Final Project

Artist Statement: even though i decided not to incorporate any Christmas in the video, i liked the way it came out. I did all of the video in a new program so it was nice learning something new. Overall, i think it went along with the theme well and the music fits perfectly in it. I found all these clips on different youtube videos. Also added images of words throughout to give the viewer a clearer understand of the picture.

Lecture 2

Paul Demarini

            Media artist Paul Demarini is a really interesting artist that really sparks attention to his viewers such as myself.

            During his lecture he explained a bunch of his different types of work through power point. One of his main works was the monkey in the cage piece here he uses glowing paint and a black light. The monkey hands hold the lights as it moves across the paint. The paint is an image of his friend that passed away when he was attacked by a wild dog. It was dramatic and sad hearing the story, but very amazing of him to make this huge piece dedicated to one of his friends who he loved.

Another one of his pieces was called Rain Dance. You use an umbrella and every time you move under this sprinkler type thing, the rain goes off and so does music. It is very interactive and apparently a lot of people like interacting with it.Although he had trouble figuring out the video for Rain Dance, he eventually fixed the problem and the video was quite interesting. It was nice seeing him interacting and testing out his own art pieces.

            He had many other designs and sculptures that were made out of wire and all this other interesting fancy equipment. He is a really interesting digital media artist and I would be very interested in seeing one of his galleries to look at his art.

Lecture 1

   Prospective's Lectures       

           During the prospective '12 international festival for digital art, we gathered to watch the lecture of graduate presenters. Their art involved the relationship with digital representation. There were six presenters who all explained their background and their work in general. The six artists were Sophie Kahn, Liat Berdugo, Kian Peng Ong, Ann Bartges, Georgie Roxby Smith, and Javier Villegas.

Each of them have a very different perspective, which all caught my attention and seemed extremely interesting.

            My favorite presenter was Liat Berdugo, not only does she have a great sense of humor, her ideas were brilliant. She is from the Rhode Island school of design and she presented a work of electronics connected to food. It gave the viewer the idea that connected correctly with right wiring, food can control house-hold objects. For example, she set up an image of herself hitting meat and a turkey which looked like it was connected to the wii Nintendo. So every time she hit the meat, it would look like she was actually playing the game and that the meat was literally connected to the wii controller. In the gallery, her video was set up by a giant projector on a huge wall with sound that you could barely hear.

            Another one of my favorites was Javier Villegas. Even though I could barely understand him during the lecture, I am pretty sure I got the gist of his work. In the gallery, he had a television with his moving images. They were trees and whenever a person would walk in front of the little camera attached to it, the trees would move and form into your image. Imagine a reflection of yourself but in tree form. It's really cool and interesting. By far my favorite to interact with and probably the only one that was really that intractable.

            Overall, the gallery was amazing to experience; a lot of fun. The lecture was very informative and interesting as well.

Exhibit

Neon Signs Exhibit

            This exhibit was probably one of the most interesting exhibits I have ever been too, mainly because it was bright and beautiful. Not many people get to be so close to neon signs because they are always up on the building so far away from us. To see them so close to you and to see how big they really are was outstanding. We could also feel the heat coming from the lights as well because there were so many of them and they were huge!

            I would go back again just to see all of the vintage signs. They had The iconic M-shaped cowboys that use to belong to the old Mapes Hotel and Casino which was demolished a long time ago.

           My favorite was probably the sign from the old Sahara building which was located in Las Vegas, Nevada. When I saw that specific sign, it instantly reminded me of Las Vegas, my hometown, so it felt a little nostalgic.

   Other signs that caught my interest was the big Nevada sign  in the middle of the gallery. It was for the Nevada Club which closed in 1997. It was really neat to read about each sign and the history of it as well. If I had the chance to see the gallery again, I would definitely go and see it because not many people can say they have been next to big, famous neon signs from Las Vegas or Reno.

Diptych Montage

Artist Statement: 

The two videos go quite well together. I figured since my audio was so dark/creepy sounding,  a creepy video would go good with it. I had this idea to do a real life slenderman type video. (Slender man is an online game check it out!) It didn't really work out because it was too long. Instead I did an idea where teenagers were in a forest being dumb teens they are, joking about creepy sounds, finding a knife, etc. Eventually they hear something and they freak out and run. One of the teens gets killed and the other runs off. Eventually that one dies too.. but soon after you notice the male teen is seen picking up a knife implying that he was actually the killer. It may be hard to notice or understand.. But that's basically it. Also, it was damn cold outside. I dont think my hands have ever hurt that bad before hah.