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Verb List

To Vanish To Write To Love

To Soar To Live Of Inertia

To coalesce To Break To Dismember

To Eat Of space To View

To wonder To Read Of Air

To Create To Shout Of Time

To Draw To Laugh Of Gravity

Goldberg Reading

Performance art has always been in this weird place for me and Goldberg’s insight on its history and inception into modern day popularity helped me understand it a little bit more. Performance art has usually straddled the fine line from being truly unique and interesting to just being a pompous artist trying to be stupidly clever and failing. The quote from Eliot at the end leads to many interesting ideas of how to take and interpret live art and performances from the past and improve it for modern day audiences much like theatre or cinema has done over the decades to become progressively more popular. One of the cool ideas Goldberg shows is that the performance art is a one instance thing and that the moment passes quickly and the audiences are only ever going to see that performance once and so they draw a special connection with the artist and an inside interpretation of whatever the live art was.

Project 4

For my video, I chose Saturn and its rings for the visuals of reappearing and disappearing. The audio is actually the sounds of Saturn itself captured from NASA’s Cassini and then brought to human hearing range.

Exercise #4 Vanishing and Becoming

I chose to recut an older trailer for the video game Bloodborne with a new song over the visuals and as my first ever attempt using video software (iMovie), I think it’s oddly well done in its syncing of the visuals and music.

Reading 4 Chapter 6

Usually people don't often associate motion and time with art unless it’s a specific performance piece like ballet or theatre, where motion becomes integral to the performance. of the many examples in the chapter some of the coolest ways that implement both time and motion were the storyboards of star wars at the chapter’s beginning. I never thought to consider storyboarding an artform, but when you see really well planned out sketches and descriptions of shot breakdowns, it looks just as beautiful as any intended piece of art in a gallery. I’ve never seen an art show that focused solely on that type of art and now I want someone to make a storyboarding art show!

I think the best use of both time and motion remains in films whether short form or long form because every motion has to convey something to the audience in a limited amount of time. For an eight minute short form every motion must be important in the time constraint and finding the right motions to convey emotions or ideas can be very tough for a director to plan out.

Reading #4

Projection: Vanishing and Becoming response

This was a hard piece to get through and it reminded me of my in-depth philosophy and english courses with all the references Cubitt made. One takeaway I found was that projection is the medium for all art since every piece of art is merely a projection of something we see and then put to paper, paint, video, etc. The piece of art we make is our viewpoint of the subject being reflected back at us, allowing us to create the projection of said subject into a tangible art piece for others to view and impose other interpretations onto. both of the origin stories of art Cubitt gives at the start of his essay are interesting looks at how we see and choose to capture what we see, be it the absence of something or the reflections of something. We as humans see what isn’t there and thus form images around those ideas. We also see reflections in everything, not just water, but in other people and how we impart ourselves into their psyches. Most of art can be seen as a reflection to the past, present, or future but it is never really clear which reflection best represents te original idea or subject.

Exercise #3 make a mini movie, I forgot to post it by the due date.

Reading Response 3

It has become really interesting to see the GIF evolve into a common form of communication and art piece all over the internet. I see people conducting entire conversations in comment threads and forums using GIFs and it is easier to understand what is being discussed in visual animated form rather than poorly written posts. GIFs have become so synonymous with casual discussions on the internet and especially on Reddit that many have even come replace normal photos. I am seeing more and more movie reviews where instead of film stills, the reviewer is using GIFs to demonstrate topics and theories.