#George Bures Miller

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JANET CARDIFF (Jena Walk & The Walk Book) — worlds most perfect example of Artist Swag.

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Dreams – Telephone Series | Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller 

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SCREAM THAT HE DESTROYS ALL KINDNESS IN YOU AND BLACKENS EVERY VISION YOU COULD HAVE SHOWN HIM. / imperial interrogation.

jenny holzer's inflammatory essays / the killing machine by janet cardiff and george bures miller

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Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

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Janet Cardiff site specific audio walks

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Janet Cardiff

The Infinity Machine Mixed media installation including antique mirrors, rotator, audio, and lighting Dimensions vary 2015

The Forty Part Motet (A reworking of “Spem in Alium,” by Thomas Tallis 1556) 40 speakers on stands, amplifiers, playback computer Dimensions vary 2001

Poetry Machine Installation, interactive installation, words and voice by Leonard Cohen Dimensions vary 2017

Escape Room with George Bures Miller Interactive multimedia installation with proximity sensors, lights, sounds, and handmade models Dimensions vary 2021

The Paradise Institute with George Bures Miller DVD player, video projector, amplifier, film screen, 16 headsets, 13:00 minute digital video disk (DVD), 16 theatre seats, wood, plywood, retail trade oil paint, polystyrene and fabric 118 1/8 x 698 x 209 13/16 in 2001

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Walking Art: The Movement In-Between

Andres Huddelist and Elena Pilipets's article, "Walking Art: The Movement In-Between," sites the cause and effects of relational art and its ability to expand awareness. Walking art, reliant on public participation, allows spectators to examine their surroundings and embody a new critical state of examination. Waking or relational art relies on the artist as a facilitator for an experience where "art becomes a life form." Relational art connects the community through shared knowledge and forms a network of human relations, similar to social media. However, humans have become overwhelmed with digital media in a world imbued with technologies. I found this article illuminating and believe Walking art to be a crucial component in joining individuals in broader conversations outside of the limited experiences of a museum or online. 

Hudelist and Pilipets propose that art can escape the constraints of institutions such as museums through acts of experimentation. Kulturbahnhof, an independent moving art project in the transformed Kassel, Germany, old railway station, acts as evolving experimentation of space and time. Kulturbahnhof is an open-ended center for artistic and cultural production as an ongoing and continually reconfiguring project. The dynamic encounters between visitors, artists, installations, and consumer objects operate as a performative landscape where life becomes art. In Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's Walk, participants interact in an audio-visual environment set within the frame of an iPod. The video displays the same material space of the train station in which the participant perceives the work. This playback activates the observer in sensory confusion and continuous performance. In this example, the boundaries between virtual and reality are blurred, observed and experienced, immobile and energized. Although individual, all viewers' experiences are connected as the relation between actual space and artistic vision takes each participant on the same journey. I found this work fascinating as, through a bit of chaos, the installation incited electrifying shared experiences among countless people. 

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Reading and Respons

Time and Motion by Terry Barret: 

In “Time and Motion” by Terry Barret, explains the variety of showing motion and time in different media. Barret reveals that time and be detected through implied, actual, or recorded time. Furthermore, he expresses the use of actual time through Robert Irwin’s “Getty Garden” which featured a variety of foliage over a period of time, growing into adults and going in and out of seasonal cycles. Barret also showed the short film by Chris Wedge, “Bunny” to exhibit implied time, where the time feels longer than the seven minutes. Wedge achieved this effect by having a series of events between the protagonist, the bunny, and the presumed antagonist, the moth. What Barret is trying to point out through the article, is that as 4d artists, it is important to create an environment for the viewer whether it is by the duration and tempo they create integrated into their art. This leads me to what I learned from the reading which, inspired by Chris Wedge and Rober Irwin, is to utilize materials and take advantage of the timely possibilities that they offer like using plants to show time passing through seasonal changes from green to amber and using video to speed up or slow down events within a period of time. One thing I have been wanting to learn more about from the reading is the art series, “The Creation” by Duane Michals and what they are trying to portray. A theoretical part of the reading is the reaction the viewers will take on seeing different types of art in motion or on time.

Walking Art: The Movement In-Between by  Andreas Hudelist and Elena Pilipets In the reading: Walking Art: The Movement In-Between by Andreas Hudelist and Elena Pilipets, is about relational art, immersing the viewer into an experience that connects them to an experience through time by utilizing space and technology to reveal hidden socio-political and economic messages. Throughout the article, Hudelist and Pilipets both explore new ways to present art through the use of 4d elements in contemporary post-modernism art. One “walk of art” they introduced was Alter Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, who used the popular Kulturbahnhof train station in order to highlight the expressiveness solely coming from the motion of the viewer through time. This installation focuses on the inter-human relations that ultimately support the post-modernism approach of the importance of encounters with one another rather than the individual artists themselves. The main idea of the article is to explain the many variations of post-modern contemporary art that break down previously separated media like technology, science, and economy into one to create harmonious, yet complex interpretations of society’s burdens. Something influential that I’ve learned through this reading is how to make the best of the space that surrounds or involves the art, this could change my own vision of art to make me consider more about its relationship to the space and viewer. Furthermore, it challenges me to consider things about how the art is presented and viewed and to take advantage of it. I’d like to understand a bit more about ‘designer’ or ‘contemporary’ capitalism. The readings are theoretical where they question whether or not interactive art is political.

Robert Irwin Detail of the Getty Garden

Chris Wedge, “Bunny” 

Alter Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Night Walk for Edinburgh by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Spider, Alexander Calder 1939

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Walking Art: The Movement In-Between

By Andreas Hudelist and Elena Pilipets is an argumentative short essay that contemporary Art within social structures has vastly shifted from its origins as its own zone has crossed with everyday activates deeping relations between participant and the art itself.

Or at least is what I could come up with. It's an odd read that's structured like a college essay on the subject with various coined terms pulled many different sources could fly over your head very easily. Honestly, I was left wondering what they were talking about half the time and what does this have to do with their argument.

Also, an expedition known as dOCUMENTA (13) held in Germany every five years has its artists work used. We're talking like Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller held in Kulturbahnhof and old train station. They go into great detail about the whole experience.

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Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995. She lives and works in British Columbia, Canada. [From Wikipedia].

I highly recommend taking a listen to her beautiful and immersive 18-minute piece "A Large Slow River." All these pieces have been put on UbuWeb sound for download.

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Janet Cardiff

The Telephone Call, 2001/2023

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WEEK 2 / Seminar

A box is a space/room to contain artworks or something:

A box is a mise en scène (placing on stage), a world to guide audiences to imagine and resonate, and I really like this work's intention? idea? - which is ''the lines various realities are blurred'', as a cineaholic🎬，I do immersed myself into this awesome art work strongly.

A box is a tableau, a scene usually presented on a stage by silent and motionless costumed participants, feel like a frame from a movie......

A box can be anything.

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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller

Dreams – Telephone Series 2008-10

MEDIUM: Telephone, iPod

Cardiff & Miller

Osaka Symphony 2018

MEDIUM: A site specific audio installation commissioned by the The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan.

Cardiff & Miller

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📞✨ Explore "The Telephone In Art" at 195 Broadway Art Foundation! ✨📞

Dive into the fascinating world of telephones through a curated collection that transcends time and technology. "The Telephone In Art" exhibition at the 195 Broadway Art Foundation unveils the profound impact of telephonic communication through captivating artworks. 🎨🔗

From the emotional resonance of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's "We’re in some strange country" to the nostalgic charm of Matthew Ostrowski's "Western Electric Nº 1," each piece tells a unique story about our enduring connection with telephones. 🌐🔊