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.

Dinner For Two

when you're 21 you're no fun.

I LOVED this class. This really resonated with me, probably because we are getting closer to the current time. Yet we are still far enough back for me to appreciate the historical importance of the type of music and art was being produced. I was really interested in the Moog Synthesizer and I liked listening to “Switched on Bach”. I liked learning about the house movement and how it was created in a Warehouse in Detroit.

It was really fascinating to see how the culture shaped the music and in turn the music shaped the culture. Also, it was interesting to see the practicality in using a rhythm box/synthesizer, when the police would come it was much easier for the artists to pack up and get our quickly.

I loved hearing groups such as Ladytron, Gorillaz, Blur, Massive Attack etc. in the context of this class. I really loved listening to Michel Cleis ft. Toto la Momposina- La Mezcla. This was such a fun mix of songs. What we listened today in class was so interesting to me because I love synthesized songs, and combinations of songs that seem polar opposite. Great class!

Whip It

I really liked George Ligeti and the visualization of the score, made by machine in the 1960’s. I know this is very “easy” today but at the time it was very revolutionary. It was really interesting to see all of the metronomes going off at once. Diamanda Galas is quite an interesting character. I really liked where this class was going and how we began to talk about synthesizers. I think it is so neat how a machine can change the whole aura of a sound.

I loved when we watched “Whip It” My Mom loves this song, it’s funny to see the evolution of songs like this. I also liked when we listened to “Tainted Love” because I have always like Marilyn Manson’s version and I thought Soft Cell was the original creator and not Gloria Jones. One aspect I absolutely love about this course is that I can finally see so many connections. Connections in culture, music, and art can be seen even now in the current culture.

I also really was interested in the New Psychedelic movement and how culture impacted the art forms of the times. Of course this culture was centered on drugs which made the art that much more interesting.