Comments!

These are some of the comments that I couldn't leave on people's sites since their posts weren't up yet...


Flip book

• Sean: I really liked your idea, but I feel like you repeated a bit. I want more! I did like the ending how "The end" just disappears. 
• Matt: Very different! Taking all those pictures must have taken you forever. I wish there was more happening in the pictures... something that you'd never see. 

Grid Art

• Sean: Loved the animation! It was very cool and cute that you used candy. I wish it was longer though. Instead of just spelling out the ART, I wished you did something else... like a picture or dancing. Love the music!
• Nate: Great choice of grid. I never would have thought to use a map. I loved that you cute up the states and moved them around to different spots.
• Matt: Nice color use. Great choice of using ribbons. RGB =)
• Natasha: I never thought to use candle wax as a substitute for glue. It worked really nicely with everything. The color of the wax on the little screens were awesome. 

Xerox

• Matiya: I liked that you use highlighters for color instead of markers. It really gave the xerox a certain effect.
• Nate: Nice repetition of your face. It worked really nicely. You should definitely cut some of the white borders off the pictures for a better effect.
• Sean: The soccer ball mobile was a great idea. You should definitely try to turn it upside down and maybe add more xerox body parts. I felt like it missing something.
• Matt: Too small, but cool idea.
• Natasha: The tree lamp was a really cool idea. 

Performance Art 

• Matiya: The nail art was a really cute idea. It would have been more interesting if you did your feet, as well. You would have gotten more looks for sure! 
• Alaina: I love the dragging keyboard. I like that you sew the cords into your shirt. You should try this with more keyboards attached to you. 
• Nate: Wow. I really liked the meaning of this performance. I never would have expected such an outcome. You definitely learned a valuable lesson from this. 
• Sean: Time Standing Still... what a wonderful idea! I don't think I would have been able to stand there for an hour. You have some stamina! It was great to see how people reacted to you standing there. 
• Alexandria: This was hilarious. It was just crazy to see that only one person offered you help. Our society isn't even effected by something like this anymore. 
• Natasha: I really like the transition in the beginning of your piece. It would have been really cool if you made some antennas and wore it on your head. Great job! 
• Matt: ?

Video Art

• Bianca: I did not know where the video was going in the beginning... it totally not expected. It was really funny and cool. Good job!
• Alaina: I really liked the natural sounds you used. The silent footsteps were my favorite. The change of colors at the end were not expected. I like that the last scene of your silent footsteps were in white. It was like you were walking on nothing. pretty cool!
• Nate: Looooved it! it was so adorable. I did not expect you to do this type of video. The videos and audios you chose were wonderful and it really worked with each other!
• Natasha: Really creative and hilarious! I wish there was some music! Definitely use the mario music and add some mix into it so then it gives a different take on the video.
• Matiya: Really cool use of filters. The black and white one in the beginning reminded me of the classic Godzilla/King Kong movies... especially with the music you used! 
• Sean: Really cool! The end with you walking across the screen was amazing. It would be crazy if you moved the screen when you were trapped in the beginning... if you get more help and decide to re-do it... definitely experiment more! Great job!
• Matt: Interesting! I wish there was audio to the video... It felt like the video ended too short. I wanted more!
• Rob: Newism! what a fantastic idea! I loved that you had separate eyes, nose, and mouth... it was very similar to mine, but complete different intake on mine. Great job manipulating the voices!
• Cayla: I loved the reverse idea! Completely different. You should try reversing the song, as well!
• Alexandria: The audio worked really well with the video. Great choice of video clips that you used. I liked that you went a bit crazy... completely different from I expected from you. 
• Julia: Wow. Your video was so meaningful. I definitely teared up. It made me think of my dad and how I never really got to know him because he left my family when I was really young. You are just amazing Julia! 

Video Art

Originally I recorded each of my eyes, my nose, my mouth, and my whole face. I layered and resized my whole face into my each of my eyes. From there, I just started layering my mouth, nose, eyes on top of my face. After I did that, I exported the video then imported it back in, in certain areas. Then I imported the video again and flipped it upside down and layered it on top of the whole video. Viola. 

I never expected to have something so weird come out, but I like it. The audio that I added just made the video art complete. Love.

Jim Campbell

Jim Campbell's degree in electrical engineering definitely came in handy. His installations are just amazing and beyond my thoughts. "Interactive Hallucination"... woah. Seeing yourself on fire is just crazy. The thoughts and emotions running through the viewers! That must've been something, watching the viewers' faces... the emotions running across their faces when they see themselves on fire. 


My favorite has to be his low resolution works... "The Library" especially. It really does look like there are ghosts walking around in front of the New York Public Library. The process that he went through to produce this piece is crazy. This piece just amazes me. 

Performance Art Video

Originally I was going to do something completely different, but then this idea of walking a TV popped into my head. Perfect! I was just going to walk around, dragging a TV but I had to wear a costume... it just made perfect sense =) 

It was really crazy walking around Ybor dressed like that. Surprisingly, there were a lot of people that did not react to me at all. They just thought it was the norm of Ybor or just didn't want to get involved. 


My favorite part was walking by and some random stranger yelled that he wanted a picture with me. Amazing. I'm a super star! 

Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti Rist is a video-artist. She actually started out a member of a band and performance group named Les Reines Prochaines. She started out doing super 8 films which are films that are 8 mm wide and only lasted for a few minutes. 


Pipilotti's videos usually have a theme. She likes to make her videos based on sexuality, the body, and gender. Most of her works are considered to be feminist. 


She uses a lot of colors, especially vibrant ones. It really makes everything pop in her videos. 


"I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much" was hilarious. She messed with the filter, audio, and the speed of it. The audio made the video. 

Musique concrete

Musique concrete is a French term for concrete music or real music. Concrete music is a type of electronic music that uses acoustic sounds. 


It all first started with Pierre Schaeffer around the late 1940s. Pierre Schaeffer was a French composer who's five works for phonograph (Cinq etudes de bruits)were the first works to showcase musique concrete. 


More music technology were being developed after the war in Europe so  there were microphones, phonographs, and magnetic tape recorders. Musique concrete was becoming more developed. 


Music was really starting to become different and well... music.

Joseph Beuys/Laurie Anderson/Klaus Nomi /Leigh Bowery

Laurie Anderson's performance art pieces are quite something. She was such a talented musician, too! Meshing her music skills with her artistic skills was an awesome idea because what came out of it was something different and definitely fantastic. She experimented with a variety of different music and styles with the way she performed live.  

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Joseph Beuys. He was everything. He was a sculptor, pedagogue of art, performance artist, installation artist, graphic artist, and an art theorist. Besides being an artist, he was also a humanitarian. In the 20th century, Beuys was the most influential artist. 


Homogeneous Infiltration for Piano
What a simple work. It was a cover for a piano, but you didn't know if there was a piano under that cover. This piece actually reflected some of his experience in the military with the cross. 


His performance art pieces were well known for the time (he's very patient), sound, and some of the objects he used in the piece like the "How to explain pictures to a dead hare." Um that's a completely crazy but brilliant performance!

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Klaus Nomi. Wow. His voice was AMAZING. Fabulous. It is so fascinating that he sang classical opera and interpreted into his own style. His live performances must have been something to watch. There he was. Klaus Nomi, wearing lots of make-up with unusual, but definitely amazing costumes. I must say, when I first saw his videos I thought "what a strange man" but I get it. He's connecting past with future. Connecting old with new. It's something different and I like it. Really like it. 

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I would like to be in Leigh Bowery's mind, even if it's for 5 minutes. I'd to experience what went through his mind when he came up with all these crazy ideas! It's so different. You can't help, but be drawn to him like a moth to a flame.

Leigh Bowery was influential and still is. You can see his influences especially through Lady GaGa. 

Besides being a fashinista, he was a club promoter (how could you not go to the club when you see someone like him), a model (boy can he model those outfits), a fashion designer (I would love to make an outfit like his) and a pop star (what a diva!).