the future of reciporical ready made

I grew up in a very artistic town called Loveland. The whole whole city is filled with sculptures and every year we have an annual sculpture show in a big park in our town. Naturally, all the schools I went to were very rich in the arts and they provided a lot of opportunity to work with artist from around the world. I remember the first time that I was introduced to ready-mades. . which we called found art. I was in the library and there was an artist there that made a big spinning cyclone of cds and books and stuff. It was pretty cool. I took a class with him and I fell in love with ready mades.

I personally love Duchamp and his work as a dadaist. I love his urinal ready made and I think that making someone look at something they see everyday and make them see something else is so artistic and creative. You aren’t creating a new picture for them like you do with most other forms of art. Instead you are given a canvas that has already been painted and you are trying to alter it into something totally new. . . like useing a rembrandt as an ironing board.

I think that their should be a come back in ready made art because it is so cool and interesting and it refelcts how people think and how they relatet their emotions to the things around them.

Streets into stages

This is sooooo cool! It is cool because everyone does it. You walk into target and you see yourself on the surveillance video and you wave or you make a face or you check out your hair. Everyone does it, especially little kids and my mom. They have taken it to the extreme though. They realize that someone is watching them. . its their job they have too. So they use that opportunity to create something unique and interesting and they probably make a lot of security guard’s days.

I think that I will implement this technique when I go somewhere with lots of cameras. Not only is it creative and unique but I am sure it is also a blast to do. I assume that they choreograph their performances and they must practice them. Do they ever get the tapes of their performances or do they just let it circulate at will? This is such a unique and interesting idea.

the locative commons

The idea of having installation art in a city is very debatable to me. I love the thought of having a city who is examplified by their art work. Chicago is one of my favorite cities and that is mainly because it has such great architecture and art work. It is a beautiful city because of its art. The art has also created an atmosphere of creativity that is inspiring. I really like what Christo anf Jean Claude did in New York with the fabric in Central Park. I think that it opened the eyes of New Yorkers to new art and created beauty within a natural space. It is also very cool to me that artists can think on that large of a scale. To come up with an installation piece that spans that much space and for that long of a period of time is very impressive. However, they also wanted to install a piece of fabric art on the Colorado River. This raised serious questions to the stability of the ecology of the river. Many scientists and environmentalists were afraid that the fabrics would change the ecosystem of the river by changing the amount of sunlight that reached the river banks. This could have serious repercussions because algae and other underwater plants need sufficient sunlight to survive. If they were not given this sunlight they could die, which would effect every living organism within the river.

Eco-installation art is cool and it is definitely creative but I think that we need to look at where we put them and how they effect the environments that they are in. Those kinds of art were not naturally created to be outdoors.

Freeze Frame

I think that this little experiment is really cool. Since they have been translating text and images into sounds (well, kind of, through morse code) then how cool would it be to be able to see what you hear in a way that translates correctly. This kind of thing reminds me of Mr. Holland’s Opus when his son is at his concert and he is watching the bars go up and down. I never understood how that translates to what we hear because to me the sounds are so much more beautiful than the bars that go up and down. If there was some way to translate those sounds, however, into images that provide the same emotion than I could see how sound could become a visual interpretation. Take a song that is really soothing . . maybe you would show a picture of a lake or the ocean in a interesting and cool way that vibrates much like the sound itself. That woudl be very interesting. I think that the guy who wrote this article has a god idea going.

Hacker Manifesto

Ever since I first saw the movie the Matrix, I have been secretly jealous of hackers. They just seem so cool. As I read this article, I thought of what a hacker truely is and what they can be considered. They are artists and creators. They are abstractors and producers. They are destructors and rebuilders. But they are not essential allowed to be these things. They are social misfits who just spend time on their computers and cause chaos. In reality the art of hacking is essential and important, but the culture of hacking is an underground and unspoken cultural phenomena.

The newest Die Hard is all about hacking. . . well pretty much. It is fascinating that people have this much knowledge of the cyberworld and and how to manipulate it and transform it yet this knowledge is largely misused and taken for granted. They are passed of as just anti-social gamers when in reality if something were to go seriously wrong with the world’s computer systems. . they would be the best ones to save everything.

Th subculture of hacking is so interesting and so underground that it intrigues me.

DIY: the militant embrace of technology

I love that this article talks about Marxism. I am a total do it yourselfer and i love it. I think that their is something to the process of making something, learning from your mistakes and creating something that is great and beautiful. I think that in today’s world, we feel like we can not do things ourselves because technology is so prevelant. I think a lot of people fear doing things themselves because they fear the technology that they might have to go through in order to do it. Instead we just pass it off to someone and pay them to do it. We lose that sense of accomplishment and completeness because we failed to embrace the technology because we were told that it required training and knowledge. Bull crap! My whole life has been a do it yourself project. I have learned everything that I love by learning to do it on my own, through my own trial and error. Take my photography. I never took a class in high school about photography and how to appropriate manipulate light. I picked up a camera and a book older than dirt and learned it myself. I took pictures and I trained my eye to see the beauty of the light that is around me. I don’t think that photography would have been as beautiful and special to me as it is today if I would have just paid someone else to take my pictures for me. I think that their is a great deal of purpose in doing things yourself.

DIY Survival

I wasn’t quite sure which article I was supposed to read so I read the one on the avant garde. I really like the thought of the avant garde and the works that they created. They were able to fully and freely use their creativeness to creating things that were so interesting and crazy. I love to look at avant garde work and just wonder what they were thinking when they made it. It amazes me that the work of the avant garde is still largely present and popular in today’s world. They were so creative and free that their work spans across generations.

I am addicted to the show project runway. . . i know. . . Anyways, they do at least one avant garde challenge each season and they are always my favorite because their so no restraints but on the artist and their creation. They can do anything as long as they can conceptual build it. I think that is what art should be like. Or at least art in the purest form. I think that their should be no restraints or boundaries put on the artists and his art. I think that artist should be able to create without the fear that it won’t sell or that it won’t be received well. I think that artists should create because it was something inside of them that longed to get out. And I think that is what the goal of the avant garde is. . . to just create for creations sake.

Free Cooperation

This reminds me of my life! Surprise surprise. Really school is all free cooperation in which no one is being paid for their contributions. We are “paid” by the satisfaction of what we produced. For example, we collaberated on the mural. It was, in essence, a free cooperation because we all brought what we brought to the table and we didn’t assume that we were getting paid for our contribution. We worked together using concepts and ideas to drive us forward into new things and new ideas and new concepts. Their was no one leader. .  besides you. But you were more of a mediator of sorts, giving us deadlines and dates in which we must be finished. You never really told us where to go.The article suggests in the beginning that we work together towards the same goal, despite arguments or disagreements, so that we can complete something that would be impossible as individuals. Our project would have been possible as individuals but I don’t think it would have turned out as successful as it did if we didn’t work together.

Another example of this in my life is my production. The other day we had 10,200 frames to edit and that was just the beginning of the project. After that we still had to animate these vines in after effects, do a final edit, composite the 3D space within after effects and render it all in less than a week. One of the guys on my team was the only one working on it. He would have never gotten it done. But I was assigned to help him and  essentially we did together what we wouldn’t have been able to do alone and we got really far. I am totally for cooperation and collaberations. I think they improve the quality of the work and they make creating a much more fun process.

Biomedia

Okay. . . This is an interesting subject. And I am not quite sure if I fully understand it. But I will discuss. Since I am follower of Christ and I follow the doctrine that God created the earth and everything in it, then I will say that DNA is a marvelous and divine invention. I could think of nothing more superb than to follow the example of DNA because it was built in a perfect way. It does exactly what it was designed to do. However, I do not know if it is possible to translate this biological creation into a computer language, if you will. This is where I get a little confused. Are they creating a program that acts like DNA or are they making a robot of sorts that responds like DNA? I was a little confused at the meaning behind this article and it was not all that clear. I think that they assumed that you knew what this kind of biomedia is. The thought of making robots that respond like humans is a little creepy. It goes to that point of should we be acting like God or should we just let it be. Like the movie AI, what point is too far for this or even irobot, is it dangerous to create a kind of computer technology that is smarter and more responsive than your average person?

oh the questions.  . .

Simulation

I really thinking this guy has too much time on his hands. He is making up all these different was to explain the meaning behind simulations. He just uses big word to say that a simulation is a representation of the present, past, or future. I think that possibly he might think that he is really philosophical. I am impressed that he was able to write about it for as long as he did however. Sometimes I think artists take things to far—into this land where everything must have meaning and everything must be deeply and importantly significant. What happened to just making art because you enjoy it? Or because you wanted to capture something beautiful? I think that art would be a lot less. . . um. . . . retarded if they just dropped the facade that everything we create and do has some deep meaning and just admit that sometimes it was just an idea.