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Place

Quentin Shih

http://twww.quentinshih.com/photography/special/stranger/special_stranger.html

Photograph: http://www.quentinshih.com/photography/special/stranger/QUENTIN_SHIH_TheStranger_NO14.jpg

Form: This work is created by photographing women in glass boxes in different places around China.

Process: The background and set up for the photograph was likely set up before the shoot and then taken once.  More than one photograph was taken to ensure that there would be at least one good one.

Content:  The photograph (and the series that it comes from) tries to show and explain how women are perceived in China.  From this photography series it seems that women in China are like something that should not be touched or talked to and it kind of seems by the way westerners have displayed historical pieces that this piece is talking about how women are becoming non-existent in China.

  Anish Kapoor

http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/636/Cloud-Gate.php

Photograph: http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/CAI/Images/User/201002/1289870194.jpg

Form:  This piece is a rather large reflective bean shape

Process: This piece was probably created in at least two separate pieces because of the sheer size for transportation purposes and then assembled into the singular piece that stands now.  It probably is made of stainless steel or some other reflective metal.

Content: This sculptural piece, even though it was unveiled almost ten years ago still allows for the viewer to experience Chicago’s view in a different way.  By using a reflective material the artist has allowed for not only the blocking of other side but it also reflects what is behind the viewer.

 rAndom International

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/15/environmental-art_n_5585288.html

Video: https://youtu.be/7cem71cR0S0

Form: A person who walks through this piece can experience a place that you can experience rain without becoming wet.

Process: This piece has to have some sort of tracking cameras to sense where the viewer is and to tell the program where not to let water fall so that the person does not get wet on viewing this piece.

Content:  a place is experienced based on what type of weather there is and how well they can see or hear the others in the place. By having it raining the viewer is going to have a different sense of this space rather than if it were not raining. The viewer then gets to experience the rain in sight and sound but not by touch.

 Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/lost-memory-palace-janet-cardiff-and-george-bures-miller

Photograph: http://www.mcasd.org/sites/default/files/styles/470w/public/15-cm_killmach_2007_0.jpg?itok=dvow43gu

Form:  A space is built in which a performance is done by robotic figures.

Process: The artists probably had to create a story line first before building the piece and then the noises probably had to be recorded and the robots constructed before the space could be constructed around the noise and robots.

Content: This piece brings in a new place where people can experience something outside of its natural place.  This piece seems to be brought out of some horror movie or serial killers mind but the viewer can experience it in person and not on a screen.

 Donald Judd

http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/donald-judd-untitled-stack-1967

Photograph: http://www.moma.org/wp/moma_learning/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Donald-Judd.-Untitled-Stacks-234x395.jpg

Form:  In this piece, Judd used 12 cube like boxes with one painted side and then hung them on the wall.

Process: For this piece the artist probably had to get the boxes made first before he could do anything else and then he had to paint them and then install them.

Content: The piece interjects into the space of the viewer and isn’t just hung on the wall but protrudes away from it.  The place is changed because of how the piece extends.

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For this project, I made a light box with glass and vellum images that represented the different “layers” of me.  My goal is to consider and look at the different sides that I have, such as with being around people I don’t know, people that are considered close friends, and myself.  I want to show that there is more going on below the surface than some people may get the impression at first glance or meeting. For my light box, I collected glass, vellum, paint, ideas about myself and a silhouette picture of myself.  These ideas and the picture helped to create the images that were placed onto the glass sheets.  My goal is to show that under all of the original characteristics that someone shows at a first meeting is all of these other selves as well but they are just hidden. Over the past couple of years, I have started to notice the different sides of me and that some people, myself included, have a hard time of getting to their inner self around people because trusting someone that much to let them  see a part of you that not many if any get to see this part.  People aren’t always the most trusting or careful which makes others not want to be themselves because sometimes it is hard to open up and trust someone enough.  I have different parts of me because there is a fear of the unknown, of not knowing what the other person will do or how they will react.  This fear makes it hard for some to open up in which their response is to build up a wall and resist the “attack” that a new person could potentially develop.  The fear helps to build walls and other selves like my project does.  The distance visually between the layers helps to kind of show the distance in which a person that has just been met would be distanced out from each self. I put lights on the inside because they help to bring out each layer just like certain people do in my life.  Having these people in one’s life can be complicated but they are always pushing the person to be a better version of themselves which is a good thing.  The lights will be turned on so that although each light will not be completely visible the affect that the light has on the piece will be visible just like there is a visible effect sometimes from those people that are pushing someone to be a better version of themselves.  I will be displaying the light box against the wall on a pedestal near a plug so that it can be turned on and the layers will be visible once again.

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Identity

Researchers are trying to figure out what parts of the brain that certain things or ideas originate.  Does certain parts of the brain actually control how people feel about certain topics?  Is there a certain part of the brain that recognizes things that are similar with who you are?  Self-awareness, recognizing our self-outside of ourselves, is something that humans have.  The right side of our brains helps humans to know self and have self-awareness.  Having something change or damage the right side of a person’s brain could lead to not being able to see self in the mirror or in other people like them. When the brain has a traumatic experience or something is going on in the brain then things can be changed in a person’s personality, memories, and actions.  An aneurism in the brain can cause people to act differently or see things like the woman from the radio lab podcast.  When peoples brains undergo certain traumas there is a change in how the nerves and messages between neurons are sent.  It is interesting the effect of just a few experience has on a person’s brain.  The woman in the podcast completely changed when her brain was hit with an aneurism but because the brain is a fragile part of the human body it doesn’t take much to change it. Not only does a brain injury that effects a person’s personality affect the person but it also effects the people around that person.  It takes a toll on the people who care for the person.  People who have a brain injury can have a personality change and the people that knew this person before the injury they could see a change, big or small.  Robert Sapolsky, while doing his research he felt that he was fragile because one small injury to the brain could send him into a different personality.  The man who he was working with helped him to see that people’s identities/personalities are constructed by a “soul” and that the idea of this soul would keep people to stay with the person who had a brain injury.  If there wasn’t something that kept the person similar on the inside and sometimes on the outside then some people would probably just leave that person.

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In-progress Identity

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Identity

White cis males have dominated the art scene for a while but around the 1960s gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity started to make an impact on the art scene.  Being female in a male dominated art scene was hard but The Guerrilla Girls brought this issue up and continued to push the idea that women are able and capable of working in the art scene just as much as men are.  They also pushed the idea that women don’t have to be nude to be represented in the gallery.  It is interesting to see that pushing against some of the earlier stereotypes of women.  The Guerrilla Girls’ push for representation of women’s work in the gallery was a big part in bringing women’s work into the gallery space.

Lyle Ashton Harris is a black, gay guy who takes and deconstructs or mocks the binary code of genders, sexual orientation, and race.  His work has brought him to taking on more feminine identities but also by showing his more masculine shape.  His concept on deconstructing societal views on gender, race, and sexual orientation is interesting.  Society has a huge impact on how we perceive ourselves and what we put out into the world.  It isn’t always what we may feel or want to put out but we do it because we might feel that we have to act according to societies views.  Harris does a good job with breaking down the constructs of gender, race and sexual orientation that society has placed up each of us.

There are many parts of identity that were talked about in the reading, which mainly focused on sexual identity, gender, race, and hybridity.  These are not the only things that go into an identity but they are important.  Another thing that is important that is not highlighted in the text is family life.  One thing that is important on how a person sees themselves is how they were raised and how their family or people that they lived with saw them.  A person can change their identity but it is not always as easy as it may look and it can take an emotional toll on the person and those around them if they are not completely confident in the person that they want to be or feel that they are.

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Language

The finished project did get the point across that the English language is very structured with all of its rules.  If the project were to be displayed again I would take some of the ideas that my peers had said and put the jars in a straight line to continue to work in a very systematic way like the English language.  The focus of how organized and precise the book and boxes are contrasted by the chaotic placement of the strips of lines.  This showed that the English language can be a challenge to learn.  I learned that even though I can speak the English language, I don’t always realize what part of language the words that I am using.  There were several different words that I wasn’t sure which part of language they were from so I had to look them up but I also learned that some words are harder to place than others when they are taken out of context in the sentence.  If I were to continue this project I would use other books and maybe even a dictionary to further enhance the deconstruction of the English language.  I would also mix the fragment strips up from different books along with having the glass boxes filled with the different parts of language.

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Identity

My first idea for the identity project is to start with a piece of Plexiglas or glass and draw a base figure to start with and then use either epoxy resin or mylar sheets to create layers added onto the figure.  Each layer would represent a different piece of who I am.  I would have three different pieces for this project.

My second idea for the identity project is taking my fingerprint and scaling it up.  I would use my fingerprint and my interest in typography to create the lines in my fingerprint.  I would use words that describe me and write them in a way that would allude to it being a fingerprint from a distance but the words would be more apparent when closer up.

My third idea for the identity project would be to write a sentence on a canvas and then cover the sentence over with something that means a lot to me.  It would be a rather negative sentence while the image that covers the canvas would be something more positive which covers the negativity.

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Identity

Stefano Bonazzi-Undecided

http://www.stefanobonazzi.it/undecided/

Form:  This image is made of a figure sitting in a chair with two masks behind her and one in her hand while her face is wrapped.

Process:  The artist probably set up the back drop first before he placed his model into the piece.  Then he probably dressed up his model and placed her into the shot.  Then once the photograph was taken there was probably some slight editing that took place before it was taken to print.

Context:  The figure has several masks and not a real face which could signify that she doesn’t know who she is or that she is someone different for different people.

Jeffrey Wang-Identity

https://www.behance.net/gallery/618724/IDENTITY-by-Jeffrey-Wang-

Form:  There are a series of 11 images (only one pictured) that have the same figure but in each image something is taking over the figure.

Process:  The artists probably took the photographs that are present in each of the images and then worked with his graphic design and fashion skills to create each image which overlaps and merges together with another.

Context: The figure starts out pure white as if she is innocent and as the images progress she is taken over by more and more deeper colors while also being taken over by more hands.  The figure shows the struggle that society has put on people with the evils of the world like greed and seduction.

Harriet Theilker

http://hthielkerartist.blogspot.com/2011/05/lithographic-prints.html

Form:  Each image is composed of several images that were captured as the figure moved through space.

Process:  The artist captured several photographs and then layered the photographs to create a lithographic print.

Context:  The image conveys and shows the movement of the human body.  The body is an interesting subject especially with movement.  The body is part of someone’s identity and people perceive a persons identity based on how their physical body looks.

Laura Ferguson

http://laurafergusonart.tumblr.com/

Form:   This piece has a female figure with a more intimate view of who she is.

Process:  The artist layered plexiglass with mylar (or epoxy resin?) to create a more blurred affect on the acrylic paint underneath the mylar (or epoxy resin?).

Context:  A person has multiple layers to their personality and each layer drawn helps to show another layer of this persons personality.

Annette Messager

http://www.madeinslant.com/2014/04/photo-installations-by-annette-messager/

Form:  Many different photographs, framed and strung up into different shapes.

Process:  The artist probably took and printed all of the photographs before framing and hanging them in the gallery space.

Content: Each instillation pulls from multiple different people with different genders.  It pulls on the body and how each person is the same but they are also different as well.

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Time

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Language

In-progress Language project

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Time

At this time my first part of the time project is not done.  I started my daily ritual of reflecting on the day and how it affected me and my emotions on Monday and wont finish it until this Sunday.  At first I started abstractly but towards the end of the week my drawings started to become less abstracted and more realistic.  My drawings for the beginning of this piece were more abstract because I didn’t feel complete and my emotions from those days were harder to identify where they were coming from.

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Language

My piece for project two is going to be using a book and three glass containers of the same size and shape.  When this piece is finished, the book will have no words left and the glass containers will be filled with the words from the book.  I will be cutting out all of the words out of the book and categorizing the words into “groups” that were formed by the English language.  It will be displayed on one of the pedestals with the three glass containers placed behind the book which will be open to show the blank pages that words used to occupy.  

My intended meaning for this piece is to show that books are just the same words repeated over and over, just like semantic satiation. Semantic Satiation is a repeating of a word or phrase until it doesn’t have any meaning to the viewer/listener but books do this in a way that doesn’t seem that way because the words are switched around to try and stimulate images into ones head but in all actuality it is just lines on a page.

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Language

I'm interested in many types of language, mostly written and non-verbal language because the viewer/reader has to make some inference on what the person is trying to convey.  A book is pieces of paper bound together and ink on the page, where the ink is placed in certain ways to create characters that people can understand as language.  Books have an infinite amount of information that can be found in them. There can be pictures, drawings, art, fiction and nonfiction stories, maps, and so much more about anything and everything someone could ever want to read or learn about.  I would like to use some type of non-verbal or written language in my language project.  

I’d always watched people ever since I was younger.  “Mommy? Can we please go people watching?  Pretty please with cherries on top?”  My younger self asked my mother.  “Only for a little bit but we have to go to the grocery store before we can go people watching. OK?” my mother asked.  “Okay” My younger self said as I started to jump up and down.  My mother giggled and took my hand.  I skipped by her side through the store and then to the park.  “Hey Mommy look at that guy over there on the bench.  He’s scared of those duckies,” I giggled.  

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Language

My first idea is to use the idea of semantic satiation, which is repeating a word or phrase until it loses meaning.  Each book is just a repeating of words, which when broken down are just lines on a page. I want to cut out the words in a book and place the cut out words into a jar.  This would be an instillation piece where the cut up book would be placed near the jar of words.

My second idea is to use the sounds that people’s brains interpret as different languages and words.  I know people who are native speakers of many different languages and for this idea, I would have each of these people record themselves saying a specific sentence in their native language and then send it to me.  I would then transfer these recordings into sound waves, which I would then paint, or draw these sounds waves onto a canvas.

My third idea is to write a description of a person, painting, landscape, or art piece. I would then use my knowledge of sign language and record myself signing the description.  This would be looped so that it could be projected in a space for the viewers to see.  I also would like to learn more about Braille and how to use it.  I would then take my description that I wrote and transfer it into Braille writing on a canvas or piece of paper.

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Time

           My piece for project one is going to be 11-12 drawings that will be drawn on 8x8 mixed media paper.  The medium is going to be anything that is going to make a mark on the paper.  This piece wont have a set way that it is going to look because I want to be able to let it have a life of its own.  The drawings will be displayed in a chronological order so that one can see time progressing through each week.  Each night, I will be taking some time to think about the day’s impact on me and what happened and then I will draw/doodle/write on the paper to  create a piece about that week.  At the end of the week I will write the dates that the piece started on and ended on and the next day I will switch to a blank sheet of paper.  I will also be photographing each piece through out the duration of the week so that in the end I can create a looped movie of how each came to be.

           My intended meaning for this piece is to show how there are different emotions or events that shape how we live and act. By drawing/writing/doodling I will be documenting these emotions/events which will hopefully show the change in how things have affected me and hopefully show how I am progressing as an artist.