life never stops

video art and music

the video art we've seen has been pretty interesting.  i never even knew i had any video editing software on my computer at all until i started working on this project.  i think it's neat just playing with how video works and what can be done with it without having to make what we know as a movie or film.  it's like abstract painting where it's not about if the painting looks like anything in the end, it's just about exploring the medium and seeing what it can do.

the music i have really enjoyed.  i think it's really cool that music can be created digitally and sound just like it was recorded in a studio.  i don't want that to take away from real created music though because i feel that talented musicians deserve all the credit for the music they create and perform.  electronic music, while amazing and beautiful, can take away from that side of music.  but i do really like the songs we listened to soo.. i contradict myself and i'm not picking sides..

just a side note, i've been trying to comment on everyone's blogs but my computer hasn't been letting me

performance art: control

so basically, i took a song and i changed it so in the song there were commands like volume up/down, pitch up/down, fast forward, pause, mute, etc. so i started by me pushing play and then the remote started telling me what to do instead. unfortunately, the commands were a little too quiet so i don't know if everyone caught on to that.. but here's my pictures

ok still totally disturbed and don't think self mutilation is art, but that's my opinion.

i looked up performance art today. it talks about what we've talked about in class. then i looked up dance and it says it's art. so i guess i'm confused because it's part of the performing arts family. so i'm not sure what the difference between performance art and performing arts are. but i looked it all up... so... yea

class

ok so i've been really disturbed by what we've seen this week. i don't want to watch someone sew their mouth shut or mutilate their body. i don't think self harm is art, i think self harm is needing to go talk to a specialist about why you enjoy that. maybe this has to do with people i've known who have had a lot of problems with self mutilation but i don't consider that art at all.

i really enjoy the electronic music and the use of ordinary sounds that don't need to mean anything. we have talked about merce cunningham in my dance classes many times over the years and his work with john cage. basically john cage made his music and merce would tell him the length he needed it to be, then on the night of the performance, cunningham would tell his dancers the order in which they would perform their phrases and they would perform to john cage's music for the first time. they never heard the music until the show. this was one of the first times that dance and music did not mesh. cunningham felt like they didn't need to go together in the classical way that dance and music usually works.

as for the art of like "end after 9" and the blank white screen forever and things like that, i feel like that's not art. i think something i love about art is that not just anyone can do it, and a lot of what we're talking about in class makes it seem like art is just whatever but i think art is really special and everyone has it in them, but it's all different kinds of art. the art is however that person uses the talents they have. i didn't feel like some of the work really showed any kind of talent. that's just my opinion though sooo.....

the tree of life (my xerox project)

here's my tree of life. i actually really like this project a lot

class so far

class this second half of the semester has been a little weird... i don't know that dada is my favorite type of art. i do like the paintings that came out of the time. not the sculptures so much. i guess i've never really like a lot of sculpture though. the movies we have watched with the bugs coming out of the guys hand and with crazy aliens ripping people's faces apart with their ribs are really not my taste at all. i appreaciate that it was revolutionary but they're just not really something that i am that into.

i went to the dali museum the other day and it was pretty interesting. i like seeing the studies next to the art work that showed where his thoughts were before he put the piece together.