Triptych Video

Artist Statement- For this triptych video I took multiple videos of a parrot. This project for me, was more to explore video editing software which I haven't used that much as well as work with and editing audio. Each video has both left and right audio which was formatted to fit the video. The left and right videos have effects that lead your eye to the middle video. These effects include a sketch filter and an abstraction filter. I went out of my comfort zone and explored the settings within each filter to create a personal effect. The side videos footage is sped up, to show the normal behavior of the bird. The middle video is the bird interacting with the viewer.  The left side audio has a left and right audio, and includes the water and splashing sound effects created with the video. The middle video also has left and right audio channels that consists of light sounds created by the birds stepping back and forth or pecking at the ground. The right sides video consists of a beat-boxing sound clip, as I feel that the rhythm and beat sounds allow the viewer to connect with the video and the slight movements of the bird. 

Small Video Assignment

Artist Statement

This video was my first attempt using Final Cut Pro, so I decided to try and mess around with many of the options and settings available within the program. I also maintained my original proposed idea to make a sort of video collage, as well as giving the viewer enough freedom to imagine different story lines using the assumed visual and sound. To evoke the freedom of the viewer I created the video with a static overlay. The static that remains throughout the video is a video in itself created by recording an offline cable channel. The other videos are clips from various you tube videos and edited down to size. I choose clips that had some sort of relevance to the sound being made at that moment in time.  

Audio Self Portrait

Sound Cloud Links

Audio Self Portrait- Original
Audio Self Portrait- Random

Circuit Bent Toy

Circuit Bent Toy Process- First I found an area on the board that could circuit bend. I choose this circuit bend because it made what seemed to be another instrument sound (different from the other four instrument sounds- button's top right in image). I then soldered in a button switch. This allowed me to add another button and instrument sound to the right top panel. I then reassembled the toy and drilled a hole to make room for the new button. Sound clip for the circuit bent toy found below.

Circuit Bent Toy SoundCloud Link

Crowdsourcing Final Projects

Swarm Sketch Project

Artist Statement: I contributed to two swarm sketches. It was interesting to see how contributors can use the small lines of others to create an overall image with (some) recognizable areas of the sketch.

Johnny Cash Project   

Click Here to See My Contribution to the Johnny Cash Project

Artist Statement: I choose to contribute to the Johnny Cash project because it is a great crowdsourcing project with a great cause. Within my image I choose to use the stippling technique to create the characteristics of the face. I spent a lot of time using the opacity of the brush to create bright highlights to bring out facial features. For the background my inspiration was Van Gogh's famous Starry Night painting.

Post Secret

Artist Statement: I have always wanted to contribute to Post Secret so I decided to use this as another crowd sourcing project to participate in. To incorporate the ideals of the class, I decided to make a digital collage for the background of the post card. The letters where found on images on-line and cut and pasted to the background, in true digital ransom note fashion.

Crowdsourcing Web Page Home Page Design

Artist Statement: Seeing as how my favorite project in class was the Triptych, this is what I decided would be my crowdsourcing idea. The idea behind this project is a combination between all the crowdsourcing projects I have seen. First, each day the project would have a word written in bold. The next step is to take the first image,color or word/s that comes to your mind when you see the bold word and add it to the days digital collage or Triptych. Similar to the technical layout of the Johnny Cash Project, the users would have a simplified version of Photoshop to edit their piece and place it on the working collage space. I choose to make a simple elegant Home page, using negative space and a simple layout so it would give the purpose of the project while not initially bombarding the user with too much info.  

Digital Currents: Chapter 5 Discussion Question

1. Because artist that create interactivity within their work have to explore many different sides of their work as they are developing it, i.e not only creating the work as an artist but as exploring their work as a viewer, do you believe they form a deeper connection with their work than visual artists like painters, poets, composers and so on?

"Interactivity deeply entwines the function of viewer and artist. In the process, the artist's role changes.    This convergence transforms what had been two very different identities of the artists and viewer." (167)

2. Do you believe that the an artist that creates an interactive piece has a deeper level of connection with the viewer, than that of traditional artist?

"In interactively participating, the viewer derives power somewhat parallel with that of the artist: to choose one's own path and discover one's own insights through the interactive work." (167) 

YouTube Remix

Artist Statement- I found this project to be interesting as well as challenging. I am not use to working with code so the challenge increased as the project progressed. I really find this lady's news story remixed into a song with videos ranging from animation, re-creation, to previously developed videos, very creative. I did have a hard time syncing all videos and sound together. I spent a good amount a research searching the net for codes that would mute some of the videos that had similar if not the exact song, but I had no luck in finding a code that actually worked. So, I decided to rearrange the videos so that the other videos sounds would come in at a lower sound and create a background repeat. The volumes of each video must be lower than the larger middle video for the piece to have successful sound piece.

Overall, I choose this initial video as my piece subject because the videos are hilarious. These videos are a sure way to crack a smile.

Video Piece: Click Here 

Digital Currents: Chapter 4 Discussion Question

1.Rosalind Krauss, art critic, termed early video works as “narcissistic” performance. How does works by Berly Korot, like First Four Monitors of Dachan, fit into the idea of “narcissistic performace” in realtion to video art?

 “Krauss describes this narcissism as a kind of psychological strategy for examining the conditions and traditions of the relationships between the process of image-making and the viewer’s perception of it.”(99)

2.Robert Pinaus- Witten said that “video art was ‘deficient precisely because it was linked to and perpetuated the outmoded clichés of Modernist Pictorialism.”’ (106)

What does he mean by “perpetuated the outmoded clichés of Modernist Pictorialism?” What are the clichés? Is he using the term modernist pictorialism to refer to a minimalist approach to a modern media?