Video Art Project: Embrace the Error

The idea behind this assignment was to embrace the error. I got to thinking and I kept drawing up blanks. Honestly this project I started thinking about probably a good 3 weeks ago. I just couldn't figure out what I wanted to do. I finally struck inspiration when I went to golf practice on Friday. It just hit me. Golf. Golf. and more golf. So I made my project about golf. I know many of you don't play golf and don't really understand golf but I tried to make it relatable! I've grown up playing competitive golf. Let me tell you, it is not an easy game regardless of how easy it looks when the pros do it. Even the pros duck hook it or get a quad bogey or hit it out of bounds. Golf is not a game of perfect. Do you know how many times I've had to remind myself of this? You're going to make a mistake. Even if you shot 18 under par, a birdie on every single hole, you would probably say that you missed a putt or you duffed a chip or something!

Therefore, I made this video as an ode to golf almost. Yeah golf can freaking suck some days like every thing in the entire world could just go wrong. You could get a shitty bounce you could be under a tree, blah blah blah. The thing with golf though is that it gives you the opportunity to create something. You could be having the worst round of your life and you could get a birdie or an eagle or a hole in one. Golf is a funny sport. Each hole is a new hole. And so my project is embracing the bad shots because they're going to happen!! Enjoy :)

Golan Levin Interview

I found this interview to be extremely insightful. I have only ever used basic video editing software and so listening to his answers to these questions was very informational. I also thought that it was funny that when he was answering certain questions, he would be adjusted to reflect that. For example, he was talking about abstraction and the video got extremely distorted and also he was talking about perspective and the perspective to the individual changed.

It was also interesting because he filmed this three years ago. He is talking about the future in his interview and some of the things that he was talking about has already changed or made a difference. Certain things haven't developed but other things have.

Music-technology continued part 3

The last genre I looked at was Disco. Honestly I was having a hard time coming up with the artists in the genres and also trying to find one's using technology. Disco is so old, there really isn't much technology being used. However, I did find a disco band which was called ABBA. You may know them, basically the entire sound track of mama mia.

Music-technology continued

The next genre that I found was Neo psychedelic. A band that I found was called Tame Impala. The leader singer in this band changes his voice by using a microphone that changes his voice.

 

 

 

Music-Technology

The first artist that I found was one under the genre of Dubstep and the artist's name is Flux Pavilion. Flux uses a vocal processor, audio recording, compressor, and more to create his music.

 

 



The next genre that I chose was electronic. The band that I found is called Disclosure. They use a lot of technology in their performances. During their performances they have a bunch of lights going. Their whole logo for the band is this face that is outlined in lights and then of course when they play they use a lot of different technology that's different than your typical instrument.

 

 

 

The next genre that I found was New Wave. The band is called Moguai. Moguai has routinely met up with Mau5. Unfortunately all of his live performances are over an hour long so I cannot post the videos, but here is a clip of his music



 

Robots

We were talking about advanced technology the other day in class. The one example came from the guy who created a robot to look just like him. I feel like in the future, we could have really advanced technology. It made me think of the movie Interstellar where they have these robots called Case, Kipp, and Tars.

Here's the clip!

Performance Art Piece

WOW! I had so much fun doing this project! Never done something like this before and it was amazing! To go with the theme of happiness I decided to go with the idea of invoking happiness. So I thought about, what did I want to accomplish before I died? So I got to thinking and I put together this box. I wanted it to be interactive and I wanted it to stand out. I spray painted this box gold and fitted it for someone to wear a hat underneath it so that they could wear it on their face. My good friend Fatin wore this for 40 minutes. She was carrying sharpies, notecards, and a bucket. Get it? A bucket for a bucket list ;) Again, had so much fun!!! A lot of people came up to her and wrote stuff down!! Next time I would definitely film for longer!!! This was so cool!!!!

Xerox Project!!!

I was so excited to be able to do this project!! When I first was thinking about my piece I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do. I had access to my friends personal printer which had a scanner. I started off by just scanning my hands from all 4 sides. Then I scanned my face which was actually hard because I kept breathing so marks would show up on the print!! Also her scanner took 3 minutes a scan so it was so slow!!!! I would say scanning my feet was hard because I didn't put the scanner on the floor so I was just standing there trying not to fall over for 3 minutes each foot! I added in the hands and feet with the "chains" which was actually one of my necklaces!

 

I also scanned in my text books and anything associated with school. The last few weeks have been really stressful! I'm taking 18 credits this semester and 20 next semester so I've had a very full load on my plate in addition to this being the prime season for golf! School has been stressing me out so that was my inspiration. Basically this project is representing me. I am in the middle with my face pushed up against the surface and hand in color showing that it's me and I'm sort of trapped.

 

The next part of it is obviously I'm trapped by my homework and schedules!! I wanted to do something with my feet so I made the whole thing like a body. So hands go on top and feet go on the bottom. So the hands are reaching for the balloon because I want to be released from all this stress. But I am being tied down by my feet and kept grounded because my work here is not done yet. But it is definitely in reach!

 

I LOVED this project, I wasn't sure I was going to make something really cool so I surprised myself! Really really really happy with how this turned out!

Grid Art Project

 I was so excited to get the chance to do this project! Initially I was worried about the picture I chose because there was so much going on in the picture, but I am so pleased with the outcome! I used around 1300 push pins! It took about 7 hours I would say, and a lot of patience! I thought that it was going to be bigger, hence the giant board but that's okay! Super proud of this!

Video Games

On a large scale level, all of us have played some type of game. With my generation being defined as millenials, we have grown up in a technologically savvy world. With technology being so readily available, I have had access to many different games. I was definitely a tomboy when I was little and still kind of am. I have an older brother who is about 2 years older than me and I would always try to do everything that he was doing. I've always been competitive and so this got me interesting in a lot of what society would say is "guy stuff".

I'm not sure if Pokémon came out before game cube but I played both. I had every edition of Pokémon and I had a Gameboy and many versions of the handheld devise. I also played on the game cube and we played super smash bros as well as money ball or something. It was actually a really fun game because you would go through different obstacles with your money in this ball thing and you couldn't fall off the obstacle!

Then my brother upgraded to a PlayStation as well as an Xbox. I didn't really play anything on them except I did play dance dance revolution on the PlayStation if that counts as a video game?

As we grew older my brother was always into the war video games because he wanted to go into the army or marines (which he is actually in now!). I wasn't very good at them because I couldn't get my person to look at eye level while also controlling the weapons and such. Also my brother would tell me that we were on the same team and then he would go and kill me!! That did not last for very long to say the least!

Then, in grade school I really got into those online games. I played Neopets and club penguin? I'm not sure what kind of phases that was! I also played this online game called Runescape. My brother introduced me and taught me how to do it. I'm not going to lie, that game took up god knows how many hours of my life. I was completely hooked and was completely addicted to the game!!! It was so bad, I would spend my entire weekends on the internet just building up my skills and money in the game. I even bought memberships so that I could unlock other parts of the game and I just found it to be so fun. In actuality, there were a lot of skills I learned from that game. I'm probably a really efficient typer because I was on that game so much! I also learned a lot about value and bartering. So I did learn things but with hindsight, I spent way too much time on that game that it was so unhealthy!

Temporarily I was introduced to league of legends.... That did not last very long. I mainly just did that because of a guy that I liked. I found it to be confusing and dumb because you had to spend so much time on this "one" mission! It just found it to be too simple honestly. Once high school hit, I had no time to play video games and I moved into watching tv shows and movies more. Now in college, I'm the same way. My video games are over but I still enjoy sci-fi and interactive things once in a while!!

Flip Book

The Honeymooners: Mind Your Own Business

I really enjoyed this episode of The Honeymooners. It was really funny and the dialogue was great! It's amazing how advanced the scripts of these shows developed after the world figured out how to add speaking to the big screen. These episodes also came out in the 50's which is really interesting because of how long but also short that television has been around. They also have the live audience which gives queues on when the audience at home should laugh. There's a lot of sophistication that these new television shows had which they previous had not. Also in these episodes they use topics that are extremely relatable to the public. Events that actually happened made these episodes popular.

OTR.com

Mystery:
While reading through this section, I didn't realize that in the beginning, mystery stories were written in the perspective of the villain. The turning point was really The Detective Story and The Shadow Magazine. Later on of course one of the best well known mystery series is Sherlock Holmes. I think there are about 4 current shows on TV today that are based off of Sherlock Holmes which just shows how radio took off. When World War II ended, so did American's interest for mystery kind of ended. Also the new age that came to be with the ushering in of the Cold War kind of wiped out the popularity of radio shows and increasing interest in television.


Private Eyes:
Private Eyes is interesting because increasing popularity was moving towards a narrative perspective for crime radio airings. The characters that the authors devised were brilliant because they kind of were like awesome good guys that fought crime and didn't answer to anyone. By using first person, the public was able to hear the thoughts of the main character. This era also created the idea of a sidekick. The sidekick was there to help the main character and create more dialogue.

Pandora

I love Pandora. It is so convenient and has a plethora of songs from all different genres. It's a great tool just because of the songs that it has in it's arsenal. You can type in a specific song or artist and then Pandora was specifically tailor a playlist for you based on that preference. I have stumbled upon so many songs that I absolutely love which I never would have heard unless I had Pandora! It does have commercials but it's not that bad because you can just go to a different station. Also I do come across some songs that I don't like but I'm able to just skip them because of the feature Pandora puts on there so that's great! It does stink that it uses Wifi because that's where most of my monthly data goes! The iPhone has tried to kind of copy Pandora on their music app but I don't think that works very well and I definitely prefer Pandora!

John Waters

John Waters was born in 1946 in Maryland. He has been involved in so many aspects of art, most notably as a screen director, and writer. He rose to popularity in the 70's and 80's. One of his notable works is the ever popular Hairspray. Some of his other popular works are: Roman Candles, Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom. He has created some works of art that have helped the art world progress into a new era.

Angel de Quinta's STAGE DOOR Blog

I was looking through the excerpts and I stumbled upon a performance from Miss Saigon. I found this to be interesting because there was so much going on during the show! Also the actors had so much attitude and emotion in their singing.

I actually got the privilege to see Les Miserables live in an English theatre about four years ago while I was in London. There's an excerpt from the musical on this site and I just think the musical is brilliant. It's my favorite musical, and best thing I've seen live in my life.

Angel de Quinta also has an excerpt from The Sound of Music. The excerpt is the song is My Favorite Things by Julie Andrews. This song has been one of the biggest songs that has come from this musical. It's one of the songs people right away distinguish is from the Sound of Music.

It's interesting how he decides to put multiple clips of the same thing but in different time periods or different singers. He posted some Christmas songs and had clips of the song being sung when it was produced and in recent times.

The Great Train Robbery

I found this silent film to be very interesting. Since the film was silent, it was up to the actors and the setting to bring the plot alive. The actors had to basically over act so that the audience at home could tell what they were doing. It was interesting how Edwin Porter decided to use color in this film. He used it on the scene with the women's yellow dress while she was dancing. He also used it for the gun powder coming out of the shot guns. I thought that coloring the gun residue was brilliant because you really needed to see it since you couldn't hear it. The soundtrack for the film was also really great, it really kept with what was going on and was engaging!

Pjotr Sapegin's Madama Butterfly

This short animated film was really depressing. It starts off with this man and woman having a brief sexual encounter. He then leaves her to go back onto his ship, somehow giving the woman a false belief that he is going to return. She stays atop the hill, waiting for him to return some day. As time progresses we see that she is pregnant and has the child. The animation shows that she and her child are connected still through the umbilical cord and the child continues to grow. They continue to await the return of the man from long ago. He eventually returns but he does not return alone. He is with another woman and they ruthlessly take the child from the woman by detaching the umbilical cord. Then they drive off with the woman's daughter, waving as they go. The woman is so upset that she runs away from the spot that she had been at for many years. She then proceeds to commit suicide by disassembling herself. In the end, she flies away just like a butterfly.

This story was so sad and depressing. It was interesting how the producers put together the animation. I thought the last scene when she's taking herself apart one by one was absolutely brilliant. It was an interesting way to show how she commits suicide, very original. The opera in the background was very emotional and really spoke to the animation.

Marraige of Figaro

I decided to watch the Marriage of Figaro for my opera of choice. The performance starts off with really engaging music that is very uplifting which then proceeds to bring us into the first scene of the opera. We meet Figaro and his fiancé Susanna who are talking about their upcoming wedding and setting up their future room together close to the Count and the Countess. What comes to light as the scene progresses is that the Count is trying to woo and sleep with Susanna. There was actually some sort of law that allowed the masters to sleep with their servants soon to be wives and Figaro is obviously very upset with this news.

A plot twist then enters with Dr. Bartolo and Marcellina. She at one point was supposed to marry Figaro and is still extremely upset about it. She is plotting with Dr. Bartolo to break up the engagement and wedding so that Figaro marries Marcellina.

In the edition that I watched which was created in 1980, there is a young page by the name of Cherubino. He is in love with the Countess. In this version a woman plays him but she wears men's clothing. To make matters worse, Cherubino has to hide when the Count walks in. He is trying to seduce Susanna but she is turned off by it. Cherubino has been getting into a lot of trouble throughout the castle because he has been getting caught messing around with the women. The Count discovers Cherubino hiding under a cloth and immediately the Count thinks that there's something going on with Susanna and Cherubino.

Figaro comes up with a brilliant plan to bring a bunch of the Count's subjects into the castle to express their gratitude that the Count has abolished the law of him essentially getting to sleep with the bride before her husband. The Count comes up with a plan to try to break up the wedding and goes to find Marcellina.

In the beginning of act 2 the Countess finds out that her husband is trying to sleep with Susanna. Figaro knows of the Count's plan to break up with wedding and so he uses Basilio to get the Count an anonymous note that tells him that his wife is being unfaithful. Susanna plans a set up because the Count had asked her to meet him in the garden. She dresses up Cherubino as her and has him go to the garden to meet the Count.

The Count interrogates the Countess to find out who she was talking to and he comes to the conclusion that it's her lover in the closet. When she goes to let the person out of the closet the Countess and Count are both surprised that it is Susanna. Susanna had helped Cherubino to sneak out of the closet. There is much confusion and the act ends with the Count deciding to rule on the case of Figaro and Marcellina in which it is claimed that Figaro agreed to marry her for a loan.

Since Cherubino is gone at this point, the Countess decides that she will pretend to be Susanna and will meet the Count in the garden.

There is a lot of hiding in this Opera and so many scenes when people overhear others. We find out that Marcellina is actually Figaro's mother!!

In the last act, everything comes to a conclusion. Susanna and the Countess switch places to cause confusion. But in the very end, the real Countess reveals herself and the Count begs for her forgiveness which she ends up granting.

I actually really enjoyed this opera. To be honest, I've never watched an opera before and I never particularly liked opera singing. This was really cool! It was good to have subtitles obviously so that I could understand it! I think that the singing helped to add emotion and it helped to constantly progress the scenes!

Really enjoyed this and glad this was an assignment!

The Birth and Life of Opera

Opera was created in Florence, Italy by the Camerata which consisted of a group of people involved in the arts. They put together their first show which was ready in 1598 called Dafne.

It's really interesting that Opera almost didn't take off and was almost dead in the water. It's crazy because of how influential it is on history and the arts today. Many of the early Operas drew upon the concept of love, and religion. Opera was in a position of political influence and had access to a lot of influential people. The content that these composers included reflected the changing of times and many times controversial subject matters.

The composers for Opera continued to create Operas that had messages that clearly reflected the times. In the case of the Opera The Marriage of Figaro, the message was that the rich were treating their employees terrible. By the end of the Opera, the employees had succeeded over their master. This Opera in particular was foreshadowing for the revolutions to come. The operas definitely reflected the times in history and to make people really think about events that were taking place.

The documentary was very informational. I never knew how much influence opera had on specific events in history. I knew that art had that influence but I never knew how popular opera was.

Lecture Content Paralells

This is just a side note that I was thinking about after our last lecture.

In the past week, three of my classes have talked about World War Two. I love to learn about the events of World War II and the Holocaust. Both were grueling events that have served as a reminder to our world that cruelty still exists even in our industrialized age. For my sociology class we were asked to visit the St. Pete's Holocaust Museum before March. Of course I jumped on the opportunity as soon as possible and I visited the museum last Saturday.

I've read countless books on the Holocaust and watched so many documentaries. There is so much information because the Holocaust affected so many people. 5 million Jews were killed during the war and an additional 6 million disabled, mentally ill, and homosexuals were killed in either concentration camps or ghettos. The Nazi's killed 11 million innocent people in addition to all of the soldiers lost during the war. They stressed the idea of a superior race that they called the Aryan race. Hitler convinced his political party and followers that it was the Jews fault for the condition of Germany at the time.

The fact that all of these people could turn a blind eye and even help the Nazi's exterminate others is absolutely despicable. Anyone who says that a human life is no valuable really needs to check their moral system and codes. It's important to look back upon the past in order to make sure that the future doesn't repeat the past. The mass genocide of 11 million people will never be forgotten. Now it's up to the generations to come to make sure that something like this will never happen again.

We are incredibly fortunate today to have the technology that we have. It allows us to preserve history especially those stories of survivors of the Holocaust that are dying off.

The anniversary for the Holocaust remembrance day was this past Monday and the anniversary for the liberation of the deadliest concentration camp Auschwitz was this past Tuesday. It's important to take time and appreciate and educate ourselves about this kind of event that effected so many people.

I've been really fortunate because I've gotten to travel all over Europe. I actually got to go see an actual concentration camp which was called Dachau. During the war it served as a concentration camp that political enemies were kept. Actually being able to be there was incredibly sobering and bone chilling.

Raul Cuero

Dr. Raul Cuero is a very accomplished man with an unusual background. Growing up he faced a lot of adversity and low expectations from others. He was able to overcome this and he exceeded others expectations through creativity. I think that it is so important to show people your full potential if they say that they don't expect anything of you. To be able to express yourself through creativity and belief in yourself is a valuable life skill and it will get you far in life.

Cuero goes on to say that creativity is innovation and venturing into the unknown. If you are able to achieve this then you will surprise the people who don't think that you can succeed, so much so that it catches them off guard.

Creativity can be generated through nature and the observation of it. He talks about how he grew up in poverty basically and that he had to create things in order to train his mind. He says that children and adults today are at a disadvantage because they are born and live in relative luxury. They get so fixated on technology that they limit themselves. All of technology and gadgets that we own have come from nature. Therefore, nature should be observed and people should try to learn from it. Cuero also says that children are spending too much time on the internet and not enough time talking and interacting with other people. Ideas are expanded to create inventions when people converse and share their ideas with others.

With creativity, you have to be willing to take a chance. You can't be afraid of failure because that in itself is going to hinder the max amount of creativity or innovation that you're striving to achieve. Commitment and intensity is what is needed for invention. With taking chances, comes being patient and taking your time. It's not going to immediately happen, because it is a process.

With applying what he said in the video, I will definitely think about using a lot of my electronic devices less. I actually love hiking and just looking at nature so increasing that would be great. Not only do you get to enjoy the natural wonders of the world but you also get this sense of peace since it's not busy busy like city life. I think his message about being intense is a great tip! You have to be willing to just throw yourself into it full heartedly because otherwise you're not utilizing your full potential. You're only cheating yourself if you don't one hundred percent believe that you can do something.

First Blog Post!

Hi! First blog post here. My first feelings of the class is that it's going to be a good semester! I've always loved art and it took art all throughout high school. I really wanted to take a drawing class here since I love to draw but then I stumbled across this class when I was looking to register for classes. I didn't really know what to expect out of this class but after going through the syllabus today I am very excited for the projects! I love being creative and so I really think that this class is perfectly tailored to what I want out of an art class!

For those of you who don't know me, my name is GraceMarie Schian. This is my second  year at the University of Tampa but I am a junior in credits! My major is criminology with a minor in history! I hope to graduate a year early in 2016! I was originally born in South Korea, but I was adopted and have lived in Arizona basically my entire life. I am the co-captain of the Women's Golf team here. I am also in the criminology club and a Pathways to Honors student mentor! When I graduate I plan to return back to Phoenix and apply to a local police department. My goal is to become a detective specifically working with special victims and cases involving juveniles.

From this class I hope to learn more about art history in general. I love history so learning about the technological advances in art will further my knowledge in the history field that I am pursuing. I hope to learn new methods for creating art with technology.