Paul Pfeiffer
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966. He moved to New York in 1990, where he attended Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program. He is a video, sculpture and photography artist. He uses his computer technology to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. He plays a lot with sports, taking the players out of the game, and keeping close watch onto spectators, the equiptment, and trophies. Several of his works include eerie regenerated props from movies such as "The Exorcist" and "Poltergist."
http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/?artist=62
Vito Acconci
Acconci grew up in New York. He is an architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. A known piece created by Acconci is "Seedbed", 1971. He laid hidden underneath a gallery-wide ramp, masturbating while vocalizing into a loudspeaker his fantasies about the visitors walking above him on the ramp. He has recently been working on more architect-related projects. "Walkways Through the Wall" is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Another piece of his, called "Dirt Wall" made in 1992, is at the Arvada Center Sculpture Garden in Colorado. Besides making art, Vito has taught at various amounts of places throughout his life.
http://www.acconci.com/
Alex Bag - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E0D71331F93AA25750C0A9629C8B63
Female video artist.
next assignment: had to bring in an image/ piece of art...
recreate ur peice of art as a one minute video.
this means...
if ur peice of art is a painting of a baraque woman in the S curve, u have to find an actress, match the background, someone to immitate the exact image.
(make sculpture small, then zoom in?)
bc its video, n in time, bring life into video...have something that gives it reason for being a video. subtle movements, breathing, just some kind of movement. something that tells us that time is moving through this peice.
timing for a minute??!!
brainstorm on how to recreate the piece. set design, n set building. detailed!
in class on tues - working on set, costumes, etc. building of main scene.
how are you going to show movement? is there a narrative to ur peice? the figure can move, w/o moving away from the original. MUST BE A MINUTE LONG
can add sound if it makes sense.
due date: TBA
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Artists for the Week
Matthew Barney
-born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California. He is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance art. HE says he is primarily a sculptor. He graduated from Yale. His well known film that he created is called Cremaster Cycle. *When I image searched his work, all of the Cremaster Cycles peices came across as very weird.
Bill Viola
-Focuses primarily on video art; one of todays leading artists. He recieved his BFA in Experimental Studios from Syracuse University in 1973. He know lives in Long Beach, VA, where he is still a contemporary video artist. Bill grew up in Queens, NY, attended Syracuse University. He deals mainly with the central themes of human consciousness and experience (birth, death, love, emotion, and a kind of humanist spirituality) He has drawn ideas from Zen Buddhism, Christian Mysticism, and Islamic Sufism. Bill likes to work a lot with emotions. He also uses extreme slow motion. An example where he uses extreme slow motion is in "The Quintet Series" (2000)
Pipolotti Rist
-She was born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, in Switzerland. Herstudued at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna, through 1986. Her work Pickelporno (1992) made her famous worldwide. She made super 8 films, which last generally a couple of minutes, w altered colors and speed and sound. Her works generally treat issues related to gender, sexuality and the human body. Her works transmit a sense of happiness and simplicity. Her work was initially considered by feminist art critics. Rist's works are owned by the most important art collections worldwide.
-born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California. He is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance art. HE says he is primarily a sculptor. He graduated from Yale. His well known film that he created is called Cremaster Cycle. *When I image searched his work, all of the Cremaster Cycles peices came across as very weird.
Bill Viola
-Focuses primarily on video art; one of todays leading artists. He recieved his BFA in Experimental Studios from Syracuse University in 1973. He know lives in Long Beach, VA, where he is still a contemporary video artist. Bill grew up in Queens, NY, attended Syracuse University. He deals mainly with the central themes of human consciousness and experience (birth, death, love, emotion, and a kind of humanist spirituality) He has drawn ideas from Zen Buddhism, Christian Mysticism, and Islamic Sufism. Bill likes to work a lot with emotions. He also uses extreme slow motion. An example where he uses extreme slow motion is in "The Quintet Series" (2000)
Pipolotti Rist
-She was born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, in Switzerland. Herstudued at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna, through 1986. Her work Pickelporno (1992) made her famous worldwide. She made super 8 films, which last generally a couple of minutes, w altered colors and speed and sound. Her works generally treat issues related to gender, sexuality and the human body. Her works transmit a sense of happiness and simplicity. Her work was initially considered by feminist art critics. Rist's works are owned by the most important art collections worldwide.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
FLASH
I have never worked with the Flash application before. Even after going through the steps and different techniques in class, it's still a foreign subject to me. I am impressed by the people who can come up with such great pieces. Below are my responses to some of the websites that were given to us in class.
www.itwillneverbethesame.com
- this creator of this Flash project made the peice interactive. The flash piece is simply a drawn in road, and when you press down on the mouse, and direct the mouse in a certain direction, then whichever way you move, is the same way the road moves on the screen, as if you are actually driving a car down this road. I like this one because it's so simple, but it's still very cool at the same time.
http://alanbecker.deviantart.com/art/Animator-vs-Animation-34244097
- this flash piece is my favorite out of all of the ones listed. It shows man vs. technology, the computer. I like how the artist was able to incorporate items on the desktop and move icons around. That just makes the peice more interesting that they were able to take a normal flash project, and take it out of the actual application, and onto the main desktop. The way he fights with the different objects to is very entertaining. Very eye pleasing also.
www.thehalcyonhours.com
- THe Halcyon Hours. This is probably my second favorite out of all of these links. You can tell that the artist of this peice must have spent an insane amount of time to produce such work, and detail. I think by adding the effect that you are looking out a window makes the peice that more interesting. If it were just the sky, then I would find it still as appealing, but less pleasing. Also all of the quick links that are posted next to this piece are very cool pieces.
www.itwillneverbethesame.com
- this creator of this Flash project made the peice interactive. The flash piece is simply a drawn in road, and when you press down on the mouse, and direct the mouse in a certain direction, then whichever way you move, is the same way the road moves on the screen, as if you are actually driving a car down this road. I like this one because it's so simple, but it's still very cool at the same time.
http://alanbecker.deviantart.com/art/Animator-vs-Animation-34244097
- this flash piece is my favorite out of all of the ones listed. It shows man vs. technology, the computer. I like how the artist was able to incorporate items on the desktop and move icons around. That just makes the peice more interesting that they were able to take a normal flash project, and take it out of the actual application, and onto the main desktop. The way he fights with the different objects to is very entertaining. Very eye pleasing also.
www.thehalcyonhours.com
- THe Halcyon Hours. This is probably my second favorite out of all of these links. You can tell that the artist of this peice must have spent an insane amount of time to produce such work, and detail. I think by adding the effect that you are looking out a window makes the peice that more interesting. If it were just the sky, then I would find it still as appealing, but less pleasing. Also all of the quick links that are posted next to this piece are very cool pieces.
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