reflections on some topics/artists from week 5

Bruce Nauman:
hmm.....
quite strange.
some have a disturbing nature.
probably intent
the walking the perimeter performance is quite interesting but other ones.....
hmmmm......
I reserve judgment on them

Pipilotti Rist:
hmmm.....
again.....
the girl 'singing' a song and being sped up and slowed down....
hmmm.....
i think we were all scared for our lives by about half way through
again......
reserve judgment!
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the smashing car one
funny
check it out
really?
she did nothing to the girl smashing windows?
whoa

Bill Viola:
the reflecting pool
very interesting
i like the concept
very unique - i think
good use of suspense
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ocean without a shore
beautiful!
tate channel - a new work by bill viola

Cremaster:
has 5 different performances/video art pieces/cycles
cremaster.net
each one has own symbol
it's almost like a witch hunt crossed between star trek or doctor who or something like that. mixed in with a rebellious school formal

Artwork Proposal

MY DIGITAL ART PROPOSAL 

By: Emily Bowman

My chosen topic revolves around fairytales in a modern context. I believe that in some aspects of life, we have lost ourselves within the digital and modern realms of society today. We are caught up with buying, owning or wearing the next best thing or getting wasted and/or drunk every weekend, that half the time we don’t see our mistakes or even the bigger picture falling into the consumer world.

In popular classic fairytales, they tell stories about princes and princesses, highlighting different values that can help us to be better and happier people. However they can also lean towards being too chauvinistic at times. There is always a ‘damsel in distress’ that has to wait for a prince to come and rescue her. As kids grow older, many girls believe that they are spoilt princesses that need to have everything done for them, which I believe to be wrong.

So I thought that combining these two aspects of life would be very interesting. I want to change the way people think about their life in relation to these fairytales. Hopefully people will still read fairytales and relate to the characters, but also seeing them in a modern context will hopefully show them how wrong and lost childhood, society and a person’s identity can become.

My final folio will showcase 5 completed artworks covering digital photography, digital manipulation and video art; branching off into different aspects of some or all of the above listed mediums. I hope to use a range of classic fairytales as the main focus or inspiration for my artwork. I would really like to create a fantasy world of a half cartoon inspired look with real life models and/or objects through my pieces of artwork.

I believe that digital art is the best way to be able to combine both a cartoon style a real life aspect in one image. This way I have full control over how much of a cartoonish approach I need to take with either my photography, filmmaking or visa versa. Computer programs such as Photoshop and iMovie (possibly along with many others too) will help me to create these images.

When presenting my work, I would like to show it like I was reading a story or small sections of many stories in a large storybook. Presenting my work this way will not only highlight the fairytale aspect of my work even more, but hopefully will create juxtaposition against the many very controversial issues that society is faced with today but has no luck in stopping it.

I hope to use a data projector and a computer for my present. I am still considering possibly using an photo frame and projecting the final images within that frame or even sending the final completed works to everybody in the class and watch it on their computer or online.

An artist that has influenced my artwork this semester would have to be Sarah Jones because her work is very simple yet very complex.

Most of the time, her work contains only a single figure or model, however she does communicate constant narration without much movement or explanation.

I love her artworks because they are exactly what I would like to create in my work. I wish to capture a moment in time that holds the whole story yet still be seen as just a still image.

References:

Sarah Jones, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, viewed 22 March 2011, <http://www.antonkerngallery.com/artist.php?aid=15>