Capstone

Last night I went to the senior capstone. It was held downstairs of the Arts building. I saw a few in the hallway. There was a installation in one corner with a video playing of various graphical images. There was another one, but a mural painting on the wall. It had a symbol of Israel with smoke, some men in tunics in the desert, planes flying. It was drawn well, pretty intense at first glance. Another piece was various photographs with writing or typing on it explaining more of the piece. Also downstairs i did see a large book that had various photos. All in all, a lot of the art pieces were all visual - at least the ones that I saw. I enjoyed it, some of them had to make me think a little more about what I was looking at.

Andrea Ray

Last week for one of my classes we had a guest speaker, Andrea Ray who showed us some work created by her and some of her friends. Her works all used a database for narratives, including audio and visual. She had different installations, one called "Roses" where the viewer lays in a body of roses as they listened to the narrative. Another piece was a recreation also using audio, but taking the participant on a journey through the streets as a story is told. Lastly, she showed a work from a friend which incorporated a 4 different videos with a audio narrative telling a story using the videos and audio. The only problem was the audio was not always matching the audio, causing me, a viewer to take a step back and think about what i was listening to and watching simultaneously.

Troika Ranch

Troika Ranch
October 3

This was a session that was told by Dawn Stoppiello. During her lecture, she spoke about the different things that have been going on with dance and technology nowadays. For instance how they use motion which triggers sounds. It was quite interesting. Some of the sounds were MIDI along with certain motion control sensors. Her project, Troika Ranch, was created by her and her partner Mark Coniglio during their college days. Most of the lecture dealt with technology, modern dance and telecommunications.

Overall I thought this was an interesting event to attend. It was ok, and it just showed me how much technology has come and how it continues to advance throughout the years. Anytime things start evolving with motion to sound to dance -- its the new age, and although it is still experimental, we'll continue to evolve more and more complex along with technology.

The FWA

www.thefwa.com

This website is dedicated solely towards flash. It shows different varieties of flash designs that people created and people who visit the site can vote on whether they like the site or not. The art behind it all is when you can actually work with some of the flash projects and interact with them. It also compiles different flash pieces from all around the net. The site itself has lots of other concepts such as newsletters, job postings, wallpapers and so forth. I found this site to be very "artsy."

Narrative Video

Minda Martin
Tues Sept 25

Towards the end of Sept a guest speaker came to one of my classes. Her name was Minda Martin. She shared her narrative about a personal piece from her life. She shared her film which incorporated themes with color scheme, and scenes. The art of it was she used certain lighting to make the scenes older. She used music from the same time period during her narrative to give the setting as if we were there. I enjoyed her work and her input on her pieces she showed. She showed 2 different pieces, one that was silent via actors, and another where the actors spoke. Both were really well and they gave different perspectives. I appreciated her work which helped me focus onto the piece that I was going to create.

Artist: Banksy

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

This website is based on the artist Banksy. He creates several provacative images on walls all across the world. He depicts them onto the walls by creating a stencilized look. In some of the photos you can see as if people would be reacting to his art. For example on a piece is where a guard is stenciled in on a wall where there was a previous marking, and he puts the guard facing the wall as if he was defacing the proprerty. Banksy's work is creative, using real objects, and adding art onto them to make a statement.

http://www.thegraphicimperative.org/

The Graphic Imperative

This is a art event that occurred at SDSU's art museum. I went to the event earlier this October.
They were different posters that talks about different issues such as Peach, Environment and Social Injustice. With multiple posters from artists around the globe they used designs to show certain ideas. The website too shows the posters for those who'd be interested in going to visit the exhibit. The site shows the posters using flash, making it easy to scroll through the posters seen at the museum. I enjoyed visiting the exhibit and seeing artists form ideas based on several simple ideas. For example one called the 'Wave of Peace' which are white doves formed together above the ocean forming what looks like a wave. I was able to see that art can be comprised of several different techniques to make a simple piece into a strong statement.