Miles The dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar99AfOJ2o8

NOTES: Body Issues in Performance Art: Between Theory and Praxis

• related to a particular context
• only meanings give action a sense, without it the image or the action becomes nothing, "an empty joke"
• performer and spectator are interdependent or each other
• human being exists for three interactions:
• 1. the biological sphere
• 2. the social-ecological 
• 3. the inter-psychic
• action= urge
• body-body, mind-body, psyche-body
• these three subtypes are activated when the performer is in action
•  scales go further then material into inter-connective messages and impulses= more pure way to communicate
• an art action interferes with the limits of human abilities= meaning human ability may hold action back?
• todays work preformes much more with the need for instruments and a new way of thinking about there work, possibly to go beyond the images they are construing, going beyond the boundaries of action and human body, pushing for thought
• art performance connected to technology connected to globalization = communication
• Truth= a delicate encounter connected much more to the atmosphere and the environment  then to the presence (gathering of occasions and situations)
• Body?
• "what i want to do and what someone wants of/ about me"

• own body
• can performance art work without the body?
• aesthetic control and a manipulation of space that can drive both the performer and the participant
• new technologies and medicine= translates to mutation
• action art = a study of the capacity of the human body and its capabilities 
• "art manifests the invisible in the visible"
• ethics:
• values
• outcomes
• capabilities
• spirit/psyche
• action/representation
• reaction to ego, to work on inner self? (super ego or id?)
• performer is an artist and a poet of action
•  as a performer you must "do"
• humans are not machines but must be translate through body image
• technology incorporates  more and different versions of metaphor
• Aristotle: two different forms
• direct action
• moral action

• perfomance artists must have style
• style belongs to the individual and to the entire society

Video Art Notes: pgs. 6-20

"Video is a means of preservation that retains the recorded material in a state of permanent availability and manipulability."

• video dissociates itself in a further technical step= showing reality
• images increase in today's culture time millions
• video= dialogical memory -Vilem Flusser
• inter medium
• 1960s
• art transforming in many mediums
• visual art was forming (ex: Paik's "Exposition of Music- Electronic Television")
• television as an artists instrument
•  Fish Tank first reality tv?
• video is cinema that can appear everywhere  

•  Technology and image
• step from analouge to digital
• NTSC =30 pictures/sec
• 1971= play back, rewind, and fast forward
• digital approach to electronic image editing
• binary code= code based on only two numbers (stored on CDs, cassets, DVD, DV)
• images projected in art world
• video picture is a procedural, non-discrete image type
• 1970s
• social and political renewal
• became an important system by which artists reflected both upon themselves and the viewer's position
• technology and video art grow together and reflect one another
• Body and Preformance
• " I am a man or I am  machine?"- jean Baudrillard
• view of just camera in studio, or camera from bodily view
• body-related action art
• the image of woman
• such artists use the female body as a means of pointing out entrenched role models and patterns of behavior
• "femininity" became more varied and complex
• entering intermedial space
• spatial and temporal components corresponded with eachother on different levels
• images of people that would allow them to experience themselves
• dan graham
• rest on floor mats and lose themselves in tapestry of images= sitting on the couch and watching tv
• Time Codes
• time-based media
• performances in real time
•  the loop is one possibility in which generally shorter periods of time can be placed in a series of endless repetitions 
•  hyper-slow perceived as a still image

• 1980s
• label video artists
•  camera was now an instrument of visualizing complex narratives and fictions
• MTV
• Video art had taken on the short clip aesthetic

MAGIC SHOW by STEFANY MANDARINO

The Incedible Hare...Spray

Project Proposal

For this project I am interested in drawing and re drawing the same image on an adventure through the world of notes. In so many of my psychology classes I find myself doodling all over my notes. There are actually recent studies that suggest doodling while learning/listening to a lecture helps memory and cognition, which in turn helps with learning the material. All my life I knew there was a reason if I didn't doodle in class I would be able to pay attention and take in the information. It sounds counter intuitive, but its been suggested to be true! I would like to take a character that I enjoy drawing and have them come to life within my notes. Going from page after page picking up new information and using it to get through the next series of challenges. The story of a doodle, psychology class meets art class.