LIGHTS

Recently I have become a new fan of LIGHTS when her album "Listening" just came out yesterday. The electro-pop sounds of her music definitely resonate sensations that are equal parts fantastical, epic, beautiful, and emotional. Check her out at her website "I Am Lights"

Pipilotti Rist

I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much, a video from Pipilotti Rist initiates obscure insanity, but a sense of flexibility and liberation. The way the girl dances and sings with Chipmunk-fast-forwarded tones, while boldly showing off her nakedness, gives off this sense of freedom. The song she sings provokes a liberation from something or someone because of the way she dances and waves her arms around freely through the blur. As for the blur, it gives off mystery because we do not know what specific details of her faces look like. Maybe she wants to remain anonymous.

Honestly, I do not know what the true intention Rist is trying to portray with this video or what is going on in her mind when filming it. The film just feels so strange,weird, and slightly disturbing because of her crazy behavior. This was even more confusing than Matthew Barney's The Order.

Pipilotti Rist

I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much, a video from Pipilotti Rist initiates obscure insanity, but a sense of flexibility and liberation. The way the girl dances and sings with Chipmunk-fast-forwarded tones, while boldly showing off her nakedness, gives off this sense of freedom. The song she sings provokes a liberation from something or someone because of the way she dances and waves her arms around freely through the blur. As for the blur, it gives off mystery because we do not know what specific details of her faces look like. Maybe she wants to remain anonymous.

Honestly, I do not know what the true intention Rist is trying to portray with this video or what is going on in her mind when filming it. The film just feels so strange,weird, and slightly disturbing because of her crazy behavior. This was even more confusing than Matthew Barney's The Order.

Reaction to Matthew Barney and Glass Jaw

The documentary of a contemporary storytelling artist who considered himself a "sculptor," Matthew Barney, struck my attention in a sketchy, but captivating way. As a phenomenon of athletic training, he believed "Change cannot happen without struggle." I never heard of Matthew Barney before the video we watched, so I could not fully understand what his motives were for his Cremaster 3 video, The Order. His video was deliberate, full of symbols and events that happened for a reason; but I could not understand what it all meant. Like many other people who have never heard of him, I was confounded at the waste of time put into the video. His language was just perplexing. I tried to open my mind from the obsurdity that I thought made no sense. However, as I continued to watch, in conclusion to the video I started to think about the aesthetics and design of the video making. I listened to the comments made in class and started to realize how this was really a work of art. It was interesting to see how he focused on different sets of characters on different degree levels of the Guggenheim. It was like a surrealistic, dream-like game about overcoming obstacles towards a task or goal.

This dream-like, obscure video contrasts with that of a powerful, journal-like film called, The Glass Jaw by Michael O'Reilly because of his deeply intimate, ghostly perspective. After being beaten up in shock, he suffers anesthesia in a graduate hospital where medical reform was needed. He video tapes his whole experience in such a compelling manner, that viewers can almost feel his anguish. By video-taping in close ups and sharing all of his inner thoughts and feelings, it made the viewer see through into his own eyes. From the description of his blood soaked baseball-stitched head, 38 staples, the effects with sound as if to hear voices, all contributed exemplifying the stream of conscious he felt through the video. Pity and awe was expressed, because of the intensity of his pain in such instances where he described that even "thinking [was] like brail in butter."

Reaction to Matthew Barney and Glass Jaw

The documentary of a contemporary storytelling artist who considered himself a "sculptor," Matthew Barney, struck my attention in a sketchy, but captivating way. As a phenomenon of athletic training, he believed "Change cannot happen without struggle." I never heard of Matthew Barney before the video we watched, so I could not fully understand what his motives were for his Cremaster 3 video, The Order. His video was deliberate, full of symbols and events that happened for a reason; but I could not understand what it all meant. Like many other people who have never heard of him, I was confounded at the waste of time put into the video. His language was just perplexing. I tried to open my mind from the obsurdity that I thought made no sense. However, as I continued to watch, in conclusion to the video I started to think about the aesthetics and design of the video making. I listened to the comments made in class and started to realize how this was really a work of art. It was interesting to see how he focused on different sets of characters on different degree levels of the Guggenheim. It was like a surrealistic, dream-like game about overcoming obstacles towards a task or goal.

This dream-like, obscure video contrasts with that of a powerful, journal-like film called, The Glass Jaw by Michael O'Reilly because of his deeply intimate, ghostly perspective. After being beaten up in shock, he suffers anesthesia in a graduate hospital where medical reform was needed. He video tapes his whole experience in such a compelling manner, that viewers can almost feel his anguish. By video-taping in close ups and sharing all of his inner thoughts and feelings, it made the viewer see through into his own eyes. From the description of his blood soaked baseball-stitched head, 38 staples, the effects with sound as if to hear voices, all contributed exemplifying the stream of conscious he felt through the video. Pity and awe was expressed, because of the intensity of his pain in such instances where he described that even "thinking [was] like brail in butter."

Past, Present, & Future Tense

[Personal response to this article]

Honestly, the first two pages of this reading made me want to dose off and fall asleep. It mentioned the list of artists vaguely to me, and I could not imagine the projects they created clearly in my head. However, when I continued the reading and saw the pictures and brief descriptions, I was able to comprehend what those mixed media artists had done. These projects are like, babies of technology that have eventually grown and developed over time into our 21st century-generation. It is hard to believe that technology, like today's DVD players, were basically born from these early projects such as the VinylVideo. It makes me think of how technology would develop in our future time, and what new media would be introduced next. It seems like mixed media is not only a piece of useful technology, but also it is most definitely a form of art. Technology is a creative, innovation, created by genius artists. These artists are very influential to society, because they have revolutionized the way people think about what art is. From thinking about these list of artists, I feel like I can accept the status that mixed media truely is a form of art. I used to think that only traditional pieces of art such as paintings or drawings were only meant for museums and galleries. These artists have successfully shown otherwise, because of the fascination of audiences to be able to interact with their innovations. Without them, we would not have essential social networking, such as Facebook. We would not be able to watch our favorite TV shows on tapes or dvds . These artists have taken risks to push through and advance their thoughts outside of their limits, to experiment and explore without hesitation, and have extended the parameters of human capabilities. I find it inspiring that their experiments have catalyzed the meaning of art, and introduced new mediums of interest today.

Past, Present, & Future Tense

[Personal response to this article]

Honestly, the first two pages of this reading made me want to dose off and fall asleep. It mentioned the list of artists vaguely to me, and I could not imagine the projects they created clearly in my head. However, when I continued the reading and saw the pictures and brief descriptions, I was able to comprehend what those mixed media artists had done. These projects are like, babies of technology that have eventually grown and developed over time into our 21st century-generation. It is hard to believe that technology, like today's DVD players, were basically born from these early projects such as the VinylVideo. It makes me think of how technology would develop in our future time, and what new media would be introduced next. It seems like mixed media is not only a piece of useful technology, but also it is most definitely a form of art. Technology is a creative, innovation, created by genius artists. These artists are very influential to society, because they have revolutionized the way people think about what art is. From thinking about these list of artists, I feel like I can accept the status that mixed media truely is a form of art. I used to think that only traditional pieces of art such as paintings or drawings were only meant for museums and galleries. These artists have successfully shown otherwise, because of the fascination of audiences to be able to interact with their innovations. Without them, we would not have essential social networking, such as Facebook. We would not be able to watch our favorite TV shows on tapes or dvds . These artists have taken risks to push through and advance their thoughts outside of their limits, to experiment and explore without hesitation, and have extended the parameters of human capabilities. I find it inspiring that their experiments have catalyzed the meaning of art, and introduced new mediums of interest today.

Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant Garde

Man Ray, whose real name was Emmanuel, was fascinating to me. He seemed to have a personality and artistic drive that was different from other artists who were more accepting. Man, however, was scoffed by others, especially when he was in New York. They didn't understand the concept of his artwork and found the functional objects he placed in galleries were not pieces of art. It was interesting to know that he would have rather been "accepted" not "understood." I was also surprised by the number of other well-known artists and photographers of his time such as Alfred Stieglitz, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali. I thought he seemed influential to have so much passion and drive within his work, even through all his life struggles. He thought "to create is divine," thus, introducing knew ideas were an essential part of his life. His innovative ideas- such as making art out of fashion photography, or creating "rayographs," lead to a new era of modern art.

Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant Garde

Man Ray, whose real name was Emmanuel, was fascinating to me. He seemed to have a personality and artistic drive that was different from other artists who were more accepting. Man, however, was scoffed by others, especially when he was in New York. They didn't understand the concept of his artwork and found the functional objects he placed in galleries were not pieces of art. It was interesting to know that he would have rather been "accepted" not "understood." I was also surprised by the number of other well-known artists and photographers of his time such as Alfred Stieglitz, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali. I thought he seemed influential to have so much passion and drive within his work, even through all his life struggles. He thought "to create is divine," thus, introducing knew ideas were an essential part of his life. His innovative ideas- such as making art out of fashion photography, or creating "rayographs," lead to a new era of modern art.