Tuesday, December 11, 2012
What We Say Official Upload by Frank Lawrence
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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?
Expressionless - Samantha Tutino
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.
play both at same time
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.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Ned Final Project
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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.
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