What We Say Official Upload by Frank Lawrence

In everyday conversations it is unnatural for one of us to consider simply what we say.  Now, when I say, "what we say" I mean specifically what we say and only the words of the conversation that one contributes.  I took a recording of a normal conversation that I had with few of the people living on my hall the day we returned from Thanksgiving break and documented only what I personally contributed to the conversation.  While watching one side of the conversation I was able to see myself exactly how other people see me.  The thoughts in your head and all of your intentions are impossible to relate without the spoken word or with our actions.  No matter what your intentions or what your thoughts are before taking action or speaking the only way people can perceive them are through actions and words.  My piece is meant to show how simple it is for one to send a message that is contrary to one's thoughts without intent.  What you say is what everyone else sees, so watch what you say.

Melissa Rice Final Project

In this performance video I am slicing apples, poking them, and burning them. I used apples because they can be considered a pure fruit, almost like an innocent child. I am using such destructive force on these apples to demonstrate in an abstract way what society does to its innocence. We slice away at the beauty of an average person, having them feel cut up and try to repair themselves but they are already broken. We poke and prod at those who inhabit some illness as we ridicule and force them to feel shame. We set fire to those who are a total threat to us and don't believe what we want them too. We all have a right to feel beautiful, have an illness, and believe what we think is right. Society created a monster that destroys its innocent. Will you still pick one of those 'defected' apples?

Bagheads Final

Expressionless - Samantha Tutino

My piece is supposed to convey the way humans believe we are able to "read" each other, or how we use the term "I could just tell," when describing how we believe others are feeling. In reality, we are able to hide what we are thinking and feeling quite well, I know I have on many occasions and I'm sure everyone else has too. Certain things are not considered "socially acceptable", and others may just be embarrassing to discuss in public. Either way, this video portrays that we are not able to tell what everyone around us is feeling or thinking as well as we believe. The sound of the fearful wind is supposed to confuse the viewer, the same way our own opinions and experiences cloud our judgments of others. No viewer could know what each of these six people were thinking for all 30 seconds they were on screen, and most would probably guess that they were scared, angry, or sad. Very few would probably believe that this was after Thanksgiving dinner, where we were all laughing and talking and enjoying the company of one another..

final project Isabella

My final project is a combination of performance and video. Essentially, it is four videos playing simultaneously collectively expressing a notion of love. However the type of love represented by these videos is very anxious, almost to the point where love is absent. Two of the videos in this piece are simple gestures; one is a woman obsessively putting chapstick on, the other is a woman wringing her hands. The latter is juxtaposed with someone drawing pictures and words symbolic of love, and the former juxtaposed with a scene of a parking lot, a very still scene that adds a static element to the piece. This parking lot scene, in a way, provides a contrast to the very gestural nature of the work. In this project I attempted to explore the nature of love and how sometimes we misconceive what it ought to be. There is a lot of anxiety in love, however sometimes it transforms itself into simply anxiety.

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Tran Final

For this project, I combined the stop motion technique and video POV.  The video is about time, space, and how people choose to spend their time base on their interests and needs.  Also, I tried to my best to create a dream that I experienced recently.  In this dream, I was taken to a strange place that I never been to before.  This place seem to me to be in a pyramid in Egypt, somewhere I only saw on TV and would love to go there. 

Our Perception of Happiness and Sadness

    This art Piece was a variety  of different ideas fused into one. Since the last performance piece drew a lot of reactions and suggestion to take it one step further in bringing a happy part to it evoked this final piece. I wanted to keep a lot of the simplicity the first piece had, so i decided not to use any special effects and made this final just to capture one's perception of the happy and sad feelings.
    When going through i figure i now just mad a fine line between being sincere and just purely performing. Both scenes are actually sincere even though maybe not in the moment. The sad part in contrast with the happy is trying to illustrate the idea that when even though we have bad times a happy moment is never too far away. This is why most people take pictures of their happy moments in life, it is something to be captured but most of the time reality hits us with the sad truth that not everything moment in life is nice and good. The Happy part is in stop motion effect because like i said earlier they are things we want to capture and because we can't capture everything, we almost try to freeze frame these moments. The sad part is in normal motion but, it is trying to illustrate what raw emotion should look like. The question is now how do we tell someone is really happy or in pain. As shown sadness can be performed and still have the same effect on people as if it's really. There is a thing line between a performance and real emotion but, i believe really sad is gotten by the way a person perceives it and the same goes for happiness.

beagheads video

Ned Final Project

Fear is one of the most powerful emotions. It can compel people to do irrational unusual and strange things. When seeing someone who is afraid in context of their fear, i.e. knowing what they are afraid of, it is easy to understand why the person is acting the way they are. In contrast, what do people think of when seeing just a random person acting strangely? This is the question I want to shed light on with this piece. By showing a man running from something, an unidentified thing, a sense of fear is created. But what does fear drive someone to do. Will the fear be conquered, or will it overcome the victim, engulfing the person in madness. For those who cannot overcome their fears this is the painful truth. Spiraling into insanity this man runs. We barely know why he is running, or were he is trying to go, but we do watch as he becomes more and more delirious. Then mystery. This project is RUN... RUN AWAY!  By Ned Pressman

FINAL

Torie's Final Project: 

This project instructed that we choose two mediums that we have worked with this year.  I decided to choose stop motion animation and sound.  When I started this project I knew that i wanted to work with stop motion animation because that is the medium I enjoyed the most, but I was not sure which idea to work off.  Eventually, I decided to work with my original abstract desk video.  I played off the idea that everything on the desk moves and has a life of its own.  I decided that the desk was an environment of itself and every desk object was a different species.  Throughout the video the different desk objects do mating rituals and pick a mate.  The sounds I created to go along with this video were sounds that are not natural but could be mistaken for natural.  I went in this direction because the desk objects are clearly not natural but they are performing natural actions so I wanted to reflect this idea in my sounds.   

Jason Final Project