The Big City Life

"Mind if I walk a little faster?"

"You know, I'm trying to avoid traffic."


" The capitalist competition is nothing next to the empty seat competition during the rush-hour"

"You know what I feel like eating?"

"Yeah, that's right."

"Can't wait till I get home..."


"...so that I can actually perform sleeping rather than having the thought of it"

End of ART-100 Studio Experience Project.

How does technology mediate the artist experience?

As I stare at the super-sized Apple LCD monitor sitting in front of me at the New Media Center on a Tuesday Night, I secretly appreciate the appliances helping me to create something that’s going to be a piece of art at the end of the process. I’m stimulated by the colors that come about as I boost and darken them. I forget that what's behind the super thin glass of the LCD monitor, was once used to be real. The location fades from reality into my head and into my monitor. It allows me to shape it, the way I want it.

Whether with chalk or with mouse, whether with an LCD monitor or a paper, same thing guides our hand. Our mind pumps the ideas, our heart contributes the feeling and the result is art, in its roughest and most simple way. Expression is this combination.And it is what constitutes art.Just as long as long as the tools you are using are allowing you to serve this ultimate goal, the method you are using doesn't matter.Technology in this case,serves this goal by allowing us to “change beliefs” (Truisms) and shape concepts (like we did in our situational tours). Yet none of these could be possible without the pioneers in art who were brave enough (Richard Wagner, for instance who built his opera house) to change new ways and new tools to satisfy their personal need for expression. Therefore, I think technology is in a way guiding art to find ways that are more effective in expression by stimulating both artist's and viewer's senses.

Situational Tour: Past Buried In Present

Entering the Past.

Respect and Dignity.

Two words.
Many people.

Including Him.


Their past...


...became my present.


I can see the future from where I stand.



It's flourishing out of present

Shadow of Past still lingers though...


Is change inevitable? Is it gradual?


He is among the them now.
Respected.

Things Changed.


His past is my present.
Will change hurt?

No it won't.
For someone is actually watching over.



Even if they are not aware of it.



As Present fades into past
Respect & Dignity
will stand.

So will my memories.

Expressing Art or Experiencing Art?

In October 2005 I met with Dutch composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven,when I took part in his Long Distance Call Musical.He  believes in artists' expression on its own does not constitute art."I realise that,as a composer,I am not only responsible for the notes of the musical piece but also for an overall experience of the audience"says his statement on his website.

The reading assignment we had for today,declares how the idea of providing more of an experience for the audience by going further than script in theater but focusing also on stage,light effects and etc. Now with technological advancements surrounding us,the artists are bale to express themselves. However,now the art is becoming more like an experience rather than just expression.

I highly recommend you to take a look at his previous work by clicking onto links below:

Night in the Barentsz Sea

Kursk

The Arlington Cemetery

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Clearly enough, Arlington Cemetery provides a perfect place to observe four concepts (security,ritual,ideology and authority). The servants of peace,pioneers of change whom all played important role in the United States's  position in the world today. The hallowed grounds home the Arlington House,the Amphitheater,Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Its also home to most of our patriotic values and concept of loyalty and dignity. Along the pathways you come across quotes of many highly respected figures which take us back in time to civil war and all other battle grounds.

What's "Traditional" Anyway?

Traditions set forth certain rules to follow and they get shaped throughout the time. However,what's being disregarded here is the fact that traditions were not existent all along.They are the by products of those who were willing to provide new ideas,new perspectives in their times. Those people were then followed,until someone else with enough courage came to challenge those previous traditions and replace them with his/hers.

Multimedia art is providing new ways for people to express themselves and 'expressing self' is the element that creates the appreciation of the end-product. Due to social and technological change,people are now looking for new ways to express themselves. If the traditional way is not sufficient for this expression,multimedia can help.

With the increase of the availability of technological tools in our lives, multimedia can become the traditional way of posing your art.What's considered contemporary now(ie. Multimedia art) can become the traditional medium for art.

Link to ~ Class Syllabus