Concentrated Chaos

I chose to focus on the human body and emotions. I am facinated by the emotional capacity human beings have and how much they can effect us so I decided to zone in on a specific idea that happened to plesant. Every person has memories of when they were children. We all have at LEAST one happy memory, but most people won't ever think to ask you about them nor will they see them plain as day on ones sleeve. Memories are embedded into us and in the process I used it focused not particularly on the outside appearance of the person in front of the camera but more the images within the person. The home videos are underneath the black screen which hides our memories much like everyday life. I simply wished to convey a happiness and fondness of childhood and memories to give a warm feeling. When making the video I decided to look back at my home videos and childhood memories. I noticed some things about myself and my family that I never knew. It was a pleasant experience which I hope to share

Research Post: Yang Fudong

Yang Fudong was born in 1971 in Beijing and now lives and works in Shanghai. Most of his films are in black and white. Yang developed an interest in photography and film while going to school for painting. One of his most famous recent works is titled "Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest". His works are often filled with psychological questions. Yang prefers to shoot in film, as opposed to digital video, as he believes that film retains a strong sense of the artist’s touch, which digital videos often lack.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhswOlqbPUU
http://www.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/videoWorks.htm

Research Artist: System D-128

System D-128 was born Brian Korlofsky in New York City. He is a muti media artists with works in music video, video art, new media, and film. He is a producer, director, ,and editor. He began by saving content using a vcr when he was younger. He archives material and uses it for for audio and video mixes and as source material for sample-based productions, installations, and visual backdrops for touring artists. He has worked with artists such as Wu Tang, Red Man and Method Man, Daft Punk, and a Tribe Called Quest. He has also merged into a political realm with his associated media piece "Silverback Mountain Kings".

http://vimeo.com/systemd128
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0wohdetsE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnrviaHi2Mc

Body Movement

Artist Statement:
My piece is a performance piece using image processing technique.
With my piece I want to show the body movement as an art form
as well as convey a message of personal space. I wanted to show the
limits of personal space and our movement with in it. No matter where
one goes his personal space stays with him.

Research Post: Cory Archangel

Cory Archangel (May 25, 1978) is a multi-media artist based in Boston, NY. Music, video, performance work, drawing, Photoshop manipulation, web based work, and video game cartridge circuit bending make up the bulk of his work which explores the relationships between culture and technology. Almost all of his work  incorporates appropriated footage, such as Sweet 16, in which Cory took the intro lick to Guns n' Roses "Sweet Child o' Mine" and phased it to itself for sixteen minutes.  The resulting music, which is accompanied by footage of GNR playing the song, is a beautiful video who's music weaves in and out of itself, and creates an entirely unique sound which still manages to be reminiscent of the original.




Cory's web-based work is also very thought inspiring, commenting on popular culture and the informative and commercialist properties of the internet.  One such web-based work, "Punk Rock 101," has Curt Cobain's suicide note posted on a website with Google ads spaced intermittently throughout.  Cory's intention was to take a piece of musical history and basically consumerize it, and the end result is a rather chilling and I feel intentionally heartless take on one man's rejection of his current life.

http://www.coryarcangel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Cory-Arcangel-kurt_clean.jpg

I was most interested in Cory's video game manipulation pieces, where he takes classic NES videogame cartridges and reprograms them.  His video Super Mario Movie is a fifteen minute look in the world of a video game character that is deteriorating due to program corruption.  I love how Cory Archangel essentially humanizes these fictional characters by destroying their world, causing us to feel empathy towards them.

For more of Cory Archangel's work, you can go to http://www.coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/

Adapt

Nearly every specie on the planet has adapted to its environment. We humans choose to adapt our environment to suit us. This had led to the state of the world that we are witnessing today. We now have reached a point where we are being forced to adapt to the changing environment to keep our lifestyle relatively as we have become accustomed to.

Ruptured Waters

Artist Statement after the break

Learning by touch

Artist Statement
    I wanted to add another piece to my collection similiar to my Hand Obstructions piece.  In this, I applied the loop theory, using the same shots over and over again to show the repetiveness of touching used in the process of learning.
    In this piece, I wanted to convey the idea of one of the important jobs of the hands, touching.  Not only as humans do we use our hands to feel (textures, hot, cold, ect.) touching objects usually convey sound as well.  This is the learning process that I wanted to convey in this piece.

Choices- The River Of Time

Artist Statement:
A choice. What does it mean to make a decision? What is the difference between a decision and a choice? Henry Smith in this article: “Fact, Definition, and Choice” talks about living your life as a pattern that’s already laid out. Each choice is the first step to a ripple effect based off each decision. Life already comes with a set of blueprints. Our “cause” and “effect” factors. When one action is made, it usually has a guaranteed outcome. But what about the choices that aren’t so black and white? The simple day to day actions. Waking up, returning that missed call, to cook breakfast or not to cook? Caroline Miles Hill refers to choice as a
problem. She starts off by talking about the fact that making decisions isn’t always an easy thing to do. No decision is disconnected. Where does choice begin? Decisions are choices turned into actions. So is a thought a decision? Does the action change the confirmation? And if it’s as easy and changing a thought, how does that affect the rest?

To stop and think about the part time plays in decision-making the articles are endless. If you were to take every action into consideration and think about all the other choices that were possible and not taken, how much different would the outcome be? “In order to find an approximate answer to the question, what conscious motives will influence a choice between two things differing slightly?” A line taken from Caroline’s study on “Choice”. We are inadvertently shaping our own timeline flow. It’s almost pointless to think about all the other routes through time we could’ve taken, but at the same time, how much different would things have been? It was very difficult to find anything on parallel universe. However in my own concepts of time and choice and very intrigued to explore the parallels of these parallels.

Visually, my plan is to take this concept of choice and visually represent the pathways through life each decision can take you. What would this “problem of choice” look like? And how could time and space illuminate each choice? Our choices are like reagent and time like a reactant. Visually, this reaction and it’s consequences will be illuminated through some form of illustration.

Chaos

In this video piece ' Chaos ', I wanted the viewer to find the underlying connection between time and chaos. The timer, clock, and watch in the piece represent 'time' of course. Time is a controlled system that doesn't diverge from its path or pattern. There are always 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day, etc. The tied up man in the video represents chaos. And chaos is being held back or held down by the system of time. If our world didn't have a system to tell the time of day or day of the year, then our world would most likely be more chaotic than it is now. Over a period of time, what the video does diverges from what it would have done. I like to call it 'chaotic progression'. The piece changes, progresses, or matures throughout the video. By the timer eventually coming to an end and seeing the man's face, the viewer gets to see chaotic progression. One of the elements of the video is periodic behavior, which is the system going into a loop. I'm essentially controlling the behavior of the video, rendering it ordered chaos. Aspects of chaos show up everywhere around the world, from the currents of the ocean and the flow of blood through fractal blood vessels to the branches of trees and the effects of turbulence. There is no way of avoiding chaos. We live in a chaotic world. But time helps keep chaos from destroying our chaotic world.

Beauty Forgotten

I created Beauty Forgotten to signify advertising. Magazines create images of women as satisfied and cheerful. I believe advertising creates a world that does not exist. The advertising world has an effect on women who base their self-esteem on their appearance--their shape, clothing and skin. Advertising uses women as a tool to attract them into improving their appearance, which creates a fake identity. Beauty Forgotten stops exposing women to advertising by ripping ads out of magazines. Women are not allowed to look at the ads anymore and it stops women from feeling negative about the way they look.

Demolitiomage

I created this video with the purpose of tapping into the cathartic properties inherent in the act of destruction. Knocking down towers of blocks, shredding paper, smashing crockery; all of these acts feel good.  I believe that we rejoice in the act of destruction because by doing so, we break apart pre-created patterns which have been thrust upon us, and in turn create patterns unique to both the destroyer and the present situation.  In essence, destruction gives us creative power.  Take the thrown coffee mug seen in the video for example.  Prior to its destruction, it was a mug.  I found it in my basement, and that's about it.  I had absolutely no creative control over what the mug looked like (ugly), the noises it made (none), and its intended purpose (to drink coffee/tea/etc out of it).  The second that mug hit my driveway, it transformed itself into a floral explosion of abstract shapes and sounds that I created all by myself.  This video is not only a homage to destruction, it is itself an example of the unique and occasionally beautiful results one achieves from destroying.  Oh, and the text in the movie is Tibetan for "Impermanence."  I wanted to destroy some text images, and what better word to use?

I know this isn't video art, but I wanted to show you all my first (successful) attempt at glitch art. The original is on the left, and the glitched version is on the bottom. I got the glitched version by opening a photoshop .raw file version of this image in WordPad, then saving it. Then I reopened the .raw file in photoshop, and saved it as a jpg.

3 Way Clip

after a few hours of fighting off sleep and hacking coughs, i finally managed to make this, hope it meets the idea of what i was supposed to create

Loopy Becca

Doors

Doors from kamika guthrie on Vimeo.

FINAL ASSIGNMENT (100 Points)

CONCEPT TO CONCEPTION: The Researcher and the Maker of VIDEO ART
Your final assignment is to find a topic of interest, a leaping off point that can drive the work. For instance the ideas of impermanence, language, semiotics, water, the body, extra. Once you have decided upon your idea you must then run it by me with a couple sentences via email. Once approved, you are to research the subject. I suggest using electronic resources provided by the school such as J-STORE. You are required to give at least 3 references as proof of your research in either Chicago style or MLA format. This should be typed up in a document and sent to me via email by Nov. 30th. Your final project should be at least 3-4 minutes. You are required to have an artist statement to accompany your final pieces. Both your work and your artist statements should be posted to the course blog by DUE Dec. 7th. Failure to complete any of the steps above will result in a 0/100 for the assignment.
TIMELINE:
Nov. 21st – Start Date: Brainstorming
Nov. 23rd – WORKD DAY (No class): Decided upon idea/email conformation by the end of the day. (erisouth@iusb.edu)
Nov. 28th – Work Day
Nov. 30th – Work Day, Turn in your three references (MLA or Chicago format)
Dec. 5th – Work Day
Dec. 7th – Final Project & Artist Statement DUE Dec. 7th (Critique Day)

You Started It

Loopy Looper

Trifecta

Conversation

Multiples?

Performance

Struggle with Space

Looping Assignment

Your assignment for this weekend is to create a video that has a three point looping system. I will explain what this is during class. {If you happen to miss class today, please ask your classmates for help/explanation} This video is due on Monday the 21st (This is your final small assignment before your final). I gave you this article last week in print, however if lost it here is a link: http://www.lightspace.com/academic/docs/looptheory.pdf .... Your video should try to express some of the ideals brought up in the article: /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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Closed Space

Laughing Matter

Facial Gestalt

Phone Confusion

Woody Trek

had to upload from YouTube because the file was big

VIDEO ART PERFORMANCE ASSIGNMENT

Your assignment due on the Nov. 16^th is to produce your own performance piece. How does your body exist within a video space? What tasks or language are you projecting? How does your body relate to surrounding objects and also the viewer? What space are you performing in? Art is a haphazard system of codes and signs, just like any other form of communications. Through simplifying these codes and signs we can make powerful observations and experiences for your viewers. Oh YES NO MUSIC but Sound is allowed to be clear.

ART GREASE

Become part of current media making history and submit your media work to be shown on TV, on our legendary public access cable show. Commercial free, 100% media art TV. Provide us with a mini-dv or DVD or your work, with a running time of 28 min. or less (NTSC only). Your submission will not be returned, but will become part of our media library. Axlegrease is open to local and international artists.
http://www.namac.org/node/25337

Performance VIDEO ART

Richard Serra "Hand Catching Lead" from 1968. B&W:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NBSuQLVpK4

Touch Cinema: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/tapp-und-tastkino/video/1/

John Baldessari: http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=4097
http://angelfloresjr.multiply.com/video/item/64
Static Acceleration By David Critchely 1976: http://catalogue.nimk.nl/site/art_play.php?id=4767
Peter Campus: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/three-transitions/video/2/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmnVTPR1K8o&feature=related

Contemporary Performance Artists:

http://petracortright.com/hello.html

http://petracortright.com/sparkling_one_and_two.html

I know that it's all a state of mind from Eva and Franco Mattes aka 01.ORG on Vimeo.

http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/reenactments/index.html

http://colleenkeough.com/artwork/2160822_Welcome_to_Global_Cone.html
http://unseensignals.com/unseen/repetition.html

My Remix

Remix from Josh Soria on Vimeo.

Appropriation and Found Footage project (i know it's late but i'll take what i can get)

I hope i did this right, by that i mean putting together a video from appropriation and found footage. With that said, if i did it wrong, this video will no doubt get blocked somehow eventually, i can only assume anyway.

When the youth inherits the World

Artist Statement
I used this appropriation video in a way to make a statement about the condition of the orld and that it is up to the youth, the next generation, to fix it or continue to destroy the world.  I tried mostly to use influencial and symbolic figures for my video, such as George Bush, seasame street characters, and news casts to make it feel as if the older generation was speaking to the next.

In my adventure of this creation, it really made me focus on language.  With each search for the perfect video, I had to closely listen to each word being said.  When I first set out, I had a word by word plan for my statement in my video, but soon morphed into something else when I began to put it together.  Each time I found a video of interest the video changed form until this final video was created.

Crazy

Crazy

The People Have a Choice

Pop Vid

Are You Ready?

The Ultimate Internet Meme

Let'r Roll

This is Holloween

This is a holloween video that was done for a local rap group, soup or villianz. I hope this meets the assignment requirments since i don't really "do" holloween. (Celebrate). The song is an original "remix" and the video, is an appropriation from the movie "Nightmare before Christmas."

P.s. Sorry, i had like a series of misfortunate events and the video just would not upload.

Pumpkins kin

Halloween

Somebody is Crazy

Happy Halloween!

I Can See It In Your Face

Watch Out for the Hooded Monster!

Video Artist, Roger Welch

Born in New Jersey, Roger Welch has been creating and exhibiting with multimedia and video for decades now. In viewing his work I have seen some of the earliest re-mixing of video that I know of.

Welch was doing multimedia and video installations in museums as early as the 70's. In those long past years his focus seemed to be based on mixing existing medias together, Clint Eastwood in a Germany film, a mix of old TV shows and commercials, etc.

His focus lately however is strongly based on filming two spots, as in two separate coastlines, from predawn to after dusk and editing it down in time as well cropping the two videos 50% and creating a juxtaposition that works really well in bringing geographically distant spaces together.

Many of his works are readily available on youtube,

Coastline Video

Clint Eastwood in Germany

You paid for the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge.

Every Shell Relevance Stares

4 Terrifying Psychology Lessons Behind Famous Movie Monsters

4 Terrifying Psychology Lessons Behind Famous Movie Monsters -- powered by Cracked.com
I thought this was an interesting and humorous look behind the psychology of various horror genres.

Getting Rocky

THe Rock

The perspective from an unfortunate rock

Literally, from a Rock's perspective

my literal interpretation of what this particular rock may see at a certain point during the day

City Rock

The Rock's Moral

For this video, I wanted to do something a little different than the traditional "rock." 

Rock View

The Inconsistent Soap Swims with the Abolition Landscape

I apologize it's taken me so long to get this posted. In the end i had to download Google Chrome and even then i was having some strange uploading issues, but i finally managed to get it up, so here is my randomly generated sentence video

Research Post: Toby Lockerbie

The artist I chose to write about goes by the name Toby Lockerbie. He is an English artist who dabbles in photography as well as video. He claims to be first and foremost a photographer, but his videos are exquisite and done quite well. His main focus are music videos. He started his professional career in 2005, but had his big break in the UK in 2007. Most of his videos are based on the new upcoming hip hop/alternative group Rizzle Kicks. They feature two fun and candid UK men getting into all sorts of trouble and different themes. His videos consist of only music videos, his best and most visually stimulating video in my personal opinion is that of “Prophets” which is a music video performed by Rizzle Kicks. It is a mix of 960 long exposure photos meshed together to give a video feel to it. (which I have posted to the blog previously) Toby got his inspiration from the Rolling Stones video “Like a Rolling Stone”. Which is a video made completely of photographs. His video works are all mostly done from June 2010 until now. Lockerbie has done 9 music videos in this past year. He is sure to make news as he becomes paired with more UK artists such as Jessie J to make intricate videos. These videos are not simply your average music video. There are no dancing hoochies with shots of the main singer swinging his hands in the air with no artistic thought in mind. These are works of art honestly if you get a chance check out his website www.tobylockerbie.com. His photos are also worth a look as they match his incredible video skills.

Written By: Keri Hare

The Big Bird Cage

For this video, I was inspired by a preview for a cheesy, exploitative grindhouse movie called The Big Bird Cage.  I got a kick out of the terrible acting and outrageous subject matter as well as the repetition of the god-awfully schlocky title, and rather than making a video full of obvious, somber, cliched prison metaphors (the movie does that anyway), I decided to make a more playful movie which explores some of the more interesting quirks of the English language and how we mentally interpret verbal communication.  The images which flash by during the refrain of "The bird cage, the bird cage, the big-the big- the big bird cage" are intended to alter one's mental preconceptions of what a "Birdcage" looks like, or a bird for that matter.  The idea behind this is that words are tied with images, and often very specific images.  When one is asked to think of a tree, for example, one might think of the same tree every time, or one of only a few trees in their "mental image bank."  My hope is that people watching this video will leave with a slightly altered way of visualizing words, and a smile perhaps wouldn't be out of the question either.  This video uses a fairly random assortment of images which all have to do with birds or cages in some way.  I also wanted to incorporate some pop art references and visual puns to help drive home the message of this video, while at the same time avoiding being outright "goofy."

The Towering One (rock video)

Weekend Assignment

From A Perspective of a Rock:
Your assignment this weekend is to create a video from the perspective of a rock. It should be at least 1 minute long, and no longer than 5 min. It is DUE on Monday the 24th before class.

MORE MIXING

Dara Birnbaum - Technology/Transformation... by merzboy
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\-This one takes awhile to load....Wait for it....

The fewer paranoia breaks.

An Error Advances

How Can the Opened Alliance Mature Around the Yard?

When Can A Sixty Tale Chain The Forecast

REMIX APPROPRIATION & FOUND FOOTAGE

DJ Spooky - That Subliminal Kid REMIX CULTURE

http://remixtheory.net/?page_id=3
   
  

http://www.archive.org/
24 Hour Psycho: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/24-hour-psycho/
The Clock: http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/news/clock.html
http://vimeo.com/28077113
http://vimeo.com/5004305
http://www.penelopeumbrico.net/SunBurnScSvr/Sun%20Burn%20(Screen%20Saver)lg.mov



Here's one of my favourite, Bootyclipse. Dennis Knopf's YouTube channel archives and loops the few seconds that precedes the arrival in the frame of a girl who is going to shake her booty in front of a camera. Don't pay attention to what youtube writes, This video is suitable for minors.



http://rhizome.org/editorial/2009/jul/31/general-web-content/

A skin pales inside the crossroad!

When can a fraud discriminate the galaxy?

Static Sink remade

Artist Statement

                Static sink came to me as I turned on my sink and couldn’t hear anything else but the running water.  In my video, I try to convey that water almost seems to be Mother Nature’s static.   Running noise is a thing that one hears and usually does not think twice about.  Sometimes someone can hear the water dripping or running and the listener will rush to shut the water off, just as one would do with the television when a static channel is on. 

                In this way, I think I was also able to in this video to convey audio in the visual in the video.  Even if there was no sound in the video, I think one would still hear the water and the static in their minds.  This is a video I hope to revisit and improve.

Opposite a circular experiments a dotted stunt. (sound not done)

The wearing grain marches behind the genetics.

IT IS TODAY

OBJECT/IMAGES AS LANGUAGE

Your short assignment is to take your randomly generated sentence and create a video that visually defines it. What series of images and sound will convey your sentence? You can use written language if you would like, but the video piece can't be solely dependent on it. There is not a required length. Make it however short or long as you need to convey or get across the language within your sentence. This assignment is DUE OCT. 19TH before class starts. It should be posted on the FINA-S 300 Blog. 
RANDOM SENTENCE GENERATIONS
Ruth Divine: A skin pales inside the crossroad!
Kamika Guthrie: An error advances.
Keri Hare:Opposite a circular experiments a dotted stunt.
Joshua Herr:The overlooked glove loves a character.
Brian Jernigan:When can a sixty tale chain the forecast?
Sarah Jozwiak:The inconsistent soap swims with the abolition landscape.
John Lawson:When can a fraud discriminate the galaxy?
Courtney Seanor:The fewer paranoia breaks.
Josh Soria:Every shell relevance stares.
Robert Troup:How can the opened alliance mature around the yard?
Krystal Vivian:The wearing grain marches behind the genetics.
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FILM: Zorns Lemma By Hollis Frampton 58min.

everyone should post a comment on this research post by the end of today... (2 points) for each comment on each research post. Most of you haven't been doing it. Each research post is (22 points) I am also collecting grading the sketchbooks this week for mid-term grading. So if I don't have it at the moment then bring it to class today please.
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RESEARCH POST: Diana Thater

Diana is a video and installation artist. Also Diane is a talented curator, writer and professor. She teaches an intense summer class at The European Graduate School. Diana Thater a native of San Francisco, was born in 1962. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Diana Thater’s first solo was outside an art school in 1991 at the Dorothy Goldeen Gallery in Santa Monica in California. The show was called Dogs and Other Philosophers. She has exhibited extensively throughout North America and Europe, with one-person exhibitions including the Dia Center for the Arts (2002), and the Wiener Secession (2000).
Diana’s work explores chronological qualities of video and film while escalating it into space. She is best recognized for her site-specific installations in which she influences architectural space through stressed interaction with projected images and light. Diana’s installations make her well known for the mechanical aspects of media representation, contemplating the relationships and intricacies of a technologically-mediated nature. She does this during an investigation of the relationships and ecosystems created through and without human beings, animals and technology, stressing what she considers to be the most impossible event of nature that is free of culture. Her primary interest is exploring the relationship between humans and the natural world and the distinctions between untouched and manipulation. Her work closely resembles landscape paintings. Diana has a distinctive imagination that combines literature, animal behavior, mathematics, and sociology.
Diana says about her work on Human/Nature Project:
“Art changes the world by changing the way you see. People can change the world through conservation, but we have to realize that the way the world is depicted also changes the world. That’s what’s interesting about this project. There is a certain percentage of people who will say, ‘Ah! That’s beautiful! What is that?’ And you can change the world that way.”
Diana’s work is exceptional. I enjoy all the colors, shapes and textures she visualizes in her work. She puts a lot of thought into each one of her pieces to make sure it is the best thought out visually.


http://www.thaterstudio.com/

Interdimensional

WATCH THESE: Appropriations Remixes and Found Footage

WTF! (my filter project)

Statement: Going into this project, I really didn't have a sense of direction. I couldn't pinpoint what I wanted to do. I decided to make that my theme for this work. I wanted to give the viewer many emotions at once. I wanted to allow the video to be unpredictable. I believe I accomplished this with using more than one "style" of effect. I tried to use multiple types and each segment different. I want the viewer to have that sense of "What did I just watch?" but then want to watch it again.

Appropriate

http://www.archive.org/
24 Hour Psycho: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/24-hour-psycho/
The Clock: http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/news/clock.html
http://vimeo.com/28077113
http://vimeo.com/5004305

Making Waves

Statement:

    There is one single ingredient that makes up nearly everything on this planet we call our home, and that is water. Water is vital to the existence of every living thing, whether it is consumed or dwelt in.
  Too often it is the things that are always in front of our eyes that tend to get ignored or become unnoticed, and the importance of water is most likely one of them. There is a beauty and mystery to this common chemical that can easily be missed simply because it is common. Rivers rush by and ocean waves repeatedly rush onto the shores of beaches all over the world. The Earth itself is 70% covered in water, in all its various forms.
    Now it can possibly be said that it is 70.000001%, as I contribute this video. True, the video itself is not entirely of water, but within the raw footage is a river, dirt, ducks; things that are all related to water, and then i've added the features of water itself to the overall video. Water moves, it bulges and ripples, flows and spins. My video is a reflection of the activeness that water is always in, even when it seems to be still, something is happening beyond what our eyes can see. The film itself is unsteady, as water isn't something that can be walked on (with a religous exception, of course) as we would concrete. Even in water's solid state, as ice, it is unsteady and precarious. Video montages have been created solely based on people falling down while on ice, an addition to water's precarious nature. It can be dangerous, when in the form of a storm or perhaps a tsunami, and it can be fun, such as its use in water parks and fountains.
    I hope somehow with this video that in some small way this vital substance can be seen in a way that is both different and typical of its nature, as water now presents itself in a fourth form beyond the common states of liquid, solid and gas. Now, it's been digitized. (note, there would be audio, but due to technical difficulties this video creation of mine is without noise, so feel free to add  your own sound effects mentally, with a relationship to water, ducks, and dirt of course)

Schrodinger's Dance

For this work, I wanted to explore the inability to accurately measure both speed and position of elemental particles as described in the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, as well as the quantum nature of the unknown as described by the concept of Schrodinger's Cat.  Like the infamous feline, my subject is present in a multitude of possible states.  When the subject ceases movement, all spacial-temporal permutations collapse, leaving only one possible position which expresses itself visually as a solidification of the subject. When the subject begins to move again, the uncertainties in the subject's relative position blossom in turn. This is a beautiful process which I felt would be best portrayed through graceful, meditative, dreamlike movement and sound.

I  was originally upset by the constant interruption of passerby wandering into the frame, but I soon realized that if I was filming a symbolic collapse and reformation of unknown possibilities, I would be going against the spirit of the film by trying to subdue the chaotic nature of the surroundings and thus embraced this random inclusion of subjects.

Artist Statement

“The challenge of this piece is to stop time, by using time to create a sense of timelessness. Using the rush of movement of my travels to convey the only moments my mind finds a true pause. These moments are my most peaceful. It’s where I allow myself to fall into timelessness and get lost in thought while enjoying the experience of the open road.
A painting. When looking at a painting one tries to gather two things, what the artist is saying, and how you feel about it. This video is my moving painting. The translation of constant motion into motionlessness. I used various colors, sounds, or the absence of sound to visualize the tons of things that run through my mind while driving. Sometimes at the same time. Using color to communicate how these thoughts change, or affect my mood, based of the combination of scenery and my thoughts.”
--Kamika Guthrie

Tuning In

Real Meaning

See "Read More" for Artist Statement

Static Sink

Time Keeps Slipping

Artist Statement:

Time is the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future. It's what we use in order to know where we should be, what we should be doing, and to give ourselves a feeling of organization. When one doesn't know the time, they can become anxious, nervous, confused, rushed, and so on. Time Keeps Slipping was created using several different clips playing at several different speeds. When the video changes to another clip, it gives the viewer another location and in a sense time is missing or "slipping." The video creates an imaginary world where the person is living without the constant wondering of what the time is.

Velocity Shades

Janet Biggs

After searching for an artist to post, i limited my choices to two things. Must be female (since last week was male) And she cant just be a video artist, she has to be one i like.

Janet Biggs

Currently stationed in New York City, Janet Biggs is a video artists that tends to lean towards environmentalists or extremists. She has worked with miners, bikers, champion wrestlers, synchronized swimmers and arctic explorers. She has had exhibitions in various states in the country. Her work has been given quite a bit of recognition by the New York Times, the New Yoker, Art in America and many others. Her work has gained her enough recognition that she became the recipient of quite a few grants from the Arctic Circle Fellowship/Residency, Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council, and so forth. She received her undergraduate degree from Moore College of Art, graduated with her masters from Rhode Island School of Design. Among other institutions, her work has been shown at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Gibbes Museum of Art, South Carolina; Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Vantaa Art Museum, Finland; Linkopings Konsthall, Passagen, Sweden; the Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum, Austria; and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia, and many more.

The reason her work is unique to me in that she found a way to take extreme activities, things that are more probable than normal to result in near death experiences and she turns them into these very serene videos. The people and environments she captures is just astounding. She found the art in nature and people, and shot the combination of them at their most extreme interactions and turned it into something beautiful. She almost had a slight music video appeal to me, except her work seemed to be more of a teaser. Some of them were just a glimpse into what only silent visuals could capture. I understood why she decided to keep audio to the natural sounds and to a minimum when it comes to most of her work because audio would've more than likely distract from the intensity of what you're seeing.

Links:
Home: www.jbiggs.com/index.html
Bio: http://www.jbiggs.com/bio.html
Videos:
http://www.vimeo.com/jbiggs/videos
http://www.jbiggs.com/vinstall.htm (Each Video is only an excerpt)

WATCH THIS: Matthew Schlanger

Matthew Schlanger: http://www.lumpybanger.com/index.html

Cool installation

Filter Effects Experiment 1 and 2 of 3

My GLaDOS voice facsimile test

I totally just wanted to do this video for the hell of it, and because
 I wanted to try my hand at emulating the voice of the passive-
aggressive a.i. antagonist from the Portal videogame series.  Let me
 know what you think.

Filters

Playing with filters from Courtney Seanor on Vimeo.

Revenant Triptych

Exploratory Filtration

Gary Hills Work

http://www.vimeo.com/5580721

3 Image Process

Jernigan comment on video artist

Its great that he highlights things that most viewers wouldnt notice. Tight shots can sometimes reveal what the object is but when it is a mystery it makes it more interesting. This can certainly challenge traditional beliefs of what art can do, what it is.
Blurred focus and showing the "wrong" object definitely got my attention, it forced me to become more involved in viewing hi videos.

I am impressed that the video art scene in Germany is popular enough to allow for a 24 hour station! I would rather like to see something like that here in the states!

Exploring Dimensions

My Three Experiments

3 Experiments

Trippy video

I cannot decide if this is video or photography anyone want to help me out?

EMPTY

Comment on blog

This is a very interesting work.  I never thought of art and science as the way Malina had thought of it, but it makes perfect sense.  Also, experimentation is a great way to discover new art forms, where one uses whatever one wishes to use.  It make sme think of all the times that I wanted to make an outrageous piece of art (whether for myself or for class) and founf materials in places I never thought possible.

I like the phrase "simulation of the unknown" when Dietrich refers to the use of computers in art.  This makes me think that art will never follow a certain form, that there will always be new types out there and new techniques to explore.

Jernigan comment

I used to sketch all the time as a kid, always working on something, and then I started messing with some computer programs. I really enjoyed the computer for its ability to easily duplicate things and provide guides to assure symmetrical compositions. Woody Vasulka said that he shares the creative process of is work with a machine, his computer, and his explorations with it. I do as well. I still draw on paper sometimes, but with the programs/technology available in the digital area you can do things that are viable in ourcommunication based world.

Our reading tells us that Vasulkas combination of art and computing revealed a finiteness in conjuction to mans image making capabilities. Everyday in some area, technology is becoming capable of revealing our inability to keep up with it. Computers can do many things fasterthan us, and we are adapting with it. Vasulka is said to have approached his machine as a symbiosis. I think that more and more of us, especially digital natives, feel the same.

OPEN SCREENING: OCT. 14TH

CLICK ON IT TO SEE THE INFORMATION BIG!!!

Preface article about the lounge in NS 031

can be found here!

My comment to the article we were to read

every time i tried to comment, i was taken to a page saying an error had occured, something about cookie support, and becuase i didn't want to be counted off, i figured the only way i could comment was through a post, so, here's my comment to our reading.
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Ok, so, to be perfectly honest, this is the 2nd time i'm writing this because my comp flickered from a poweroutage and so i'm going to try my best to remember what it was i previously wrote. Ahem (clears mental throat)
 So, this article was horribly confusing and yet made sense. I couldn't get through it without taking several breaks else risking my eyes crossing and blurring, and i also couldn't get through it without my trusty dictionary close to my hand. The techical jargon alone was what probably made it hard for me to follow to a certain extent, but i think i get the main idea, so here I go. But first, i need to sidetrack slightly.
      
      I'm in a History of Photography class right now, and one of the main things we keep hitting upon as we slowly move forward in time as the camera was developed, is how people argued whether photography could be considered art or not. There were those that argued that because images were created by a technical means, a machine constructed through science, it couldn't possibly be considered art because art is something created by the soul and then put onto a 2D plane. Of course, then you have the other side of people arguing that it photography IS art because it isn't about the camera, it's about the image and what the photographer was trying to capture in the image (or something like that).
  I can't help but feel that this article is basically an argument that it's now the computer's turn to fight for the right to be termed 'art'.
Something that caught my eye and i really liked was at the beginning of the article, where it spoke of how Milan viewed art and science as being on the same level, that science was simply a journey of knowledge, and art was a journey of the senses. Well, it this is true, then surely art can be created by anything, even mechanical means, right?
    As i see it, art isn't something just made with an afterthought. It's an extenal expression of an internal moment, or feeling. Art is what someone created from a moment when they were struck with inspiration and felt the overwhelming urge to bring it to life in a physical realm so that it could be seen not just inside by one person, but that it could be viewed by others and give them a chance to feel what someone else felt, or thought, or dreamed, imagined, wished, etc.

 Now, the computer is a machine. It's technical, it's science, but it was created out of a need for something wished or imagined, and that flows with my opinion of how art is made, so the way i see it, computers are most certainly a form of art of themselves, so they must be capable of MAKING art too. People express themselves through different means, whether it be paint and paper, or flashing lights and weird noises generated from a machine.

 Art isn't something insignificant. Even a toddler putting his handprint on a piece of paper is usually overjoyed by such a simple mark on a cut down tree that's been pulped and pummeled into a flat line of substance. Art is confusing, sometimes hard to understand, sometimes breathtaking and sometimes terrifying, but so long as someone can feel something from it, then in my opinion it is art. It is what it is.

Art from brain activity

My friend sent me this link for a website detailing how scientists have been able to transform brain activity into moving images.

 http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09/24/scientists_turn_brain_activity_into_moving_images.html

Its this one you comment on

http://nmvideoart.blogspot.com/2011/09/signal-processing-video-synthesis-image.html

IMAGE PROCESSING: New Ways of Seeing

Your assignment is to produce three image-processing explorations. These explorations are due on Oct. 3^rd (20 points). You are to explore layering filters upon the moving image and taking notes of their visual vocabularies and relationships they hold with your footage. Post your three explorations on the blog (Via Vimeo) before class on the 3^rd (all in one video please), you are to pick your favorite from the three and extend it into a larger video piece (2-3min).

This is the start of Assignment 2 (100 Points): Extend one of your favorite image processing techniques you discovered into a finished video (2-3min.) piece DUE Oct. 10^th. To go along with these explorations and the finished piece or pieces is an artist statement, sketches, and notes. These are required to accompany the final piece(s). It is required to record within the notes the filters that you used, and the stacking order of them for each image or video (I will accept screen shots of filters). Observe how the filter changes the image. Does it allow you to see the image in a new way? How does the process or filter conceptually balance with the images you process? It is extremely important to find that balance. Make sure you think of a thought provoking title. Work submitted without any of the above criteria will be docked one letter grade on the assignment. You will have in class time to work on this Sept. 28^th & Oct. 5^th. In this time you need to be showing me your work in progress. Those who fail to show me work in progress and discuss with me their ideas be docked one letter grade. All material must be posted to the blog before class on the 10^th & a full-res AVI. file must be turned in that day. We will critique on the 10^th and part of the 12^th if needed.

Video Artists To Check Out

http://www.hubbardbirchler.net/works/housewithpool/

Sketch Book CHECK>>>This Coming Week

I will be collecting your sketchbooks/notes that you have been taking for these past four weeks, on Wed. the 28th, for a preliminary check before I grade them for Mid-Terms. See syllabus for more details of sketchbook. If you have any questions email me or post comments on this blogpost. 

IN AND OUT OF FRAME >>> UP IN MEDIA LOUNGE

..IN AND OUT OF FRAME VIDEOs >>> UP IN MEDIA LOUNG..

Signal Processing | Video Synthesis | Image Processing (+Reading)

A Rough Guide to Analog Video Synthesis:

READ this ARTICLE and comment on It within the comment section on this post for (20 Points): The Computer: A Tool for Thought-Experiments <<<< PDF: ONLY read the 1. Physical-Sensual-Mental 315-318 pg. and Machine Vision: Looking Through Machine Eyes 321-322 pg. Comments should be posted by WED. Sept. 28th. Come to class ready to discuss. (If everyone doesn't post a comment of quality, there will be a Quiz on the 28th TESTING topics in the reading.) 
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