Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Project 3, a revamped projet 2
We completed project 3 and overall it was successful. There are still a couple technical issues that could be resolved but for the time allotted i feel extremely proud of what Ben, Kevin, Nick and I have created. Attached our some photos of the work as well as the blogsite used to upload images too. More photos will be added as well as the powerpoint in the next few days.
Project 3, a revamped projet 2
For project three we were told to add onto our second project tom make it a more complete piece, as well as adding a powerpoint to explain the work. Based on our critique we are going to address the issue of design on our box with a lot of attention going to the hinges, which many people viewed as ugly, we are going to be adding a web site to store images taken from a camera we are installing in the piece, also the drawing surface and drawing materials will be revamped and also little technical issues will be addressed.
Project 2 explanation
As you can tell form the photos our project consists of a printer, a back pack, an arduino, a photosensor, and various structural components. The piece works as follows; the viewer draws a picture on the 5x7 sheets of paper using the pencils provided, then they place the paper in the top slot of the stained wood box, the sensor is activated which triggers the arduino and the motors which control the printer, the printer then pulls the drawing through and at the same time spits a drawing out. The arduino is used to control the timing of the motors so that the printer takes and feeds only one piece of paper. Thanks Nick, without him as an engineer i don't believe this project would have been successful.
Quotes dealing with our project
Many of these quotes were provided by Kevin who researched a lot about the concept of our piece.
“life in a museum is like making love in a cemetery”- alan kaprow
"The museum's history was written much like art's, as a continuous evolution from ancient times."
"What is at issue is the contemporary art of exhibition: the construction of new museums and the expansion and reorganization of existing ones to create a conflict-free representation of art history, and, concurrently,
the effacement or co-optation of current adversary art practices.
from Bürger: "The concept'art as an institution'...refers to the productive and distributive apparatus and also to ideas about art that prevail at a given time and that determine the reception of works. The avant-garde turns against both- the distribution apparatus on which the work of art depends, and the status of art in bourgeois society as defined by the concept of autonomy. Only after art, in the nineteenth-century Aestheticism, has altogether detached itself from the praxis of life can the aesthetic develop 'purely.' But the other side of autonomy, art;s lack of social impact, also becomes recognizable. The avant-gardist protest, whose aim it is to reintegrate art into the praxis of life, reveals the nexus between autonomy and he absence of any consequences."...............Bürger locates the failure of the avant-garde in its inability to return art to social purpose and furthermore sees this failure as determined by the continuation of bourgeois hegemony........what Bürger referred to as changes at the level of the contents of individual works and changes in the way art functions in society. The former trend includes traditional artworks that take AID as subject matter- paintings, plays, novels, poems "about" AIDS; the latter consists of cultural participation in activist politics, most often using agitprop grapics and documentary video. uch works eludes the museum, not because it is never shown there but because it is made outside the institution's compass. Arising out of a collective movement, AIDS activist art practices articulate, actualy produce, the politics of that movement. Often anonymously and collectively made; appropriating techniques of "high art," popular culture, and mass advertising, aimed at and constituitve of specific constituencies; releveant only to local and transistory circumstances; useless for preservation and posterity- is this art not an example of the "sublation of art into the praxis of life"?
"Contemporary art's critique of the museum and the modern aesthetic it produces still "belongs" to the museum"
The German word museal(museumlike) has unpleasant overtones. It describes objects to which the observer no longer has a vital relationship and which are in the process of dying. They owe their preservation more to historical respect than to the needs of the present. Museum and mausoleum are connected by more than phonetic association. Museums are the family sepulchers of works of art. - Theodore W. Adorno, "Valery Proust Museu
These quotes to me are relevant to our second assignment because of the relation they have to our views on the gallery and the exchange of art. Many of these quotes deal with the desire for the art gallery/ museum to evolve from where it is at, to vary from the elitist control it has and to embrace art of everyone instead of a select few.
“life in a museum is like making love in a cemetery”- alan kaprow
"The museum's history was written much like art's, as a continuous evolution from ancient times."
"What is at issue is the contemporary art of exhibition: the construction of new museums and the expansion and reorganization of existing ones to create a conflict-free representation of art history, and, concurrently,
the effacement or co-optation of current adversary art practices.
from Bürger: "The concept'art as an institution'...refers to the productive and distributive apparatus and also to ideas about art that prevail at a given time and that determine the reception of works. The avant-garde turns against both- the distribution apparatus on which the work of art depends, and the status of art in bourgeois society as defined by the concept of autonomy. Only after art, in the nineteenth-century Aestheticism, has altogether detached itself from the praxis of life can the aesthetic develop 'purely.' But the other side of autonomy, art;s lack of social impact, also becomes recognizable. The avant-gardist protest, whose aim it is to reintegrate art into the praxis of life, reveals the nexus between autonomy and he absence of any consequences."...............Bürger locates the failure of the avant-garde in its inability to return art to social purpose and furthermore sees this failure as determined by the continuation of bourgeois hegemony........what Bürger referred to as changes at the level of the contents of individual works and changes in the way art functions in society. The former trend includes traditional artworks that take AID as subject matter- paintings, plays, novels, poems "about" AIDS; the latter consists of cultural participation in activist politics, most often using agitprop grapics and documentary video. uch works eludes the museum, not because it is never shown there but because it is made outside the institution's compass. Arising out of a collective movement, AIDS activist art practices articulate, actualy produce, the politics of that movement. Often anonymously and collectively made; appropriating techniques of "high art," popular culture, and mass advertising, aimed at and constituitve of specific constituencies; releveant only to local and transistory circumstances; useless for preservation and posterity- is this art not an example of the "sublation of art into the praxis of life"?
"Contemporary art's critique of the museum and the modern aesthetic it produces still "belongs" to the museum"
The German word museal(museumlike) has unpleasant overtones. It describes objects to which the observer no longer has a vital relationship and which are in the process of dying. They owe their preservation more to historical respect than to the needs of the present. Museum and mausoleum are connected by more than phonetic association. Museums are the family sepulchers of works of art. - Theodore W. Adorno, "Valery Proust Museu
These quotes to me are relevant to our second assignment because of the relation they have to our views on the gallery and the exchange of art. Many of these quotes deal with the desire for the art gallery/ museum to evolve from where it is at, to vary from the elitist control it has and to embrace art of everyone instead of a select few.
Social Change Proj.
Project 2 Social Change and its continuation
Originally our idea stemmed from a collection box which had various components which arduino controlled. The collection box was supposed to support a student run gallery on campus, since we had recently lost ours. However, when we began to work on some of the initial aspects of this work we quickly began to dislike it, since it referenced too much of a sophisticated collection box and not much more. As we brainstormed we began to question what a gallery is and the politics behind it. Our project changed from initially a collection box to an actual art exchange machine. We felt this was a much more developed idea that not only interacted with the audience but also questioned many of the proponents of a gallery and its elitist tendencies.
- exchange of artwork between people
does not discriminate in terms of what is art and what makes an artist
allows art to be displayed within places that are not often gallery designated, plays off the aspects of street art
allows everyone to enjoy the making of art
random exchange of ideas
Originally our idea stemmed from a collection box which had various components which arduino controlled. The collection box was supposed to support a student run gallery on campus, since we had recently lost ours. However, when we began to work on some of the initial aspects of this work we quickly began to dislike it, since it referenced too much of a sophisticated collection box and not much more. As we brainstormed we began to question what a gallery is and the politics behind it. Our project changed from initially a collection box to an actual art exchange machine. We felt this was a much more developed idea that not only interacted with the audience but also questioned many of the proponents of a gallery and its elitist tendencies.
- exchange of artwork between people
does not discriminate in terms of what is art and what makes an artist
allows art to be displayed within places that are not often gallery designated, plays off the aspects of street art
allows everyone to enjoy the making of art
random exchange of ideas
Mood Board and Concept Board
Kevin and I felt it would be very interesting to create a sculpture that interacted with the viewer and the space through sound. We were going through a duality aspect to the work which i have been trying to create in my work for a while now. We are using various geometric forms to create a hanging piece which you place your head within. When you place your head in the piece it triggers an arduino which will then control varying sounds located within the device. The speakers will be placed in mathematical variants to produce a high range of sounds that are varying from the original sound file. The duality aspect of the work comes into play based on the pyrex tubing which will be located throughout the piece. The location of the pyrex will be in direct opposite of the speakers to create a variant sound form what you are hearing within and outside of the piece. Our orginal mood board and sketch had the piece scaled to a much larger size than what we have the funds and material for so we decided to scale it down to a more comprehensible and achievable size.
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN CANCELED, HOWEVER I PLAN TO PURSUE THIS ON MY OWN TIME.
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN CANCELED, HOWEVER I PLAN TO PURSUE THIS ON MY OWN TIME.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Project 1 : Hypnotic Monkey Squid
Apparently when you touch something to something it doesnt always work, and sometimes that actually destroys what you are working on, welcome to project1 !!!!!!! Will figure it out
Helpful circuit bending
http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-ways-to-circuit-bend-a-toy/step2/Opening-the-circuit-and-finding-the-bends/
Project 1 : Hypnotic Monkey Squid
Toys, when i handle them seem to die. Apparently you can not just simply put one wire to another wire.
Attached are some pictures of our project.
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