Post #19 - Reading and GRQ - Anne Collins Goodyear Launching "Hybrid Practices" in the 1960's on the Perils and Promise of Art and Technology

GRQ:

1. 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering
2. E.A.T.
3. Sputnik
4. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
5. Allan Kaprow's
6. Billy Klüver
7. Rauschenberg
8. John Cage
9. "Intermedia"
10. Fluxus
11. Happenings
12. Performances
13. Pepsi-Cola
14. Singer
15. The War in Vietnam and an Economic Recession
16. Artists Cooperation Program

Discussion:

Ultimately, I see that it is the person behind the computer doing the art with the assistance of the computer, as that is merely the medium to create such a piece. I think the computer can be called the "artist" if it is creating the artwork without any sort of help from a person. I think that it is a fair thing to say, right now we use AI to help us fix something on photoshop, illustrator, or even in videos based on a prompt we give. It is even capable to do what you want as the result, like the art that you do with AI. With our human help, it can do what we need, so with that, I do. not believe the computer can be known as the artist until it is the one creating the piece all by itself with no help and no direction.

Post #18 - Lecture - Electronic Media and Performance

This is the age of digital innovation. Experimental film brings on creativity and almost has no limits as the guidelines are so abstract. The Witches Cradle in a 16mm unfinished and silent example of experimental film. Surrealist film shows repetitive imagery fashioned weirdly. Kaprow developed Happenings which was the forerunner for performance art. Pollocks work was instrumental in Kaprows. Ephemeral art by Boyce is a type that lasts for a short period of time and isn't preserved, like the art piece "fluids" by Kaprow. Marta is a pioneer of performance art and does atypical things. Experimental TV where people made video art, and Multimedia installations which used many forms of media. TV Interruptions is an installation for the TV. Mixed media art uses multiples types of media/materials that is not electronic. Video art, like Violas "Martyrs" envelop the viewer in image and sound. Orlan, who got many surgeries did it while awake as a manifesto to carnal art. First computers were developed for a tool, then they became used for a medium. Bellamy created AI art with computer. Dada, conceptual, and fluxus had an influence on computer art. 

Quiz 3

1. Futurism
2. Giacomo Balla
3. Constructivism
4. Supremacist
5. Supremacism
6. Bauhaus
7. Hugo Ball
8. Retinal Art
9. cabaret Voltaire
10. Readymades
11. Postmodernists
12. Combine
13. Joseph Beuys
14. Etienne Jules Marey
15. Muybridge
16. Louis Le Prince
17. Kinetograph
18. Kinetoscope
19. Cinematograph
20. Mechanical TV
21. Electronic TV
22. Sensors
23. Experimental
24. Surrealist

Post #17 - Reading and GRQ - Thompson and Bordwell - Film and Video History || Kate Horsfield - Busting the Tube

GRQ:

1. Richter
2. Ruttmann
3. Rene Clair's
4. Germaine Dulac
5. Cinéma pur or "Pure Cinema"
6. City Symphony
7. Vertical Cinema
8. Film Lyric
9. Maya Deren
10. Norman McLaren
11. Brakhage
12. Bruce Conner
13. Visualizing Effects
14. Non-Linear Editing Software
15. Portable Camera
16. Feedback

Discussion:

When it comes to technology and media, it is highly likely that I spend around 8 hours in front of a screen. It could be a TV, computer, my phone, a camera, or even the one in the car. there are so many screens around us that we see everyday, and they are very hard to avoid. As a student, a lot of my work is done through a screen so that adds to the hours that I am required to be behind a screen. However, in my free time, I like to relax, that could be by watching TV or occasionally playing on my Xbox. In doing that, it adds to my screen time, which doesn't help, but I believe that as time goes on and things get more advanced, we are going to rely on technology more and more. I recently attended something and one of the people in charge were like "phones are a problem, they are like a sickness". I don't disagree. 

Post #16 - Lecture - Film, Tv, & Video

Electronic media is any media that uses electricity and include pieces that use neon, LED, films, RAM, barcodes, etc. Telegraph by Henry Morse was invented in 1844 as a fast way to spread word. In 1901 the first wireless telegraph was invented by Marconi. In Orsen Wells' radio broadcast brought on a lot of experimentation with tripod sound. Telephones were invented in 1876, and radio was born in 1909. Baird invented the first mechanical television. Cathode Ray Tube made television possible in 1927. The CRT is linked to causing major health risks from long-term exposure. Benjamin was suspicious over film, TV, and Photography. Many Americans and people think the video of the moon lading is fake and that the event was a hoax. The Digital Revolution occurred in the 1950s-1970s. Digital technology has continued to advance and has become dominant. The DLP Cinema projector technology was first demonstrated in 1999 on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. 

Performance Art Discussion

In our piece Horrors that Lead to Obesity, where we targeted the issue of obesity, we had many components to get the point of unhealthy eating across and how to fix it. To do this, I was up front tearing apart and tried to show off the horrors within the Aussie Grill AG OG Chicken Sandwich. Although I wanted to walk around and really show off the issues with the sandwich, but with the sauce, crumbs, and grease we didn't want to make a mess, and ruin the room. Everyone would have needed gloves to touch it. In doing this, we realized how much grease and unhealthy elements are attached tot he sandwich, the breading, the mayo, the bread, and all the oils. Then once it was the end, we found out how many calories Quin burned and he would have to run 24 laps around the track to burn a typical sandwich. Many of us do not do that. Alongside the dialogue that went with the flow of the scenario, the topic of obesity was brought to attention through the disgusting facts and horrific sandwich. 

Post #15 - Reading, GRQ, and Discussion - Arson and Mansfields Modern Art Excepts

GRQ:

1. Cubist-Based Art
2. Faktura
3. Dada
4. Futurist
5. Tatlin
6. Tatlin's
7. Gabo
8. Stepanova
9. Chance
10. Le Concert Bruitiste
11. Kinetic
12. "Art into Life"
13. Readymade
14. Light, Space, and Motion
15. Industry
16. Machinery, Machinery

Discussion: Difference Between Modern Art, Post-Modern Art, and Contemporary.

Modernism mostly deals with art from the 1860's to the 1970's and it is characterized in throwing away the old and bringing in the new. It is often tied to the industrial revolution where change was made. The creation of photography threw painting off balance a little bit. Anti-modernism is a number of parallel art movements after World War 1. It was a reaction to the war and supported the Avant-Garde movement and ended up taking notes from typical and traditional art. Futurism was thrown into the mix and that is where the emphasis on themes associated with contemporary themes came to be. Post-modern art takes place in the 1960's. Contemporary art is born and that is art since modernism. It is art made within "our lifetime" and is the umbrella for most of the modern art of our age. It is art made in the present. Modern and Contemporary are used in unison. Both Modernism and Anti-Modernsim is connected through Contemporary art. 

Discussion: Chance Art

In the creation of our piece "Childhood Remembrance 2.0" we found it important to portray the styles of dada art where we left it simply to chance. In order to do that we ripped up the construction paper in random ways without thinking as another aspect of leaving it to chance. Then once all of the paper was ripped, we glued the paper then threw the paper and pressed it down, once the whole paper was covered, we picked it up and shook the loose paper off. Then we restarted the process until we got to where we are now. For an artwork purely created by chance it came out to look super abstract. It was very interesting to see where the paper would land and then stay for the final result. Dada is a rather random art form which I believe can be art because even if you shut your brain off, there is still artistic characteristics of the piece. 

Video:

https://youtu.be/1PWCnw55fiA