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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
5-3 Blank Empty Assignment
When I attended my foundations course while I enrolled at the School of Visual Arts, we had all sorts of fun computer illustration assignments. The course was called Visual Computing, and it was sort of like this course except it was geared more toward homework that allowed us to express our aesthetics as artists coming from various majors. We had this fun assignment using text to make a photo of someone or something, and I remember making Obama as my inspiration. I would love it if our class did this as an assignment one day and see how all of our work varies.
HW 5-2 Sigmar Polke -Artist that uses scanography.
The artist that I decided to use for my scenography piece is Sigma Polke, because I cannot get his MOMA retrospective show out of my head, once I hear scanography.
Sigmar Polke is a German painter and photographer born on February 13th 1941, he experimented with all types of subject matter including references of Auswitz, as well as materials (he used fabrics to paint, to resin and to photocopy prints). When I attended his show at the MoMa, every thing intrigued me but what I had never seen an artist do before is use photocopy scans or errors from a printer as a use for an art form, which is why I am really excited to talk about him for this topic.
He experimented with images collected from textbooks from the 1970s, and used the photocopier as a method to extend and distort the nature of new images in order to create in abstraction. These images look hallucinatory and subliminal, and I love how innovative that his thought process was.
"New York- Sigmar Polke: Photokopierarbeiten" at Fergus Mccafffey
Sigmar Polke is a German painter and photographer born on February 13th 1941, he experimented with all types of subject matter including references of Auswitz, as well as materials (he used fabrics to paint, to resin and to photocopy prints). When I attended his show at the MoMa, every thing intrigued me but what I had never seen an artist do before is use photocopy scans or errors from a printer as a use for an art form, which is why I am really excited to talk about him for this topic.
He experimented with images collected from textbooks from the 1970s, and used the photocopier as a method to extend and distort the nature of new images in order to create in abstraction. These images look hallucinatory and subliminal, and I love how innovative that his thought process was.
"New York- Sigmar Polke: Photokopierarbeiten" at Fergus Mccafffey
"Untitled"
(Circa 2000)
"Der junge Akrobat" (2000)
"Der junge Akrobat" (detail) (2000)
Retrieved from
http://artobserved.com/2014/12/new-york-sigmar-polke-photocopierarbeiten-at-fergus-mccaffrey-through-december-20th-2014/
OA#9: Think about digital photography as a medium
Ever since I owned a camera while I was an adolescent, I would take it to my travels to other countries. I once volunteered at a camp in Canada, where many youngsters loved to play with my camera. I saw that many of them came from different backgrounds but one particular girl from Iran, stood out to me and she loved to take my picture. She loved to take photos of others and myself. Another child loved to take landscape photos of people eating or people enjoying activities in the park. I think that youngsters love colorful images of their surroundings, and they also love to take photos of people because it allows them to gain a closer look at the features that they probably wouldn't have noticed before. Lastly every one loves nature, nature is all around you, and nature has so many creativities on it own because it is not man-made! I would just explore my surroundings with children with the camera, and see where it goes from there.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Session 4- HW 8 Research a photographer
The photographer that I chose to research is named Fabiola Jean Louis, who is from my native country Haiti. I have been following her work for many years and I thought it was the perfect fit for this assignment. Fabiola attended Fashion Industries High school then moved on to college at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where she majored in Illustration and several other fields. She discovered photography along her journey throughout her education and decided to pursue it further.
Her work has aspects of a fantasy world mixed with realities of the real world. She tells stories in all of her photographs and it has even allowed her to manifest sic-fi, space time and costume designs in her work. Her work has been shown in several album covers, AfroPunk, Bierds, Artinsomniac, and she also has commissioned for books as well. She is an inspiration for my art practice, because I too love to tell stories through images!!
Her work has aspects of a fantasy world mixed with realities of the real world. She tells stories in all of her photographs and it has even allowed her to manifest sic-fi, space time and costume designs in her work. Her work has been shown in several album covers, AfroPunk, Bierds, Artinsomniac, and she also has commissioned for books as well. She is an inspiration for my art practice, because I too love to tell stories through images!!
"Passing" 2016
"Madame Leroy (Le-wah)" 2016
Retrieved from
http://www.fabiolajeanlouis.com/rewriting-history/
Session 4 HW 7- Lankshear &Knobel reading
I love how the author starts out the article by defining the meaning of remix, and how it is found in music but not typically in art. He then defines different genres of music such as pop, rhythm and blues and heavy metal. After wards, he gives two definitions of remixes, one as a condition for a robust and democratic culture and a status as a new form of writing.
The "Read Only" culture talks of the consumption of professionally produced artifacts. The "Read Write" culture is those who read resources of culture that they have accumulated around them. He then uses Sousa, an American conductor and composer, as an example for why we need a "Read Write" culture in music. Sousa fears that his audience would be less connected to the music if it was not recreated to be cohesive with a democratic culture. The article then goes on to talk about remixes in media relating to the web, as well as music history to current music albums, and how the internet benefits meme culture and photoshop, which can also be seen as a form of remix.
The "Read Only" culture talks of the consumption of professionally produced artifacts. The "Read Write" culture is those who read resources of culture that they have accumulated around them. He then uses Sousa, an American conductor and composer, as an example for why we need a "Read Write" culture in music. Sousa fears that his audience would be less connected to the music if it was not recreated to be cohesive with a democratic culture. The article then goes on to talk about remixes in media relating to the web, as well as music history to current music albums, and how the internet benefits meme culture and photoshop, which can also be seen as a form of remix.
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