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

POINT OF VIEW- Jackie

Nick Project 4

their field- Derbs POV project

Ned Film Project

tree people

Point Of View_Tutino

My video conveys three different points of view: that of myself as I am having a staring contest, the person I am having the staring contest with is the other point of view, and an outside perspective that encompasses us both is the third perspective. By taking the video from an actual person's perspective it almost puts the viewer in the position of being a part of the contest without actually doing it. It is supposed to make the viewer wonder at first, like, "Why is this person just staring at me?" If you think about it a staring contest is an odd concept, he only goal is to stare into the other person's eyes as long as you can without smiling, blinking, or any of the like. In other words you must take all emotion out and just focus on one of your five senses.

Melissa Rice Johnson Museum Field Trip

1  1)    For the first piece of art we looked at was Type A: Barrier, which was a piece of work, created by Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin. They had set up curved blocks that looked like the ones that could be on construction sites. They were placed in a fashion to help instate the sense of security and it relates to one of the videos shown in Harun Farocki’s relates to these blocks in that the video that the video that showed the men going into the elevators to head to their work place and it was kind of on constant repeat. I find them similar because these men are heading down to their work place yet those blocks are already working so to say.

2)  Harun Farocki’s instillation of 11 videos helped changed the video’s original meanings since the later decades changed in process of what the actual footage should mean. In the last film installment it is more of a film like from a movie scene and doesn’t really capture the postmodern factories. The installation also put a loop in a specific part of the film it was showing to possibly show the repetitiveness of the work force during those times.

Johnson Museum Field Trip

1. Type A: Barrier

This piece to me, is based off power and how our world is based off how power-hungry we are. The description bases a lot of it's meaning through government and male competition. This to me symbolizes male suppression and how men in society are taught to protect their wives, make lots of money, be the strongest, and be the best. Men are then unable to break this barrier and do what makes them truly happy because society makes fun of happy men, they consider them to be flamboyant and having low testosterone. These concrete sculptures are white and tough, which is what the ideal man is. They also must protect: their country, their lives, other people's lives. They are also a form of construction (changing or building something new), while everything changes around men (women empowerment, racial acceptance), men stand their ground and make sure everything is under control. This is a very powerful pice, which sums up a lot of american historical history and emphasizes that this in fact is a man's world, but I hope that it also means it doesn't always have to be that way, which is why their are spaces in between.


2. Cinemania: Harun Farocki and Holly Zausner

This piece was so much fun to watch representing the factory struggles and major industry periods in life. There are 12 televisions lined up by date. In this piece the people seem to be struggling because they all are in an economic crisis at some point/points in their lives. Their are different countries so it seems to be indicating that these struggles occur everywhere all over the place and people react the same: walking fast, into their factories with large fenced in areas or walls. In each of these videos there is a sense of barrier, they are struggling workers trapped in the economic system created by man. There are a couple videos with bikes in the indicating farther/quicker ways and routs of travels. They also portray the working women, in the earlier films the women are maids and housewives and in the later decade of films the women are shown in more business attire.

Johnson Museum Response 2: Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki’s “Workers Leaving the Factory in 11 decades” is entirely composed of appropriated video. How has his installation changed the meaning of the original films? Respond in 150-200 words.

"Cinemania" at the Johnson Museum: http://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/cinemania-farocki-zausner.html

Johnson Museum Response 1: Type A

Consider the piece Barrier at the Johnson Museum and one single-channel video from the artists’ website. Identify the ideas and concepts that are similar between the pieces, and discuss how the different mediums affect the way that ideas are expressed. Your response should be 150-200 words.

Artist Website: http://www.typea.us/
Johnson Museum: Type A-Barrier

My Point of View- Jason

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Melissa Rice Symmetry in Darkness POV

This is my point of view video. In it I tried to capture the symmetry in nature at night. Although most of my clips don't necessarily capture symmetry in the nature, I edited to try and create the artificial symmetry through the mirror effect. I liked how it created a darkened atmosphere in my videos in regard to symmetry. It is almost asking the viewer what their point of view on symmetry is, and how the concept of artificial symmetry creates a difference. I tried to look up various examples and articles but they made me think of symmetry almost not how symmetry should be, since symmetry is never fully symmetrical. 

Child- Kaila's POV project

My point of view video was meant to represent a curious child. This child is exploring his outdoor surroundings. He represents the innocent, wondrous mind of a young boy. This video was meant to capture the idea that children can become absorbed and intrigued in the simplest of things. Everything is new and interesting to them. They have no stress and pressure to distract them from some of the most fascinating things in our environments. Young children can find beauty in something as plain as a brick wall or a muddy puddle. Adults on the other hand would walk by these commonly seen images with no care in the world. They are things they pass by daily and don’t acknowledge. My goal was to open my viewer’s eyes up to the fact that there is beauty everywhere in nature that the observant children in the world appreciate more than the rest of us.

Frank Lawrence's By Day and By Night

With the different ways we look at the world as humans the most important factor in how we perceive situations and make judgment calls is the time of day and the amount we can see.  There's a reason that nearly ever horror movie takes place almost entirely at night and why Halloween is celebrated by "trick or treating" at night.  The amount that we can see changes everything, things that we can see completely scare us much less than things that aren't entirely clear to us.  My project was meant to explore the ways we understand different situations by day and by night.  I wanted to ask the viewer, would something that scare you at night scare you during the day?  Some of the scenes are incredibly dark and hard to make out but the most important thing to remember when viewing my piece is to look for the shadows moving around more than seeing the actual actor walking around.

Torie's perspective video project

Perspective is an aspect that always needs to be considered when creating any form of art, but for this project I wanted my viewer to see perspective as a concept more than just a point of view.  The concept behind my piece is filming a very simple topic, drinking a water bottle, at many different angles.  Once the angles are filmed they are arranged and overlapped in an interesting way.  One the viewer sees the this simple task displayed in this way the viewer is able to understand that it is not simple at all.  Nothing is ever simple when looked at through different view points.    

self-reflection by Nathalie

My video is about self-reflection and how I see myself. It is also expressing a point of view of what is going inside my head rather than about what other people see and what I let them see of myself. I am showing the viewer how I experience myself and the world around me. The different frames represent different thoughts or trains of thought that sometimes overlap and create new images. I am torn into different directions and my mind is not always clear like a mirror, it is more puzzled than a broken mirror. I put on face-paint to show other people an image of myself that I want them to see, but in the end this is not the true personality, so the picture is broken.
To sum up, I really wanted to give the viewer an inside view of myself, an honest and not manipulated view of how I see myself and what is going on in my mind.

Hearts by Isabella- POV project

This video is a combination of different themes to create an abstract concept. It contains different symbols of love: the hearts drawn on post-its, the lips, the washing of the hands, and the girl looking in the mirror. These scenes put together show the nuances of love; we see it on a superficial level with the post-its, and we also see it on a deeper and darker level with the slightly forced, pained smiling. The washing of the hands seems to show someone violently cleansing themself of something, and the girl looking in the mirror seems to be staring intently at her own appearance, perhaps thinking that mirror will reveal something about herself. In this video, I wanted to experiment with various visuals and symbolic images to go against the commonplace notion that we have about love. I wanted to portray its multifaceted nature. 

Jackie- performance video: hiding

Ned Film Project Rough Draft

A very rough version of my film project. This was used to test the possibility of a "zoom" project. This test focused on the issues present with filming and with editing. If this idea will be used for the final I will need to reshoot entirely. This would be best done in a different location because of the human traffic. I will most likely change my idea for this project because of the challenges that this idea created.

Day and Night by Frank Lawrence

My project was supposed to explore the differences between various places around campus that we see and go to everyday and examine the differences between when it's light out and when it's dark out.  Whether it was the gas station, the dorms, or even the quad everything is different at night and during the day.  My piece also touches on the different ways people act when they're out at night or when they're up in the morning.  The film is an exploration of the effect time has on people.

Unedited_Beauty - Samantha Tutino

My project was supposed to convey the contradicting, stereotypical ideas behind beauty. When asked about beauty most people will give the answer they think is expected: what's on the inside. However, many people secretly feel that beauty still is in outward appearance, mainly because a part of it is. But when that is all one has, it won't make them happy, shown by the continued, permanent frown on the girl who has make-up on, and followed by the question "...so what's the real point?" If make-up and other "beauty" projects don't make us any happier, then why do we spend so much money and time on them?

Koye- Performance Project

    When thinking off performance, I thought of using something that would construct a lot of emotion from my viewer. I had to draw on the emotion of my viewer without necessarily narrating what the story line was about. So I thought of something that occurs everyday that we as people are not aware about. The video should draw on the empathy of the viewer because of the fact that they feel that they can't do anything about the situation but it would also be nice to see a range of reactions to the video. The video above is a short performance that has been readjusted from the original, which was of a birthday boy in tears from no one showing up to his birthday because he wasn’t cool enough. On the other hand the video above is more abstract and the whole subject of birthday has been taken out of it. It would illustrate the oppressed, the depressed and those who are put down. The idea is to show the things that happen behind closed doors and show the emotions of what the oppressed feel. Now that there is no more birthday aspect to the video, it would still be fun to see if the audience would still react with empathy for the character in the performance.

Anri Sala

Read this article (with pictures and video within the article):

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2012/01/anri-sala-absolut-art-award.php#.UI7izvlERdo

Thinking back to Anri Sala's video from the Point of View series (the horse standing by the side of the road, where you see the horse's eye for a fraction of a second), how is this video similar to other works that he has created?

Pipilotti Rist

Please read the highlighted sections of the article on Blackboard. The article discusses Rist's work in general, and also makes reference to the video "Ever is Over All." What are the similarities between Rist's piece for the Point of View series (the video we saw in class, "I Want to See How You See, or a Portrait of Cornelia Providoli") and Ever is Over All?

Reflection to Pipliotti Reading.

I found the way the writer described her pieces of performance art to be quite alluring; it made me want to see them. The way he describes them as having all of these different strange and mythological concepts, with outrageous actions and engaging details, it seems like something I have never seen before, and when he includes her quotes about feminism and the pain of heartbreak, it makes me wonder how she conveys all of it at once in a space.