Wednesday, April 16, 2014

notes! pg 20-25, 36,54, 68, 76...oye

Movie Video pg. 20-25
  • new ideas for film set ups to introduce a new aspect to intrigue audience
  • 1990s- hand made uncut films..dogma
  • 1965- projector with tiny pieces
  • layers of film and new inspiring ways to get into different way of interpreting film and the viewer or listener
  • multiple layering of images or sounds to make the viewer have to focus or not on several different layers
  • screens that can be viewed from other sides and all around them hide the viewer from the perspective of the camera....inspired by the Trueman show
  • younger generations coming back to the performative approach
  • human body still a point of reference
  • artists reacting to changing realities
  • past ten years video has become and gotten the title of becoming original
  • TODAY! video= contradiction, either exclusive or mass produced 
Mother + Father pg. 36
  • Candice Breitz
  • highlights the international community contioned by mass media
  • two rows
  • taken out of people from Hollywood films
  • she focuses on pop scene
  • sees pop music as an essential parameter of our globalized world
Dan Graham Video piece for two glass office buildings pg. 54
  • pure presence and self suffiecny
  • both feilds represent types of codes giving info about social orders and his own self esteem
  • his work represents convergence of private and public spheres
  • the subjected one dimensional view loses importance
  • creates the process of continuous learning and the subjective sense of an endless present time in flux
  • 1950s he reintroduced historical memory into his art
Arenout Mik Dispersion Room pg. 68
  • random people doing random things and minding their business and then double projection starts this all over again
  • instincts and unconscious reactions
  •  unforeseeable reactions
  • simultaneously humorous and shocking (kitchen and men beating each other)
  • unfettered frame work of individuals
  • imbeds his projects in architecture
  • viewers caught in possible flow 
  • expands the field of action and the world mass media network, copy, stage for the abyss  
Tony Oursler Get Away Number 2 pg. 76
  • best known american video artist
  • makes dolls (projection of guys face on fabric man at Carnegie)
  • exists only as head shapes and have their own characteristics (despair of existence)
  • head under mattress (trapped person)
  • viewers ready-ness to help
  • "hey you get out of here"
  • similar to people passing homeless on street talking to themselves
  • testifyies to human perspective of human eye and mechanical eye
  • demonstrating the act of seeing
  • "eye see"

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