Education Portfolio

1.) Two pieces were contributed and can be viewed on:      a) Man With the Movie Camera      b) Man With the Movie Camera 2.) Actual piece can be viewed on: Million Master Piece   Artist Summary: --> There are many creative possibilities of "crowdsourcing" online, however choosing two unique art projects from a multitude of sites, was a difficult task. Man with the Movie Camera was an engaging and interesting concept. The website, which contains every shot in Vertov’s 1929 film, allows the participants to interpret Vertov’s shot and upload their footage to the database. A scene of railroad tracks was the first picture chosen as part of the project.  Two excellent sites, found on West Fourth Street in Reno, Nevada, were filmed and posted to the site. The One Million Master Piece also presented an intriguing and unique idea.  It allowed you to creat...

“Crowdsourcing” is an interesting way of getting many people involved in an idea or thought process. My “crowdsourcing” idea is to make a unique clothing design website, where you can design fashions for seasonal collections. The participating artist would choose from a gallery of coats, tops, shoes, and bottoms. Then the participant would choose different prints and colors for the items picked. Finally, the entire ensemble will be submitted to a collaborative collection made by a variety of people.

Interactive Website (Click Here) Artist Summary: The YouTube Video Montage , due to the wide range and selection of videos, was an interesting process. The composition represents the business and cluster of media and television.  The concept is based on flooding our minds with stimulus and determining the outcome. Varieties of videos were chosen to interpret the meaning throughout this piece, and are as follows: (1)    The technology of beautification and image altering. (2)    Charlie Sheen and how he is self-destructing in the eyes of the media. (3)    The hypnotizing spiral showing the unknowingness of media and how it alters our      thoughts. (4) (7) & (10) The images of people zoning out from television, showing how television wasn't       created to educate or enlighten you, but created to sell things and ideas. One video calls TV the drug of the nation. (5) This video expresse...

00:05 - 00:35 Music Of Your Own People Like Us Early Films - 1999-2000 http://www.ubu.com/film/plu_music.html Artist Summary:  The original video, recreated using relatively primitive techniques of scratch video, rather than Adobe Premiere editing, resulted in a particular low-fi appearance.   This is not particularly intentional, but reflective of the process. "Music of Your Own" originally existed as an audio-only piece. Since the audio was sourced from film, it later became possible to recreate the stories in visual form. This video was chosen for the audio that played with the film.   However unsure of its message, after recreation, I found it to be about life, its beauty and components of danger and instability.

Gary Hill: I Believe it is an Image Gary Hill’s video art shows interesting ideas that bring people to “think out loud”. His work portrays experimental, conceptual, technical, integrating rhythm, light, and sound producing work, which is rich with energy and movement. Much of his work seems to focus on sensory experiences, varying from the usage of strobe lights and flashes in a dark room, to the sound of vibration of sand on top of a speaker. In some of his work, he likes to use multiple cameras and angles to portray the feeling of creating that film. For example, if there was a camera on his foot, only one television will show the video from his foot. Other times he shows images flashing very quickly on and off on the screen.  For example, a flashing strobe light against a wall as he runs into it, shouting a word. His work comes across as very nonsensical, as he creates an uncomfortable feeling of vertigo, almost like a triptych video. However, I really enjoyed it alon...

     Artist Summary: Re-purpose this site conveyed the fashion world’s self-image controversy of looking healthy and beautiful. Fashion magazines feature models that look unhealthy and skinny “selling” the subliminal message to either buy products or treatments to look as they do. All images chosen for this piece were for their appearance of unhealthiness, and not the beauty that is found in the real world today. The composition expressed reality and the false perception of beauty.

Artist Summary: This animation was made to show off the stronger piece in one of the three montages submitted. Some of the animations made were: The man suspended off the "daggers for eyes", located in the center of the animation.   This gives the impression that the woman has “looks that kill”. Along with him hanging there, her eye color changes to invoke passion, furry and intensity. Other animations in this image are the thumbprint on the hand (bottom left), which is the pale girl moving in an upward motion, giving the illusion of her kissing the nude lady posing in front (bottom right). The last two animations added to my work are the diamond eyes on the tattooed woman (entire right side of montage) and the umbrella girl with the enlarging bottom (right corner). This project was an interesting art piece. Animation in Photoshop was a rarely used feature by this artist; however, it showed new learning capabilities and brought this montage to life.

Digital Currents:    Chapter 1: "Introduction" Question 1: Regarding the image in Figure I.3, did the situation described for that image remind you of Frankenstein, where the evil scientist unveils his creation, and states, “it’s alive!”  Question 2: Due to its unclear content, what was the point Paul Valery was trying to make in the first paragraph? Chapter 3: “Electronic Era & Postmodernism”  Question 1: What would Digital Currents write about the Internet and new technology today? Question 2: Feminist artists and their political and religious views played a strong role in their art. Do you think their art would give off as much of an impression without their motivation to be viewed as equal artists? Why or why not? Chapter 4: “Video as time, space, motion” Question 1:  Are all films and videos i.e. movies, documentaries, and/or cartoons considered video art? If not, what is the difference between them? How can the distinction be made? Q...

  Artist Summary: This piece was composed of one scanned image of my hand and a photocopy of Teen Vogue on a page about Emma Watson. The rest of the images were selected based on their intriguing qualities.   It involved many different forms of digital art such as fashion, love, beauty, and emotion, as well as and creative interest in tattoos and surreal art. All three compositions were designed differently but show the same overall image intensity per each montage. Showing collective images will catch your attention and attract your eyes along the way.