Performance Art

 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9djBDJE490g&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I got inspiration for this video from Robin Williams death. So many comedians make us laugh and provide joy to our lives, but deep down they are suffering from mental illness.  They all put on a fake smile, but are actually hurting. This does not only apply to comedians though, but also to others with mental illness. In my video I hold up an over-the-top fake smile to my mouth, while showing pieces the paper with the most coming mental illness is the U.S. I wrote illness on the top of my head to show that just because someone is smiling on the outside, they may be going to a lot on the inside

Photo copy Art

I call this piece "Robot Lauren". I used black and white photocopies of my shirt on colored paper and color copies on white paper. My favorite part of this piece is my hair. The photocopier caught all the different strands of color in my hair, and almost gave a shine to the paper. If you notice I incorporated grid art into to my piece  creating an "L" on my shirt for Lauren. The only thing that I would've done differently us to someone make my hands come out of the box to make it even more 3d

Week 8 - Favorite Performance Artists

My three favorite performance artists were Banksy, Tilda Swinton and Sterlarc. In Banksy's Paris Hilton he buys the new Paris Hilton CD, alters the CD cover and replaces the CD inside with another CD and then places it back on the store shelves. I dislike people that are famous for being famous so I thought it was funny. Banksy uses a scanner and digital art prints to recreate the inside of the CD cover pages with altered images. In Tilda Swinton's performance art act The Maybe she is sleeping in an enclosed box. There is no technology that is used during this performance. It is simply her sleeping on a mattress while enclosed in a glass box. Lastly I enjoyed Stelarc's The Body is Obsolete the performance artist in this video is hooked up to wires and an image of his modified body appears on a screen. Obviously a lot of technology is used in this performance to create the digital images. All of these require a human to perform some sort of act in order to create art, but the last two The Maybe and The Body is Obsolete are more closely related. Both of these require a human to be on display to create an art performance, whereas in Paris Hilton the art performance occurs without anyone knowing until they see the results of that performance at a later time. Even then I'm sure many people were completely confused by it. With the other two performances the audience goes in knowing they are about to see a performance art piece.

Grid Art

Wasn't sure if this was suppose to be posted to our blog

I love how this turned out. The colors are so vivid and they contrast the brown wall nicely. There is purposely a missing sticky note in the left hand side. This is to represent a reflection in the heart.

Flip book

Flip Book

This was one of the more difficult projects we worked on this semester. It was hard for me to come up with many different ideas to create a flip book and go incorporate those ideas so they make sense. Drawing is not my strong point, so that also added level of difficulty to this projects. I tried to make this flip book tell the story of the circle of life, and how we are all connected. There is a lot of death and destruction in this flip book, which is suppose to be humorous.

Week 7 - Dadaism and Surrealism

When I look at dadaism and surrealism I can't help but wonder if the artist is on drugs. The ability to come up with something so abstract and surreal boggles my mind. I find the videos to be the most fascinating. In Man Ray. Le Retour A La Raison (The Return to Reason) simple black and white imaginery is used to capture everything objects, such as nails or a pair of woman's breasts. At the end though the woman's breast are distorted to create a wavy pattern, In Marcel Duchamp's Anemic Cinema, there it is a black and white film that shows a circle rotating counter clockwise. The inside of the circle changes, but the rotation and speed remain the same.  Mohol Nagy's Ein Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss Grau is another short film in which the artist films moving objects and the shadows that they cast. What is most fascinating to be is how the artist distorted the images to appear hazy. At one point Nagy film creates negative images. All of these films are silent, which I think leaves the viewer to come up with their own interpretation as to what all these films mean. 

Week 5 - 21st Century Technology

The Apple iPhone has combined previous technologies into one device. Before, consumers had a cell phone, radio, musical player (CD player or walkman), camera, camcorder and a personal computer. With the iPhone all of those separate electronics are not necessary. What makes smartphones, such as the iPhone so great is that all the separate electronics that consumers once used are now in one small portable device. When you compare the first one that was released in 2007 to the current one the difference in what the consumer is able to do is incredible. The first iPhone didn’t have a GPS or a camera in the front screen, but the newest phones have these features. I predict that electronics such as a camera and a personal computer will become obsolete one day as a result of the all the electronic technologies that are included in a smart phone. 

The Mobile Vanity

The Mobile Vanity allows users to easily put their makeup on while driving. No more accidentally dropping makeup products on the ground and searching for them while driving! The vanity is a mini table that clips on to a car's visor. There are three holders built in for lipstick, mascara and more! A lip is built around the edges so your makeup won't slide off. It's on-the-go beauty for your on-to-go lifestyle!