DM video outline

For the film project, i will be recreating Takashi Ito's Ghost. My plan is to shoot at St. Mary's hospital in an eerie basement. I think this will help recreate the look of Takashi's piece because it is very similar to the scene in his video, especially will all the pipes that are down there. In order to further re-create this piece in the style of Takashi, I plan on playing around with different tones and introducing bright colors throughout the video. There is a section of Takashi's video where there are ghost lurking and doing weird movements that are sped up, so that is another thing i will experiment with. For my piece I will do some scenes where the ghost is solid, and other parts where through the use of layers the ghost will be more transparent. Through my video, I would like to tell a story of the things that i have experienced during the time that i have worked at the hospital.

Busting the Tube response questions

Throughout her essay, Kate Horsfield discusses the impacts that early Television had on society, and how it was used to manipulate the outlook of society. She goes on to say that “ Video immediately captured the attention of artists who saw its potential as a creative tool and of social activists who it as a weapon and a witness to be used to create new types of representation that opposed the ubiquitous commercialism of the television industry.” Do you feel that film has lost most of the power that it possessed when it was first introduced, or has it become a stronger tool used by society?

In the Passage, Horsfield claims, “ These performances were based on conceptual art that emphasized process and idea over form to analyze texts, language, and the image… Other artists used performance to investigate social and power relations between individuals or between individuals, audiences, and larger social systems.” With YouTube making it easily accessible for anyone to upload a video of just about anything, do you feel it has contributed to a degradation of the true art form behind making powerfully conceptualized videos?

Battle of the Divas

“Battle of the Divas” Artist Statement: The piece “Battle of the Divas” took the concept from my Kryptic panels and furthered the idea of Beyonce being the diva that I see her as. In this piece, however, I advanced this concept of Hollywood power by introducing the character of Oprah. In addition, I added some comedy to this piece by inserting a picture of a cross-dresser (which popped up when I searched for images of Beyonce). The cars at the end of this piece are intended to add satire and reinforce the parody-like theme of the animation. This idea came from Oprah ‘s show, and intends to poke fun of her randomly giving out cars on her set.

Walter Benjamin questions

Throughout this article Walter Benjamin sparks the question of whether the constant evolution of art (due to technology) is diluting the importance of retaining skillful art techniques. This is illustrated when he states, “But only a few decades after its invention, lithography was surpassed by photography. For the first time in the process of pictorial reproduction, photography freed the hand of the most important artistic functions which henceforth devolved only upon the eye looking into a lens.” With digital technology revolutionizing how art is created, will there be a need for knowing the “original” way of making certain types of artwork, when it can be re-created with technology?

When Walter Benjamin states “By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring common place milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives ,” He denotes that through film we are able to see a different more realistic perspective of life. With painting, for example, we are left with more room for interpretation. On the other hand, although film allows for manipulation, we see real images that have a devised meaning. Is this affecting our creative thinking skills due to the fact that we are given less room for interpretation?

Triptych Project

 

Through this piece i wanted to describe  my feelings toward one of my favorite artists, and how my perception of her changed from a bad experience. The first panel shows her as being a superstar and being among the top people in mainstream music. In the second panel i tried to portray her as angelic, and convey the innocence that most people may correlate with her. The third panel, however, describes the perspective that I now have of her, due to seeing her yell at some fans, which immediately sparked me to think of her as a "Bitch." The theme of me looking at her as a bitch was what i revolved my second panel around, showing a side of her that most people do not get to see. Through this piece, I tried to portray the inner conflict i felt of whether i still looked at her as one of my favorite artists.