Video Art

I spent around 10 hours on this. Finding clips online and cutting them exactly how I wanted was much harder than I expected. YAY it's done!

Good luck everyone on finals-this was such an interesting class and I have enjoyed everyone's work this past semester =)

Drowning

Bill Viola was a very interesting man to watch a documentary on. His exhibits look so cool. I really loved that we were able to see his creative process unfolding on the page. He documented his work so well. I really liked watching the video because it really got into the psychological mind of the artist. I really was able to connect this class to my major. I understand the creative process and the mental work that goes into the process of creating art. I also loved the fact that his art was greatly influenced by his near drowning experience. I thought about how I used to swim down to the bottom of pools and look up and pretend I was in a different world with the sun beaming down in rays.

Pipilotti Rist

SO WEIRD. I watched this and was slightly disturbed. I couldn’t stop laughing! First of all she looked deranged and like a little kid throwing a fit during the first segment. I was entertained when the man was jumping around naked. I thought all the video effects were really interesting. Rist portrays very human images. You really need to pay attention to what is going on in her videos to sense a theme and understand the messages. I really like “I’m not the girl that misses much”. So funny to watch both in and out of class!

Television Delivers People

At first I didn’t quite understand what this video clip really meant. It was really interesting to think about how invasive television really is, it truly does deliver the people to advertisers. The commercialism of the television really provides an advertising tool. Advertising allows television to be so inexpensive. We don’t even usually realize how we are being bombarded by advertisements over the TV until it is pointed out to us. After watching this video clip I started watching television commercials more analytically. Especially the fact that television targets its audience so well.