In My Mind...

This is a blog for my digital media class at college. I hope to share things which inspire me and maybe they will inspire you too!

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Last minute preparations for my first ever outing to sell some of my work. Very exciting indeed! If interested please come to the @wearegrd clothes swap FUNdraiser at the Flying Duck 1:30pm - 5pm. #artist #glasgow #glasgowrollerderby #fundraising #sellallthethings #vegan

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"Do not adjust your volume, music starts at :30  Music by George Antheil. Film by Fernand Leger and Dudley Murphey. Performed on May 8th 1989 at The Japan American Theatre, as part of The Los Angeles Philharmonics Green Umbrella Series, by the CalArts Percussion Ensemble and The 20th Century Players. Directed by Lucky Mosko. Film Restoration by William Moritz.  Percussionists: Meira Asher, Matt Bornong, Jeffrey Brenner, Adam Levenson, Ed Mann, David Shaffer, Julie Spencer, Todd Szabo. Keyboards: Blaise Bryski, Mellissa Hui, Gaylord Mowry, Bryan Pezzone Green Umbrella Revives Dada Film In a period when dance historians are industriously re-creating significant "lost " works, CalArts forces have made an oblique contribution with the restoration of "Ballet Mecanique," the landmark Dada film by Dudley Murqhy, Fernand Leger and Man Ray, with music by George Antheil. The results of the cinematic effort led by William Moritz, were shown for the first time Monday as part of a Green Umbrella concert at the Japan America Theatre by the ever-intrepid New CalArts 20th-Century Players.  An abstract, surreal mini-epic of kaleidoscopic images, "Ballet Mecanique" has a tangled history, marked by uncertainties about individual contributions and blurred by Leger's re-edited versions. The music intended for the film also actually intersected with it only in intermittent fashion. Ironically, the Green Umbrella presentation matched the attempt to restore the original visual intentions with Antheil's final revision of the score, made 28 years after the film was first shown in 1924. The union of sight and sound seemed more organic at some points than at others, but Antheil caught the manic rhythm of the film quite successfully. The combination proved surprisingly fresh and vital Monday, with Stephen Mosko conducting a tight, hard hitting performance of the brash score beneath the witty endlessly inventive images, in a remarkable triumph of imagination over the limitations of primitive technology. John Henken, The Los Angeles Times, May 10, 1989 Dedicated to the memory of Stephen "Lucky" Mosko (1947-2005), and William Moritz (1941-2004)."

I really like the variety of elements in this video. The kaleidoscopic views and the sort of topsy turvy nature of the images are fabulous. I love dada. 

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Film & Video Art by Maurice Spees  from the the Thai /Japanese Butoh performance ensemble work "The White Ants." An excerpt from "Fragile City."  Performed by Thai ArTs HuB GrouP, performance director: Pannatat Po-dhivejakul. Video Art / Film & Photography & Music by: Maurice Spees

I really like this piece of video/performance art. The people in the video look more like crystals and not real, which can be a bit daunting, but I think their really slow movements are really quite beautiful and the music really adds to the atmosphere.

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Merci à tous d’avoir participé à l’ARTchipel Paris ART Meetup et fait de cette rencontre riche d’inspiration, partage et de créativité ! Retrouvez les présentations ici > ou partagez avec nous vos photos de la soirée ici > - - - Thank you all for participating in the ARTchipel Paris ART Meetup and made this encounter full of inspiration, sharing and creativity! Find the presentations ici > or share with us your pictures of the evening here >

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What does Video Art mean?

I happened to find this interesting article on the MOMA website. A good sum up to what video art could be.

http://www.moma.org/collection/theme.php?theme_id=10215

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Videoart.net

"Based in New York City, Videoart.net serves as an international network for video art and experimental films. As a video-sharing website and online community Videoart.net has helped to democratize the relationship between artists, curators, institutions, and the public worldwide. Videoart.net attracts both art and film industry professionals by merging the avant-garde with art and film establishments. An international network with a dynamic online community, Videoart.net has positioned itself as one of the most popular video art and experimental film websites in the world."

http://www.videoart.net/home/index.cfm

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This is my fourth video attempt.

I filmed the view from the window of my train on my way to college, I thought the patterns in the sky and the movement of the wires were really interesting. 

The footage was then edited in iMovieHD.

Music : Apocalyptica - Beautiful

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This is my third movie attempt. I recorded some of my classmates eyes and added some effects to make it a little more interesting. I think this maybe would have been better with some still shots but I think it's still a good attempt. Footage edited using iMovie Music : Daft Punk - Derezzed (Tron OST) 

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This is my second video attempt. I recorded myself walking down the stairs in college and altered the colours slightly to make it like a dream fading away. I quite like this video - it's a little disorientating. The video was edited using iMovieHD Music : Nine Inch Nails - Gone, Still 

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Douglas Gordon : Making Eyes - 2010

I really like this video by Douglas Gordon. I think the eyes in the darkness have a rather surrealist feel to them and remind me of some of the dream scenes - in Alfred Hitchcock's film Spellbound (1945) - created by Salvador Dali.

Dali Dream's in Spellbound : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzxlbgPkxHE

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Yayoi Kusama : Kusama's Self Obliteration - 1967 (part 1, see below for parts 2&3) This is part one of a video I was able to view on the London trip in the Tate Modern. I found myself in a rather hypnotic state watching the full video and only really snapped out of it when someone brought a baby into the video room.

I have always been a Yayoi Kusama fan and having the opportunity to actually see her work in person was just amazing. For the remainder of that day, I felt myself in a rather unusual state... as if I was having a sort of outer-body-dream-like experience. Such a strange sensation but I actually felt really relaxed which made me love her even more.

Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOd99fqGjto

Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGHr-KS5gz4

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Pipilotti Rist : Parasimpatico. Cinema Manzoni, Milan, Italy 

This is a video featuring several of the Swiss artist's works which completley transform the space.

I really like the use of the projections - how they completley immerse the viewer and essentially make them part of the work. The bright colours are also wonderful around the space.

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Watch this video! This is so neat and creative!

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such a clever video and so unique! I really enjoyed watching this!

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A piece of video art I can best defined as a moving picture. It is completely different to a traditional motion picture or moving image because it does not have to include a narrative, because it is more like a painting, thatdoes not have to have a meaning, just maybe expresses a thought the...

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This is my first attempt at "video art"  I took a video of passers by on George Square in Glasgow of their feet. So many people look down as they walk (including myself) and this was an experiment to see if there was anything interesting in the walking patterns of people. I edited the footage on iMovie. The music is Daft Punk - Adagio for Tron. I am really pleased with my result. 

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Sanja  Iveković Personal Cuts, 1982 Video 

“In 1982 Iveković presented Personal Cuts on prime-time Yugoslavian national television, on TV Zagreb’s 3, 2, 1 – Action! In it she confronts the camera wearing a translucent black stocking mask pulled over her head, terrorist-style. Using scissors she cuts one hole after another into the mask, revealing one section of her face at a time, and each cut is followed by a short sequence of archival footage culled from a television program on the history of Yugoslavia, produced by the state shortly after Marshal Tito’s death, in 1980, and chronicling 20 years of the socialist republic. Cut by cut, in sequential shots, Iveković at once exposes her face and suggests the insidiousness of national propaganda—mass rallies, a public address by Tito, and monuments, all promoting the socialist way of living—thus demonstrating that historical events are inextricable from human ones, and ending with the artist’s face fully uncovered. Personal Cuts is modeled on a television documentary but formally and conceptually undercuts the totalizing, unified picture of official history; history is presented as broken inscription rather than linear narrative. Iveković infiltrates media space and disrupts the official narrative, reshuffling it, using the cut as a leitmotif and a reference to the editing and montage strategies that have informed her photocollages and video works.” - MoMA

(via MoMA | Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence)

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"Black Sun is a meticulously choreographed projection of motiongraphics onto dance,combining traditional and modern elements of Japanese culture and martial arts.  Artist Nobuyuki Hanabusa and dancer Katsumi Sakakura, together known as Kagemu, have since been widely imitated by others." This video for me combines video art and performance art. This is excellent and really powerful. Again, I feel it absorbs the viewer.