FINA-S 300 Video Art
10/31/11
10/28/11
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,
10/24/11
4 Terrifying Psychology Lessons Behind Famous Movie Monsters
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I thought this was an interesting and humorous look behind the psychology of various horror genres.
Literally, from a Rock's perspective
my literal interpretation of what this particular rock may see at a certain point during the day
The Rock's Moral
For this video, I wanted to do something a little different than the traditional "rock."
10/23/11
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
Written By: Keri Hare
10/22/11
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."
10/19/11
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.
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
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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/
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/
10/18/11
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.
10/17/11
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.
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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10/14/11
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/
10/13/11
10/12/11
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.
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)
10/10/11
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
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.
10/6/11
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)
10/4/11
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.
10/3/11
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!
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!
10/2/11
10/1/11
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