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Module 4: 3 Verbs

If I SMILE, I don’t mean it.

If I AM QUIET, inside I’m screaming.

If I SEEM fine, I’m not.

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Module 4 Verb List

I smile                                   I break

I seem                                   I yield

I am quiet                              I suffer

I am here                              I visit

I give                                     I sleep

I stand still                            I stumble

I move                                   I hurt

I am not                                I think

I worry                                  I go down

I am afraid                            I hold

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Module 4 Response  Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

I have always found human interaction difficult.  She is present where I know I could not be.  I like control rather than a state of mind.  I agree that doing something as oppose to nothing is often the hardest thing.  My struggle will be in finding my something.  Being present demands all of her, which she accomplishes, and which I cannot at this moment in time.  She made her rhythms and her work with Ulay her own.

Unlike her I need something that lasts for it to be my own.  I need it to hold and keep, for those times when memory is not enough.  I could be present for that.

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Module 4 Reading&Response Roselee Goldberg Performance: A Hidden History

One does not immediately think of performance art as a key unifier between the Futurists, Constructivists, Dadaists and Surrealists.  They made such an effort to portray themselves as distinct.  Clearly, though, Goldberg has found a superb backdoor into the stupefying world of 20th century art.

Performance art in the schools always existed along the edge.  And in each is maintained its characteristics of live art, public confrontation, and an escape from the gallery space.  In each it provided perfect opportunity for performer and audience relationships that could be used to a purpose.  In each the novel break with past was important in itself, but the challenge to the viewers perception with art and its limits were hard earned.  Each break from artistic convention and expressed by performance came in a series of waves in Italy, Zurich, Paris, and New York.  But the ephemeral nature of performance undercut its importance in each sphere.

For me the performance art of the Dadaists is their most important production.  Using this sort of nonsense to confront the nonsense of the First World War always struck me far more than R. Mutt’s meaningless urinal.

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Module 3 Video Art Statement and Proposal I Try To Wash Away Despair

Some sorrows carry desperation and violence in their wake.  The great swaths of jubilant energy they cause make despair seem more colorful, at first glance, than it actually is.  Desperation and violence burn bright like fireworks and convey the unbound imagination of a child.  This is why is can be so all consuming.  It is a mighty deity that perversely provides a light in the dark, or a source of warmth in the cold.

I wanted to show the futility of struggle.  I wanted to show the perversion of color and light.  I wanted to show my violence.  And I wanted to wash it all away.

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Module 3 Film proposal.

A projection on a wall, in a dark room, of this message.  From the side a hand tries to wash it off the wall, frantically and without success.  There are sporadic flashes of a red light, each time causing the hand to stop for a moment, then resume with the same desperation. 

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Module 3 Music video in progress

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Module 3 Reading&Response Vanishing and Becoming by  Sean Cubitt

The physical qualities of projection determine so much the practice of projection common in photography, film and digital media.  The shape of a receptive surface, the materials of which it is made, the atmosphere through which it travels, and the relative positions between projector and projection, Cubitt writes, are the tools, boundaries and opportunities presented by this comparatively new medium with deep philosophical heritage.  Cubitt notes the meaningful metaphor these qualities entail on the understanding of the world and each other.  This metaphor, in turn, creates a new manner by which one may traverse space and time.  The moral consequences of the possible effect on mortality and privacy we are just beginning to confront.

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Module 3 Reading&Response  Time and Motion in Making Art by Terry Barrettt

Artists create experiences involving time and motion.  In basic forms this should  affect how a viewer sees art and moves through and with it. The new forms of 4D art such as performance, video and computer, do indeed more directly convey matters of time, and more thoroughly.  And as ever, the issues of narrative still require individual confrontation.

Narrative is my top priority in my work.  Recorded Time and Implied Motion are still my top tools.  Grand arcs and stories of worlds beyond time are best captured by a single moment, if that moment is universal.  

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Module 2 Artist Statement Proposal

I had for so long depended on time travel.  Even its remotest possibility of a second chance aids in the walking of a knife edge.  I had always imagined it as footsteps disappearing backwards.  I go back, fully aware, watching all that had terrified me fade beyond reach.  Such a sense of determination it would bring to be able to face again that which seemed so insurmountable.  And to be able to make more meaningful steps forward would be heartbreakingly joyous.

These GIFs were meant to be POV shots of steps backwards.  Each of colors and textures of the ground were meant to convey differentiating interest, and variations on a theme.

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Module 2 Proposal GIF Project

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IRL and animation, Hanna and Barbera live on.

LØUIS BLUE

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High romance, dramatic displays, now is the time for kindness.

http://flawlassmami.tumblr.com/

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Pink makes an interesting focal point.

im not very good at putting words together in a way you’d understand

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Radial Balance and repeating lines.

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This layering of text is different.

i mean……. i can't be the only one come on (x)