Here is my 3 Minute Video Art Piece:
The video is called “A.D.D HD” although ironically, the images are not in HD; they are imported into a lower quality, with a mixture of high quality and low quality audio. The images are a mixture of importing with loss of quality and physically manipulation using IMovie and creating the audio in (so the image quality is supposed to suck incase your not sure).
What I had done was record a video error I found out by creating using my HDTV and my projecting cord I use to hook my mac to the TV. I then recorded 3 minutes of that and letting it go to stand by so it would record the default loading screen of the TV and also physically used my hair in front of the monitor. After that I went into IMovie and used the brightness, contrast, colors, and all of those functions to create a “visual painting”. Like many of the video art we had seen in class, I wanted to try to use the “errors” and create paintings, which in the end I ended up recreating images similar to that of Monet’s sunset images, in the dynamic use of color palette, to try to assimilate the idea I was going for. Some parts of the film were recorded off the TV while filming, then imported to the ipod, recorded from the ipod, then recorded from the television screen through the projector thing in my mac and so on.
The audio was all done by recording 4 different audio tracks and layering them on top, one was a weird gurgle noise, one vocal as a conversation of a stupid girl complaining about a boyfriend or something similar, a stereotype, another one of me making fun of myself and my speech. All three of those tracks were physically edited so they would differ in sound bytes. Then the fourth voice was just my normal voice, which if you tried to listen, was basically a “you have no idea what I'm saying because all you see is imagery and the fact my voice cant be heard” which is the whole point of the piece. It would not matter what was being said, the images would be all you see. Yes you can hear the voices and vocals, but because there all going at a mile a minute and blended together, it doesn’t matter what is being said, but what is seen.
Importantly, it’s all about the ideal that our professor was talking about we live in an ADD generation that we are obsessed with imagery.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Performance Art Piece
I apologize for not having any images, i've waited in enough time (no offence gals for not putting the pics up, it's really ok and to everyone who want's pics, but i'm sure you guys remember, i was the crazy person running through the halls with a big green record on my head) SADLY not that hard to forget.
My performace art was supposed to be a bit more complicated, but the pieces I had made so impermant a lot of it just fell off quicker than expected. Originally the idea was to make these layers, a layer of cassette tapes, cd’s and of course the big kimono of recrods. They were going to be destroyed, but as a lover of music I couldn’t bring myself to do it so I had to kinda fake it I guess (why they were velcro-ed on the kimono). Originally each layer would be removed differently, the first would be kinda slow because it was supposed to be artsy (like how people view records, it’s a taboo to ruin them, but no one wants them), then the tapes kinda rough, but a bit artsy, then the cds would be destroyed) along with the hat and stuff I was wearing so the adhesive would settle in and get used to it working, then everything really fell aprt too quick… uber uh oh, so I told myself “just go with what you’ve got, not to bulls- it , but improvise.. like shannel in Ru Paul's Drag Race go for it right?
So my whole idea was about how I am with technology I can rant about how grat it s,but lets be honest how many of us really care about reacods, sure don’t break them, but yet you won't buy them? So it's about the throw away idea of it, once its used and gone that’s it, its no longer pretty. Why at the end I picked up everything and threw it in the trash, its over its done its gone… no more use because I'm finished with it. Which is how I am sometimes with my own stuff, once I'm done its overwith. Like my headphones, cd players, I am the epitamny of the whole throw away society we life in.
Instead I went with my gut and the music and did something random, I liked how it came off.. It's this spontaneous thing about music and art… so even though it was last minute planning, it all worked out and I’m very happy some people liked it so yay for my odd ideas…
So now because of the project, I buy recrods… I mean now I have flashdance, the fixx, phill collins, even grace jones, barry manilow, the motion picture soundtrack to cabaret, and yes I have a record player at home my mom is going to fix and I'm going to take it… there is something wonderful about records, and this sensation that cd’s can’t bring y’know. So I officially am a record junkie, my father said I can have his old Beatles records, even the Jesus Christ Super Star album YAYS (he has the original broadway cast too)! And my mom said I could have her stuff too (which I have always wanted to listen to). So in the end i learned a great lesson from it myself on how i treat the things i do. Plus it inspired me to want to do several self portraits with stuff like that. So I'm going to work on that stuff soon...
My performace art was supposed to be a bit more complicated, but the pieces I had made so impermant a lot of it just fell off quicker than expected. Originally the idea was to make these layers, a layer of cassette tapes, cd’s and of course the big kimono of recrods. They were going to be destroyed, but as a lover of music I couldn’t bring myself to do it so I had to kinda fake it I guess (why they were velcro-ed on the kimono). Originally each layer would be removed differently, the first would be kinda slow because it was supposed to be artsy (like how people view records, it’s a taboo to ruin them, but no one wants them), then the tapes kinda rough, but a bit artsy, then the cds would be destroyed) along with the hat and stuff I was wearing so the adhesive would settle in and get used to it working, then everything really fell aprt too quick… uber uh oh, so I told myself “just go with what you’ve got, not to bulls- it , but improvise.. like shannel in Ru Paul's Drag Race go for it right?
So my whole idea was about how I am with technology I can rant about how grat it s,but lets be honest how many of us really care about reacods, sure don’t break them, but yet you won't buy them? So it's about the throw away idea of it, once its used and gone that’s it, its no longer pretty. Why at the end I picked up everything and threw it in the trash, its over its done its gone… no more use because I'm finished with it. Which is how I am sometimes with my own stuff, once I'm done its overwith. Like my headphones, cd players, I am the epitamny of the whole throw away society we life in.
Instead I went with my gut and the music and did something random, I liked how it came off.. It's this spontaneous thing about music and art… so even though it was last minute planning, it all worked out and I’m very happy some people liked it so yay for my odd ideas…
So now because of the project, I buy recrods… I mean now I have flashdance, the fixx, phill collins, even grace jones, barry manilow, the motion picture soundtrack to cabaret, and yes I have a record player at home my mom is going to fix and I'm going to take it… there is something wonderful about records, and this sensation that cd’s can’t bring y’know. So I officially am a record junkie, my father said I can have his old Beatles records, even the Jesus Christ Super Star album YAYS (he has the original broadway cast too)! And my mom said I could have her stuff too (which I have always wanted to listen to). So in the end i learned a great lesson from it myself on how i treat the things i do. Plus it inspired me to want to do several self portraits with stuff like that. So I'm going to work on that stuff soon...
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