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Self Critique

Overall I think that I was successful in this project. I think that my video editing skills have improved a lot and were shown in the video. I also enjoyed using a new video editing app. I think that I was successful in portraying the idea that I had in my video and showed that you can turn a bad day into a good day. I really like how my video turned out and how the video clips flowed together with the music.

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Artist Statement

For my final project I decided to do a video. I decided on a video because my IMovie and Garage Band skills have expanded since I started this class. This video is about making every day a happy day. It is about escaping negative thoughts and putting yourself in a better place for the sake of your well being. 

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sound poem

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Exercise #2  Skyrim

The first obstacle that affects movement that I see is the player is on a horse carrige in the middle of the woods. The trees all over is an obstacle because the carrige cannot go through a tree. 

The first moving obstacle I see is another person. They put the first person player in hand cuffs so that he cannot move his arms. The next moving obstacle is a giant dragon that comes down from the sky and shoots fire balls at the people. The fire balls cause stone buildings to break and huge broken pieces of stone fall from high up which is another obstacle. 

The last obstacle that I saw was houses and other things on the ground were on fire. 

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Excursive #1

Disneyland

Subject- the subject of Disneyland is all of the Disney stories put into one place to bring those stories to life.

Form- Disneyland includes objects/ characters from Disney tories that are brought to life in a real world form. This world is not like the outside world, but it is a cartoon world brought to life. 

Content-  The content includes houses, buildings, and structues from disney stories. It also includes charachters from the stories. These are taken directly from the stories and built into real life objects. 

Context- I believe the context is an escape into the childhood stories most people grew up with. For a kid, disneyland could be a dream come true that takes them into their favorite stories and allows them to see their favorite characters. For an adult, disneyland could take them back in time and remember when they were a kid and used to enjoy these stories.   

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“Draw MeLike One of your French Al-generated Nudes”

“Regardless, the boundaries are clear: Barrat is only willing to alter the instructions and not the output, what the machine has created within those systemic constraints. If generative art can be understood as a ceding of control to external, logic-based systems—and what is more logical, in its own way, than the natural world?—who is giving up control here? Is the algorithm simply implementing Barrat’s concept? Are its ideas its own?”

To me this means that the machine does not alter the final outcome of the pictures but alters the instructions which then alters the outcome. The author questions if its ideas its own ideas, to me this means he is questioning if the idea is a humans idea that has been altered through a machine or does this machine have its own ideas about the work. 

Question: Why are they using this machine to alter pictures?

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“The Edge of Google”

“We are encouraged by companies like Google to put as much of ourselves onto the network, to rely upon it completely. To entrust these platforms with precious family photographs, intimate correspondence, and our businesses, to name a few, requires a great deal of trust on the part of us, the end users. The more we come to rely on these services, and the infrastructure supporting them, the more trusting we must be.”

To me this means that the author is saying that we must trust the networks we use. The is because we put so much of our information on these networks that we must trust that our information is safe. It means that the more we rely on these networks the more we must trust them.

Question: Why do networks want us to rely on them? 

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“The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck”

“Developing the ability to control and manage the fucks you give is the essence of strength and integrity. We must craft and hone our lack of fuckery over the course of years and decades. Like a fine wine, our fucks must age into a fine vintage, only uncorked and given on the most special fucking occasions.”

To me this means that you should be able to chose and control what to care about and what not to care about. As you mature you see that the little things you once cared so much about do not matter anymore and you learn what things are important and what are not important. I think the author is saying that as you get older the more you learn to care less about certain things will help you live a more peaceful life. 

My question is does every one learn not to care about things they shouldn’t? 

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Self Critique

 I feel that I was mostly successful with this project. I enjoyed layering and editing the sounds. This was my first time using garage band and making a video from just sound, and I feel like with more practice I could have made a better sound video with better editing. I also wish that I did not leave out spring, but I did not want my video to go over 3 minutes. I also would have liked to use more of my own sounds but some of them could not be created because of the time of year, and it was not the right season to record some parts.

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Artist Statement

This piece includes an adventure through the seasons through sounds. Each season includes a adventure within it. These adventures are the adventures that I take on my free time during these seasons. These activities are what makes me happy and feel alive. The seasons start of with fall, then winter, then summer. During fall, you hear gusts of wind and walking through crunchy leaves to get to a waterfall. During fall, you hearing walking through snow, clipping on ski/snowboard boots, a chairlift, and the sound of skiing/ snowboarding. Last during the summer you hear skateboarding, waves crashing and the sound of surfing

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A Brief History of Time Chapter 2

Quote: “There is no need to introduce the idea of an ether, whose presence anyway cannot be detected, as the Michelson-Morley experiment showed. The theory of relativity does, however, force us to change fundamentally our ideas of space and time. We must accept that time is not completely separate from and independant of space, but is combined with it to form an object called space-time.” 

Comment: I think that this means that time in space is different from our time here on earth. 

Question: Even though an ethers presence cannot be detected, why is there no need to introduce it? Isn't it still important when it comes to light rays?

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A Brief History of Time

Chapter 1

Quote: “It is an interesting reflection on the general climate of thought before the twentieth century that no one had suggested that the universe was expanding or contracting. It was generally accepted that either the universe had been existing forever in an unchanging state, or that it had been created at a finite time in the past more or less as we observe it today. In part this may have been due to people’s tendency to believe in eternal truths, as well as the comfort they felt in the thought that even though they may grow old and die, the universe is eternal and unchanging.”

Comment: I believe that no one suggested that the earth was expanding or contracting because of the fact that from a young age people believe what they are told. For example, everyone used to think that the earth was flat because they did not know the truth. This means that the children of those people would also believe that the earth is flat because thats what they were told. 

Question: Why did people find comfort in the thought of the universe being eternal and unchanging? 

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Listening as Activism

Quote: “Several of these instructions would develop into the now recognizable text scores from the “Sonic Meditations.” At some point, however, distinctions between musical work and bodywork became blurry. Was Oliveros’s indication to walk “as slowly as possible backwards” an exercise in Kinetic Awareness? Or was it an early version of “Meditation” No. 5 (“Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears”)?”

Comment: I really like the idea of these experiments with nonverbal communication and found it very interesting that Olivero had a group of women come together every week to perform these experiments. I believe that these exercises could be both an exercise of kinetic awareness and an early start of meditation.

Question: I know that this happened during the women's liberation movement, but why exactly did Oliveros choose to have a group of only girls? 

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Sound Art

Sound art is an artistic matter that sound is utilised in as a primary medium.sound art may include sounds of  nature, or be used in hybrid forms. Some artists who work in this medium include Camille Normet,. Camille Normet is an Oslo-based artist who works with sound, installation, sculpture, drawing, performance and video. She performs with Vegar Vårdal and Håvard Skaset in Camille Norment Trio. She also works as a musician and composer. Her work that I enjoy most is called “Rapture.”

For the first time in its history, Norway is solely responsible for the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale.Camille Norment conceived a site-specific, sculptural and sonic installation.

Another sound artist that I found is Janet Cardiff. She is a Canadian artist who works with sound and sound installations, especially a form she calls audio walks. She works in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. I find it interesting how she uses audio walks. For Janet’s audio walks everyone in the audience is  given a CD player or Ipod and told to stand or sit in a particular spot and press play. On the CD you hear Janet's voice giving directions, layered on a background of different sounds. Janet uses sounds that were recorded in places along the walk.

The last artist that I found was Christina Kubisch. She is a German composer, performance artist, professor and flautist. She composes both electronic and acoustic music for multimedia installations. Christina created something called an Electrical Walk. This  is a public walk with special, sensitive wireless headphones where the acoustic qualities of aboveground and underground electromagnetic fields become amplified and audible. The palette of these noises, their timbre and volume vary from site to site and from country to country. They have one thing in common, they are ubiquitous, even where one would not expect them. These sounds are much more musical than you would expect.