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