My absolute favorite piece was the one that had the records all lined up that had names written on each one. It told a story that I was not expecting and completely redefined the idea of an “autograph,” because it was not by anyone famous- but rather by the people who had owned these records. There was nothing beautiful about the pens used, or the covers, and nothing elegant about the text, sometimes it was just a sloppily written name. It is more about a sense of belonging than aesthetics for me.

                Not just a sense of a belonging, like these records belonged to someone, but that often times they belonged to many people. Objects and materials are so often a key part of our identity and are things that really matter to us, any yet that same record belonged to say four people, it not only helped to identify each of them but also helped to connect these four people, who’s only commonality that we know of for sure is this record

My first key word is artificial intelligence. When I think of this word I automatically think of robots. This in part is due to the film industry with movies from AI and the Terminator or I’Robot. Movies where machines became more intelligence than the humans, and tried to take control of the human races. . Artificial Intelligence is defined as the intelligence of machines.

Photography:

Photography is one of the must basic forms of technology in my opinion. Everyone has disposal cameras to digital cameras. Pictures are everywhere from Billboards to magazines. Photography is defined as the act or practice of taking or processing photographs. Since I personally hate definitions with the actually word in it. Photographs are defined as a picture made using a camera in which an image is focused onto film or other light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment.

Augmented Reality:

Augmented Reality is defined as a live direct or indirect view of a physical space whose elements are augmented  by technology  sensory input such as sound or graphics. An example of augmented reality is IPhone Apps that use the real world places and blend interaction and direction with it. Also I believe an example would be a GPS, that shows the real world places with the directions placed on top of it.

The haiku is a poetic system, but when translated into anglicized, it degrades into something slightly broken.  It cannot convey the same meaning in English as it does in Japanese, because of the different mechanics of syllables in the two languages.  These different mechanics change the haiku system, because the mora (which we translate into the syllable) is the basic unit of the haiku.  I wanted to explore this bastardized system to create a commentary on the created and altered systems we saw on Tuesday:

In the space between

words logic breaks down into

the smallest pixels.

Anti-art literally refers to the rejection of previous standards considered art. In the early 1900s Marcel Duchamp’s ‘found art’ became the first referred to example. Anti-artwork may convey a specific disagreement with the art world, art market, or high art  – most have become generally accepted today. Some anti art has denounced art making in general, and artworks have specifically been made for the act of destruction. The Dada, Surrealist, Lettrism, Situationist, and neo-Dada art movements all have their roots in anti-art. The most recent controversy regarding anti-art had to do with conceptual art in the Jewish Museum’s Holocaust exhibit.

1) No elbows, feet, whole bodies can be on the table. A table is where you have food, placing body parts on it is seen as frankly gross.

2) Unless the topic of today’s discuss is you, you don’t need to become a spectacle and make the conversation all about you.

People are usually unable to break out from these social norms, and do something out of the ordinary. Individuals daydream about how they will break these norms, but don’t actually commit the act.

By taking art history this semester, I was able to broaden my perceptions of art. I now see that art can come in many different forms. Using this, I see the art and beauty in the ability to break out against the social norm. This is art, because it is unusually and rarely seen in our structured society.

Secondly, my project also comments on the fact that a scene can go from standard every day action to art in a spilt second. In a group of 4 and a table, the combination is simple. You have one performer, a stage and an audience. If people choose to breakout from the norm, performance art would be all around us.

To articulate this I made a short 42second film. It centers on a group of friends. When it zooms in on one girl you go into her thoughts; her thoughts of performing ballet on a stage. You than see the protagonist dance on the table as a stage, breaking social norms in the process. At the end we are brought back to the original scene, but instead it is in black – and –white. The girl did not dance on the table in reality, but only in her daydreams. The black – and – white ending is in reference to Pleasantville, because we live in a society that is unknowingly constrained by our social norms.

I also asked around 5 to 6 people if they would ever dance on a table in front of the crowd. I use their quotes and let them float through the screen. The quotes show the Secret Desires of the people on campus.

Peoples Responses:

Question: Would you dance on top of a table in public?

“Yes, I would totally jump on a table and dance for a crowd!”

“NO Ma’am”

“Yes”

“Under the right circumstance…quite possibly”

“No, Would You?”

“Um…No”

I wanted to expand the commentary on a shoe store being an art gallery. I took the same image from my original IVP #2 and reflected it upon itself. When I think of a quintessential art gallery, I think of pieces standing on glass surfaces.  Because they are on glass, they reflect on themselves and the other pieces in the room.

My new image shows the artwork as if on a glass table, due to the reflective image. Also if you look closely, you can see 4 new shoes in the reflected surface. These represent the other art pieces in the room. Even though you find the red shoe the must beautiful piece, like in an art gallery, you can never escape the unwanted pieces around the piece you want. The unwanted pieces might be the artworks right next to it (represented by the 3 other shoes on the top row) or other artworks in the gallery (represented by the 4 new shoes in the reflected image); unwanted artworks reflect in the glass of the painting or an artwork’s glass stand.

All the artworks linger in our memory after we leave the gallery; this is also represented in my image. This is because, the 4 new shoes can be seen, they are lingering in our memory, but because we didn’t invest time to focus on these pieces the memories are not clear and strong.

What caused me to concentrate on this image were the perplexed expressions on the members of the class. The fact that they are all looking directly into my mirror amazed me.   It is the fact that though they were watching me and I was also watching them.  The use of the mirror to get a double image is what I took from Pedro’s piece. Also the way I tilted the mirror also gave my mirrored face a perplexed look. I incorporated Bill’s piece by how I achieved the image. I walked closer and closer to the classroom mirror. This allowed me to single out the students that were going to become distracted my presence.

Brainstorming Session:

The Second Form Was Digital:

In the digital form I separated the tabs into things that interested me at first. This didn’t last long though, because soon I started just to put interested images, lyrics straight into the document.