Short Films 6.12.13

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Video Art was first noticed in the 80’s, some say it may have been started well before that but was not noticed till then. Only thing needed was a camera, still the same now today. The picture captured was copied onto a tape or CD so that it could later then be lifted and edited a lot easier. A digital camera allowed you to shot as many times as you wanted, and a film cost £23 a foot. So this is why a digital camera was more popular and used more often. Hollywood now find this difficult and try to steal the footage and sell it on. There are no longer any limits on the portability of the camera.

Exhibition getting the message out 29.11.13

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 What do people want in an exhibition?

– Interactivity ( become part of the art , control it , change it feeling involved)

-Accessibility ( having your work online on a website is a good way of showing your work like a preview however it must make the viewer want to see it in person even pay to see it)

-Relevance(care about the art have an emotional response to it even have an opinion of it)

-Engagement

Talk about the gallery (Walk in gallery, a pop up gallery & interactive gallery)

Walk in Gallery – Galleries go for art that is a blank canvas where art suits and takes to the space, which makes in easier on the human eye. But when they are not wanted there are alternative venues, example of this is Robert Smithson’s work as his work is made to suit the landscape rather than in a gallery. He created his art by pouring oil down a hill which provoked an emotional response on how wasteful some people are. But this just turned out to be ironic which meant he got his point across and was successful at telling us his point.

Many other questions asked are things like should it be public or private as the only two people that have a say in this is the artist himself and the gallery owner.

Pop Up – Pop up galleries are now the new most trendess type of gallery used now. It is hosted anywhere that artist wants. So it could range from on the street to in a shopping centre, just as long as that artist had got permission.

Interactive galley – An example of an interactive gallery is Abba’s gallery were they keep a record of your day and allow you to download this later that day. This makes us the viewer feel a part of the art which makes the gallery more interesting and popular and also allows us the viewer to give an opinion.

Sound Theory/ Sound Practice 18.10.13

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Sound is an forgotten medium. Sound is something we all come across every day throughout our lives. But sound is heard differently by everyone as for example, in a moving image the sound we think we are hearing may be in fact not what it really sounds like. The words of sound is an event world wide, the world of sight is an object world. By this I mean when we see landscape we see it as an object, but when we hear sound it reminds us instantly of an event in our life. Sound cannot be shut out because it contains depth and has no directionality.

Sound has three phases, these are:

The Attack, the voice

The Sustain, the audience hearing it

Decay, when someone far away can hear it but cant make it out

Sound is sometimes known as a disco graphic because we feel sound as its white noise. White noise is a very high pitch, flat and constant sound that after a while would drive anyone mad. This was first discovered by governments years ago, they used white noise on criminals. They through criminals in a white room naked and played a very loud crackling noise for hours and hours at a time, and this made people insane.

Just like an image sound has a perspective, these are:

Figure, most important sound

Groan, the listeners social world

Field, the physical sound around the listener

 

 

what is creativity? 27.9.13

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My blog is for me to express myself on what I have learnt.

With the task of creating something in 5 minutes with just a blank sheet, my outcome was to draw a question mark. As being creative is hard when under pressure and no brief description of what was being asked for was given.

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What is Creativity? Some people would say any form of art found in a museum, some would say art can be anything you want it to be. But my argument is that art is anything that is new and creative. Something that has never been done before or has been retouched up to be made better. Art should do three things, challenge us, hurt us emotionally, and make us think. People find it quiet hard to be creative as it was drilled into us in the young years of our lives, and so this leaves us thinking that we are not creative. But I believe everyone is creative as when we simply put an outfit together, this is us being creative.

Being creative means making a space a place. When people grow an attachment to a certain place this becomes a space, an knowing thing by all. A space is something that does not have a purpose as its an get in and get out thing. An example of a space would be an airport as people will use it to simply walk through to get from one place to another.

In this world we live there is all kinds of creativity ranging from our clothes, to our drawings and to decorating our houses. Creativity can be anything that you put thought and meaning into.

Reading the Image 4.10.13

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Image is a text!

An image needs to give out a message, a message that will catch the audiences attention in three seconds. When a person goes on the internet or reads a magazine their attention spam is not very good, which means us the designers have three seconds to catch that persons eye before they lose interest and close the page on both the internet and magazine.

When we take images(photos) we automatically are deciding what goes in the frame of the photo and this is what is known as the camera lying. When we instantly decide what goes into our photo we are editing parts of the photo which we do not want in the frame.

Some people ask the question, are we real artists if we use computers? In my opinion we are as when it comes to reading images there’s a formula to do it. This formula consists of reading the text under the image, such as reading what the meaning of the image is. “Read beneath the text” What your saying or what your being told is not always true.

Roland Barthes, an author that wrote a book called “Image Text” talks about how he analyses advertisements and how he thinks they make advertisements very unrealistic. e.g. Washing powder advert, were instantly in the ad there is a mother who does the washing and there’s two children, a boy and a girl. This almost instantly makes us the audience think that this is reality and that’s it normal for the mother to always do the washing. But when people watch the advert they don’t realise this as they don’t read beneath the image to find the meaning.

Is creating things on a computer make you less important than a painter. In my opinion art can be any kind of creation that is new and exciting. Art comes in many forms such as paintings, drawings, photo shop files, fabrics, photographs etc…

David Hockney was an artist who created collages. In the 15th century many people used cameras to create art and this was very suspicious to Hockney. So he decided to try figure out how people were doing this, so he went to the museum and noticed that the people in the photographs were all left handed. He found out that when the artist had taken the photo the camera flips the photo. This kind of photo was created using a piece of glass and a piece of light shining in the right way, which made these beautiful images.

Many people say that if you capture the ZEITGEIST that you will never be poor again as this is what makes an artist one step ahead of everyone else. This is why artists always read the subtext.

Join the dots! 11.10.13

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Join the dots is a term people use when describing to people that they should join the dots before taking too much on.

When people sign up to free sites such as face-book and Hotmail, this gives the government the right to hack into your private information. An example of this is the Dublin government which sold 36,000 pieces of peoples private information to the newspapers or other companies.

This leads me to my next argument. Internet vs.. Interweb

The internet is known as the motorway, the road itself and of course the interweb the content you put into it.

Big Data – 25/10/13

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“Everything than can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” Albert Einstein

Location Services, is this a good or bad idea. After talking about this I now think that Location Services is a dangerous thing we have on our mobile phones as if we have it switched on, anyone in the world can track you. This is how people receive spam mail. E.g. you go to England and you arrive some were and they instantly send you spam mail. (Hotels etc…)

In Southern California they store this information, and google also stores whatever you research for 12 weeks. This is a very scary thing as it invades our privacy. The government now do a thing called Digital Fingerprint, this is when you have been chosen randomly to have their web searched. A boy was caught downloading illegal movies and was fined £10,500. Facebook is the worst social network as because it’s free they are tracking you and selling you on. Where does your private life start and where does it end.

But other than this big data can also be used in many good ways.

Google was able to tell every government in the world in 13 minutes were the next outburst of swine flu was going to happen next in the world. This is simply because people were writing in their symptoms into google and google was storing this information. So this just shows that if you wanted to do a survey of any kind you can use google and you will get an answer. “The difference between big data and statistics are the pattern.” Big data won’t necessarily change the arts and culture, but the bigger data will and big data should. The government should take notice of the Turner prise being in Derry, this made Derry a happier place.  In the museum, there is an artist that has a figure of a naked man in the museum, this has caused many rows as children from schools have been coming to see the turner prise and people complained that they should not being see this kind of stuff.  Once this turner prise is over they want to turn this space into offices.

Derry is now 1/10 best places to visit because it is coming up in google search so often, and also on social networks because it’s been talked about so much. All because of the impact of the arts, for the City of Culture.

 

What is happening to Data? Volume, Variety & Velocity

Facebook friends, are they really our friends? Much research was done to answer this question that many people ask. Realistically they found that each person only has the most of 6 real friends, so obviously all those extra friends on face book are not our friends.

Patterns tells us what’s going on. E.g. if there was a huge increase in people buying paint brushes you would know there was an arty thing coming up.

Macro – The overall picture

Big data offers new possibilities as it allows us to analyse both the macro and the granular, and curate and measure and finally move from causality to identification of patterns.

Showing big data: Info-graphics allows us to show big data in an interesting visual way. It shows things that are not measureable by society. A chart an info-graphics are different things as info-graphics have movement and statistics included in them. Info-graphics include comparisons etc…

“Before big data, our analysis was usually limited to testing a small number of hypothesis that we defined well before we even collected the data. When we let the data speak, we can make connections that we had never thought existed.” (2013: Mayer-Schonberger & Cukier)