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HB2 Projection of found gifs on to bathroom sign I wanted to make a statement about the anti trans laws in North Carolina, Mississippi, among others. Underneath everything we are all human.

Title: HB2

Medium: video loop projected onto bathroom sign (screenshots and sign are not final cut)

I created a loop of found gifs to project onto a bathroom sign. The anti-trans and discriminatory House Bill 2 that was recently passed in North Carolina perfectly displays the low level of tolerance for transgender Americans in this country. Underneath everything, we are all humans and the continued intolerance, hate, and inequality that separates us not only manifests through barring trans people from using a certain bathroom, but through virtually all aspects of life in this country. I wanted to highlight HB2 because of its current relavance and controversy it has sparked.

Remix Final Project

I was under the impression that the parameters for the final project are pretty wide open so here’s my idea and inspiration for that idea:

Recently I have been very frustrated with the current state of transgender acceptance and tolerance in this country. Anti-trans bathroom bills have recently been made into law in North Carolina and Mississippi. These laws are not the first of their kind, nor will they be the last. While transgender celebrities and transgender issues have made their way into more of the public’s eye in the last few years, the level of anti-trans violence is still extremely high. Last year, in just the first 10 months of the year, 22 trans people were murdered; that number is higher than all trans murders in 2014, and that was just the first 10 months of 2015. As a transgender American who is fighting discrimination and acceptance at work, I am angry. I want to create something that can channel that energy and speak up about this absurd amount of deaths.

Right now my ideas are pretty loose; I haven’t figured out the right focus or direction to take this yet. So far my ideas include using sound through moaning, crying, wailing, etc. I want to show the names of all the trans people (mostly trans women) who were killed last year, but I don’t know what other kind of video or photo imagery I want besides that. So this is going to be a video of some sort, but those are my only ideas right now. I want to create something powerful that brings attention to the situation while including all the anger and raw emotion I feel about this issue.

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some screenshots from vdmx tutorial

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Gender 2.0 is a set of html pages that explore gender through some definitions, pronouns, checkboxes, and some simple CSS styling. I wanted to keep things simple. As a trans person, I have been frustrated with explaining gender to people. I wanted to create some pages that can simply define some gender identities; the list I have included is not exhaustive. As this is a web work, it is meant to be updated and expanded upon. I do want to delve more into some expressive pages that are more abstract, but for now this is general to encompass a broad look at gender identity.

Take A Stand Exercise

Here are some of the most recent posts I have made just on Facebook alone. I probably post anywhere from 3-7 photos, articles, petitions, etc about causes and activism movements a week. I engage in online activism a lot on social media, it is almost the only thing/reason I have social media right now.

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The Death of the Artist-and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur

The part of this article that resonated the most with me is that labels, particularly ‘Artist’ have more than one meaning depending on the particular person. For myself, I don’t call myself an artist solely because I create art through one form or medium, but because I create through many different forms and mediums. I am a photographer, a digital artist (and here the mediums widely vary from drawing digitally, video making, gif making, photo editing, etc). I am also a musician: I compose and perform music. I am an artist for one single form, but also collectively for all of them. I think artists can certainly be experts in one particular field or area, but we can also be amateurs in everything. I consider myself an amateur within most of the things I like doing to create art.

One other part of the article I briefly want to touch on is how the Web has changed everything for not just artists, but for everything under the entrepreneurial side of things too. Certainly there are more artists that can be found to virtually anyone now, unlike the past where you needed to be relatively known or had enough money to become well known, but now anyone can be known. That does create new challenges however, because now every single artist can be on the web and sometimes to me it feels overwhelming.

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For my interactivity project I want to revamp and expand on a small project I made in the past. I actually lost most of those files, so I’ll be rebuilding most of it from scratch. The project is a series of html pages that explore gender through text, boxes, links, and almost no visual imagery. The series of pages will be explored non-linearly.

Some Processing work from class.

Interactive Art

http://bomomo.com/

http://weavesilk.com/

The first two are just some fun websites of interactive art that I really like. This website http://neave.com/ has lots of different pages of interactive art. I like to look for different stuff like this a lot in my free time on the web. I don’t know specifically how any of these are made, but I know you can create similar types of things with processing or javascript. http://neave.com/planetarium/ Planetarium lets you explore the night sky from any point on earth. http://neave.com/voronoi/ Voronoi lets you manipulate polygons that change color and move when you move your mouse around. http://neave.com/wobble/ lets you manipulate the bottom half of the screen which behaves like water or jello, bouncing and moving as you move your mouse through it. I’m pretty interested in stuff like this, especially if it contains music.

https://processing.org/exhibition/curated_page_1.html The website for Processing contains lots of examples of art made with processing. Works made with processing can range in complexity, but what I like is that they can also be very simple and inviting. An interactive work made with processing that only requires the user to move the mouse and/or click to manipulate colors, forms, shapes, strokes, sounds, and more.

WEBSPINNA

http://www.windows93.net/ (maybe not)

http://www.rainymood.com/ FIRST/LOOP

http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/binauralBrainwaveGenerator.php ( (no)

http://listen.hatnote.com/ LOOP

http://touchpianist.com/ play

http://onlinetonegenerator.com/voice-generator.html

http://www.bfxr.net/

http://www.virtualdrumming.com/drums/windows/drums-free-drumming.html

http://freesound.org/search/?q=footsteps LOOP

http://www.tidewater.net/~xylojim/playglass.html play

http://www.tidewater.net/~xylojim/playpipe.html play

http://freesound.org/people/tyops/sounds/235815/ LOOP

The documentary, The Yes Men, is constructed and created to intelligently and thoughtfully, which is one of the big reasons it is so successful for me. On the surface, the documentary gives an appearance of a comedic twist on documentary film making. I had no idea what to expect from the film, but I was instantly captivated by the style and artistic thought and tone of the film. The overall tone and point of the documentary reminded me immensely of The Daily Show. The style of both of these pieces of media works so successfully by taking issues, investigative interviews, and comedy to bring light to things that have social importance. The question this now raises is the difference between something that is art and something that is not art. The Yes Men documentary and The Daily Show, like all other movies and tv shows have immense amounts of thought, time, energy, labor, and creative efforts put into them to make them. Something for me that can really make something art is intention. The Yes Men put so much intent into the work, which I think in part, makes it a work of art that is very approachable to those outside of the art world.

Comedy is key to how The Yes Men functions and succeeds. Comedy, in my opinion, is one of the easiest ways to reach and connect with a larger audience. Sometimes art can be so rigid and unapproachable to people who do not normally view, consume, access, create it. A documentary style eases a greater number of people into the work.

The Yes Men’s work reminds me of Industry of the Ordinary. Adam Brooks and Matthew Wilson state that their manifesto is: “Through sculpture, text, photography, video, sound and performanceIndustry of the Ordinary are dedicated to an exploration and celebration of the customary, the everyday, and the usual. Their emphasis is on challenging pejorative notions of the ordinary and, in doing so, moving beyond the quotidian.” Many of their time based works remind me of the Yes Men. Brooks and Wilson create objects and display, move, interact, or place them in such a way to convey particular ideas, meanings, or messages at particular times and places. One of their works, titled “Ten”, a replica of the Ten Commandments made of ice was wheeled around the streets of Chicago on a hot day; as it melted, the ice water was bottled and distributed to people throughout the city. This form of performance art and time art reminds me a lot of the Yes Men, however the Industry of the Ordinary comes off more as being less approachable to those outside the art world.

Continuing to work on my objects.

Remix of ideas and phrases of ‘magic’ from Flusser text over google street view of Disneyland. I was thinking a lot about Baudrillard’s ideas on hyperreality and Disneyland as a big example of hyperreality and how this intersects with google maps/street view as apparatus.

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Remix of cut up technique using an Instagram app called Layout.

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"Different Names For The Same Thing" Alone on a train aimless in wonder An outdated map crumbled in my pocket But I didn't care where I was going 'Cause they're all different names for the same place. The coast disappeared when the sea drowned the sun And I knew no words to share with anyone The boundaries of language I quietly cursed And all the different names for the same thing There are different names for the same things There are different names for the same things...

Death Cab For Cutie

Images of my house, the Denver International Airport, the Frankfurt International, the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, the Vatican, Vatican City.

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Working on a 3D snowman in Blender!

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