Exit - College

Handing in my video art was the final task i needed to get done before i was officially done with my undergrad. I had trouble trying to come up with a topic because we were allowed to do anything. I enjoyed this project, but i wish i knew more with animation so i could of made a more interesting video. I LOVED doing my performance art piece. That was by far my favorite project this semester. I loved the way it felt to be up there in front of people and doing something so out on context. I kept laughing while i was out on Bayshore, that was the only problem that i kept running into. Other than that, it was a great experience. My least favorite project was the flip book because i could not fill up all the pages, and i am not that talented at drawing. I also enjoyed the grid art because there is a grid in so many things and it was interesting to see everyone's ideas.

I learned a lot from this class. My mother was an art major and i wonder if she has any idea about all the people out there that do performance art. I would have loved for her to sit in on a class, but she does not live in Florida. I also realized in this class that everything is art, and it is everywhere ( just put a frame around it). This class was very different than any other class i have ever taken. Each project we were pretty much allowed to do what ever we wanted. That gave me a little trouble because i like structure and i like to know what i need to do on a project in order to receive a good grade. I am glad i took this class and glad i had Santiago as a teacher, it was an experience that i will not forget.

GRADUATION on Saturday :-)

Video Art

Need to format my Video Art and will put it up here next week.....
I did a piece on models

Ryan Trecartin

I was surprised to find out that he is not that old. I feel as if everyone we have been studying has been very old, or dead by now. Ryan was born in 1981. He has done many different projects from installations to sculptures.

I watched the video on his site called P.opular sky. It reminded me of Et when they have all the white tubing in the end of the movie and no one is allowed near him. I loved the part with the clouds in the background and the white boxes going over the screen and pieces of jewelery in the frame as well. There was so much going on but the blue sky made everything come together and look so pretty. Ryan uses so many video techniques. This entire video is very random and has people doing strange things the entire time. The people are talking in a slow voice and dragging out all of their words. The one girl in the car sounds like she is hammered. There is so much make up on anyone, i can not even tell how people really look.

There are many stereotypes in this video. They have a scene with a bunch of people with wigs on in the car with solo cups in their hands and they sound like they are bitching to one another about drama. Sounds like drunk college girls on the way to the bar. Another scene is with everyone with blond wigs on in a trailer and they are talking about going to a tanning salon.
This video also has so many types of people in it. This guy reminds me of the person on YouTube who does that video SHOES & also Muffins....he dresses up and has a wig on , just like this guy

Pipilotti Rist

The first thing we were shown on Pipilotti was her video, Im not a girl that misses much. This video was very interesting. It was video art, and used many different techniques throughout the entire video. I think it was very interesting and the way her voice went faster and slower when the video was doing the same thing. This video kind of reminded me of the grudge, i think it was that movie. The movie had a freaky looking person close up to the screen and it kind of scared me. She kind of reminded me of that.

I went to her website, and right away
it reminded me of being a little kid. It is very colorful and has strange looking picture on it. Under project i found something very interesting, but i could not understnad what she was saying. She might have been speaking a different language, but i did not know what one. The entire page was white, with a hole in it where a person was on the other side. She looked like a witch and that she was trapped in a place that she did not want to be.

It kind of looks like she is stuck in hell and is trying to get out.
Most of her images on her web site, are distorted, they look like when the tv is full of static. i think it is cool that her images all have women in them, i bet she likes to use her self as her art. I think it is great when an artist can use themselves as the art and be the one who creates it. I think it shows that you are even more talented to use your self in your own work.

Be nice to me- One of her videos that i watched, was just of her face flattened to the camera. This was one of her performance pieces. She had make up on and was smearing it all over the camera and you would just watch her move her face back and forth from right to left.

Nam June Paik & The residents

His tv installations are my favorite. They look like they took up so much of his time and that they have great meaning to him. I do not get the point of the girl with the tvs on her chello. I guess this image also ties into the girl with the Tv bra. After Tokyo he spends most of his time in New York. I think it would have been amazing to be living in New York when all these artists and muscians were there. Everyone wanted to be in New York to get famous.

When i saw The residents, my first reaction was to laugh. They are a very strange group. I am looking at some of their performances on YouTube. One of them is called burning love and they are just dancing around with cowboy hats on and masks and their eyes are just like lights shining through their masks. All they are doing is silly dance moves, that me and my friends could do. They do this through out the entire video. The Residents also have media titled, Everyone comes to the Freak show. I feel liek they just want to be extreme and try to do performances that will make people talk.

Performance art video

Performance Art on Bayshore


I could not upload my video for some reason so it is on YouTube.....click the link

Head to toe body paint

Performance art

I LOVED this project. At first i was confused and was not sure what i was going to, then i thought i love making an ass out of myself. I am not shy and i always act sillt in public, because i do not care what other people think about me. I thought it would be fun to paint my body and act like a statue, i thought doing it in the mall. Then the problem was how to get to the mall with all the paint on, i did not want to make a mess out of my car. So i decided on bayshore at around 6pm. There are always a ton of people out there and people who will be conservative and working out and this would be a great stop to do my performance art. My friend Jenna helped me with the project, she is the other red person. When i told her my idea, she told me that she HAD to be part of it. At first we were just standing as statues, then sitting on the wall. Then we tried laying in the grass, but the best one we made was when we were just dancing and interacting with one another. It was great when children walked by " Daddy why are there red people?" It was so hard not to laugh at this. This is something i would enjoy doing in my free time :-)

Music is Life

I loved class on Wednesday, because it was all about music. When i was younger i grew up around all differnt forms of music. My father was in a band and they would practice in my house. My dad plays the drums and still does to this day. My parents would always have parties and i would be trying to sleep and i would hear the music playing while they were laughing and dancing. Music reminds me of my childhood and good times. U2, Phil Collins, Bob Marley, Allman Brothers, and The dead were just a few artists that my parents loved. I was actually named after a song called Sweet Melissa, by the Allman Brothers.

I feel like music is there for me in every situation. There is always a song out there that can understand how you are feeling.

About half the songs that were played during class, i have heard of before. The Peaches song i have definitely heard before. I also like Techno music, so i enjoyed when all that was playing. When ever i go on road trips i put in a Techno cd and the drive goes right by. The Chemical brothers were funny with the salmon dance.

"Look but don't touch"

This post is in relation to the article by Claudia la Rocco, titles Some at MoMA show forget "look but don't touch"

When every i go to an art gallery, i know not to touch anything unless otherwise stated. When i went to the Tampa Museum of Art, they wanted to make sure that I did not have any writing utensils on me. I told them no, but i did. i was not going to do anything with them. The guards were watching us and i could feel their eyes on me.

In this article people get too close with the performer. If you are an art person, then you know the rules about not touching, this person might of done this just to get the reaction of the performer and the guards. Especially if the performance artist it naked, you should have enough common sense to not touch them....it is just plain stupidity.

I honestly think the reason this person did this, is to see the reaction and to be able to say he did it. He now has a story that he can talk about. That he touched a naked mans ass, with out his consent, and it was at a museum. One thing i do not understand is that the man had a 30 yr membership with the museum. That got taken from him once he got thrown out. Maybe he had been a member for a long time, and was sick of the museum. Maybe he thought it was worth loosing his membership over.

Opera en el Mercado

I thought this YouTube video was extremely interesting. In the beginning of the video, i did not know who was signing. Then then camera shows you that it is a man at the market, behind a fruit station. People in the market who are shopping start to stop and watch the man singing. All of the opera singing had amazing voices, with so much power to them. People started to stop and watch, they were entertained and amused by the singers passion. The market people were also taking pictures and getting involved with the performance. The main singer comes into the middle of the floor and a circle starts to form around him. He then pulls people in from the audience and makes them part of his performance. Most of the people looked like they were enjoying the music and the entertainment. They were singing along and dancing, at the end one woman looked as if she was crying. I just hope i have the same luck with my performance art this week...........

S T E L A R C

My first opinions of Stelarc was that he was crazy. After researching him on my own and reading up on his reasoning behind what he does, i am not intrigued. Humans and machine are similar and he expresses just how much alike they are. This reminds me of Terminator because he is a machine, but you can not tell right away. I do think some of the things that Stelarc does, are dangerous. I am sure he knows what he is doig by now and understands the consequences if something does go wrong. On his website there is a theory about "The Hum of the Hybrid". He talks about no reason for death and having a baby outside of the womb. All of this is very interesting. He also says not to be scared that you will look like frankenstein. I think he has very creative ides, the ear is awesome!!!! Kind of creepy, but still cool.

Fluxus & Joseph Beuys

Fluxus.
1960's

This was a group of creatives. They were all different types of people that would network with one another and with art. They were designers and artists and musicians. New York City held the first Fluxus event. NYC is known to have all the new ideas and art shows take place there, so that was no surprise to me. I think this time period was all about expression and trying to see what you could get away with. Marcel Duchamp's work reminds me of Picasso's work. They both change the human body into different shapes and angles. They make you look at something ordinary in a dissimilar way. Duchamp's art work is very interesting. His fountain piece i am still trying to understand. I guess that is the point of this class....to see everyday things as art. I remember a quote that i think Santiago said "Anything is art, all you have to do is frame it." I think this quote helps me understand art. This quote also makes me realize that my view and someone's view of art can be completely different. And that is also what makes art so interesting and controversial.

Joseph Beuys
He was a man who had great strength. It was crazy when i was reading that Beuys actually served under Hitler. I could not imagine being covered with someones body fat. That is what happened to Beuys after a plane crash, while he was in war. His work aspirations come from the war and his involvement. He covered things in his art work alot, for example the piano and another one with a long blanket with a hanger coming out of it. I found his piece with the chair and (what is supposed to represent fat) sitting on the chair.

Aerial View

Xerox

I enjoyed the idea of the Xerox project, but it was difficult to execute. I went to Kinkos with Maggie and we were copying parts of our bodies, and got yelled at by employees. After the lady yelled at us, I felt kind of strange putting my foot on top of the copier. I then proceeded to put my face in there and that made even more people look. I think if i had my own Xerox machine or it was in a more private place, then i could of gotten better pictures. Also i liked how other students only used their hands, but made there hands make different signs.

ORLAN

I think this lady is insane! This is my first time being exposed to performance art, that is this extreme. I do not understand why someone would want to implant horns in their face, and look like this. I think people like this just want attention, and i do not understand how getting liposuction is an art. In a way i feel like i can not judge what she does because this is my first time learning about her, but what she does is out of this world.....I do think she is brave and creative to film these surgeries and be away during them. It is something that is very different. The one thing that bothered me was when Orlan pulled out used tampons......and was laying them out and doing something with them... i dont even remember what she did with them because i could not even look. That was DISGUSTING! That i NOT art, im sorry if i offend anyone but that was just nasty. EWW

Close up of the Palm Tree's

All finished

The project is all most done here. I just needed to finish up with the water and the mountains.

Grid Art with Candy

This is the first picture i took of my grid art. I wanted to use a different medium then using yarn and use the obvious grid. I thought MnM's would look pretty cool making a grid, so they were the first candy that i wanted to use. I like how this came out, but i do wish i could of thought of something more creative. I enjoyed using the Airheads for the water and i think they looked pretty cool.

I then continue to draw a whole set of flowers and them have them washed away by rain clouds and a storm. The rest of my flip book does not follow a nature theme, but continues to show other scenarios, of random stories.

Flip Book

In my book this is my first page and the flower is the first concept that goes for about 45 pages.

Rock & Roll, 1950's - 1971

Rock & Roll. Sex. Drugs. Parties & Freedom. This is what this time period reminds me off. Total chaos. Color T.V. was just coming out in the 1950 and by 1954 more than half of Americans had a T.V. in their home. Elvis Presley, who did not love him. He became a major sex symbol in the 50's. All the women loved him. The great invention of the woman icon was invented. The barbie Doll. The idea of the perfect woman was invented. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech " I have a dream." People started protesting the war and anything else they did not agree with.
People started to realize that they can get away with much more...The media started to test their limits and see how far they can go with out being censored.
The movie we watched "A Clockwork Orange" was very interesting. The movie was very out there and looked like one of those movies that is a dream. Some parts were very racy and a little over the edge. This movie reminds me of on of my favorite movies, "Requiem of a Dream." This movie is about Drugs and random sex. And pushes the limit.
The 70 was all about the Hippie era. FLower power. Peace, Love and Drugs.

Apple

Apple is always ahead of everyone else. In everything they do make they try to come up with the most creative and futuristic ideas. I love the Mac and i wish i had one. They always win over a PC in every different aspect. When i first saw the I-Phone, i did not understand it. It was very advanced and had so many different applications, that have never been seen on a phone yet. Since the phone has been out, everyone i know that has it loves it. Once again apple makes an intelligent and well working product.
This new product that Apple talks about in the article " The most important thing I've ever done" is the new tablet. I am sure how this tablet can do more than the i-phone can, but i am excited for Apple to show me the amazing functions it has. I would wait it out and not get one right away, with every amazing new device that comes out, there is constantly a new one on its way.

intro

So far I am enjoying art & technology. This class is extremely different than anything i have taken before. The class is full with information about a variety of inventors, actors, artists and many others. I am excited to challenge my creativity and make things out of the ordinary. Sometimes i am nervous to make a piece of art that does not make sense, but this class proves that everything is art. last semester i made a stop motion film, and i had some trouble coming up with an idea. I just hope i can think of something interesting for my book project coming up soon.