More Video Art presenation

KT Stemper, Piolotti Rush

A weird video, lots of synbolism, flowers, blue dress and red shoes, metal flowers to break windows. Pop-culture influences, color enhancements and humor put us in a dream like state

Ryan. Semiotics of the Kitchen

Feminist video created by a first generation feminist Martha Rosler. This is a darkly humorous piece about the tools of the kitchen. She holds the title ridiculously long in the entire piece. Huh, he does goe through the alphabet, i didn't catch that the last couple times i've seen the video. Her use of the tools is strange. ahh, lol her face kills me, its so deadpan. Her tossing the 'liquid' violently out of the label is very poignant to her message. This is all one take, she couldn't mess up. The end shrug is awesome. It's a big "what are you gonna do about it."

TBM Project opinons

Bill Viola by Sara

White noise, adds to meditating. Subtle details. Bill is old been around since the dawn of video art. Watching it now: i find the plane disconcerting, plane circling, lots of tension, him floating is rly weird. the pool is weirdly calming, subtle thing secure it, like the leaves falling, intentional strange cuts of scenes in the same angle people in the water. reversing some ripples, darkening it, manipulating it, weird... i love it, him getting out naked it a cool twist. is this a memory of him in the pool? cool... how did he do that? easily?

Spike Lee by William

Tackles controversial topics, lighting and dialogue to get that 'in your face' aspect of the film. shows emotion of New York at the time, Edward Norton is AMAZING!! but he really plays the same role a lot, messed up troubled male out of touch. patriotic imagery, to tying in subtly 9/11 an people's diverseness. dramtic lighting, i love the steady cam when the girl enters. i liket he different colors used in the lighting, i love this floating allusion.

Paul McCarthy

Rly rly weird video, cliche help video about family abuse, i guess. Dream like and Freudian undertones. Hereditaty passing down of beliefs, Oedipus Complex... video like a dream, childlike state. wtffffff. whole video based on 'interjection' when ppl take on the traits of another, depiction of institutional abuse. danger of projecting ideas onto your children. father-son relationship prevalent.

Mitchel Gondry

Diagetic sound, ppl are aware of the sounds, cuts of many of the same shot. Panning, short transition and colored light go into the song. Graphic relationship allows the viewer to make connections between characters and the visual tricks like the dudes head in the speaker. Humor in stationary camera and the actors moving toward and away, cheezy transitions to add the humor. The penis disco balls draws attention to the lyrics. Repetition of color, in lights and tile.

90 Minute Fluxus Inspired Performance

I found the expierence to be intresting, looking over the video things actually did look like art pieces to me. When I get a moment Ill post some videos up on the blog, but not the entire file since its gigantic. It was intresting how different's peoples reacted, whether good or bad. It defiantely helps me in deciding what our next project's going to be like.

FLUXUS

It was a movement started in 1962 that defined a people, body of works, groups, and thoughts. The goal of Fluxus was to get rid of the division of art and life. I read an essay once that said that because we as a society describe our lives somtimes as if from scenes in movies, therefore we see and live our lives as works of art.

The definitions from fluxus.

1. Globalism: embraces the idea that we live on a single world, a world in which the boundaries of political states are not identical with the boundaries of nature or of culture.
2. Unity of Art and Life: when Fluxus was established, the conscious goal was to erase the boundaries between art and life, the sort of language appropriate to the time of pop art and of happening.
3. Intermedia: idea that Fluxus was an art form appropriate to people who say there can be no artificial boundaries between art and life. Without those boundaries, there can be no boundaries between art form and art form.
4. Experimentalism: trying new things and assessing the results. Experiments that yield useful results cease being experiments and become usable tools.
5. Research Orientation: applies not only to the experimental method, but to the ways in which research is conducted.
6. Chance: in the sense of aleatory or random chance, is a tradition with a legacy. Random chance, a way to break the bonds. Evolutionary chance engages a certain element of the random. Genetic changes occur as well in a process that is known as random selection.
7. Playfulness: the play of ideas, the playfulness of free experimentation, the playfulness of free association and the play of paradigm shifting that are as common to scientific experiment as to pranks.
8. Simplicity: refer to the relationship of truth and beauty, and related to the term elegance.
9. Parsimony: refer to the relationship of truth and beauty, and related to the term elegance.
10. Implicativeness: an ideal Fluxus work implies many works. This notion is close to and grows out of the notion of elegance and parsimony.
11. Exemplativism: the quality of a work exemplifying the theory and meaning of its construction.
12. Specificity: has to do with the tendency of a work to be specific, self contained, and to embody all its own parts.

Now an days its not as organized as it used to be but its still alive in music, such as scores, and in ideas.