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Project #4: Performance art

Artist statement “Tree Hugger”:

I realized how much I really love the earth and how much I’m connected to it. Which is why almost all my projects have something to do with the environment (sorry not sorry).

In this project my goal was to hug trees in the public eye. I feel that the words “tree hugger” have a negative connotation to it, at least to me. I’ve seen people mocking others for being “tree huggers”, or laughing it off. This term generally means to protect the environment, and to belittle this term is to mock all the bad things we’ve done to nature and to those who are trying to protect it.

In this video I’m trying to bring awareness to that negative stereotype and bring awareness of nature and to love it more.

It was quite fun making this project, even though I got confused stares with everyone driving by! It was worth it! Hope you guys like it!

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Just reposting to make sure people can see this since I posted it really early 😅

Project #4: Performance art

Artist statement “Tree Hugger”:

I realized how much I really love the earth and how much I’m connected to it. Which is why almost all my projects have something to do with the environment (sorry not sorry).

In this project my goal was to hug trees in the public eye. I feel that the words “tree hugger” have a negative connotation to it, at least to me. I’ve seen people mocking others for being “tree huggers”, or laughing it off. This term generally means to protect the environment, and to belittle this term is to mock all the bad things we’ve done to nature and to those who are trying to protect it.

In this video I’m trying to bring awareness to that negative stereotype and bring awareness of nature and to love it more.

It was quite fun making this project, even though I got confused stares with everyone driving by! It was worth it! Hope you guys like it!

Reading response #4:

Performance: a Hidden Story

This reading changed my perspective of what performance art is and how artist use it to challenge peoples perceptions of art. It’s fascinating how performance art can communicate different aspects of art wether that’s political or making certain deep statements. There’s an unlimited choice of subjects and materials to use. I find that performance art is just a different unique way to express. Instead of being confined to what people think art is, such as paintings, performance art challenges this in very powerful ways.

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

I really enjoyed watching this film! Marina has such a powerful way of defining performance art. It’s fascinating how she can have the mental capacity to do her performances. Especially her project, “The Artist is Present”, where she sat in a chair for three months staring at people. She challenges herself with vulnerability, and challenges the audiences interpretations. I’m really in awe of her art and it’s really changed my thinking of performance live art.

Exercise #4: Richard Serra’s verb list

To cry, to convert, to eat, to explode, to dance, to break, to feel, to plant, to smile, to laugh, to care, to introvert, to hide, to catch, to scream, to share, to stop, to wave, to stand, to point

1. To plant

2. To introvert

3. To scream

Project 3: Vanishing and becoming

The article that we read immediately caught my attention with light. The idea of vanishing and becoming I felt like could be portrayed in Colorado’s beautiful sunrises and sunsets.

In the beginning of the video I’m recorded the darkness of the early morning. This darkness represents vanishing. But as the sun rises the light is becoming. And as the sun rises we do too. We begin to start our days, and we start becoming the people we want throughout the day. In the middle of the video the sunset is viewed in Denver’s city skyline. Unfortunately I couldn’t capture a sunrise due to the weather, so I choose a video from YouTube. Although I found this video captured the vanishing of the sun and becoming has ended. Due to the sun setting our days also set (unless you never sleep). And at the end of the video I decided to capture how light is always apart of our day, and how technology has “become” apart of our daily rituals. Although my phone is displaying a quote that references light. I feel like we are all trying to find our own light. The phone is later locked to blackness, indicating vanishing.

“Your beautiful because you know your own darkness and still, that some doesn’t stop you from finding your own light.” - r.m Drake

Project 3: Vanishing and Becoming

project for my 4D class

This exercise was a little hard because my computer was acting up, but when I actually got to work with the video and the audio it was pretty easy!

I think my video is funny because the audio and movie I choose to do work so well together!

Reading response #3

Vanishing and becoming:

This reading was a little harder to comprehend but from what I understood was that the author was trying to explain light and projection. In the beginning he tells us stories of how artist were capable of making art through light, reflection, and projections. Such as the story of Corinth where she drew her lovers profile with the help of the lamplight projecting the profile and drawing it with charcoal. Then as he continues he explains how we have modernized projections. Towards the end he explains how we have just begun understanding how projections work, and how it’s “royal road towards making new ways of seeing”. Since this reading response ties in with video making I think it’s true that videos are a new way of seeing art and the world. Which i feel is part of Cubitt’s writing.

Chapter 6:

In this reading I found it interesting how artist can minuplate time and motion. There’s so many ways artist can depict time or motion. And in doing so we can allow our viewers to see things in more realistic perspective (or not). Additionally using time can manipulate how we want our art to move the viewers eye through space and or an object. And we can determine how long and how fast we want the audience to interpret our work. And motion can operate in different forms but can be expressed as an illusion (implied time), or through recoded motion (videos).

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Project 2: The Loop

For this project, I decided to make 10 GIFS of some of my favorite cartoons from when I was a kid. This was quite a fun and entertaining project. Hope you guys enjoy! I look forward to seeing what everyone else did.

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Can I just say this brought so much memories back that I completely forgot about! It’s so nostalgic and I love it! I especially love the Jimmy Neutron and Arthur! Now I just want to go and watch these shows! Thank you for bringing back these memories! 😂

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Wow I love how smooth the transition are when it’s moving! I was thinking of making my drawings into .gifs but I thought it would be to hard! But you nailed it! I also love your story with the kaleidoscope and how you made your drawings come to life! Good job!

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