Ed Osborn - http://www.roving.net
-Machines have a life of their own
Adachi Tomomi - Three Duster Dancers
http://www.adachitomomi.com/
Role of Curator: 'exhibition maker'
- Administrative VS Creative, conceptual
- Artist's fee: 'salary'
- Material fees: Costs involved in the making of my artwork: expendables: video tapes; production; transportation; equipment: camera rental, crew, talents, rental of studio space, hard disk purchase etc
- Accommodation, per diem (allowance), flight
Mona Hatuom
'emerging artists' VS mid-career artists VS established artists ('A' listers)
Administrative VS Creative
Female curator, feminist curator, gay curator, black curator, etc (identity politics)
S'pore: Lawyer-curators. Lindy Poh, Joanna Lee, Ong Keng Sen, Matthew Ngui, Low Tze Wee
Rise of the curator-star
Hou Hanru
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Some Notes on Fantasy
Mind
• Imagination
• Mental Image
• Hallucination
• Illusion
• Make-believe
o Unachievable
Fantasy / Wish / Hope / Dream/ Desire
Private/ Personal
Collective/ Shared by a society/ Community
Challenge the boundaries between REALITY and FANTASY
Actually I was thinking
You put one small paper there
The paper is the screen
Then you project the money note picture
But as the ppl walk closer to the money
Then the picture change or disappear? - Greed?
Dark room, use video tvs to create windows - Illusion?
Mannequin projected face, face of viewer - Like Oursler
Use of Distorted lenses
Respond to the site
OVERLAPPING VIDEO EFFECT?
Using tv to create sounds, and placed beside a plant = garden
• Shakkei 借景
• Borrowing outside scenery
Scene of murder, blood on the walls, etc, surveillance camera
Bench, tv person sitting beside you
clock
Play with size
Miniature models of a city, viewer is giant
• People from the city react to viewer
Person flying in the air
Camera from the person’s view point, projected in the
Make screen using spoon? Or other materials, cloth diffuser
derive
• Meditation
• Go to the place and let location lead on journey
DIALOGUE
• Back and forth
• Surrealist technique
• Exquisite corpse
• Things can get modified in the way
Involuntary sculpture
5 minutes of material
impressions made by the smoke of an candle
Use of linguistics
Use of surrealist techniques
Automatic techniques
• Indecipherable writing
o Illegible writing
o undecipherable
• Involuntary sculpture
o Absent minded sculpting
Bending a paper clip
Rolling a paper
• Latent News
o Newspaper article, individual words cut out and rapidly assembled.
• Movement of liquid down a vertical surface
• Outagraph
o Cut out the subject from the artwork
• Paranoiac-critical method
o [research about this]
• Hidden Messages, subliminal message
o Message embedded in another medium
o Pass the limits of human mind’s perception
o Unrecognizable by the conscious mind
Affects the unconscious
o Use of
Inferences
Innuendo
Allusions
Propaganda
o Negatively influence the mind
• Psychorama
o Communicating subliminal information
o Flash images on screen so fast that it cannot be perceived by the conscious mind
Evanescence – sweet sacrifice music video
There is a man cut in two by the window – Andre Breton
• Surrealism as juxtaposition of two distant realities brought together to create a new uncanny union
Surrealist manifesto
An attempt to reach and explore the most intimate parts of the human psyche and the most sensitive areas of human perceptive agencies lies at the foundation of collaborative works by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Complex structures that combine the miniature, model-like architecture wit the audio and video projections are construction sites where the poetics of illusion is studied and the viewer is exposed to an artifice of theatrical and cinematic experience.
In such a manipulative realm, the imaginative dreamlike reality of the viewer’s fantasies and desires replaces the physical surroundings of everyday life and offers the conventions of cinema and theatre as a frame to investigate the potentialities and limitations of subjectivity and to enact the intricate play between the viewer’s expectations of spectacle in the labyrinth of perception and belief.
Cardiff/Miller – Muriel Lake Incident 1999
• Takes viewer on journey into alternative illusionary landscapes where reality on the verge of collapse remains only as a vague and faded memory of restricted experience.
• Sculptural object turns the viewer into a giant participant in a drama played inside and projected on a screen
• Expanded in the aural space of the theatre through a set of headphones with hyper-real sounds of ‘a person next to you’
• Perception of space and sense of scale are blurred through the juxtaposed realities of a film and the unusual surrounding and theatrical setting
o Generating an extreme sensual vertigo of childhood memories and voyeuristic experience.
Spaces need not be defined by walls
Lines need not be boundaries
Objects seen maybe be both illusory and tangible
An elusive object might be related to something tangible and tactile but not too obviously.
sy
Intrinsic mystery and playful aura
Phantasmagoric
Exuberant, pragmatic, ingenuously defiant, anti-mysterious
We are all dreamers, producers of images, fragmented narratives: seductive, mysterious, unexpected – expressions of our fantasies and desires, only partially remembered and recorded
Abstraction, dissolves, superimpositions, de-framings, complex camera movement and special effects
Investigation of poetics and polities of artificiality and illusion
I often find that although I am working on an idea without knowing exactly what it is I think, I am engaged in thinking an idea struggling to have me think it. – Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known
Lack of knowledge that makes the viewer subjected to its magic
Even improvisation requires memorization of the structure that sustains it.
Time is where subjectivity is produced: over time, In time, with time.
Dreams: use synaesthetic sense impressions as well as linguistic wordplay to perform its revelation
Connect mise-en-scene with psychoanalysis
• Science of the unthought known
• Mise-en-scene provides an internal connection between narrative, still, visual imagery and psychoanalysis
Uncertainty and reality: inorganic bodies
• Visual entertainment always played with this
The mind doubts the reality of what it sees with its own eyes and then brings its forces of rationality into play only for the illusion to return more powerfully.
• An otherwise confident and competent relation to the world is suddenly faced by a sense of uncertainty.
• Effect is strong is images conjure up the profound uncertainties that preoccupy the human mind,
o E.g. The passage between life and death
Organic body has become inanimate
Inorganic body takes on the appearance of animation
• Human fascination
The uncanny – Freud
• Only that class of frightening that leads back to the old and familiar can be of interest to psychoanalysis
o For an emotional effect to have a relation to the unconscious mind, it must have undergone a process of repression from which it may return.
Something which is familiar and old established in the mind
Formative structure for the unconscious
In the semi-darkness, it is often especially difficult to distinguish a life-size wax figure from a human person, whether animate or not
Don’t see, photographic realism (Lumiere), See, conjuring magic and special effects (Melies)
Figures of ordinary people moving about in everyday life are figures of the dead.
• Inanimate images of the filmstrip not only animated by the mechanism of cinema in projection,
o Ghostly images of bodies resurrected into the appearance of life.
o It is impossible to look at them as a result of a simple demonstration of a machine (every gesture, expression, movement of wind or water are mysterious)
o Life is FOSSILISED
o History of cinema
We see the dead alive on screen
Mechanism that started out creating an illusion of movement {woman walking down stairs} changes into a means of creating an illusion of the living dead
Cinema transforms organic movement into its inorganic replica, a series of static, inanimate images, which once projected, then become animated to blur the distinctions between the oppositions.
Blurring of boundaries between the Organic and the Inorganic
• Difficulty of understanding time and the presence of death in life.
Tony Oursler – You/Me/Them,1996
Features (Skins), 2002
The German word for attraction is “die Anziehung”
• Signifies either an attribute or an action
• Designate the charm which a person or thing has for others
• Or signifies a pulling on the part of that person or thing of other people or things towards it.
Freud uses die Anziehung in both senses in his book – Interpretation of Dreams
• The dream thoughts, which are primarily verbal in form, find the predominantly imagistic qualities of the unconscious memories fascinating.
o The unconscious memories flaunt these qualities
In hope of drawing the dream thoughts in their direction
• First of these interpretations makes evident, how central the visual is to our psychic existence
• Second interpretation imputes to the unconscious memories a kind of agency.
• Memories seem to be the site of a certain desire
o Of a desire for what might be called ‘affiliation’
• Imagination
• Mental Image
• Hallucination
• Illusion
• Make-believe
o Unachievable
Fantasy / Wish / Hope / Dream/ Desire
Private/ Personal
Collective/ Shared by a society/ Community
Challenge the boundaries between REALITY and FANTASY
Actually I was thinking
You put one small paper there
The paper is the screen
Then you project the money note picture
But as the ppl walk closer to the money
Then the picture change or disappear? - Greed?
Dark room, use video tvs to create windows - Illusion?
Mannequin projected face, face of viewer - Like Oursler
Use of Distorted lenses
Respond to the site
OVERLAPPING VIDEO EFFECT?
Using tv to create sounds, and placed beside a plant = garden
• Shakkei 借景
• Borrowing outside scenery
Scene of murder, blood on the walls, etc, surveillance camera
Bench, tv person sitting beside you
clock
Play with size
Miniature models of a city, viewer is giant
• People from the city react to viewer
Person flying in the air
Camera from the person’s view point, projected in the
Make screen using spoon? Or other materials, cloth diffuser
derive
• Meditation
• Go to the place and let location lead on journey
DIALOGUE
• Back and forth
• Surrealist technique
• Exquisite corpse
• Things can get modified in the way
Involuntary sculpture
5 minutes of material
impressions made by the smoke of an candle
Use of linguistics
Use of surrealist techniques
Automatic techniques
• Indecipherable writing
o Illegible writing
o undecipherable
• Involuntary sculpture
o Absent minded sculpting
Bending a paper clip
Rolling a paper
• Latent News
o Newspaper article, individual words cut out and rapidly assembled.
• Movement of liquid down a vertical surface
• Outagraph
o Cut out the subject from the artwork
• Paranoiac-critical method
o [research about this]
• Hidden Messages, subliminal message
o Message embedded in another medium
o Pass the limits of human mind’s perception
o Unrecognizable by the conscious mind
Affects the unconscious
o Use of
Inferences
Innuendo
Allusions
Propaganda
o Negatively influence the mind
• Psychorama
o Communicating subliminal information
o Flash images on screen so fast that it cannot be perceived by the conscious mind
Evanescence – sweet sacrifice music video
There is a man cut in two by the window – Andre Breton
• Surrealism as juxtaposition of two distant realities brought together to create a new uncanny union
Surrealist manifesto
An attempt to reach and explore the most intimate parts of the human psyche and the most sensitive areas of human perceptive agencies lies at the foundation of collaborative works by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Complex structures that combine the miniature, model-like architecture wit the audio and video projections are construction sites where the poetics of illusion is studied and the viewer is exposed to an artifice of theatrical and cinematic experience.
In such a manipulative realm, the imaginative dreamlike reality of the viewer’s fantasies and desires replaces the physical surroundings of everyday life and offers the conventions of cinema and theatre as a frame to investigate the potentialities and limitations of subjectivity and to enact the intricate play between the viewer’s expectations of spectacle in the labyrinth of perception and belief.
Cardiff/Miller – Muriel Lake Incident 1999
• Takes viewer on journey into alternative illusionary landscapes where reality on the verge of collapse remains only as a vague and faded memory of restricted experience.
• Sculptural object turns the viewer into a giant participant in a drama played inside and projected on a screen
• Expanded in the aural space of the theatre through a set of headphones with hyper-real sounds of ‘a person next to you’
• Perception of space and sense of scale are blurred through the juxtaposed realities of a film and the unusual surrounding and theatrical setting
o Generating an extreme sensual vertigo of childhood memories and voyeuristic experience.
Spaces need not be defined by walls
Lines need not be boundaries
Objects seen maybe be both illusory and tangible
An elusive object might be related to something tangible and tactile but not too obviously.
sy
Intrinsic mystery and playful aura
Phantasmagoric
Exuberant, pragmatic, ingenuously defiant, anti-mysterious
We are all dreamers, producers of images, fragmented narratives: seductive, mysterious, unexpected – expressions of our fantasies and desires, only partially remembered and recorded
Abstraction, dissolves, superimpositions, de-framings, complex camera movement and special effects
Investigation of poetics and polities of artificiality and illusion
I often find that although I am working on an idea without knowing exactly what it is I think, I am engaged in thinking an idea struggling to have me think it. – Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known
Lack of knowledge that makes the viewer subjected to its magic
Even improvisation requires memorization of the structure that sustains it.
Time is where subjectivity is produced: over time, In time, with time.
Dreams: use synaesthetic sense impressions as well as linguistic wordplay to perform its revelation
Connect mise-en-scene with psychoanalysis
• Science of the unthought known
• Mise-en-scene provides an internal connection between narrative, still, visual imagery and psychoanalysis
Uncertainty and reality: inorganic bodies
• Visual entertainment always played with this
The mind doubts the reality of what it sees with its own eyes and then brings its forces of rationality into play only for the illusion to return more powerfully.
• An otherwise confident and competent relation to the world is suddenly faced by a sense of uncertainty.
• Effect is strong is images conjure up the profound uncertainties that preoccupy the human mind,
o E.g. The passage between life and death
Organic body has become inanimate
Inorganic body takes on the appearance of animation
• Human fascination
The uncanny – Freud
• Only that class of frightening that leads back to the old and familiar can be of interest to psychoanalysis
o For an emotional effect to have a relation to the unconscious mind, it must have undergone a process of repression from which it may return.
Something which is familiar and old established in the mind
Formative structure for the unconscious
In the semi-darkness, it is often especially difficult to distinguish a life-size wax figure from a human person, whether animate or not
Don’t see, photographic realism (Lumiere), See, conjuring magic and special effects (Melies)
Figures of ordinary people moving about in everyday life are figures of the dead.
• Inanimate images of the filmstrip not only animated by the mechanism of cinema in projection,
o Ghostly images of bodies resurrected into the appearance of life.
o It is impossible to look at them as a result of a simple demonstration of a machine (every gesture, expression, movement of wind or water are mysterious)
o Life is FOSSILISED
o History of cinema
We see the dead alive on screen
Mechanism that started out creating an illusion of movement {woman walking down stairs} changes into a means of creating an illusion of the living dead
Cinema transforms organic movement into its inorganic replica, a series of static, inanimate images, which once projected, then become animated to blur the distinctions between the oppositions.
Blurring of boundaries between the Organic and the Inorganic
• Difficulty of understanding time and the presence of death in life.
Tony Oursler – You/Me/Them,1996
Features (Skins), 2002
The German word for attraction is “die Anziehung”
• Signifies either an attribute or an action
• Designate the charm which a person or thing has for others
• Or signifies a pulling on the part of that person or thing of other people or things towards it.
Freud uses die Anziehung in both senses in his book – Interpretation of Dreams
• The dream thoughts, which are primarily verbal in form, find the predominantly imagistic qualities of the unconscious memories fascinating.
o The unconscious memories flaunt these qualities
In hope of drawing the dream thoughts in their direction
• First of these interpretations makes evident, how central the visual is to our psychic existence
• Second interpretation imputes to the unconscious memories a kind of agency.
• Memories seem to be the site of a certain desire
o Of a desire for what might be called ‘affiliation’
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Major # 11
Dumb Type (Multimedia performance company) Kyoto
Ikeda Ryoji - sound artist
Takao Kawaguchi - dancer, choreographer, performer, translator, cultural activist, theatre
http://www.kawaguchitakao.com
D.D.D @ Superdeluxe March 2004 Tokyo
raw space, low ceiling underground space
appropriating pro-wrestling
D.D.D is a physical and audio and visual performances that talks about heart muscles and number of heartbeats left before it stops. maleness, sexuality, vital energy, exhaustion, physical limits of the body, narcissism
7 rounds boxing match, wrestler storms in, Fuyuki Yamakawa: Khoomei Mongolian throat singing, heart beating
heartbeat sound picked by electric stethoscope amplified, connected to light bulbs which flicker
Pseudo-science + humour
Medical camera used at hospitals, inserted into body through the mouth
Ka Fai is influenced by Dumb Type
Ikeda Ryoji - sound artist
Takao Kawaguchi - dancer, choreographer, performer, translator, cultural activist, theatre
http://www.kawaguchitakao.com
D.D.D @ Superdeluxe March 2004 Tokyo
raw space, low ceiling underground space
appropriating pro-wrestling
D.D.D is a physical and audio and visual performances that talks about heart muscles and number of heartbeats left before it stops. maleness, sexuality, vital energy, exhaustion, physical limits of the body, narcissism
7 rounds boxing match, wrestler storms in, Fuyuki Yamakawa: Khoomei Mongolian throat singing, heart beating
heartbeat sound picked by electric stethoscope amplified, connected to light bulbs which flicker
Pseudo-science + humour
Medical camera used at hospitals, inserted into body through the mouth
Ka Fai is influenced by Dumb Type
Monday, October 6, 2008
Major #10
Emerald - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
singapore biennale '08, old hotel, still shot, computer generated feathers, voiceover, green light, element of magic, quietness, humanistic, unpolitical, mysterious - orientalism, non-western conventions
Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1st half - lovers innocence, smiles, unconventional 2nd half - dark and bizarre, jungle at night, poetic, theme of love, personal, open ending, obsession, pursue, memory
Apichatpong's website
http://www.kickthemachine.com
False leading at start of film, Aerobics and stage singing > Camp (technique) - Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. When the term first appeared in 1909, it was used to refer to ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, effeminate or homosexual behaviour. By the mid-1970s, the term was defined as "banality, artifice, mediocrity, or ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal."
singapore biennale '08, old hotel, still shot, computer generated feathers, voiceover, green light, element of magic, quietness, humanistic, unpolitical, mysterious - orientalism, non-western conventions
Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1st half - lovers innocence, smiles, unconventional 2nd half - dark and bizarre, jungle at night, poetic, theme of love, personal, open ending, obsession, pursue, memory
Apichatpong's website
http://www.kickthemachine.com
False leading at start of film, Aerobics and stage singing > Camp (technique) - Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. When the term first appeared in 1909, it was used to refer to ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, effeminate or homosexual behaviour. By the mid-1970s, the term was defined as "banality, artifice, mediocrity, or ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal."
Monday, September 29, 2008
Major # 9
RESEARCH ON GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI 1910s Germany,
German Expressionism
- aesthetics
- mise-en-scene
- sets
- jagged lines, huge diagonals
- subjective mind/fantasy/emotional
- similar to French Surrealism
- theatre, painting, cinema
- stylised v.s. naturalistic
Recurrent motif in arts:
man and his monster
29 OCT WED makeupclass, no class 27 OCT
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES 1969 Sergei Paradjanov
THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI 1910s Germany,
German Expressionism
- aesthetics
- mise-en-scene
- sets
- jagged lines, huge diagonals
- subjective mind/fantasy/emotional
- similar to French Surrealism
- theatre, painting, cinema
- stylised v.s. naturalistic
Recurrent motif in arts:
man and his monster
29 OCT WED makeupclass, no class 27 OCT
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES 1969 Sergei Paradjanov
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Perception
Perception
• Attaining awareness of sensory information
Video -> Input (senses) -> Processing (brain)-> Output (re-action)
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Amodal perception
Color perception
Depth perception
Visual perception
Form perception
Haptic perception
Speech perception
Perception as interpretation
Numeric value of perception
Pitch perception
Harmonic perception
Rhythmic perception
Senses
Sight:
• Blindness
• Vision
• Light (brightness) perception
• Color perception
Hearing:
• Sound perception
• Audition
• Deafness
Taste
• Ageusia
• Gustation
• Sweet
• Sour
• Bitter
• Salt
• Umami – amino acid glutamate – monosodium glutamate
• Flavor
Smell
• Odor
• Olfaction
• Anosmia
Touch
• Anesthesia
• Tactition
• Paresthesia – tingling, pricking, numbness, short-term
Balance and acceleration
• Equilibrioception
• Body movement
• Speed
• Direction
• Acceleration
• Equilibrium
Temperature
• Thermoception
• Heat
• Absence of heat (cold)
Pain
• Nociception
• Physical pain
Sense of time
• Attaining awareness of sensory information
Video -> Input (senses) -> Processing (brain)-> Output (re-action)
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Amodal perception
Color perception
Depth perception
Visual perception
Form perception
Haptic perception
Speech perception
Perception as interpretation
Numeric value of perception
Pitch perception
Harmonic perception
Rhythmic perception
Senses
Sight:
• Blindness
• Vision
• Light (brightness) perception
• Color perception
Hearing:
• Sound perception
• Audition
• Deafness
Taste
• Ageusia
• Gustation
• Sweet
• Sour
• Bitter
• Salt
• Umami – amino acid glutamate – monosodium glutamate
• Flavor
Smell
• Odor
• Olfaction
• Anosmia
Touch
• Anesthesia
• Tactition
• Paresthesia – tingling, pricking, numbness, short-term
Balance and acceleration
• Equilibrioception
• Body movement
• Speed
• Direction
• Acceleration
• Equilibrium
Temperature
• Thermoception
• Heat
• Absence of heat (cold)
Pain
• Nociception
• Physical pain
Sense of time
Monday, September 22, 2008
Major #8
Works by Kentaro Taki
Website documentation, blogs
Proposal/blog need to be more analytical
Biennale - This Wednesday, bring journal outside supreme court
8Q @ 8 October 2pm SAM
Monday 27 October Deepavali, makeup class 29 October
Week 9 - Michael Rush article + Gary Hill presentation
Run Lola Run
The Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky
Auteur Theory:
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman
Weekend 1967 Jean Luc Godard
Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa
Kenneth Anger - Scorpio Risin
Website documentation, blogs
Proposal/blog need to be more analytical
Biennale - This Wednesday, bring journal outside supreme court
8Q @ 8 October 2pm SAM
Monday 27 October Deepavali, makeup class 29 October
Week 9 - Michael Rush article + Gary Hill presentation
Run Lola Run
The Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky
Auteur Theory:
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman
Weekend 1967 Jean Luc Godard
Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa
Kenneth Anger - Scorpio Risin
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Creative Writing #7 + Grandma's Birthday! + South Beach Development
September 18, Thursday
Today is my grandma's birthday!
Here she is, I made a video of her - 家 (Jia) March 2008 when I was still in Year 1. These are some frames from the video. I really want to work on this video further and I will! The second picture is an image of her as a baby. She's the best. Sun yat fai lok (Happy birthday in Cantonese)!
Ok today I was late for Creative Writing, and I didn't manage to copy any notes! It's also the workcheck and I rushed with all her work yes I did.
After Creative Writing class I walked over to 8Q beside Singapore Art Museum to check out the exhibition there and then to South Beach Development for the Singapore Biennale. Long day, tired.
Today is my grandma's birthday!
Here she is, I made a video of her - 家 (Jia) March 2008 when I was still in Year 1. These are some frames from the video. I really want to work on this video further and I will! The second picture is an image of her as a baby. She's the best. Sun yat fai lok (Happy birthday in Cantonese)!
Ok today I was late for Creative Writing, and I didn't manage to copy any notes! It's also the workcheck and I rushed with all her work yes I did.
After Creative Writing class I walked over to 8Q beside Singapore Art Museum to check out the exhibition there and then to South Beach Development for the Singapore Biennale. Long day, tired.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Trip to Singapore Biennale City Hall
September 17, Wednesday
Went to City Hall for Singapore Biennale with Kai and Video Art and Music Tech people. And I just arrived after Kai bought the tickets (like 7 minutes late) so I had to purchase my own!
The illusory installation I'm Not Expensive by Lee Yong Deok made me 'wonder'. I was just walking pass a wall with an image on it and then it came as a surprise that the image was moving as I moved. So it made me and some others walk back and forth until we grew tired of it.
Some were 'wonder'ful, some were just... not that good.
Went to City Hall for Singapore Biennale with Kai and Video Art and Music Tech people. And I just arrived after Kai bought the tickets (like 7 minutes late) so I had to purchase my own!
The illusory installation I'm Not Expensive by Lee Yong Deok made me 'wonder'. I was just walking pass a wall with an image on it and then it came as a surprise that the image was moving as I moved. So it made me and some others walk back and forth until we grew tired of it.
Some were 'wonder'ful, some were just... not that good.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Lecture #7, Web Tech #7
Cat, Moon, FenceCognitive Dissonance
As the feeling of uncomfortable function from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.
Emotion + System of Beliefs -> a change = Justification (measure of dissonance)
- Importance of subject to us
- How strongly the dissonant thought conflict
- Our inability to rationalise and explain away the conflict
Cognitive Dissonance results in
1) Change in behavior
2) Justify our behavior by changing
3) Justify our behavior by adding new cognitions
If an action has been completed and cannot be undone, then the after-the-fact dissonance compels us to change beliefs.
Theory of Emotion - James Lange
Event-> Arousal -> Interpretation = Emotion (which then starts another event)
Emotion attenuate cognitive processing
Is emotion caused by cognitive response?
Web Tech
Watched Andreas script a website with HTML and CSS for the entire class.
September 16, Tuesday
I was the first to get my name on the list for the choice of our Media Integration workshops and I managed to get into Sound! YAY!
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Creative Writing #6
Things to submit at Work Check (CR) on 18 September
1. I Heard a Rumour
2. Book Response
3. This is Not a Love Song
4. Titanic Lifeboat
5. Lost in Translation 1
6. Lost in Translation 2
7. Choose Your Adventure
8. Cut After Reading
9. Alternate Universe Fan Fiction
Please check Word Limit, Compile all assignments together in running order, Feedback of assignments + Rectify them + Evaluation Notes (Critical Analysis & Self-reflective Remarks) Only Hard Copy, Times New Roman Font 12, 1.5 Spacing, Clear Plastic Folder, No Late Submissions
Types of Dishonesty
1. Fabrication
2. Deception
3. Sabotage
4. Cheating
Proper citation requires quotation marks; source must be identified, full bibliographic citation. No citation marks are needed when paraphrased.
Why People Cheat
1. Ease
2. Ignorance
3. Lack of Confidence
4. Save Time
5. Language Barrier
6. Competition
7. Getting Even
8. Time Management
9. Peer Pressure
10. Weak Sense of Community
11. Neutralisation
September 11, Friday
Went to have a talk with Kai Syng after creative writing class, found it difficult to say what I wanted to say. But I received a lot of good advice anyway and also forgot to say thanks.
Thanks
1. I Heard a Rumour
2. Book Response
3. This is Not a Love Song
4. Titanic Lifeboat
5. Lost in Translation 1
6. Lost in Translation 2
7. Choose Your Adventure
8. Cut After Reading
9. Alternate Universe Fan Fiction
Please check Word Limit, Compile all assignments together in running order, Feedback of assignments + Rectify them + Evaluation Notes (Critical Analysis & Self-reflective Remarks) Only Hard Copy, Times New Roman Font 12, 1.5 Spacing, Clear Plastic Folder, No Late Submissions
Types of Dishonesty
1. Fabrication
2. Deception
3. Sabotage
4. Cheating
Proper citation requires quotation marks; source must be identified, full bibliographic citation. No citation marks are needed when paraphrased.
Why People Cheat
1. Ease
2. Ignorance
3. Lack of Confidence
4. Save Time
5. Language Barrier
6. Competition
7. Getting Even
8. Time Management
9. Peer Pressure
10. Weak Sense of Community
11. Neutralisation
September 11, Friday
Went to have a talk with Kai Syng after creative writing class, found it difficult to say what I wanted to say. But I received a lot of good advice anyway and also forgot to say thanks.
Thanks
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Lecture + Tutorial #6
Photographic Ecstasy
Tame - Realism is relative, tempered by aesthetic or empirical habits
Mad - Realism in absolute
Persistence of vision puts into motion still images
Meaning + Memory -> Stream of Consciousness -> Production of Meaning
Production of Ceaning
1) Semiotics
2) Film Form
3) Cultural Plurality
4) Montage Theory
5) Form and Meaning
Dies Irae - Jean Gabriel Periot
- Event Horizon
- Audience not passive -> Becomes event
- Destination based
3 Steps to deconstructing video
1) Dumb Writing
2) Problematise
3) Provide Evidence
Stereoscopy
- What do they signify as one, as a whole, or as all?
Criteria for film form: Work must be finished
Sound = Add meaning
Tame - Realism is relative, tempered by aesthetic or empirical habits
Mad - Realism in absolute
Persistence of vision puts into motion still images
Meaning + Memory -> Stream of Consciousness -> Production of Meaning
Production of Ceaning
1) Semiotics
2) Film Form
3) Cultural Plurality
4) Montage Theory
5) Form and Meaning
Dies Irae - Jean Gabriel Periot
- Event Horizon
- Audience not passive -> Becomes event
- Destination based
3 Steps to deconstructing video
1) Dumb Writing
2) Problematise
3) Provide Evidence
Stereoscopy
- What do they signify as one, as a whole, or as all?
Criteria for film form: Work must be finished
Sound = Add meaning
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Lecture #4
Semiotics & Mythology
Signs - Signifier - Signified
A direct and holistic relationship between signs, signifier and the signified. Rejects the characteristics that are important in a particular context (e.g. colour of pebbles, feel of pebbles) and linking others. All leading to the process of interpreting.
Semiology
Signs + Signifier + Signified = Context + Codes + Interpretation = Meaning
- A sign starts a regular activity, an inference, as it refers to its suitability to its context.
- Signs work because it is repeatable and/or it was done before - implying that it was learned.
Signs - Signifier - Signified
A direct and holistic relationship between signs, signifier and the signified. Rejects the characteristics that are important in a particular context (e.g. colour of pebbles, feel of pebbles) and linking others. All leading to the process of interpreting.
Semiology
Signs + Signifier + Signified = Context + Codes + Interpretation = Meaning
- A sign starts a regular activity, an inference, as it refers to its suitability to its context.
- Signs work because it is repeatable and/or it was done before - implying that it was learned.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Lecture #3, Web Tech #3, Talk - Han Yo Han
Stream of Consciousness
Today I was interviewed for a mental test, where there is a certain meaning for each question that I answer. The questions are:
"You are in a forest, describe this forest?",
"Start walking until you see a path, describe this path.",
"Walk along this path and you suddenly find a key, pick up the key and describe this.",
"Hold on to the key and walk on, you come across a pond. Come close to the pond, what do you do?",
"Now leave the pond and walk on the path again until you see a house, use the key and unlock the door. What do you see in the house?",
"Exit the house and keep walking. You see a road, what do you see?",
"Look beyond the road, what do you see?",
"Turn around and behind you, what do you see?"
The meaning are, as followed:
The forest describes your current condition, path describes your future, key describes how you solve problems, pond describes your desires, house describes your safety zone, road describes your distractions, beyond the road describes your goals, turn around look behind describes your reflection on the past.
Awareness
• Recognition -> Traits
• Projection (of subconscious)-> Behavior of compensation
• Introspective
Co-Consciousness
• The relation of experiences when they are experienced together
• Barry Dainton
• 1st consciousness + 2nd + 3rd + .... = Stream of Consciousness
• Being deductive
• Phenomenology
• Global Cultural Supermarket
o Consumerism
o Over saturation leads to people saying: I have to go away, I have to find myself
• Multiculturalism
• Identity
o What is Identity?
o Who are you? Not what are you?
• Dreams reflecting the ugly self
• Cognitive Dissonance
o Conflict of agreeable thoughts
• Not only what you are but what you're not.
Web Tech #3
News, Gossip, Poem, Art
Exercise 1: Choose one of the above categories, find an article online and choose one text paragraph. Divide the paragraph into 8 parts. Each part will then be represented by 1 web page. Link all the web pages together so that the 1st page links to the 2nd, the 2nd links to the 3rd, etc. From page 8 links back to page 1. Links should not open in a new window.
Exercise 2: Make the web pages link to each other in a non-linear way.
August 19, Tuesday
Attended a short talk by Korean media artist Han Yo Han at F201. The works (videos) that he shown us embodies little aspects of Korean culture, like how almost all his works shown includes blood, knives or violence. I feel that this artist is good at not only video but also motion graphics, an animation technique which is form of video too.
I'm surprised to hear that (if I haven't listened wrongly) video art is not so popular in Korea? As the founding father of video art is of Korean descendant! Or does Han Yo Han mean that it is not so appreciated by the mainstream audience instead of the art audience. Because I think everywhere in the world, the masses welcome the visually or audibly generic pleasure and most of the experimental works are unappreciated.
Today I was interviewed for a mental test, where there is a certain meaning for each question that I answer. The questions are:
"You are in a forest, describe this forest?",
"Start walking until you see a path, describe this path.",
"Walk along this path and you suddenly find a key, pick up the key and describe this.",
"Hold on to the key and walk on, you come across a pond. Come close to the pond, what do you do?",
"Now leave the pond and walk on the path again until you see a house, use the key and unlock the door. What do you see in the house?",
"Exit the house and keep walking. You see a road, what do you see?",
"Look beyond the road, what do you see?",
"Turn around and behind you, what do you see?"
The meaning are, as followed:
The forest describes your current condition, path describes your future, key describes how you solve problems, pond describes your desires, house describes your safety zone, road describes your distractions, beyond the road describes your goals, turn around look behind describes your reflection on the past.
Awareness
• Recognition -> Traits
• Projection (of subconscious)-> Behavior of compensation
• Introspective
Co-Consciousness
• The relation of experiences when they are experienced together
• Barry Dainton
• 1st consciousness + 2nd + 3rd + .... = Stream of Consciousness
• Being deductive
• Phenomenology
• Global Cultural Supermarket
o Consumerism
o Over saturation leads to people saying: I have to go away, I have to find myself
• Multiculturalism
• Identity
o What is Identity?
o Who are you? Not what are you?
• Dreams reflecting the ugly self
• Cognitive Dissonance
o Conflict of agreeable thoughts
• Not only what you are but what you're not.
Web Tech #3
News, Gossip, Poem, Art
Exercise 1: Choose one of the above categories, find an article online and choose one text paragraph. Divide the paragraph into 8 parts. Each part will then be represented by 1 web page. Link all the web pages together so that the 1st page links to the 2nd, the 2nd links to the 3rd, etc. From page 8 links back to page 1. Links should not open in a new window.
Exercise 2: Make the web pages link to each other in a non-linear way.
August 19, Tuesday
Attended a short talk by Korean media artist Han Yo Han at F201. The works (videos) that he shown us embodies little aspects of Korean culture, like how almost all his works shown includes blood, knives or violence. I feel that this artist is good at not only video but also motion graphics, an animation technique which is form of video too.
I'm surprised to hear that (if I haven't listened wrongly) video art is not so popular in Korea? As the founding father of video art is of Korean descendant! Or does Han Yo Han mean that it is not so appreciated by the mainstream audience instead of the art audience. Because I think everywhere in the world, the masses welcome the visually or audibly generic pleasure and most of the experimental works are unappreciated.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Major + Critique #2
Zombie Dogs Chew Tze-chuan (2004)
• Based on Toh Hai Leong
• Strong Language
• Controversial contents
• Juxtapositions
o Gore music
• Angst (anger)
o Butcher house
• Raw meat
o Supermarket
o Restaurant
• Sells human flesh
o Instant noodles
• Necessity
• Basic/primitive
o People, crowds, malls
o Cartoon images
• Cheap way of storytelling
• Film inside a film
o Self reflexive
• Like a mirror
Charles Sandison
• Plays with words/text
• Ars 2006 - Kiasma Museum Helsinki, Finland
• Interactive
• Philosophical words
o Crowd around you
• Processing, MAX/MSP
Works from the Singapore Biennale 2006
Mariko Mori
• Sound can define, establish the space
• Glowing object in dark room
Myth of the Sisyphus - Tomas Ochoa 2006
• 2 channel video installation
• 2 different points of views
o juxtaposition
• misinformed comments
• deliberate
• argument
Appropriation
• Borrowing an idea
Brian Gothong Tan
• Built a runway for the audience to walk on
o Audience becomes models
• Cut-up Merlion
Sleepwalkers Doug Aitken
• work projected in NY Times Square
• High Ansi-Lumens (bulb strength) Projector
o expensive
o Bright places dilute light – work is only shown at night
• Frosted glass works better projected
• The whole space is the installation
• Doug’s way of humanizing the city
Maya Deren 1946 Classical Surrealist Techniques
• Non-linear
• Freeze frame
o In comparison with statues
• Slow Motion
• Negative images (x-ray)
• Repeated sequences
o Déjà-vu
• One character Two actors
• Stylised, unnatural movement
More about Surrealism
• Disdain for traditional aesthetics
• Influenced by theories of psychoanalysis
• Representation of unconscious mind dream logic
• French Surrealists + German Expressionists
• View from distorted lenses
• Use of superimposition
o When the heroine of Menilmontant stands on a bridge, contemplating suicide, the superimposition of the river over her face.
• Out of focus
o In Le Brasier ardent, the image gets out of focus to suggest the heroine’s mental abstraction
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany,1919)
o German expressionism
o Emphasis on visual design
o “landscapes imbued with soul”
o eliminate nature form state of absolute abstraction
o leaning/angular
o mental disturbance
• Based on Toh Hai Leong
• Strong Language
• Controversial contents
• Juxtapositions
o Gore music
• Angst (anger)
o Butcher house
• Raw meat
o Supermarket
o Restaurant
• Sells human flesh
o Instant noodles
• Necessity
• Basic/primitive
o People, crowds, malls
o Cartoon images
• Cheap way of storytelling
• Film inside a film
o Self reflexive
• Like a mirror
Charles Sandison
• Plays with words/text
• Ars 2006 - Kiasma Museum Helsinki, Finland
• Interactive
• Philosophical words
o Crowd around you
• Processing, MAX/MSP
Works from the Singapore Biennale 2006
Mariko Mori
• Sound can define, establish the space
• Glowing object in dark room
Myth of the Sisyphus - Tomas Ochoa 2006
• 2 channel video installation
• 2 different points of views
o juxtaposition
• misinformed comments
• deliberate
• argument
Appropriation
• Borrowing an idea
Brian Gothong Tan
• Built a runway for the audience to walk on
o Audience becomes models
• Cut-up Merlion
Sleepwalkers Doug Aitken
• work projected in NY Times Square
• High Ansi-Lumens (bulb strength) Projector
o expensive
o Bright places dilute light – work is only shown at night
• Frosted glass works better projected
• The whole space is the installation
• Doug’s way of humanizing the city
Maya Deren 1946 Classical Surrealist Techniques
• Non-linear
• Freeze frame
o In comparison with statues
• Slow Motion
• Negative images (x-ray)
• Repeated sequences
o Déjà-vu
• One character Two actors
• Stylised, unnatural movement
More about Surrealism
• Disdain for traditional aesthetics
• Influenced by theories of psychoanalysis
• Representation of unconscious mind dream logic
• French Surrealists + German Expressionists
• View from distorted lenses
• Use of superimposition
o When the heroine of Menilmontant stands on a bridge, contemplating suicide, the superimposition of the river over her face.
• Out of focus
o In Le Brasier ardent, the image gets out of focus to suggest the heroine’s mental abstraction
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany,1919)
o German expressionism
o Emphasis on visual design
o “landscapes imbued with soul”
o eliminate nature form state of absolute abstraction
o leaning/angular
o mental disturbance
Saturday, August 16, 2008
After Effects #1
10am-1pm After Effects tutorial with James
Exercise:
Create a 5 second VERSION1 montage using ONLY the parameters found in Inspector for the National Geographic video.
Project settings: NTSC DV
• Using only media found in Users> Shared> Motion
• Preview of this next week on 23 Aug (SAT)
Objectives:
1. Understand layers
2. Experiment with Transform, Drop Shadows, Four Corners, Crop, Timing (especially on the Timeline)
Keyboard Shortcuts
• Mark In: I
• Mark Out: O
Play Range is the range between the Range In- Range Out for Playback
• Mark Play Range In: OPT+ CMD+ I
• Mark Play Range Out : OPT + CMD + O
August 16, Saturday
After school and after lunch, I went to research about Installation and 'Site-Specific' Art at the National Library. Got massive notes but should I post them here?
Exercise:
Create a 5 second VERSION1 montage using ONLY the parameters found in Inspector for the National Geographic video.
Project settings: NTSC DV
• Using only media found in Users> Shared> Motion
• Preview of this next week on 23 Aug (SAT)
Objectives:
1. Understand layers
2. Experiment with Transform, Drop Shadows, Four Corners, Crop, Timing (especially on the Timeline)
Keyboard Shortcuts
• Mark In: I
• Mark Out: O
Play Range is the range between the Range In- Range Out for Playback
• Mark Play Range In: OPT+ CMD+ I
• Mark Play Range Out : OPT + CMD + O
August 16, Saturday
After school and after lunch, I went to research about Installation and 'Site-Specific' Art at the National Library. Got massive notes but should I post them here?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Creative Writing #2
Stream of Consciousness
• Technique that records multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence.
• Unbroken flow of thought and awareness of the waking mind
• Associative or sometimes dissociative leaps in syntax & punctuation that make prose difficult to follow, tracing fragmentary thoughts & sensory feelings.
• Thought processes are depicted as overheard in the mind (or addressed to oneself)
• Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
• Molly Bloom – Ulysses
Confessional Poetry
• “The Murderous Art”
o Many practicioners committed suicide: Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, etc.
o Depression, Death, Trauma
• Not openly discussed in American poetry
• Self revelation (getting to know oneself)
• Goes beyond customary bounds of reticence or personal embarrassment
o Difference between tradition and confessional
• QN: Does pain produce better artists?
• Writing as form of therapy
• Outlet for their demons
• Anne Sexton – Wanting to Die
• Schizophernia
• Writing and re-reading the work changes the cognitive processes with which one’s brain processes this information, offers perspective
Beat Generation
• “beatnik”
• non-conformity
• spontaneous creativity
• influence by spirituality: Zen Buddhism, etc.
• Artists/Writers: Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg,Jack Kerouae, Alan Ansen, William Burraugh, Gregory Corso
• Open form poetry against format poetry
• Questioning of traditional values
• Improvised spontaneity: Bop, Jazz: Charlie Parker, Dadaism, Surrealism
• Open emotion against modernist’s objectivity
• Challenge the limits of free expression
• Recreational drug use
Assignment 1: Self introduction with mug shot - 150-200 words
Assignment 2: Titanic Lifeboat (2nd lecture)
Choose one of these scenarios:
To Do: Buy mini-DV tapes, Proposal (due Monday), Upload photos to Flickr, Brew tea, Circle of fifths practice.
• Technique that records multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence.
• Unbroken flow of thought and awareness of the waking mind
• Associative or sometimes dissociative leaps in syntax & punctuation that make prose difficult to follow, tracing fragmentary thoughts & sensory feelings.
• Thought processes are depicted as overheard in the mind (or addressed to oneself)
• Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
• Molly Bloom – Ulysses
Confessional Poetry
• “The Murderous Art”
o Many practicioners committed suicide: Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, etc.
o Depression, Death, Trauma
• Not openly discussed in American poetry
• Self revelation (getting to know oneself)
• Goes beyond customary bounds of reticence or personal embarrassment
o Difference between tradition and confessional
• QN: Does pain produce better artists?
• Writing as form of therapy
• Outlet for their demons
• Anne Sexton – Wanting to Die
• Schizophernia
• Writing and re-reading the work changes the cognitive processes with which one’s brain processes this information, offers perspective
Beat Generation
• “beatnik”
• non-conformity
• spontaneous creativity
• influence by spirituality: Zen Buddhism, etc.
• Artists/Writers: Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg,Jack Kerouae, Alan Ansen, William Burraugh, Gregory Corso
• Open form poetry against format poetry
• Questioning of traditional values
• Improvised spontaneity: Bop, Jazz: Charlie Parker, Dadaism, Surrealism
• Open emotion against modernist’s objectivity
• Challenge the limits of free expression
• Recreational drug use
Assignment 1: Self introduction with mug shot - 150-200 words
Assignment 2: Titanic Lifeboat (2nd lecture)
Choose one of these scenarios:
- You are stuck with a doctor, a teacher, a politician, a mother and a farmer. Argue for why you, an artist, should be saved instead of them.
- You are stuck in 3rd class with all other artists. Make a case for why you, as a video artist, should be saved over other artists.
To Do: Buy mini-DV tapes, Proposal (due Monday), Upload photos to Flickr, Brew tea, Circle of fifths practice.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Major + Critique #2
August 13, Wednesday
Installation art
• Art made for specific space, exploiting certain qualities of that space, more often indoors than out. The term became widely used in the 1970s and 1980s largely replacing the term site-specific which means the same thing. Installations may be temporary or permanent but most will be known to posterity through documentation. As a consequence, one aspect of installations is often the difficulty with which they can be commodified (commodity). Artists especially identified with installations are Walter De Maria (American, 1938-), Nancy Holt (American,1938-) and Mary Miss (American,1944-)
Example of installation diagram
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Installation Artist)
Check out:
• Conceptual Art: Joseph Kosuth – One and the 3 chairs
• Neo-Dada: Yves Klein
• Lars von triers - Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Satirical sculptures: Maurizio Cattelan
Today was make-up class for Monday, which was LASALLE's Founders Day. Class started at 2pm all the way 'till 9.30pm at night, but even Kai was tired so we ended 30 minutes earlier which was quite a surprise.
Had a new lecturer - Kal, British guy for our critique. And we pitched all our ideas to the class, which they gave comments on which certainly helped a lot in the development of my idea.
My proposal's due the coming Monday, gotta start doing it now. Good luck, all.
Installation art
• Art made for specific space, exploiting certain qualities of that space, more often indoors than out. The term became widely used in the 1970s and 1980s largely replacing the term site-specific which means the same thing. Installations may be temporary or permanent but most will be known to posterity through documentation. As a consequence, one aspect of installations is often the difficulty with which they can be commodified (commodity). Artists especially identified with installations are Walter De Maria (American, 1938-), Nancy Holt (American,1938-) and Mary Miss (American,1944-)
Example of installation diagram
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Installation Artist)
•Works reflect his experience with AIDS and loss of his lover
•A pile of foil packaged candy which the audience can take, and eventually diminishes, symbolizes how art is temporary and is also a metaphor for the process of dying.
Check out:
• Conceptual Art: Joseph Kosuth – One and the 3 chairs
• Neo-Dada: Yves Klein
• Lars von triers - Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Satirical sculptures: Maurizio Cattelan
Today was make-up class for Monday, which was LASALLE's Founders Day. Class started at 2pm all the way 'till 9.30pm at night, but even Kai was tired so we ended 30 minutes earlier which was quite a surprise.
Had a new lecturer - Kal, British guy for our critique. And we pitched all our ideas to the class, which they gave comments on which certainly helped a lot in the development of my idea.
My proposal's due the coming Monday, gotta start doing it now. Good luck, all.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Lecture #2, Web Tech #2
Classical Narrative
Tragedy (PLATO)
6 key factors
1. Introduction • Accomplish Feel (essence) • Context
2. Exposition • Set a scene • Introduce characters
3. Development (Process) • Situation • Allude to conflict
4. Complication • Lives of the protagonists
5. Climax • The decisive moment of high suspense
6. Resolution • Sore spot : Hanging in the air (something unresolved) • Cultural: Matters are solved • Counter-cultural: Bad ending -> People cry (Appeal to emotion)
Generic Pleasure
Folklore or Horror or Slasher films • Ghosts have long hair and wear white (SEMIOTICS) •Visual Pleasure • Creative, inventive ways to make people die • Saw • Final Destination
Chronological VS. Chrono-logical
• Chronological o Linear – A to B to C, etc. Time in relation to space, Sequential
• Chrono-Logical • Challenge the logic of time, eg. Flashback
Takahiko Iimura
•Blinking (1970)
•Time Tunnel (1971)
•Man and Woman (1977)
Gary Hill Blind Spot (2003)
• Flickering video art, Affective • irritation
• Conceptual art - Concept more important than content
PRE – Fantasy – AFTER
• When does fantasy and reality begin?
Realm • Subconscious/ Unconscious • The dreams unconscious
Fantasy
•Escapism, escaping reality
•Reminiscence – past events, revisit
•Desire, Lust, the DEVIL, Oedipus Complex
Response • Emotional • Intellectual
Abstraction
• Take the essence from different parts and put them together • A million hints = a single sensation • A single sensation = a million responses
Methods of Montage
1. Metric 2. Rhythmic 3. Tonal 4. Intellectual 5. Overtonal
Other notes:
Negativity reverse = positivity • Content delivering the concept • TEXT = what you can read (from a film, etc.) • "When the ‘want’ (desire) is fulfilled, fantasy dies" Persistence of vision • Persistence of memory • Time displacement
August 12, Thursday
Rashid's lecture = A lot of things learnt!
In web tech class, we watched a short video on TED.com, and did a short exercise where we had to gather information about various topics about Web 2.0 and thats it :/
Tragedy (PLATO)
6 key factors
1. Introduction • Accomplish Feel (essence) • Context
2. Exposition • Set a scene • Introduce characters
3. Development (Process) • Situation • Allude to conflict
4. Complication • Lives of the protagonists
5. Climax • The decisive moment of high suspense
6. Resolution • Sore spot : Hanging in the air (something unresolved) • Cultural: Matters are solved • Counter-cultural: Bad ending -> People cry (Appeal to emotion)
Generic Pleasure
Folklore or Horror or Slasher films • Ghosts have long hair and wear white (SEMIOTICS) •Visual Pleasure • Creative, inventive ways to make people die • Saw • Final Destination
Chronological VS. Chrono-logical
• Chronological o Linear – A to B to C, etc. Time in relation to space, Sequential
• Chrono-Logical • Challenge the logic of time, eg. Flashback
Takahiko Iimura
•Blinking (1970)
•Time Tunnel (1971)
•Man and Woman (1977)
Gary Hill Blind Spot (2003)
• Flickering video art, Affective • irritation
• Conceptual art - Concept more important than content
PRE – Fantasy – AFTER
• When does fantasy and reality begin?
Realm • Subconscious/ Unconscious • The dreams unconscious
Fantasy
•Escapism, escaping reality
•Reminiscence – past events, revisit
•Desire, Lust, the DEVIL, Oedipus Complex
Response • Emotional • Intellectual
Abstraction
• Take the essence from different parts and put them together • A million hints = a single sensation • A single sensation = a million responses
Methods of Montage
1. Metric 2. Rhythmic 3. Tonal 4. Intellectual 5. Overtonal
Other notes:
Negativity reverse = positivity • Content delivering the concept • TEXT = what you can read (from a film, etc.) • "When the ‘want’ (desire) is fulfilled, fantasy dies" Persistence of vision • Persistence of memory • Time displacement
August 12, Thursday
Rashid's lecture = A lot of things learnt!
In web tech class, we watched a short video on TED.com, and did a short exercise where we had to gather information about various topics about Web 2.0 and thats it :/
Mind-Mapping without the Map
Fantasy
GENRES – Horror, Sci-fi, Magic
• MOVEMENTS – Surrealism, Dada
• Fantastic elements in a orderly/coherent/consistent setting
• Draw people from the real world into the fantasy world
Key Elements of Fantasy
• Element of SURPRISE
• Unexpected JUXTAPOSITION
• NON SEQUITER - It does not follow (Latin)
o used for comical purposes (opposed to formal logic)
o lack of meaning relative to the comment it follows
o illogical, absurd – humorous/confusing
o deliberate/unintentional
o abrupt, unexpected, cliché
• imaginative INSTRUMENTAL composition
• conveying the feeling of SPONTENIETY
• NON-STRUCTURAL
• Transcends the rules of the REAL
• EXAGGERATION
• DISTORTION
• Sudden UNPREDICTABILITY
August 8, Friday (8am) - August 11, Monday (12am)
Took a trip to check out the new house in KL + Shopping = School work not yet done.
GENRES – Horror, Sci-fi, Magic
• MOVEMENTS – Surrealism, Dada
• Fantastic elements in a orderly/coherent/consistent setting
• Draw people from the real world into the fantasy world
Key Elements of Fantasy
• Element of SURPRISE
• Unexpected JUXTAPOSITION
• NON SEQUITER - It does not follow (Latin)
o used for comical purposes (opposed to formal logic)
o lack of meaning relative to the comment it follows
o illogical, absurd – humorous/confusing
o deliberate/unintentional
o abrupt, unexpected, cliché
• imaginative INSTRUMENTAL composition
• conveying the feeling of SPONTENIETY
• NON-STRUCTURAL
• Transcends the rules of the REAL
• EXAGGERATION
• DISTORTION
• Sudden UNPREDICTABILITY
August 8, Friday (8am) - August 11, Monday (12am)
Took a trip to check out the new house in KL + Shopping = School work not yet done.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Creative Writing #1
Today I felt bad because I made our exchange student from Japan eat chili padi.
August 7, Thursday
Read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
With reference to the ideas in the book, think about one thing that would greatly affect my life personally or as an artist if this thing were to be banned forever.
Write a 200-300 response.
Assignment 2: Song Genetic Engineering Exercise
Today's class was dead slow. The only interesting factor is the quirky actions from our lecturer. And the way the guys from animation art speak to her totally lack respect. Anyway I'm hoping to learn much from this class.
I'm going to KL this weekend (Friday to Monday) because there's no school on Friday, Saturday is National Day (otherwise there is After Effects class), and Monday is LASALLE's Founder's Day.
August 7, Thursday
- Creative Writing / Contextual Studies / Thesis
- Introduction on course content and assessment criteria
- 45 Question test on whether I abuse literature
- 44 No, 1 Yes: Because I don't read at all
Read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
With reference to the ideas in the book, think about one thing that would greatly affect my life personally or as an artist if this thing were to be banned forever.
Write a 200-300 response.
Assignment 2: Song Genetic Engineering Exercise
- Your lyrics gene/text pool will come from the lyrics of two songs.
- You are now expected to write a completely new song using any combination of these lyrics. You need not use ALL the words in the two songs.
- You cannot change the original order of the lyrics, BUT you can change the text break of the lyric lines.
- The final result cannot be a song with the obvious theme of love.
- Rhyme scheme of new song: can be sung to the tune of Rihanna's Umbrella.
- Songs are: Suspended From Class by Camera Obscura and I Don't Love You by My Chemical Romance. Love song and anti love song.
Today's class was dead slow. The only interesting factor is the quirky actions from our lecturer. And the way the guys from animation art speak to her totally lack respect. Anyway I'm hoping to learn much from this class.
I'm going to KL this weekend (Friday to Monday) because there's no school on Friday, Saturday is National Day (otherwise there is After Effects class), and Monday is LASALLE's Founder's Day.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Lecture #1, Web Tech #1
Art = Form + Content
The second day of school, sunny day. Had herbal chicken soup at Bugis food court. Mmmmm... School starts at 9pm and ends at 6pm! But I managed to stay awake of course, I'm always in low energy consumption mode. Today I actually feel that I'm learning something from lecture, because Noora's lecture last year was just a whole bunch of theory to me
August 5, Tuesday
The second day of school, sunny day. Had herbal chicken soup at Bugis food court. Mmmmm... School starts at 9pm and ends at 6pm! But I managed to stay awake of course, I'm always in low energy consumption mode. Today I actually feel that I'm learning something from lecture, because Noora's lecture last year was just a whole bunch of theory to me
August 5, Tuesday
- Introductory lecture for Issues in Media Arts by Rashid
- Screening of a video (forgot the title >_<)
- Examples of ways of seeing and interpreting an artwork
- Group tutorial with Rashid
- Learning how to judge an artwork
- Web Tech class with Andreas
- Created a blog for school documentation
- What? Where? Why? Who? When? What happened before? What happened after?
- Elements
- Principles of design - balance, contrast, emphasis, proportion
- Actual materials used - paint/brush, video, film, etc
- Semiotics
- The medium is the message - Marshall McLuhan
- Metaphor
- Cultural Plurality
- Consciousness
- Stream of Consciousness
- Culturalism
- Multiculturalim
Back to School!
3 months of vacation had just concluded and it's time to return to school. And every start of the school semester, I would tell myself that I'm going to work extra hard this term! and in the end I always get distracted by unnecessary stuff and people.
The theme for this term is "Fantasy", and it's the first time that we get to create a video installation within the Lasalle campus. Course outline says that we have to demonstrate rigorous aesthetic experimentation and strong conceptual, theoretical research process, which is definitely what I'm gonna work hard on.
August 4, Monday
SEPT: POCKET FILM FESTIVAL deadline
SEPT: SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2008; Visit 8Q
This is a very good website that documents art shows all over the world
Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art
http://universes-in-universe.de/english.htm
The theme for this term is "Fantasy", and it's the first time that we get to create a video installation within the Lasalle campus. Course outline says that we have to demonstrate rigorous aesthetic experimentation and strong conceptual, theoretical research process, which is definitely what I'm gonna work hard on.
August 4, Monday
- Had major class with Kai Syng in a new cubicle classroom which is poorly designed
- New exchange student from Tokyo Geidai - Utami
- Screening and analysis of Un Chien Andalou Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel (1928)
- Assignment: Presentation on Chris Cunningham
- Screening of Opera Jawa Garin Nugroho (2006)
- Screening of video installation by Kentaro Taki
- VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
- http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~takiken/
- Installation Art - Site specific, process diagrams, live, shot from space
SEPT: POCKET FILM FESTIVAL deadline
SEPT: SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2008; Visit 8Q
This is a very good website that documents art shows all over the world
Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art
http://universes-in-universe.de/english.htm
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