These videos were collated together to create the final video that was projected onto us!
In the end we covered the projector with red cellophane to emphasise the passage from the book and what it was describing.
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These videos were collated together to create the final video that was projected onto us!
In the end we covered the projector with red cellophane to emphasise the passage from the book and what it was describing.
EXPERIMENTS WITH CORRUPTION
Spent some time playing with the vinesauce rom corruptor and learnt a lot. I found that different images responded differently to different settings, with some trends but no consistent ones. For mp3 files, the only setting that worked (kept the file readable) was ‘shift bytes to the right’ which produced consistent results. I could not find a way to corrupt flac files so that they stayed readable. I tried corrupting video but wasn’t able to produce interesting results.
In regards to this assignment, I think this leaves me with some problems to face. The nature of the event has to be time-based, but I was only able to produce interesting results with images (not time-based). I need to figure out how to incorporate time.
WHAT IS NOISE?
Quotations by Paul Hegarty from Come on, feel the noise 11 Nov 2008 <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/nov/10/squarepusher-paul-hegarty-noise>
“ Noise is resistance, or at least it causes resistance, so can never be the mainstream. “
“ ...however directly painful the moment might be when you encounter [noise]. It's more interesting than that: if that's your reaction, you are noise, you are the bit that doesn't fit. “
“ noise is a judgment, a social one, based on unacceptability, the breaking of norms and a fear of violence. “
“ Disturbance, disruption, distortion, these all make up noise music. But if all you're doing is combining these elements, you will have a simulation of noise music, a generic version. “
“ a deeper sense of being overdriven, of being near to collapse, of courting failure, or using failure of machinery pushed too far (this includes human machinery). “
Feedback class activity week 10
Final work + concept statement
Can creative acts be rebellious when rebellion has become canonised in art, design and media histories? What would a contemporary creative rebellion look like? To answer this question, I looked to counterculture. As part of my research eventually I came across and, perhaps unintentionally, developed a fixation with probably the most famous counterculture movement of all time, the hardcore punk of the 1970s/80s. Everybody idolizes the original punks and their tenacity but as Joe Corre (the son of Malcolm McLaren) said, “Punk has become another marketing tool to sell you something you don’t need.” By looking back on said canonised rebellion, I had hoped to scrutinize it and its state in contemporary discourse.
All of my work started from one YouTube video I came by on accident, Counter Culture by David Platt. An advertisement for a book by the titular David Platt, an American pastor. Watching the video, I felt as if I was not a member of the target demographic. Its content consists of fundamental Christian dogma, and uses fear-mongering techniques to call people to arms so that they may spread the Gospel, as if the rapture isn’t coming or something. I think what offended me so greatly about this video was not the xeno or transphobia, but the fact that they had the gall to title it ‘Counter Culture.’ In a stunning act of doublethink, Platt had somehow convinced himself that returning to dogmatic non-secular belief systems was somehow going against the grain. This thought was the essence behind my first experiment. All I sought to achieve was to represent my thinking through visual means. To that effect, I emulated the colour palette of the video and traced a stock image of a family reading the Bible (whether it's the new or old testament I’m not sure).
The thought I carried from this experiment into my next can be summarised in two words: “ironic punk.” I determined from Platt’s video that a true rebellion must be subjective and multiplicitous, rather than an omniapplicable objective rebellion. Ergo, a shift in perspective of what one perceives to be the norm would provide a different rebellion and a new counterculture. I asked, “what if the punk counterculture’s views aligned with Platt’s proposition for a new counterculture?” My second experiment attempts to answer that. I took images of (in my opinion) some of most significant punks (i.e. Henry Rollins, Ian Mackaye, G.G. Allin and Sid Vicious) and associated each with the lamest platitudes I could think of. I tried to make each statement as ironic as possible (Sid Vicious died of a drug overdose) to further the already ridiculous concept behind the piece. My issues with this piece involved its simplicity. While I feel that the work was conceptually sound, it was too easy to construct. I wanted to involve myself more in the creative process, and try to convey the same idea in a less coherent yet more stimulating way. Abstraction for abstraction’s sake may be an unhealthy practise but I felt as if it was the right way to take the project.
Continuing from that, I decided to use video as my medium of choice. This decision was inspired by the video works of Marian Tubbs, who uses editing software techniques to obfuscate meaning. In doing this, her works achieve an ethereal quality. I also borrowed from her aesthetic of what I like to refer to as ‘digital readymades.’ That is, readymades in the Duchampian sense which exist in cyberspace. This covers stock images, text generators, image filters and memes to name a few. My work, while being assemblage, utilises these readymades transformatively so expose (perhaps create) ironies and contradictions. I feel contented by the final product, although creatively, I did feel limited by my lack of knowledge of Premiere, the solution to which should be obvious. Skills (and time) permitting, I would have liked to expand upon the work, and utilize effects or corruptions more. There is a difference between abstract yet clear and abstract yet unclear, and my work does not ride that line very elegantly. That said, the expansions I would make would be stylistic and ultimately unnecessary however, because while it is unpolished, I believe my work is resolved in its current state.
Bibliography
Abraham, J., Diabethanol 2018, Installation
Cornella, J., Croc Hunter n.d., Digital comic
Getty Images, Parents and children reading the bible <retrieved from https://www.gettyimages.com.au/license/56382601 17-09-18>
Packard, J., Business Reply 2006, Instructional Pamphlet
Platt, D., Counter Culture by David Platt 2015, Advertisment
Schomberg, W. & Cooper, G., Sex Pistols Manager’s Son Burns Punk Memorabilia Worth Millions, Reuters, 2016 <retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sex-pistols-burn-memorabilia_us_583a275ae4b01ba68ac4beae 21-09-18>
Tubbs, M Vulgar Latin 2014, Video
Experiment ii
For this experiment I ran with the same proposition I used in the first experiment: If rebellion is canonized and ergo the mode, it follows that the counterculture would be to follow the status quo.
My work is a series of stock images of some of the most extreme/influential punks offering advice on how to rebel.
Stylistically, I took inspiration from the rough, computer-generated art of Marian Tubbs
I think I have nailed my concept, and am content with it. From here, I would like to expand upon the presentation of the work. I would like to abstact/obfuscate it a bit more, and also change the medium because a series of minimally edited jpgs is very boring. A video work would be ideal. Take interview clips of punks behaving antithetically (such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2lilvnx4q0) and set it to kevin macleod royalty free music or something of the like.
Bibliography/Resources
Images created using https://phraseit.net/
Tubbs, M Vulgar Latin 2014, Video
As a starting point, I began researching counterculture and came across this advertisement for a book called Counterculture
It presents a return to dogmatic fundamentalist Christian views as in opposition to mainstream cultural mores. I took this idea and ran with it, as I thought it was a interesting way to subvert the research question.
This video reminded me of this work from the 2018 Biennale of Sydney by Julian Abraham
In my work I also tried to emulate the comic styles of Packard Jennings
and Joan Cornella
Moving on from this, I want to continue looking at irony and doublethink with regards to rebellion. Maybe reexamine rebellion itself and look at rebellion as subjective rather than objective. It all depends what one is rebelling against, and what they themselves see as the norm. The next step is in shifting the perspective.
Bibliography
Abraham, J., Diabethanol 2018, Installation
Cornella, J., Croc Hunter n.d., Digital comic
Getty Images, Parents and children reading the bible <https://www.gettyimages.com.au/license/56382601> retrieved 17-08-18
Packard, J., Business Reply 2006, Instructional Pamphlet
Platt, D., Counter Culture by David Platt 2015, Advertisment
Kofe Plus; pay homage to the artistic greats with your morning pick-me-up (Duchamp edition pictured)
Ingredients: Coffee (sourced from boujee cafe), $4.00 Coffee (sourced from 7/11), $1.00 may contain vellocet, synthemesc or drencrom
Week 6 Recontextualization “No Shade”
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/28518098/
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Aseesmment 2 brainstroming
RESEARCH TOPIC Can creative acts be rebellious when rebellion has become canonised in art, design and media histories? What would a contemporary creative rebellion look like?
Contemporary - modern, concurrent, young, relevant, cutting-edge
? Contrarianism as an act of rebellion
(historical) Media representations of rebellion - Taxi Driver (1976) - troubled man rebelling against society et al Hardcore punk - stripped down, simple ^ Canonical stories of rebellion -- Post punk??
Expand on idea of minor, personal rebellions - answer: what would a contemporary creative rebellion look like?
Poster: Informal Vote
For this assessment I responded to the second research topic, regarding the canonisation of rebellion in art history. The prompt suggests that rebellion must be an original action, but because rebellion has become a canonical technique, that, in contemporary practice, rebellion is impossible. The work serves as a proposition for what a contemporary rebellion would look like.
Initially, my research began with analysis of a Calvin and Hobbes strip, ‘Metal’. From this, I determined the key to genuine rebellion was the sincerity of the action. In art, wherever sincerity appears in excess, camp often appears alongside it. This led me to Sontag’s Notes on “Camp” which informed the remainder of my assessment.
My work serves as a metaphor for a rebellious action, specifically rebellion against mandatory voting. The ability to vote is often regarded as a privilege, however, when made mandatory not only do you disregard this privilege, you also eliminate the option of abstinence. Under this system, if someone wishes to abstain from voting they must submit an informal vote.
I see intentional submission of an informal vote to be an ideal way to rebel in contemporary society. The action’s ethos borrows heavily from that of 70s and 80s punk culture (that of antiauthoritarianism and individual liberty), yet subverts these attitudes to be more appropriate for a modern person. It assumes the guise of civility and keeps the actor safe from repercussion, yet down the line wastes the time of vote counters and contributes to the ever-growing statistics indicating public frustration and dissatisfaction with our current mode of government.
Sontag’s defines camp as “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” I tried to harness this with the poster, utilizing the exaggerated and the absurd in order to project onto (and therefore reveal) the ridiculousness of the AEC. It is often said that it is not the lawmaker who incites social change but the artist. My ambition is not that great, but hopefully I have done enough to breed doubt in an individual who might not have felt so otherwise.
References:
Sontag, S ‘Notes on “Camp”’ Camp: queer aesthetics and the performing subject: a reader (1964): 53-65.
Watterson, B ‘Calvin and Hobbes’, March 18 1992
In-class activity exploring the ecologies around campus.
Physical and metaphorical ecologies of material objects and attitudes- what is deemed useless? How is that decision made?
The literal ecology of the trash bay’s environment interacts with the intangible ecology of ideas and attitudes towards waste. The golden frame is an ironic addition to the existing environment.
Can creative acts be rebellious when rebellion has become canonised in art, design and media histories? What would a contemporary creative rebellion look like?
The prompt suggests that rebellion must be an original action, but because rebellion has become a canonical technique, that in contemporary practice rebellion is impossible.
The solution lies in the medium. Posters quickly deliver a clear message to many people. This makes them useful for marketing, but also pushing agendas or ideologies. Making a political statement seems to be the best way to use the medium.
week 1 divergence
activism poster
Semester 2
ADAD1002 from here on
A view into the challenging emotional journey of creating anything great. It’s often very hard to cross the chasm of the “dark swamp of despair!” via Chris Maddern
Now that ADAD is over, I will be using this blog to record general practice and any works I feel like sharing.
That said, here's an essay I wrote for SAHT1101. Its about postmodernism and everyone knows that shit is tight so peep if you're interested.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ovRW10Coqoi3tgPD7qU3jFJEWNfn6jG2B8ZRSUq6rak/edit?usp=drivesdk
Stay brazy