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Project #3

I was actually inspired by this week’s reading for this project. In Sean Cubitt’s Projection: Vanishing and Becoming, he mentioned the story of a Greek woman who traced her lover’s shadow onto a wall before he went off to war. I wanted to re-create this story with modern tools. I used pen and paper instead of stone and wall. The shadow created a large silhouette, so I used the shadow’s movement to create multiples, adding depth and dimension. I chose to do this project specifically because I wanted to illustrate the timelessness of art and development in artmaking. 

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Project #4

Inspiration for this project happened though years of dyeing my hair. After initially dyeing hair, one must let the dye sit in the hair for an extended period of time, and then wash it out. As the hair dye washes from the head it runs down the body, temporarily coloring the skin. Having colored my hair multiple times, I have seen my body bathed in reds, blues, pinks, greens, purples, and blacks. I am always completely fascinated to watch my hands and legs become temporarily blue, or shocked when I’m covered in what resembles blood (red hair dye). I wanted to share this experience through performance art. The viewer can see for a few seconds blue running down my chest and my back. By viewing this, the audience second-handedly experiences the same magical moments I experience.  Though it was not intentional, I truly enjoy the effect of the steam on the camera lens -- It gives an aesthetic dreaminess to the video. The fogged lens also gives agency to me, the artist, as it partially blocks the audience from totally becoming voyeur. 

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Exercise #4

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Roselee Goldberg / Marina Abramovic Response

I actually really enjoyed reading Goldberg’s essay on Performance art. When learning about performance art in other art history courses, usually only performance art from the 70′s is mentioned. I appreciate learning about the fact that performance art has pretty much always been around. Who knows, maybe even prehistoric art was performed? It is comforting to me to know that artists have always embraced drama and theatrics. Performance doesn’t always have to be a presentation for class or quoting lines from a play. Performance art is the most free from of art making that there is. One only needs their own body and the want to say something. Performance art can be serious or comedic, it can be political or personal. 

One of the greatest performance artists of our time was Marina Abramovic. Abramovic has paved the way for performance artists with her daring and original performances. When watching the documentary about her most recent performance, The Artist is Present, I was overcome with the extreme power that Abramovic holds. She is unafraid of her art and is determined to tell her story. I have always been inspired by Abramovic, even by her older works, including Rest Energy and Relation in Time. When creating artwork, I always remember Abramovic and ask myself how I can push my artwork further to its fullest potential and how I can trust myself and others in my art-making processes. 

(image is from Abramovic’s performance Rest Energy)

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Reading #3 Response

Sean Cubitt’s Projection: Vanishing and Becoming was a compelling read regarding the history of art making. In this essay, Cubitt argues that recording light was the first way people created art. People were interested in capturing the relation between the permanent physicality and the temporary. One example of this, as recounted by Cubitt, was the story of a Greek woman who outlined her lover’s shadow onto her wall. By doing this, she was able to bridge the differences of light, its movement, and its interaction with physical objects (her lover and her wall). The physical act of tracing the shadow connected physical and temporary and created art. Cubitt continues this idea throughout his essay and he states that people have been creating art as a way to record our daily lives and make the temporary permanent. Art can be a way to capture emotions or feelings which can be fleeting. Using physical objects such a cameras, paints, or sculpture materials, can help an artist capture a temporary moment in time. I think this is important especially when it comes to video and digital art. Videos and filmmaking captures moments in time that may be un-reproducible. Heavily edited videos or abstract films can more easily tap into relateable or hard-to-describe emotions

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Exercise #3

Exercise 3 was to create a music video by combining the audio and video from two different mp4 files. I chose to combine a clip from Toby Maguire’s 2002 Spider Man, and Beyoncé’s remix of Everybody Mad, originally by O.T. Genasis.

Making this video, I especially liked mixing generes. I also think I timed the two selections well where Peter Parker’s big actions coincided with trumpets or  Beyoncé’s vocals in the song. 

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FKA twigs x Nike - Do you believe in more?

Project #2 - The Loop

For this second project I chose to continue with the theme that I had started in Exercise #2 of making GIFs out of music videos. I personally really appreciate music videos and enjoy having a connection between the auditory and the visual. Music videos are a form of storytelling that add dimension to music. As an underappreciated form of art, music videos are postmodern in nature. They help bridge the gap between the high end of art production and direction by being available as a low art form to the masses through social platforms such as YouTube.

I have a connection to many music videos, either because of their artistic beauty or emotional response. For this project I chose to capture the moments from many of my favorite music videos that stand out to me every time I watch them. The music videos chosen are either new (Big God) or old (You & Me). I have included three GIFs from FKA Twig’s music videos because of my constant amazement at her artistic talent and vision. Credit is given to each of the original music videos. I aim to encourage a broader appreciation of these musicians - or at least these videos - through these GIFs.

FKA twigs x Nike - Do you believe in more?

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Nicki Minaj - Only ft. Drake, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown

Project #2 - The Loop

For this second project I chose to continue with the theme that I had started in Exercise #2 of making GIFs out of music videos. I personally really appreciate music videos and enjoy having a connection between the auditory and the visual. Music videos are a form of storytelling that add dimension to music. As an underappreciated form of art, music videos are postmodern in nature. They help bridge the gap between the high end of art production and direction by being available as a low art form to the masses through social platforms such as YouTube.

I have a connection to many music videos, either because of their artistic beauty or emotional response. For this project I chose to capture the moments from many of my favorite music videos that stand out to me every time I watch them. The music videos chosen are either new (Big God) or old (You & Me). I have included three GIFs from FKA Twig’s music videos because of my constant amazement at her artistic talent and vision. Credit is given to each of the original music videos. I aim to encourage a broader appreciation of these musicians - or at least these videos - through these GIFs.

FKA twigs x Nike - Do you believe in more?

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FKA twigs - Glass and Patron

Project #2 - The Loop

For this second project I chose to continue with the theme that I had started in Exercise #2 of making GIFs out of music videos. I personally really appreciate music videos and enjoy having a connection between the auditory and the visual. Music videos are a form of storytelling that add dimension to music. As an underappreciated form of art, music videos are postmodern in nature. They help bridge the gap between the high end of art production and direction by being available as a low art form to the masses through social platforms such as YouTube.

I have a connection to many music videos, either because of their artistic beauty or emotional response. For this project I chose to capture the moments from many of my favorite music videos that stand out to me every time I watch them. The music videos chosen are either new (Big God) or old (You & Me). I have included three GIFs from FKA Twig’s music videos because of my constant amazement at her artistic talent and vision. Credit is given to each of the original music videos. I aim to encourage a broader appreciation of these musicians - or at least these videos - through these GIFs.

FKA twigs x Nike - Do you believe in more?

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Strawhatz - Kimono

Project #2 - The Loop

For this second project I chose to continue with the theme that I had started in Exercise #2 of making GIFs out of music videos. I personally really appreciate music videos and enjoy having a connection between the auditory and the visual. Music videos are a form of storytelling that add dimension to music. As an underappreciated form of art, music videos are postmodern in nature. They help bridge the gap between the high end of art production and direction by being available as a low art form to the masses through social platforms such as YouTube.

I have a connection to many music videos, either because of their artistic beauty or emotional response. For this project I chose to capture the moments from many of my favorite music videos that stand out to me every time I watch them. The music videos chosen are either new (Big God) or old (You & Me). I have included three GIFs from FKA Twig’s music videos because of my constant amazement at her artistic talent and vision. Credit is given to each of the original music videos. I aim to encourage a broader appreciation of these musicians - or at least these videos - through these GIFs.

FKA twigs x Nike - Do you believe in more?

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Project #2 - The Loop

For this second project I chose to continue with the theme that I had started in Exercise #2 of making GIFs out of music videos. I personally really appreciate music videos and enjoy having a connection between the auditory and the visual. Music videos are a form of storytelling that add dimension to music. As an underappreciated form of art, music videos are postmodern in nature. They help bridge the gap between the high end of art production and direction by being available as a low art form to the masses through social platforms such as YouTube.

I have a connection to many music videos, either because of their artistic beauty or emotional response. For this project I chose to capture the moments from many of my favorite music videos that stand out to me every time I watch them. The music videos chosen are either new (Big God) or old (You & Me). I have included three GIFs from FKA Twig’s music videos because of my constant amazement at her artistic talent and vision. Credit is given to each of the original music videos. I aim to encourage a broader appreciation of these musicians - or at least these videos - through these GIFs.

FKA twigs x Nike - Do you believe in more?

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Project #1 - Selections

To create this first project I wanted to tell the story of changing times though my collages. In my archival process I collected images of large cities in the Front Range Colorado area (which is where I am from and where I am currently living). I included pictures of Denver, Boulder, Colorado Spring, Fort Collins, and Longmont. Some of these street views are promotional images for the cities, others are simple snapshots of neighborhoods. I wanted to embrace the everydayness of Colorado towns. Also in my archival process I collected images of large mammals native to the Colorado mountains. Living in the foothills of Colorado, it is common to see many rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, and the occasional deer. When happening upon these animals I always feel a sense of invasion, and realization that their home has been invaded and developed by humans. 

For the selections project I used selected images of native animals (mountain lions, deer, skunks, coyotes, bison, and owls) and created scenes of the animals interacting and living in man-made streets. Through this I created a visualization of native animals interacting with humans and reclaiming their space.  The use of repetition creates a sense of realness and presence of the animals.

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Cute animal GIFs are always fun!

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I like how GIFs can be humorous and capture a moment in time

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GIFs with singular moving parts are amazing

midnight snack

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I like GIFs that move through your dash

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Reaction GIFs are the best. That’s also my response when people ask if I’ve slept enough

Me when someone asks me if i had enough sleep.