Brandan Forman

4D

[jocelynnef]

Project 4: One Minute Performance

*I recommend watching this with headphones, so you can hear the white noise, as well.

Forced to Look

Everyone has heard the phrase, “Eyes are the window to the soul.” Therefore in this piece, I wanted the focus of the performance to be on the eyes as if we were staring at each other for one minute straight. Staring often makes one uncomfortable like you’re being judged in some way or another. However, looking into someone’s eyes can tell you a lot about them like the quote above mentions.

The performance itself was uncomfortable for me, but I wanted to try to do something I’ve never done before and that would be interesting. Either way, both artist and viewer participant in the performance and face discomfort through the continuous staring.

[brandan-forman]

Unfortunately, I didn't have the right environment or the time to record my piece. However, the concept for my piece was based on my disliking of labels that society puts on people. In my own opinion, we don't have to be identified or defined by certain things based on different groups of people that we are associated with. It seems like our society makes it so that we have to act differently depending on the group of people that we are with at any given moment. To demonstrate how frustrating, unsure, and anxiety evoking this can be, I covered myself in labels to weigh me down and make things uncomfortable and difficult for me to do things. If I were to do this performance/experiment piece I would have gone out in public with a sharpie, tape, and paper for people to have other people put a label to who I am. The lesson of my piece is that we as people should be seen for who we are, not just defined by one characteristic amongst certain groups of people. We should be able to be who we are amongst all groups of people that we reside with.

[sydsspace]

Artist statement:

I decided to paint the mountains from the courtyard of my apartment building. I let my friends choose the colors from the 10 I had. The idea behind this was that even though I was the one painting it felt like everyone’s art. I didn’t think one minute of this showed enough of the process so I sped it up in order to show the multiple friends come and go throughout the day. Our courtyard faces the mountains during sunset and I’ve always wanted to commemorate all of the days spent watching the sunsets from our courtyard together. We collectively decided on colors and mountains and spent the day appreciating the mountains and brainstorming this piece. Will definitely be doing something like this again.

[brandan-forman]

To Fall

To Spin

To Walk

To Throw

To Stack

To Spin

To Dance

To Read

To Play

To Jump

[brandan-forman]

Technical Exercise 4

To Pull

To Eat

To Drink

To Laugh

To Hide

To Run

To Push

To Break

To Climb

To Draw

[kayaschaap]

Project 3 - Supercut

Dumpster Fire

Artist Statement: 

Originally, for this project I wanted to take cuts from my favorite Netflix show, Bojack Horseman of Bojack saying certain phrases. However, looking at a lot of my other work in this class and others, I noticed I tend to choose easy subjects that are not a challenge to work on, things that I know I can make look good or finish without any serious complications. I focus on silly, light-hearted subjects… things that the world could probably live without. 

Something the world could live without but had to deal with anyways? The pandemic. 2020. Quarantining. I know that videos encompassing 2020-21 are out there, but we were given a supercut, 1 minute limit challenge. I decided to find clips from news videos of challenges and issue from 2020 as I could, and fit as many as I could into this project. Although I failed to keep my video to a minute (and ten seconds), I found it challenging to narrow it down to just that. I took out at least 5 other major events from 2020, and I was still sitting at a 1 minute and 45 second video. For context though, I started with around 6 minutes of recorded clips. All that being said, here we are, 2 years after that dumpster fire of a year started. Here’s a look back on what we went through. 

- Works cited included in youtube video caption - 

[brandan-forman]

I love that you covered such a heavy topic! I know most of us try to forget or ignore that these events happened, but it's really important to remember these events even if they were bad, as long as we can learn and grow from these kind of things is what matters. you did a fantastic job with this and the title is very appropriate.

[brandan-forman]

Performance Art and Readings 4

After reading “performance: A hidden history”, I believe that we have gained a good insight as to what makes performance art so unique in comparison to other art forms. To prove this point, all throughout the article there are multiple examples of performance art being used as a one-time experienced event and usually engages with the audience. Now, this is only one way that the article proves that performance art is unique in comparison to others.  Another that the article makes clear is that performance art is probably one of the most creative art forms, mostly because there isn’t one set way to go about doing it. In the article it is stated that Leonardo DaVinci created river pageants and performed experiments in front of invited audiences, meanwhile, there are also performing artists that would do performances that say a lot about the political world.

After reading “The Other History of Intercultural Performance” by Coco Fusco it is talked about how collaborative performances and public performances relate. To show this Fusco highlights the article on an international collaborative experience that they had with the artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena. Reading about this experience and the two of them being in the cage was really fascinating to read about because even though this was a performative experience and theirs a lot that goes into performance art, it seemed to engage more of the audience than most performance art, I say this because of the way the article showed the way that the audience reacted.

[eliasrex]

Three houses but just the single combat cinematics

[brandan-forman]

This came out really well! It reminded me at how good these games are! I'm gonna have to find time to start playing again

[jocelynnef]

Project 2: The Loop

Coraline (2009)

For this series of gifs, I wanted to focus on different moments from the film, Coraline. Some of these elements were repetition, color, and expression. I was inspired by Coraline because it is one of my favorite films and I really like stop motion films. Majority of the gifs are scenes from the Other World except the first one. I think that those scenes were the most interesting since they had different types of motion and color. I really enjoy the aesthetic of the film, so it was fun to make these gifs. My favorite ones are the cake gif and the one where Coraline’s hair is blowing in the wind.

[brandan-forman]

These are really good! I've don't think I've seen these as a GIF before, which I crazy to think about

[mckennashae]

The Loop Project

For this project, I made a series of GIFs from an episode of Avatar the Last Airbender. Each GIF goes through the stages that Aang (the main character) experiences to open his chakras. I specifically wanted to use these selections to continue the theme in canvas, thus, the GIF’s all capture a moment of opening through the 7 chakras. 

I now realize that “open” wasn’t meant to be the literal theme. (Frantically trying to cover-up the obvious mistake here.) Nonetheless, I thought it was a good play on words to create something compelling. The prompt mentioned using a favorite movie which encouraged me to think about some of the TV series I like and through this the concept was inspired.

[brandan-forman]

These are so cool! I don't know how I'm just now seeing these! I'm a huge fan of the show and these are really good!

[ellianar]

Fiona's Breakdowns (Shameless)

4D 1 Minute Supercut ProjectWorks Cited:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJipbGT8zUkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjjqpVmCLtQ

Project 3: 1 Minute Supercut “Fiona’s Breakdowns”

When it comes to things like television and movies I hardly find myself getting wrapped up in the emotions being portrayed by the characters. I may feel stress because of unresolved conflicts or the excitement of being on the edge of my seat at the climax of a storyline, but truly feeling the struggle and desperation of a character is not a feeling I’m familiar with.

When it comes to Shameless, however, the feelings and scenarios portrayed by Fiona Gallagher are all too real to me, and is one of the few characters that I cry with. Her struggle to keep everything together while she’s actively falling apart is a feeling that cuts deep for me and for many others, so for this project I wanted to display just some of the moments I really resonated with her in this way. Her strength and perseverance despite all the odds stacked against her (for those unfamiliar, raising all 5 of her siblings because of her absent, mentally ill, and addicted parents) are traits that inspire me, even if the story is fictional.

[brandan-forman]

This was really well done! I haven't watched Shameless in so long, I may have to jump back into it

[jocelynnef]

Project 3: One Minute Supercut

Expecto Patronum ✨

For my Supercut, I decided to use clips from my favorite movie franchise, Harry Potter. For the repeated theme within each clip, I chose the phrase or spell, Expecto Patronum, and I only used clips of Harry Potter using the spell. Surprisingly, I only found that he used that spell around five times throughout the films. I chose this specific spell because I thought that it was beautiful and heartfelt. The spell translates to ‘I expect (or await) a guardian’ and is used against Dementors, dark creatures that feed on human happiness. The spell is a projection of positive feelings and happy memories, and I wanted to gather every moment that Harry had to use it.

Works Cited:

https://youtu.be/RezjC4jdbTU

https://youtu.be/YznIACku9CQ

https://youtu.be/-SNgEEVuS-8

https://youtu.be/HNBebISQ5yE

[seemooreart]

Nice!

[brandan-forman]

Project 3: One Minute Supercut

Title: Will it?

Theme: Food

Artist Statement:

If I'm being honest, I got stuck with this as a project idea. At first, I did instantly think of this as an idea but kept looking all over youtube and thought about what could make for a good project, but I couldn't figure anything out. Eventually, it got to the point where I just had to start collecting all of my footage and put it into Adobe Premiere Pro. Now, I still think this is fun, but it doesn't have as good of a point to make as some other project ideas. However, I did think of these clips because of how interesting it would be to see the concept of time, although, I may have messed this up a bit because I did try to order these clips from oldest to newest but I ended up having to use so many clips that I got lost in the process. Another reason I liked this idea was because of the question that it poses, in general, I like asking myself weird and obscure questions like this because it's questions like this that allow us to learn new things, this could even be a way for someone to learn more about art. This project was really just a way for me to have fun with the concept of time and show my appreciation for experimenting and asking questions by using clips from the Good Mythical Morning youtube Will It Playlist.

[brandan-forman]

Technical Exercise 3: Music Video

Song: "Let the Games Begin" By AJR

Show: "The Queens Gambit"

[brandan-forman]

Technical Exercise 3: Music Video

Song: "Let the Games begin" by AJR

Show: "The Queens Gambit"

[ellianar]

Secret World of Arrietty (2012)

Project 2: “The Loop”

[kayaschaap]

I LOVE this. Arrietty is one of my all time favorite’s (and one of my top’s from of all Studio Ghibil movies). Good selection of different clips - there are some good key points here from the movie. Some other parts of the movie I think would make a good gif are when she’s outside Sho’s window and when she is face to face with the cat.

[peytonconner]

Art Project 2: The Loop

Artist Statement:

For this project, I messed around with a night and day concept that turned into more of a before and after. Messing with repetition of the same photos then changing only the indirect temperature of the colors caused this strobe light effect on the .gifs. The nature images ended up taking over most of my .gif collection of ten rather than continuing on with trippy bedrooms or sunset .gifs I found the nature images to be more appealing. In the end, I enjoyed messing with different colors to achieve an interesting outcome.