Just a bit of political commentary
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Musical Transcription - Contemporary Jazz
This project, created in Adobe Illustrator, is a visual, real-time translation of a musical piece by the contemporary band 3 Leg Torso. The black and white color scheme is meant to echo musical notation, while the warped complexity is meant to portray a sense of complicated unity that stems from the seemingly-improvised musical progressions that change in tone throughout the piece.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Georg Nees: Artist Profile
For my artist profile, I decided to research further the inspiration, methods, and works of the computer program artist Georg Nees. Initially, I found his work aesthetically pleasing without even knowing of its digital origins, and unbiased by the knowledge of its artistic process. In particular, I am referring to his work "Untitled (Gravel Stones)" which he created using a randomly-generating computer program and digitally-controlled "pen" to visually represent these random generations.
I found this work's process particularly interesting; as it reminded me of the random "Zen" philosophy-inspired works of John Cage. Although Cage's medium was less visually-portrayed than musical, the idea of controlled chaos, the carefully pruned random, I found to be quite similar. It also very interestingly successfully and seamlessly ties together the worlds of computer programming and art in ways that I have never seen before; yet this piece was completed in the late 1960s.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Artist Proflie: Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain"
For my artist post, I wanted to pursue an artist that operated in the duration of the Dada movement, in particular the category of appropriation; due to its ties to image-appropriation in digital media creation. I wanted to explore this relationship, and thought perhaps it would assist me in inspiration for my first digital media project, which will involve an extensive amount of digital appropriation of photographs.
Duchamp was a member of the New York Dadaist movement in the late 1950s, operating within a larger, international movement, although European and American Dada movements differed slightly, especially in terms of subject matter and artistic goals. European Dada was a direct response to the horrors of WWI, and was thusly much graver, whereas the New York movement was less "serious."
Duchamp's artistic legacy is extensive and spans many artistic phases, but I wish to concentrate on his contribution and exploration in Dada, specifically his well-known and famous work, "Fountain," ca. 1917. In this work, Duchamp appropriates a latrine toilet, places it on a wall, and declares it art. However, this seemingly simple work actually helps illustrate the meaning of art: an idea and meaning applied to an object, rather than the object itself. Placed into a exhibitory context, this latrine becomes a piece of art, with an alternate meaning, and an alternate idea behind it. I wish to pursue a similar exploration, the expression of an idea through the morphed meaning of appropriated objects and images, through my first digital project.
Duchamp was a member of the New York Dadaist movement in the late 1950s, operating within a larger, international movement, although European and American Dada movements differed slightly, especially in terms of subject matter and artistic goals. European Dada was a direct response to the horrors of WWI, and was thusly much graver, whereas the New York movement was less "serious."
source: wikipedia.org
Duchamp's artistic legacy is extensive and spans many artistic phases, but I wish to concentrate on his contribution and exploration in Dada, specifically his well-known and famous work, "Fountain," ca. 1917. In this work, Duchamp appropriates a latrine toilet, places it on a wall, and declares it art. However, this seemingly simple work actually helps illustrate the meaning of art: an idea and meaning applied to an object, rather than the object itself. Placed into a exhibitory context, this latrine becomes a piece of art, with an alternate meaning, and an alternate idea behind it. I wish to pursue a similar exploration, the expression of an idea through the morphed meaning of appropriated objects and images, through my first digital project.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Digital Technology Log
24-hour technology log:
0000 - 0100 - 1 hr computer, 4 txt msgs, 1 hr music
0100 - 0200 - 1 hr computer, 1 hr music
0200 - 0300 - 1 hr computer, 1 hr music
0300 - 0400 - 2 txt msgs, 30 min comp.
0400 - 0500 - sleep
0500 - 0600 - sleep
0600 - 0700 - sleep
0700 - 0800 - sleep
0800 - 0900 - sleep
0900 - 1000 - alarm clock, 1 txt msg
1000 - 1100 - 2 emails, 30 min computer use, 3 txt msgs
1100 - 1200 - 1 hr computer use, 2 emails
1200 - 1300 - 1 hr computer use, 1 hr music, 4 txt msgs
1300 - 1400 - 3 txt msgs, 1 hr music, 3 emails
1400 - 1500 - 1 hr computer use
1500 - 1600 - 1 hr computer use
1600 - 1700 - 1 hr music, 3 txt msgs
1700 - 1800 - 30 min music, 2 txt msgs
1800 - 1900 - sleep
1900 - 2000 - sleep
2000 - 2100 - 1 hr computer use, 4 emails, 3 txt msgs, 30 min music
2100 - 2200 - 1 hr computer use, 1 hr music, 2 txt msgs
2200 - 2300 - 1 hr computer use, 1 hr music, 4 txt msgs
2300 - 0000 - 1 hr computer use, 1 hr music, 2 txt msgs
The digital world never sleeps, and after seeing this visual representation of my average day schedule, apparently I rarely do too. Needless to say, I would probably be much less sleep-deprived if I lived in a log cabin.
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