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My idea for this final project was to bring something of myself into performing art. When I thought of the verb, tap, it made me think of anxiety, impatience, and procrastination. All things that I, and many others, deal with every day. So the story my piece tells is that in a day to day life I face it before I walk out my front door when I put my shoes on. Each pair of shoes is an expression of a different day, and the taping of my foot is the anxiety, impatience and procrastination. If I were to do things differently it would maybe take an approach where i took a video each day for a year so that you see a more visible passing of time.

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Project 4 : consumerism on display

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I love the use of an actual consumer in this video!

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Exercise #4

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Reading #4

“The Art of Performance” by Roselee Goldberg discusses many develops of performance art through history. The important thing being that performance art has always been a way to convey thoughts and ideas. The non-categorized subject is something that has always been on the outside of many artistic subjects and continues to grow at it’s own pace, not dictated by the current stream of art, at it’s time. Performance art has continued to grow and now in the time of modern and postmodern art has more room and more involvement from the artist of today.

“Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is present” was an interesting modern art performance that takes on the viewer in a new way. It was enjoyable to watch her take on herself as an artistic piece and confront the gaze of the audience. The initial idea that the chair would remain empty, because the current tone of modern society is introverted and focused on things like phones, and is later the opposite result is culturally intriguing.

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Theme: Failure

Technique: Live Art

For my final project i chose to put on a live ambient performance alongside Colfax in the middle of a Monday. I took a 5 second music sample from a meditation cassette and made a tape loop out of it. Then i rigged the tape player up to an app on my ipad and connected a portable speaker to it. The idea was to share a contrasting view of the calming meditation music and the buzzing traffic of angry colfax drivers. Obviously its completely drowned out by the traffic and all around noises and electromagnetic signals in the area and fails to calm anybody down. I sold my car 6 months ago and have been commuting via bicycle or skateboard for everything and its a much more relaxed and energizing experience than ive ever had driving my car down the busy (and getting busier) streets. When youre walking down the sidewalk you have time to stop and experience things. The loop snapped, or got twised or something during the performance and caused silence and electrical buzzing. Which i guess adds to the performance because everyone was moving so fast, they had no way knowing. And ambient music being so ambiguous as it is, i could have just kept that to myself. If i were to try this differently i would have liked to have more performers and some real musicians there to give a "sidewalk set" to anyone passing by slow enough to hear it.

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The Feeding

For the final project I was inspired by Yoko Ono’s the cut. While I didn’t let people cut my clothing off I did have people feed me. Being feed put me a vulnerable position I couldn’t control how they fed me or how much.

I work at Casa Bonita, so I decided to walk around and ask my co workers to feed me sopapillas. And take a picture because it took longer than a minute to find people to feed me.

Thoughts and Reasoning:

Eating is something everyone struggles with. It could be eating too much, not enough, healthy or unhealthy. In our society a lot of pressure is put on food aka body image. To give away that power and to feel some vulnerability I say some becausei do know all the people I asked to feel extreme vulnerability I would have had to ask people I don’t know and well this was my place of work so I didn’t do that.

After living in China for two years and having my physical appearance, specifically my weight talked about and scrutinized almost daliy I have become more aware of the struggle. (I am a 135lb 5 ft 6in tall person...I think perfectly average)

What I did:

To push back at societies that think I’m too big or too small because in America I am often told I’m small and should eat more. I decided to give the power away and see what people would do.

I filled one basket with fresh sopapillas and I had another that was empty. I walked around Casa Bonita and every coworker I came across I asked to feed me or not it was up to them.

What others did:

Some feed me the entire sopapilla, some only gave me a bite, the most interesting was the ones who wanted me to spit it out after I took the bite. Some agreed to take a picture during but quite a few said they would feed me but wouldn’t take a picture with me. Making me feel a little ashamed, like it was a secret to eat. Harkening backs to eating and body image is a serious concern.

In the end:

I definitely tried to lighten the heavy body image mood with taking silly photos while eating the sopapillas.

If I could do something different:

I would have like to sit in one place and had people approach me to feed me, and have more people intentionally watching others feed me rather than whoever happened to be around as the audience.

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I think this is an absolutely amazing idea! I love that you took something that could be an insecurity and shared something truly personal. It makes me as a view feel more relatable.

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Artist Statement #3

My idea was to try to create the feeling I get in my favorite place to be. Boulder, CO in the mountains, at dusk or dawn, is like seeing the world in a completely different perspective. The video and audio I choose is significant because it is a clip of the sun coming to rise from the mountains while a song about rising to the day and its challenges plays. The hidden meaning behind it is that with the rise of a new day so does it come with the rise of new confrontations, all things to be overcome in a new day.

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https://youtu.be/N0fg4KCdWVI

Project #3

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Reading #3

From what I was able to grasp from Sean Cubitt’s “Projection: Becoming and Vanishing” is that the producing of cinematics has been long in effect and development. He talks about the projection of a lamp giving away to a casted figure, the Buddhist painting done by reflection, and Plato’s simile of prisoners living and believing that cast shadows are real life. Cubitt shares many examples from the past that have lead to cinematic art that we have today.

As for Terry Barrett’s chapter, “Time and Motion in Making Art: Form and Meaning”, it seems to heavily analyze the role that time and motion are used to create a connection between the art and the viewer. That within a piece they can have actual movement or they can create something that when viewed seems to be moving when in fact it’s not. Overall this chapter gives examples of how different artists have used both time and motion to manipulate how the viewer sees the art.

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Module #3 example

https://youtu.be/GYCECcEWF_E

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Jouissance

pleasure, enjoyment

 For me the forms made from the pure colors in many of Kirkland’s stippling paintings makes everything else disappear and I loose myself in the different colors, dots, and perceived motion.   

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exercise 2: 3 gifs

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Artist statement #2

For my project #2 I decided to stick to my idea of doing something that makes me happy, which happens to be cartoons. It only seemed fitting that I did the cute experiment 626 and then for the final part of the module do another cute creature, Winnie the Pooh. There is no real hidden meaning behind the gifs themselves. There is only the fundamental idea played through the images found throughout the module that GIFs can be art. They can be used to take scenes or pictures and make them into a pop culture references and art. Approaching this project I just thought what could I make that’s fun? I decided that doing a well known character that’s enjoyable to most could be fun for not just me but the viewer as well.

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Project 2 Artist Statement

For this GIF series, I wanted to highlight what I like to call “New Americana”. I work for Wood Stickers in Denver Colorado and operate a UV flatbed printer on a part time basis. I firmly believe the emphasis on small businesses here in Denver has caused a resurgence in jobs like this, a new “factory” job. Each machine in the warehouse bares its intricacies, and it is up to the person, the machinist, to give these items a purpose and propel the business and the worker forward. The GIFs were originally videos taken during a typical work day. 

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The change in color within this gif is very attractive, it makes me as a viewer more intrigued as well as curious as to what else I might find in the moving images.

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Project #2:

My creation of turning pictures of Winnie the Pooh into a gif!

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The first gif I’ve ever made with my all time favorite movie & possibly its best scene 😍