Response 10: “A Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing: Contemporary Found Footage Practice on the Internet by Eli Horwatt

In this weeks reading, the idea of remix has taken a stand to direct uses viewers to the mess displays of mainstream media. Such as the main focus, political remixes that reflect the government and trailer remixes that reflect film form through mash-ups and trailer re-cuts. In opinion, I support how remix viewers are now able to voice out their opinions about the mainstream videos, music, films and many other that just need to have an another opinion.

Furthermore, I agree now that communication is not just one way anymore from the mainstream media to the viewer, but also both an interaction of both sides stating their supportive viewpoints of how the media is displayed.

It’s just wonderful how remix has developed to a new point of era where artist are able to send out their messages about media through using the capturing of videos and internet. On the other hand, copyright is not in favor of theses acts. Hopeful, copyright will change over the years like Dave has reminded us about how copyright is so strict through American. I wonder if in the near future that everyone can just accept “Remix” as part of media and not as an act.    

Looking At the Image

look at the image as a hole then zoom (with eyes) into the cube ?

*Guess the Feeling =]* 

Response 9: Roman Mars' radio interview with Max Neuhaus on "Radio Net," produced for Re:sound, WBEZ Chicago, 2005

              Max Neuhaus artistic talent of using taken sounds was really interesting since his experiment with sounds let him create some type of new sound that was taken sound heard before, but when mixed it gives out a cool interesting sound that listeners couldn’t know until the sounds are broken up then the listener will understand what the sound were individuals. In my opinion, I found him a great contributor into the new ago of producing new sounds and the idea would not everything should be created by scratch, but it could be taken sounds that can still that produce surprising sound through remix.

Furthermore, his experiment the “RadioNet” suggested callers to place sound into the phones to create a new music through the mixture of the sounds from the phone contributors. I believe this experiment set the toll on remixing sounds into music. Also, it let radio turn from a 1 way toll into a 2 way toll so listeners can give their opinion which I agree was a great idea in my opinion since he provided the listeners the change that taken sound can be create in this new format of music artist. Overall, I really enjoy the break through that he had done with sound and I hope one day I will be able to conduce breaking experiments like Max Neuhaus.  

Response 8: Anne Ellegood, "The Exquisite Corpse Is Alive and Well"

The word “Collaborations” has left a great significant in my mind. It’s inspiration since the meaning of Collaborations in one part is not producing art solely instead a group or work together art that incorporating everything’s efforts (mentality and physically) to produced an art that sends out a unimaginable message. Furthermore, the appealing examples in the essay collection that was the most interesting which captured “Collaborations” was the idea of the to influence society about breaking sex roles such as Hsieh and Montano artist experiment to define art and the important message that it sends out as a group effort. Also, the wonderful ideas of incorporation other artists work to producing a new element of art is truly a great sight to maveral at. To be honest, I had debts on creating artwork that using other artists artwork due to the feeling of copying, but after reading this essay that feeling is lifted and I feel like producing more” Collaborations” of artworks. Overall, I found the reading a great inspiration to art producing with the idea of working together meaning everything can take parts of others work and add onto it or just as a group however still remembering the limits of rules society has place such as copyright to produce unimagined results of art. I wonder wouldn’t it just be better to share? How I will define “Share” is a hard question to ask.    

Response 7: Ingrid Schaffner and Matthias Winzen, eds., "Deep Storage: Collecting, Storing, and Archiving in Art" (1998)

In this reading I found it quite long and time consuming, however it was work it, but what I didn’t’ like was the quality of some of the scanned pages since some pages were blurry and faded o­­­­­­­­­­­­­ff; it was hard on the eyes.

The idea of “Deep Storage” was really interesting since this art reminds viewers of the importance how art was in our history and reflects how the past created and forgotten about Art. While, reading the text Chinese history came into my thoughts; the images of scrolls and old Chinese art material like a feather brush with old Chinese ink that reminded myself about Chinese’s culture. As such, I believe the reading reveled my past history about culture of artwork just like what the text is trying explain in the text.

Furthermore, I found throughout the reading the only art piece that caught my attention the most was the Silverthorne since it captured the idea of Deep Storage because of the communication and imagery it provides for the viewer when setting eyes on the artwork. To sum up, the reading text was quite interesting with the understanding of history and past, however it’s a long read so be ready! 

Response 6: Andreas Johsen, Ralf Christensen and Henrik Moltke, "Good Copy Bad Copy

The video displays the importance of advance technology that affects the society. Its main adjective focus on the restrictions and improvements that copyright to must follow into the future with the “new technology being perfected everyday.” These adjectives must balance out the consumer and business. However, at this time the balance is one side where the consumer is able to gain the advantage of free: songs and videos, knowing fully well as the consumer its illegal. Also, many individuals take it for granted and don’t care about the impact. As a result, the creators/ artist’s song or videos are stolen from their hard work and business loss profit and the artist/creator will suffer from the lack of profit to support their work.

On the other hand, the business or corporation that produce the sales of the songs and video are pricing the goods for a higher amount than usual so it causes the consumer to not favor and support the business and artist instead look for loop hole into gaining the goods free of charge. Every individual understands that if the price is not right or impossible to precise then individuals will seek pirated means.  As far as copyright ownership goes the choices are the individual will learn to share or not share at all in my reality. Overall, copyright must be improved into an international setting soon to balance the consumer and business due to the advancing technology.      

Response 5: Performance Artist

The artist I have selected was Yoko Ono. She is a Japanese artist well known for her performance artist, vocalist, filmmaker, and object maker. In addition, she is the wife of a beetle’s member John Lennon. A well-known performance work she has done was called “Cut Piece.” The performance is she sitting on the floor and music would be playing in the background. Then, the audience would go up to her one by one and use the scissor already on the ground. Then let the audience members cut off pieces of clothing she was wearing until she had nothing left. The influence she wanted the audience to understand was existentialism through the theories of Jean-Pual Sartre when she was studying in college and to tell the audience about her calming down her own human suffering. Also, Yoko Ono used the audience involvement to complete her works of art successfully, then finding her identity. As a result, she displays to the audience about gender and sexism in the performance. Furthermore, telling the audience about human suffering, loneliness, social unity and love in her works. Overall, I found Yoko Ono’s idea of displaying his influences very strongly thought out that leaves the audience remembering the idea since she “forces” the audience to be involved. Thus, the audience will remember this contribution into the performance art.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono#Bibliography  

Response 4 : Funes, His Memory

Funes, His Memory

The reading is surely a really interesting read since the author creates a close related to him with a “her” telling the story of Funes’s life. In stead, Funes’s should have been telling his own story. The female expressing her memories of Funes and combines it with his memories to create an in depth analysis to display “Memory in different ideas”. As such, the female feels the misfortune Funes feels throughout expressing her memories of him. For instance, the females describe Funes’s physical outlook and personality in depth detail. In addition, the memories had supported Funes’s life from his misfortune of being crippled. Also, Funes’s potential for future would be endless since he is gifted with a strong memory of counting systems. The amazing piece about the story is Funes understands he will be able to pull through this misfortune and life on, but not all people are able to withstand the misfortune. This type memory is the most important through human life. Overall, the story supported different ideas of memory described throughout the story such as memories with counting system, personal memory of Funes and the female and the idea the memory can be used to save lives. 

Assignment 1: Idea/Notes

Response 3: MOCCA David Hoffos's exhibit, "Scenes from the House Dream"

This was my first time experience at MOCCA museum. I found the David Hoffos “Scenes from the House Dream" really interesting since it was the first time seeing this type of artistic presentation compared to the other usual ones that I have seen so far. I found it different from the other artistic presentation since it was a dark room show. My first impression in the dark room was it felt like I was semi-blinded and my senses had to be adjusted to fully understand the placement of the environment to total understand the artistic layout. Also, the sound of people bumping into each other so I had to adjust quickly to prevent myself from bump into others.

It felt like a haunted house theme since I saw blurry images of ghost, but it was just a projector image. In addition, the scary music plays an important role in the background of the exhibit and the frame installments. The music had set a great temple for the artworks. When looking inside the frames, the interior design was spot on detailed from indoors to outdoors. It was pure fantastic.    

The artist’s idea with the old television display reflection creates a lot of movement for the objects and for the TV people made the artwork absolutely real. For instance, the frames containing the stopped or abandon train in the forest set a surreal effect in which it felt that I was in reality peeking into someone’s dreams or maybe spying them. In addition, the mirror mixed into some of the artworks had shown a feeling of trickery, fooling the eyes into believing the artwork was repeating it’s self. As a result, made the artwork even more realistic. For example, the frames containing the neighborhood of houses and fireworks were shot into the sky. As well, the mirrors played a huge role in the whole creation since it’s supported the reflection of the artwork and perfected the artworks to create the understand of what the artist was trying to capture for us to see. Furthermore, these artworks in the frames might have presenting the important memories of the artist.      

Overall, the David Hoffos “Scenes from the House Dream" exhibit sets a great feeling that viewers are exploring the realistic scenes themselves or spying on them. The sense of placement of people and objects including music incorporation that a add more to understanding the frames. I would have never imagined it could be used in this type of artistic sense. In future reference, I would like to try to create a different, but similar too, using the equipment David Hoffos has done to define his line of art. The equipment that David Hoffos used; I would take the idea of the projecting images and the television reflections, however when displaying the projecting images in the exhibit. I would hind the projector and television to keep the viewers guessing which type of technology was used to display the objects.    

Response 2: Hollis Frampton "Nostalgia" (1971)

Nostalgia video was really interesting since it made viewer’s imagine what the photo would look like in their minds first and then showing the viewers the actual photo in the next photo example. To be honest, when I was watching the video I had been thinking in my mind these photo examples weren’t what he was talking about; I kept thinking about it about until I confirmed it with someone and until he started talking about the toilet photo I knew I was right! As maybe the fact that I was more of a visual person and enjoyed looking at the photos then listening to his story of his photos.

While, I was watching the video and semi listening to every photo he would be burning his photo’s and showing us the progress of how the photo’s were burnt. Could this mean he liked the photos very much and wanted to say goodbye to them or vice versa. In addition, when he showed other photo’s burning; some of them he would show them burning to the end and other’s he would show just burning, but not until the end; then progressing to the next photo. Does, it’s mean he likes or dislikes the photo more depending on how long he had burned the photo? When I was watching it and listening this time about his stories and descriptions. It’s some the answer was unclear in the video.  

Overall, it was a good video to watch since it made viewers “imagine” a lot more rather looking at photo and listening to him talk about it; in my opinion this video relates to how books are viewed with “imagination”.      

Response "Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes"

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

At the beginning of reading the author writing style was unclear in my opinion (mainly on excerpts 1).  In addition, in excerpt 1 I don’t enjoy the viewpoint about photograph being signs, which related to ads and billboards that came across in my mind. Since, the author’s photography viewpoint seems really negative because in our society photography ads and billboards sent out negative messages, but other photography ads and billboards just fine. In excerpts 2, I agree that photographer needs theme(s) such as Camera Lucida principle of adventure to fuels her photography like when I’m taking a photo my theme is discovery, uncovering the shot makes an interesting photograph similar to Camera Lucide. Lastly excerpts 3, the mother’s death set a very interesting point about photography; it could capture a person’s beautiful, kindness, innocence, etc, but not the true person that people see in really life such as the photo of Lucida’s mother. Overall, Camera Lucida’s was a semi-good read with suggestions to keeping an accessible dictionary near you.   

This blog is for FACS-1939 (Lab 6) course where ideas will be collected.

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