The GRL is a group of universal graffiti artists that are incorporating new technologies to further the practice of graffiti. These artists are not only changing the way we look at graffiti but also creating a sense of community through the Internet. They have events set up with dates and times for you to be able to participate in. They also display how-to videos that enable you to understand and recreate your own art using their methods.
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=34#video
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=17#video
I think GRL really can relate to all readings we've done this semester. If I were to focus on one in particular it would be Myron Krueger-video place. Myron Kruegerd's reminds me of GRL's Laser writings on public buildings. Even though Myron's project has somewhat of interaction between the person and the computer GRL parallels the way they interact with public surroundings.
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=32#video
Myron's project for me becomes problematic when I start to think of how available this technology is to the public. The availability factor can also apply to GRL. When it comes to technology it definitely isn't about cost effectiveness. I will say GRL seems to be making more of an effort to make their methods available to the public.
My works in relation to the works I've just mentioned are not that clear as far as content. It has how ever opened me up to new possibilities and directions for my work. There is a direct connection in the use of the hand between all three works but what interests me most is how in GRL and videoplace are in real time, which focuses on my own interests in my work.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
vr
I have to disagree with Davis when she excludes the conversation of drugs. This is extremely narrow-minded and makes me think of how technology moves us a way from nature. Rather than inviting technology to simulate a poorly rendered forest, I would rather go eat some mushrooms and go to the actual forest.
However, our work does relate in the idea of loss of humanity through technology. This is the work intersects. Davis directly explores it through the bodies experience with the machine. My work is left open to a much boarder audience.
However, our work does relate in the idea of loss of humanity through technology. This is the work intersects. Davis directly explores it through the bodies experience with the machine. My work is left open to a much boarder audience.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Recombinant Theater and Digital Resistance
Recombinant Theater and Digital Resistance
The redefining of a space is what interested me the most about the article. A gesture or offering of free beer changes the way in which we interact with the environment. Is media based work the best way to interact with an audience?
Or could it be the exact opposite. The way we receive information on the day to day becomes numbing. If we use similar ways to communicate would we be adopting the ideas that surround us already. If so is that enough? If it is then who's the audience?
The redefining of a space is what interested me the most about the article. A gesture or offering of free beer changes the way in which we interact with the environment. Is media based work the best way to interact with an audience?
Or could it be the exact opposite. The way we receive information on the day to day becomes numbing. If we use similar ways to communicate would we be adopting the ideas that surround us already. If so is that enough? If it is then who's the audience?
Intermedia
Intermedia for me makes me think about graffiti and advertising. They not not separate and almost close to the same. They cannot exist with out each other it becomes about the ideas needed to support each other.
No matter what class or media used to make there is always separation. This will always exist. The intermedia is the combination of taking from everything to recontextualize something new. When all these elements we have combined to create a new is when intermedia works at it's best. The example is the Intermedia Chart Higgins presents on page 50.
Although with all these things overlapping do we start to lose the purity of some of these forms of art?
No matter what class or media used to make there is always separation. This will always exist. The intermedia is the combination of taking from everything to recontextualize something new. When all these elements we have combined to create a new is when intermedia works at it's best. The example is the Intermedia Chart Higgins presents on page 50.
Although with all these things overlapping do we start to lose the purity of some of these forms of art?
Friday, September 19, 2008
Noise Art
After reading about the Art of noise, I immediately thought of Sonic Youth. In particular, Thurston Moore and the unconventional tools he uses to get sound and distortion. I have always thought of the everyday sound to be blissful, even more so than Hit Me One More Time by Brittney Spears. (We all know how catchy that is)
Artist such as Thurston Moore and Coco Rosa take off where the futurist sound left off and our definitely more successful. It makes me question weather the Futurist were not as successful because there audience were not born yet. However, with out them we would not have beautiful and elegant sounds that Thurston and Coco push today.
In the end, we all have our roots. The futurists lead the for front and it is clear that there vision is well alive in today’s contempary music,
Artist such as Thurston Moore and Coco Rosa take off where the futurist sound left off and our definitely more successful. It makes me question weather the Futurist were not as successful because there audience were not born yet. However, with out them we would not have beautiful and elegant sounds that Thurston and Coco push today.
In the end, we all have our roots. The futurists lead the for front and it is clear that there vision is well alive in today’s contempary music,
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
A Season In Hell
As I walked into the Arlington Arts Center I had somewhat of an idea of what this work would be like from the prior lecture. The collaboration of the three artists is what holds the piece together for me. It gives three different takes on the same topic of political/ religious crisis in which we have grown far to comfortable with. I feel the documentation of 9/11 and current state of things are very important events to talk about. Although with such a big topic how does one articulate it without becoming overwhelmed.
The piece works as story line and travels through the countries shambles after 9/11. While the work creates it’s own world that parallels reality. The biggest problem I had with the piece would be it’s lack of subtleties and which for me turned into propaganda. The work then becomes exactly what it’s commenting on which I didn’t feel was the most positive message. As the viewer I would like to experience something less didactic and more open ended.
Even though I found my holes with the piece I did enjoy the grave which consisted of six TV’s buried in a “ton” of dirt. It comments on the death of a country through media in presented in a very effective way. As it recontextulized both TV and the information that we receive from it.
The one thing I walked away feeling was a sense of urgency. A sense of urgency to wake up and pay attention to whats happening in this country and how desensitized we have become from the media and it’s propaganda. But, at same time is using propaganda to fight propaganda the right approach?
The piece works as story line and travels through the countries shambles after 9/11. While the work creates it’s own world that parallels reality. The biggest problem I had with the piece would be it’s lack of subtleties and which for me turned into propaganda. The work then becomes exactly what it’s commenting on which I didn’t feel was the most positive message. As the viewer I would like to experience something less didactic and more open ended.
Even though I found my holes with the piece I did enjoy the grave which consisted of six TV’s buried in a “ton” of dirt. It comments on the death of a country through media in presented in a very effective way. As it recontextulized both TV and the information that we receive from it.
The one thing I walked away feeling was a sense of urgency. A sense of urgency to wake up and pay attention to whats happening in this country and how desensitized we have become from the media and it’s propaganda. But, at same time is using propaganda to fight propaganda the right approach?
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