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Artist statement:

I decided to paint the mountains from the courtyard of my apartment building. I let my friends choose the colors from the 10 I had. The idea behind this was that even though I was the one painting it felt like everyone’s art. I didn’t think one minute of this showed enough of the process so I sped it up in order to show the multiple friends come and go throughout the day. Our courtyard faces the mountains during sunset and I’ve always wanted to commemorate all of the days spent watching the sunsets from our courtyard together. We collectively decided on colors and mountains and spent the day appreciating the mountains and brainstorming this piece. Will definitely be doing something like this again.

Reading response 4!

Reading 1: Rosalee Goldberg goes to explain first a bit about fine art but then that because of the nature of performance art there is less fiscal influence. It doesn’t fall into the gallery, buy/sell niche. I think that gives artists even more freedom and relieves some pressure to do it for capitalistic reasons, but also may make the pressure more intense in the terms of the fact that they only have one shot. I think that after reading this I have a greater understanding and appreciation for performance art and the way it makes people think.

Reading 2: I thought the concept of addressing the missinformation and the current beliefs of their society was interesting and also likely why this was so groundbreaking. It is a great example of something that is talked about so frequently, but is not comprehensible until truly seeing how disturbing and wrong it really was/is. I really enjoyed reading the entire thought process behind this piece and how thorough they were in approaching this topic the right way. I think it is a prime example of how many people simply ignore the things that make them uncomfortable to think about intead of addressing why them are so uncomfortable, this is exemplified greatly by how many people were disturbed by this work.

Experimental Art Video: "Deadline"

Andy Shauf - "The Magician"

Social Distancing & Art Episode 3 from Ogden Contemporary Arts on Vimeo.

#vimeo

Can’t Help Myself

Sun Yuan

Video Flag

Name June Paik

Year of Work1996

Reading response 3

Starting off, the concepts ons dimensions and tempo where fascinating to me. Both concepts seemed to be common sense, or things that we know well, but also are concepts that we don’t typically talk about with art. The idea that these concepts do, in fact, partake in the making and viewing of our art was very interesting to me. I think the concept of ‘actual time,’ could easily be applied to the recent uprising of ASMR videos. In these video not a whole lot is happening, and it’s not happening at any accelerated speed, but being able to share that experience and indulge in certain applied senses is cathartic for many viewers and consumers.I love story board. The ability to apply and visualize multiple concepts in order to eventually create one cohesive piece is wildly helpful and productive. Lastly, recorded time has evolved into our everyday life. Recording and advertising our memories and experiences is a part of what many people would consider the social standard of our generation. Not only is it a part of the social standard, but being able to capture moments in film allows us to capture pieces of the feelings we felt while we were there. The ability to relive these moments is slim, but pictures allow us a small piece of that,

The idea of examining modern media by starting with shadow puppets is spot on, we dont realize it as kids when we sit with our flashlights and make up insane narratives to assign to the shadows we create with our hands, but we are essentially making our own movies. These productions most definitely set the stage for projections to come to fruition. Projections allowed us to view and share the understanding of realities outside of our own, something we'd only been able to do by spoken word or still images prior to. I think the lengths that artists had to go to in order to create and share this kind of art is truly inspiring. In todays era it is so simple and easy to make and share media, which truly is spectacular, but the hard work that had to go into sharing media back then speaks to the passion behind the message. To create in this era required intention. It required a passion to share your ideas. It required work in order to do so. I think that there is something so impressive about wanting to be heard or understood so deeply that you work that hard.

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The Victims of Addiction

This series takes the 10 most RAW and real parts of a series about addiction that I could find. As someone who as lived it, I hope these images shed some light on how violent and ugly it really does get. While I feel like in some aspects this show glorifies substance abuse, I feel that these specific scenes capture the ugliest parts of the disease. The parts of a disease that people don’t talk about, the parts of the disease that are only exploited after someone has fallen victim to the point of death.

Reading Response #2

The one article referencing to gifs as “simple, trashy and strangely attractive.” hit the nail on the head completely. For some reason GIFS give personality and life to pictures that would lack much of the context that GIFS allow. I think the articles hold a strong point, and I think that GIFS are ‘unkillable.’ They will always serve a purpose of elaborating further than a photo or sentence can. For example, if a picture is worth a thousand words, how many do you think a gif is worth? It is a bridge between the vagueness of a photo and the commitment of a video and it will continue to serve as a casual reference to popculture among social media.

Gifs I like:

You simply have to accept this answer^ and you cannot be mad.

You could follow any sentence with this GIF and they would just accept that its a joke without question.

Similarly, you could follow any sentence with this and they would immediately know there wasn’t a sincere word present in the conversation at hand.

We have all stepped on a shell that made us feel like this.

This is exactly how, “can you pick up a shift,” feels when you have no excuse not to pick up the shift.

As a bartender who hears 1000 names, this embodies that experience 100%.

Just imagine your friend is ripping you a new one but this is the GIF they send... you know they’re mad, but you know they still love you. I can’t explain it but you can’t dispute it.

The running theme is that I love cats, but, look at this distinguished gentleman.

This is exactly what bartending at Viewhouse Downtown feels like on a saturday night and I have sent this to all of my coworkers.

It’s not a lot, but it’s honest work. A classic. Somehow better at warning than a picture.

courtsartdream

Project 1 with Artist Statement

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These are beautiful! I live the contrasting colors in each piece. Definitely leaves me with a lot to think about, love the combination of these elements.

Artist Statement #1

I wanted to exemplify how we glorify drugs in social settings. Inspired by euphoria and the common highschool experiences that many of us share, I feel that the light we view drugs in is not realistic nor is it healthy. I grew up in a household of substance abuse and never shared this outlook on drugs personally and it fascinated me how anyone could find something so dangerous so appealing. This was my attempt to bridge the gap in my understanding in hopes if I was selling the idea as well, maybe I'd begin ti understand it. It also evaluates the evolution of how drugs are introduced throughout our adolescence.

Glorifying Drugs

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