artists face is to push the boundaries of what they can do with that limitation.  Getting to know Abromovic and her work frames performance art as a great form of art.  Using the body and all of its contents as the medium for a story challenges the artist to push the boundaries of that medium as well.  But we are all aware of the boundaries are bodies are bound by.  Pain is something everyone knows, yet is often feared and bottled up.  Exposing that pain connects us in a more intimate way than we are accustomed to.  

Sitting confined can sometimes be painful.  My first impression of Abromovic was to recoil and call her crazy.  Her grotesque manner of discussing human problems was unusual in that I felt to be a part of it.  The feelings her live audiences must go through as they watch her confinement must be rapid and overwhelming.  Although I could not know it without experiencing it, I empathize with her vulnerability and her pain.  She puts herself in this vulnerable place, though.  Is the sacrifice of her body and pride enough to convey her message? Sometimes the shock value alone could do that, and this film has encouraged me to sacrifice my personal comfort and look closer.  

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Project 3

Artist Statement: “Vanishing and Becoming, my dinner”

For this project I wanted to take the idea of “Vanishing and Becoming” quite literally through the life of my tomato plant harvest, as well as some associated chaos that can come along with transforming something into something else. My videos are all original because I wanted this to be a personal project from the perspective of the artist. My audio is all royalty free use sound effects compiled through Adobe Premiere. I’m inspired by the chaotic nature of DADA art, as well as mainstream ASMR videos. I kept my lighting according to my environment, with some adjustments to the saturation and highlights to emphasize the natural shadows of both environments. I have distorted the audio slightly for a more “natural” and chaotic effect. 

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Our ideas were very similar, yet yours was very focused on the main event of the tasty peta bread.  The life cycles of our meals and drinks can be chaotic, and the feeling of the chopping and other harsh sounds adds an element of stress or anticipation.  

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1 minute video for projection 

[the-grungella]

I think you did capture the project outline for both themes of projection and vanishing and becoming.  The fact that you’re riding at night down a dirt trail combined with the music makes this ominous, as if you were trying to vanish and escape to somewhere else.  I think you could have pushed a spooky theme by adding in different videos from different settings that add to the mood. 

[annabellemkoerner]

For project #3 I did bang bang I shot you down as the song with a recording of a dandelion gone to seed. Both of these things for me have a permanence because they are recorded now so therefor they are now forever, while also having this sense of ending. The song is about being shot down and being gone, and dandelions go to seed at the end of their life cycle and get blown away. They have a delicate existence.

I chose an extremely limited color palette with a “western” filter on it. I wanted it to be bright and dull at the same time. When the colors were vibrant and super saturated it was too happy for my theam of fragility, ending, and eclipsing.

The sun also plays a big role in this project for me because I couldn’t look at it while I recorded it but my goal was to have the dandelion; something so fragile and small eclipse the sun; something so big and powerful. To block it out without any harm to my eyes is also a powerful thought. This really harkens back to our reading in the way that video is a reflection of life and let’s us see and do things now that wouldn’t be possible with other media’s.

[the-grungella]

I love the focus on depth of emotion here through the senses.  The sound of the blowing on combination with the swaying of the dandelion in the wind draws me into the moment.  Using something as universal as the dandelion connects my memories of this experience.  I love the contrast when the dandelion blocks out the sun, using a filter to bump it up could have added to the somber vibe.  

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtIor9NRu4Y)

PROJECT 3

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Your statement here is strong and confrontational, packing a lot of background information into a short time period.  I appreciate your call for critical thinking and accountability in reporting.  The subliminal-type statements you are making could be more expressive if perhaps they included some questions, background info, or something to engage the audience beyond stereotypes about republicans.  A solid reflection and critique of corporate media.  

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For my video i chose to take something from the past, destroy it, and make it into something new. I took a passage from the book that read: “Always changing, never twice the same.” These words were etched into the floor of the Los Angeles Museum.  I took a cassette of Willie Nelson, smashed it open, and grabbed about 20 seconds of music out of it. Then i made it into a loop so that it played the same section of music over and over.  Then i hooked the loop up to some guitar pedals with delay and reverb, so that as the loop played (at half speed), it was constantly changing and forming into something completely new and different than how it was intended. I wanted to use the quote i used in my article response as inspiration for this. The quote i thought of while making this video was “The realm of shadows also equates to Plato’s cave in that it is colorless, odorless, flavorless, simulacrum of the world stripped of what most makes it real.”  I stripped the tape of just about all of its musical properties except for a few flavorless notes that are almost completely drowned out in noise and fuzz. Making tape loops is a tedious process, and a lot of the time you are left with something not even close to what you anticipated, and depending on the age of the tape (in this case a 30+ year old tape), the adhesive on the ribbon of the tape is being scraped away, literally scraping off the music notes from the song.  Since this is such an old tape, the more the loop played while i was recording the piece, the more of the musical notes were being stripped away.  These are called Disintegration Loops, which evolves over time into something far from what it was intentionally meant to be.

[the-grungella]

This project is awesome because it is unique, and a fun remix.  You did a great job on the close-ups and the pace of your video.  To me it had the appearance of like playing with something like Legos.  The comedic moments were great too and maybe could have been expanded. I like your theme about trying to re-use outdated stuff.  

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Artist Statement Project #3

In this video I aim to bridge the gap between the life cycle of food, drink, and trash.  Food and drink are the basis for our health and a stage for people to come together.  Our lives are built on the foundation of health and enjoyment that food and drink provides.  The immensity of choices, possibilities and health consequences we are faced with everyday  can be overwhelming.  Though there are ways to be an eco-friendly consumer, in this video I address the challenges to reconcile with the sheer numbers of products we face.  Preparing food and beverages is something we do everyday, which can be a beautiful experience for all the senses.  The trash left afterwards can be hard to avoid.  While we aim to keep them separated, we must also face their connection.  

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Exercise #3 

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PROJECT #3

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the loop

I chose to play with images that had a certain mood to them that I enjoy. They play into the subliminal themes in horror where things are hidden and sort of claw their way in. I wanted to use the animated feature as a way to make things feel less settling than they were to begin with. I tried to do this in the distorting of the knife and the blinking of the eyes, as well as some of the others that flicker or fade to black. I mostly wanted to play around with making animations of the things that I like and to try to further what was already there through repetition. I think I will be making more of these with my own pictures in the future. They were such an interesting new thing to learn.

[allison4d]

This theme works really well with gifs and your edits really draw me in. Did you edit the knife twisting?

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uncensored vintage ads

[cyrenaaa-deactivated20200614]

Woah this is great. Unique idea for this project and really nice job with the editing

[allison4d]

I love how you’re talking about long-time issues with your collection. The waving things back and forth is really good, and fast gifs like the baby blinking really makes the ads pop.

[allison4d]

Time and Motion Response

Time controls the pace at which a story is told.  Moving through a space with your body or your eyes activates a subjective experience of time.  Artists have responsibility for their viewer’s perception of events taking place in the scene.  By manipulating the occurrence of events in time the artist creates frames of focused gaze.  That special moment in time can better captivate the attention and guide it through the scene.  Discovering each aspect of a work reveals new facets of its meaning, and the viewers’ understanding develops over time. 

Manipulating the presentation of time plays with the most important aspects of the moment.  The passing of time is deeply connected to individual experiences as opposed to the numbers on a clock.  Capturing the right selection of moments and creating connections between them can slow or speed up a viewers’ perception of time.  

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Vanishing and Becoming

Projection is not only something that creators do with intention, it happens everyday without our knowledge of it.  Projection and reflection is deeply rooted in the human experience, even before we began to master it as a craft.  Sean Cubitt’s piece demonstrates that social aspect of the human condition and how it rules our interpersonal relationships throughout time and space.  Cubitt’s article presents, also, the dissonance between creating a reflection and emulating a real subject and inventing a representation of an idea.  Which is real and which is fake? 

Those imperfections that occur between relationships and communication can improve understanding and investment, even while they accurately represent their projected goal.  While humans cling to possess things and people they love, they are never entirely successful.  Therefore they must create replacements to ease their longing and to invest their emotions into.  In this process of representation, the illusion creates a new subject rather than honestly represent the projected subject.  Projection, as it develops, thus resembles the cycle of life and death together.