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90′s 80′s 60′s and the NAUGHTIES

The Naughties (the today)

We decided to go a head and use #naughties as our title page as we believed it was very reminiscent of todays society.

The #hashtag has been the ‘it’ craze from the 2014′s and 2015′s

A combination between the old and the new

The VB can, an iconic image of the current and the past we believe will not be a household necessities of pleasure in the future.

Another example is the CD player. This was an item that quickly got overtaken by the aux cord. Again another example of an item from the late 1900′s and early 2000′s that has dwindle into the nowhere.

The difference between the houses

1. Todays house

2. The futures house

The record player

An item we still see in houses today!

Records, used to record sound, were invented in 1877 by Thomas Alva Edison, who invented the first machine to record and play back sounds (the phonograph or record player).

This is an example of an item that was created more than 100 years ago, but still to this day is a great feature within a house.

The power band! No better than a rubber band

An example of an item that clearly was not a success in the way of products of today.

They were 2010′s favourite accessory

Power Balance wristbands, which promised to improve the wearer's balance, strength and flexibility, were the adornment no A-lister would be seen without, and were spotted on everyone from David Beckham to Kate Middleton. Now the company behind the £29.99 bracelet has admitted that there is no scientific evidence behind the claims, and that they are no more beneficial than an ordinary rubber band.

This is a clear example of an idea of todays accessories that will not last as a vintage item in the future.

The quality of the products of today, in the future will be seen as underdeveloped

Are we paying for an everlasting product?

The answer is no.

It is been made apparent to us that our current products are not product that will survive through the ages, like the previous centuries.

What The Home Of The Future Will Look Like

Our homes today are smarter than they’ve ever been before, and they’re only going to get smarter.With the rise of products from companies like Nest and SmartThings — which make intuitive, web-enabled gadgets that adjust themselves — we’re getting closer to a day where our homes do more for us than just give us a place to rest our heads at night. We’ve also seen some other elements of the future home take shape, like web-connected TVs, home appliances, and sound systems that you can control from anywhere in your home using a smartphone.

There were about 821 million smart devices sold last year, with 1.2 billion expected to be sold last year, according to Gartner, so there’s a huge opportunity to make our everyday objects smarter.

A new non-profit group, the Internet of Things Consortium, recently formed with just that in mind. Its primary goal is to help the makers of Internet-connected products and services collaborate with each other, and further grow the network-connected devices industry.

Given the IoTC’s commitment to network-connected devices and the number of companies already working on home automation tools, our homes will undoubtedly go through some big changes in the next 10 years.Our homes today are smarter than they’ve ever been before, and they’re only going to get smarter.With the rise of products from companies like Nest and SmartThings — which make intuitive, web-enabled gadgets that adjust themselves — we’re getting closer to a day where our homes do more for us than just give us a place to rest our heads at night. We’ve also seen some other elements of the future home take shape, like web-connected TVs, home appliances, and sound systems that you can control from anywhere in your home using a smartphone. There were about 821 million smart devices sold last year, with 1.2 billion expected to be sold last year, according to Gartner, so there’s a huge opportunity to make our everyday objects smarter.A new non-profit group, the Internet of Things Consortium, recently formed with just that in mind. Its primary goal is to help the makers of Internet-connected products and services collaborate with each other, and further grow the network-connected devices industry.Given the IoTC’s commitment to network-connected devices and the number of companies already working on home automation tools, our homes will undoubtedly go through some big changes in the next 10 years.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/welcome-to-the-home-of-the-future-2013-1#house-wide-sensors-will-let-you-totally-automate-your-home-1

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Assignment 3. Discontinuation of Original Idea

Our teams original idea was to create a magazine which sold antiques. The magazine would be from the future (around the 2100s) and would display things from 2015. It would be in the style of an ikea catalogue:

We planned all this and went to take the photos. After taking these photos we realised that these photos didn’t look like they were selling anything, and it would be very hard to salvage these photos into a magazine.

Here are some of the photos:

The concept behind this is that one day society will look back to 2015 and be amazed at the way we used to live. We may think that our lives are very advanced now, but when analysed in retrospect, previous generations look increasingly primitive. The everyday items we have around us now will be confusing to future people. Perhaps poverty will be seen as gruesome and unthinkable in the future. Our concept seeks to combine current day things into a future context to emphasise the fact that one day our 2000s lifestyle will be seen as old-fashioned and alien.

To try and convey this concept through an antiques magazine was not the best idea. There probably wont be magazines a hundred years from now, and people probably wont even want to buy 2000s items.

Statement

When I think of contemporary art and artistic rebellion I believe they go hand in hand. Contemporary art is art that is produced in the current time, most contemporary art straying away from traditional conventions of what was once perceived as contemporary. Artistic rebellion has the intention of causing a reaction and most rebellious acts in art have been produced around this era, gaining positive and negative reactions from audiences around the world. In doing so, the line has been blurred which determines what is appropriate and what’s inappropriate In my attraction towards rebellious art I have chosen to research the question “Can creative acts be rebellious when rebellion has become canonised in art, design and media histories? What would a contemporary creative rebellion look like?”.

My work explores the minds reaction when consuming elicit substances. The things we see and the things we feel. Not only is this a personal experience but an experience felt by a lot of humanity. In exploring the topic of rebellion and to support my experiments and final work and how it is portrayed in a contemporary light I have research 2 artistics and afew sub artists that I believed were most suited for my ‘style’ of artworks. The first artist I researched is Brian Lewis Saunders which, through indepth research deem as highly inappropriate and widely controversial for the naked eye to see. Whist his art covneys ‘portraityre’ it most definitely is not in the most traditional sense. His works depict how he believes he sees him and what his mind sees when on all different kinds of drugs. For example what he sees on marijuana is a very colourful pop art ( in a sense) way of seeing himself and on coke he sees himself in a very dull, straight line, grey way. His works aim to convey how the mind alters to different drugs and how the mind reacts to the different situations. My work is similar as I want to convey to my audiences through my five experiments and final work the way the in which the mind hallucinate and therefor what it experiences. For example in one of my work I have decpicted a clear photograph of an eye and sketched inside the eye what an individual (in general) would feel like and see when high and on MDMA, such as sexual/ erotic positions, dogs and pizza (my obsession). My four experiments are all interlinked as they are all marked with the “Lucy In The Sky” lyrics and society has viewed this song as a song about LSD, a mind altering hallucinogenic drug. It is also a gentle song, conveying my works to be about the ‘sweet dreams’ we experience when our mind has been altered.

The next artistic I used as an inspiration for my work is Tracey Emin’s and particularly her work “My Bed”. Tracey Emin, a contemporary artist engages the viewer with her candid exploration of universal emotions. Well-known for her confessional art, Tracey Emin reveals intimate details from her life to engage the viewer with her expressions of universal emotions. Her ability to integrate her work and personal life enables Emin to establish an intimacy with the viewer, which she has conveyed through her installation “My Bed’. Tracey shows us her own bed, in all its embarrassing glory. Empty booze bottles, fag butts, stained sheets, worn panties: the bloody aftermath of a nervous breakdown. After researching her work “My Bed” I decided to make bits and pieces of what would constitute a bed. I then screen printed on top of the sheet and pillow case “Lucy In The Sky” lyircs to demonstrate the sweet dreams we experience when on drugs and I further reiterated this through making a full bed and bed frame as when we close our eyes to go to sleep we have the dreams as well. I have then depicted my installation up against a white background, which I made myself with material to convey a dream like feel of purity, contrasted with the blue lyrics on the bed.

Carrying on from my post assignment where I wanted audiences, I have still depicted this rebellious notion in my work, but in a more subtle way as I felt my artwork was too straight forward and thus I wanted to make my work my ambiguous, leaving it up to the audiences to think. I want my work to portray some of my life and the individuals that will view this work. I have attempted to create a controversial artwork but in a subtle less obvious way. When people picture the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” they picture a psycedlic image created by the beatles of bright colours.

Final- “Sweet Dreams”

For my final work I depicted an Installation. The installation includes a bed frame (which i made from top to toe) , bed sheets and pillows imprinted with the lyrics of “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”. I have places the bed sheets and pillow in a rather messy way to portray the messy head drug like nature that one feels. For the ‘mattress’ i used old pillows to prop up the bed sheets to give it for of a bed like feel.

For the background i used white sheet to give it a ‘dream like’ structure, i hung the material up using nails and a hammer as sticky tape was not strong enough - in result this slightly damaged my wall :(. I then used grass as the carpet again to give a dream like state and to draw it away from a traditional bedroom. The elements and objects i used that are scattered around the bed and structures further reiterates my idea of a hallucinogenic head space. Much like the style that my own bedroom has formed. I want the audience to be welcomed into part of the head space that used to occur in my life. Thus i have portrayed in the images, a bong, a pipe, alcohol, tissues ( to convey mess) and a pizza box, my ‘high feed’. I want to welcome the audience into what was my world. A world which some would not agree with and potentially neither did i.

I want the audience to question this work, as my work can be seen an ambiguous through all the different elements. I want the audience to view it as a contemporary rebellion. Contemporary in the sense that it is an installation, which strays away from traditional notions of art and i have majorly inspired my a contemporary artist Tracey Emin. Rebellius in the sense that it is looking into drug culture and diving into much of todays society which could be confronting for audiences.

Final- Process

A continuation of my ‘Sweet Dreams’ bed installation I then created a bed sheet which is meant to portray a doona cover. I bought the fabric from spot light and then cut it to the size I wanted.

I continued the theme of “Lucy In the Sky” with diamonds to portray ‘sweet dreams’ of LSD which audiences believed that it was about LSD and still to this day do. I also used this as it conveys are thoughts and perceptions that run through our minds, just like drugs, as “Lucy In The Sky” was not able LSD, but everyone envisions it as such.

I conducted the prints in a jagged, not conventional way to show the perhaps messy nature of someone who takes drugs.

Final work- process

I have decided to make a bed frame with collaboration ( help) from my dad as some of the tools that had to be used you were dangerous unless trained to used them.

I collected the wood from old slats in our storage room and new slats from buntings warehouse. This was a length processes of cutting the wood the the exact length by using an electric saw. To drill into the wood, i first needed to use a clamp and then saw into the wood with help from my dad.

Once the base was completed, another slat of wood needed to be propped between the base and the legs that we were about to put on so that the bed would not fall apart. Many whole were drilled in the legs and each slat of the bed to be able to drill the legs onto the base.

once the base and legs were drilled it, the bed head was then cut to the right side and then nailed the slats together to create the bed head. Then i drilled the bed head onto the base at the back.

I did not create the bed as life size as it would be too difficult and heavy to manuvere, and I also like the small features of it as it looked cleaner and was easier and much cheaper to make.

Tracey Emin’s “My Bed”

A consummate storyteller, Tracey Emin engages the viewer with her candid exploration of universal emotions. Well-known for her confessional art, Tracey Emin reveals intimate details from her life to engage the viewer with her expressions of universal emotions. Her ability to integrate her work and personal life enables Emin to establish an intimacy with the viewer.

Tracey shows us her own bed, in all its embarrassing glory. Empty booze bottles, fag butts, stained sheets, worn panties: the bloody aftermath of a nervous breakdown. By presenting her bed as art, Tracey Emin shares her most personal space, revealing as insecure and imperfect as the rest of the world.

Now, I have been inspired to make my own interpretation of a ‘sweet dreams’. I want to actually make a frame of a bed, sheets, etc.

Tracey Emin’s

Tracey Emin’s has always been a massive inspiration of mine. I want to use her as a major part of my supporting artist for my final work. Now that I have created my pillow case of ‘sweet dreams’ when we rest our head on it at night, Emins “My Bed” will now be an inspiration of mine.

Tracey Emin’s art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, video and installation, to photography, needlework and sculpture. Emin reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid and, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous. Emin’s work has an immediacy and often sexually provocative attitude that firmly locates her oeuvre within the tradition of feminist discourse. By re-appropriating conventional handicraft techniques – or ‘women’s work’ – for radical intentions, Emin’s work resonates with the feminist tenets of the ‘personal as political’. In Everyone I’ve Ever Slept With, Emin used the process of appliqué to inscribe the names of lovers, friends and family within a small tent, into which the viewer had to crawl inside, becoming both voyeur and confidante. Her interest in the work of Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele particularly inform Emin’s paintings, monoprints and drawings, which explore complex personal states and ideas of self-representation through manifestly expressionist styles and themes.

Installations

Installation art is a relatively new genre of contemporary art, practised by an increasing number of postmodernist artists, which incorporates a range of 2-D and 3-D materials to influence the way we experience or perceive a particular space. Installations are artistic interventions designed to make us rethink our lives and values. For other new art styles see Contemporary Art Movements.

As in all general forms of Conceptual art, Installation artists are more concerned with the presentation of their message than with the means used to achieve it. As a result, computer art is becoming a key feature. However, unlike 'pure' Conceptual art, which is supposedly experienced in the minds of those introduced to it, Installation art is more grounded - it remains tied to a physical space. Conceptualism and Installations are two of the best examples of Postmodernist art. Admired and hated by art critics, both forms are widely exhibited in many of the world's best galleries of contemporary art.

After research into contemporary art and therefor installations, I have decided to make an installation for my final work.

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