Internet and social media occupies a large part of our lives. As a visual art student seeking to express myself, I am interested to learn how digital world and technology make changes to contemporary art in this class.
My minor is art history and my focus is more on churches and oil paintings. I used to consider contemporary art as something either super thoughtful or super rough. It does not take long to finish a digital artwork. Everything can become art in contemporary art field. So digital artworks somehow seem less formal. Facebook photos and screenshots of Instagram can be printed out and exhibited in art galleries. There are so many genres that it’s hard to categorize. Artist can appropriate famous artworks using Photoshop or even take pictures of oil paintings. On one hand I am confused by digital art. On the other hand I am fascinated by how digital art is making progress. It is able to include your every thoughts and send to everyone in a minute. And the next minute you can receive hundreds of different individual reflections.
20180905 an image relate to me
The image I chose is a photo taken recently when I was attending Go Global summer program in Copenhagen. This picture captures the interior concrete walls, unique design of the ceiling and wooden furnitures of Bagsværd Church, designed by Jørn Utzon. Very different from the Sydney Opera House he made, Bagsværd Church gives me a strong impression of how Scandinavian life style is. A lot of churches I visited contain luxuriant religious decorations , but here I see only the simplest natural material without further construction. Overall tone is pure and divine. The ceiling has a beautiful curving shape that enables light to flow into the space and lighten up the space. It is a church meant to be used. We can see clearly how time passing leave traces on the walls and make the church look more gorgeous. It is our architecture studio professor’s favorite church in Copenhagen and I remember he saying “architecture is good to look new, but it is better if it is good”.
Personally I feel more relate to photos taken by myself because these are actual scenes I experienced in the past. Go Global department held a photo contest and was due few days ago. tle My memory about this photo is quite fresh because I have to write a caption describing it. So this photo bumped into my mind right after I heard this assignment. I learned a lot of ancient churches in art history class but I was really fascinated by Bagsværd Church.
20180905 Week1 NOTE
Image: visual language/Relating to the world/communicating/Finding my own voice
Anthropocene: change because of human. Defines Earth’s most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans
Transhumanism: the intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by using technology to eliminate aging and greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities”
post-human would no longer be a human being
TED Talk: Do schools kill creativity
Every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. The tops are mathematics and languages. Then the humanity and the bottom is art. Art and music are normally given the higher status in schools than drama and dance. The purpose of education is to produce university professors. high achievements are just a form of life. academic inflation
Forever Young: post humanism
We need to abolish aging. Aging is a disease.
Mind uploading: mind is a pattern of organization rather than a collection of meat. A…a physical matter. we can take the exact copy of our brains and place it into something like a hard drive
I would have hundreds of electrons to fire into my nervous system to have my brain linked to a computer. I can feel how much force my hand is pulling. My brain experience electronic pulses. We linked our nervous system together with my wife.
Technology vs. Humanity
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Einstein). Some says technology is threatening humanity because for example, when we try to capture moments using mobile phone, we are unable to live in the moment and miss things happening right in front of us. Some says technology serves humanity. Others say that technology will replace humanity.
The nature of technical images and their role in contemporary culture and life
“It is understandable why so many have been so jealous of the image’s influence. Sight is our most powerful sense, much more dominant in translating experience than taste, touch, or hearing. And images appeal to emotion — often viscerally so. They claim our attention without uttering a word. They can persuade, repel, or charm us. They can be absorbed instantly and easily by anyone who can see. They seem to speak for themselves. Today, anyone with a digital camera and a personal computer can produce and alter an image. As a result, the power of the image has been diluted in one sense, but strengthened in another. It has been diluted by the ubiquity of images and the many populist technologies (like inexpensive cameras and picture-editing software) that give almost everyone the power to create, distort, and transmit images. But it has been strengthened by the gradual capitulation of the printed word to pictures, particularly moving pictures — the ceding of text to image, which might be likened not to a defeated political candidate ceding to his opponent, but to an articulate person being rendered mute, forced to communicate via gesture and expression rather than language.”
possibilities offered by contemporary images
Mankind’s movement from an oral-based culture to a written culture, and later to a printed one In the age of the image, we may become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality and in the process rejecting the demands of discipline and patience that true things often require of us if we are to understand their meaning and describe it with personal experience
180919 notes
-What is an image: visual depiction, association, perception, knowledge, documentation, frame, communication(deliver a message, a bridge to someone else)
-Image=Imagination
-Create, desire, future, freedom, culture
-Image is not natural. It is a certain way of expressing ourselves. image is not like a rock or tree but is produced based on human intention
-photography cannot be questioned. it is the documentary truth
180926 notes
-image shifts between total abstraction and information
-No image is absolutely pure
-the communication has to happen on a different level which Freud called it unconscious
-images hold certain power in changing people’s mind
persuade the woman to smoke
-Humanity. we are one, in the same position, the notion is inside everyone of us.
-there is no real connection to human access/ image as masks
-Proceed the real to these experiences led by images
Diary 0926
I had VISA210 and ARTH338 today. Both of them are three-hour courses.
I felt exhausted in the afternoon but my friend bought me a coffee during the ARTH338’s break.
181003
-Futurist Artist
-Fillipo Tomasso Marinetti: raise the artist interest in technology
that dream of flying
-anything is possible. impact of technology. the promise of technology is bringing up a new world
-some people actually died in this attempt to fly.
-how do we describe this new world filled with technology and invention
-our everyday in a larger context
181010
What is an image
There’s nothing here: there is nothing informative here but chaos. notion/light waves/circles/depth/colors/reflection/
repetition, presentation, how do we speak today, every images speak their own time
vision as subject, we are the center of the world
Correspondence of image and the real
beyond reason
Images, technique, real
we see conflict, fascination of the unknown and mystery, perception, space, pixelation, medium specificity, manipulation, recreating, hope and reconfiguration of the real in image production
Appropriation.
all watched over by machines of loving grace
181017
The installation is important, multiple screens.
art technology freedom
Liberating themselves from the past
all of the dimensions are forcing people to move into a new world.
Technology promises freedom. everything seems possible by technology. willing to face the risk
no poor no rich, Russian ideology
everybody has access to everything
what are the new ways of beauty that is emerging from our moment
Contingency, machine offers limited freedom, being programmed, constrained by artist intention. do we really have freedom in the process.
art is based on uncertainty, not answer.
Art tech freedom
I try to create an interactive space for people to involve in, but eventually I don’t know what I am doing…
I intend to insert clear instruction in the video so that it conveys a direct information. That is what technology can do. Digital media is able to deliver messages quick and simple.
However, somehow technology also make information becomes ambiguous. The degree of how much information should be delivered is under control. And what we call freedom is not actually freedom. What we call digital art is hard to fit into hight art category.
181024
process is important
art is knowledge
Technology allows us to expand
drawing, prints,
photography. black and white, we lose colors. Film has limitations at that time.
Fluxus: non movement, going with the flow
Music: listening to somebody telling things,
what’s difference between sound and music
obsessed with trying to find silence. we can never listen to silence, because body makes sound.
John Cage, 4 33, doing this time everything happens become part of their art. every movement, every smile in the space.
the notion of being here
the space is defined
imagination, noise
the artist is something being invented
Fluxus performance workbook
Piano piece by George
Unabomber: terrorist
Homework1: go to Fluxus workbook and find a performance to create something
Homework2: imagination, we live in the reality that people once imagined in the past. think about the question: Do artists foresee the future, or do they create the future. what is an artist?
Fluxus
I choose the Three Lamp Events piece by George Grecht.
The instruction is written in three lines:
On. Off.
Lamp.
Off. On. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x7tmgAqDbaXjRbj0ecCVZRw-zEs_D2VQ/view?usp=sharing
This video was taken during my flight. Last year’s Christmas I visited a friend living in Tokyo and came back to school alone. The light in the airplane had been turned off and I wanted to go to the washroom before I went to sleep. but the washroom sign keeps flashing red, which means there was someone else using the wash room. I thought my growing anxiety in this silent but noisy space was interesting so I documented the process.
The Fluxus piece makes me imagine how lamps are being turned on and turned off repeatedly in a dark space full of mirrors, so that the lamps are multiply reproduced. The anxiety is similar to the flashing red light. I could not even focus onto the light because it’s too dark. So it was blurred in the video.
20180905 Goal
Internet and social media occupies a large part of our lives. As a visual art student seeking to express myself, I am interested to learn how digital world and technology make changes to contemporary art in this class.
My minor is art history and my focus is more on churches and oil paintings. I used to consider contemporary art as something either super thoughtful or super rough. It does not take long to finish a digital artwork. Everything can become art in contemporary art field. So digital artworks somehow seem less formal. Facebook photos and screenshots of Instagram can be printed out and exhibited in art galleries. There are so many genres that it’s hard to categorize. Artist can appropriate famous artworks using Photoshop or even take pictures of oil paintings. On one hand I am confused by digital art. On the other hand I am fascinated by how digital art is making progress. It is able to include your every thoughts and send to everyone in a minute. And the next minute you can receive hundreds of different individual reflections.
20180905 an image relate to me
The image I chose is a photo taken recently when I was attending Go Global summer program in Copenhagen. This picture captures the interior concrete walls, unique design of the ceiling and wooden furnitures of Bagsværd Church, designed by Jørn Utzon. Very different from the Sydney Opera House he made, Bagsværd Church gives me a strong impression of how Scandinavian life style is. A lot of churches I visited contain luxuriant religious decorations , but here I see only the simplest natural material without further construction. Overall tone is pure and divine. The ceiling has a beautiful curving shape that enables light to flow into the space and lighten up the space. It is a church meant to be used. We can see clearly how time passing leave traces on the walls and make the church look more gorgeous. It is our architecture studio professor’s favorite church in Copenhagen and I remember he saying “architecture is good to look new, but it is better if it is good”.
Personally I feel more relate to photos taken by myself because these are actual scenes I experienced in the past. Go Global department held a photo contest and was due few days ago. tle My memory about this photo is quite fresh because I have to write a caption describing it. So this photo bumped into my mind right after I heard this assignment. I learned a lot of ancient churches in art history class but I was really fascinated by Bagsværd Church.
20180905 Week1 NOTE
Image: visual language/Relating to the world/communicating/Finding my own voice
Anthropocene: change because of human. Defines Earth’s most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans
Transhumanism: the intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by using technology to eliminate aging and greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities”
post-human would no longer be a human being
TED Talk: Do schools kill creativity
Every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. The tops are mathematics and languages. Then the humanity and the bottom is art. Art and music are normally given the higher status in schools than drama and dance. The purpose of education is to produce university professors. high achievements are just a form of life. academic inflation
Forever Young: post humanism
We need to abolish aging. Aging is a disease.
Mind uploading: mind is a pattern of organization rather than a collection of meat. A…a physical matter. we can take the exact copy of our brains and place it into something like a hard drive
I would have hundreds of electrons to fire into my nervous system to have my brain linked to a computer. I can feel how much force my hand is pulling. My brain experience electronic pulses. We linked our nervous system together with my wife.
Technology vs. Humanity
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Einstein). Some says technology is threatening humanity because for example, when we try to capture moments using mobile phone, we are unable to live in the moment and miss things happening right in front of us. Some says technology serves humanity. Others say that technology will replace humanity.
The nature of technical images and their role in contemporary culture and life
“It is understandable why so many have been so jealous of the image’s influence. Sight is our most powerful sense, much more dominant in translating experience than taste, touch, or hearing. And images appeal to emotion — often viscerally so. They claim our attention without uttering a word. They can persuade, repel, or charm us. They can be absorbed instantly and easily by anyone who can see. They seem to speak for themselves. Today, anyone with a digital camera and a personal computer can produce and alter an image. As a result, the power of the image has been diluted in one sense, but strengthened in another. It has been diluted by the ubiquity of images and the many populist technologies (like inexpensive cameras and picture-editing software) that give almost everyone the power to create, distort, and transmit images. But it has been strengthened by the gradual capitulation of the printed word to pictures, particularly moving pictures — the ceding of text to image, which might be likened not to a defeated political candidate ceding to his opponent, but to an articulate person being rendered mute, forced to communicate via gesture and expression rather than language.”
possibilities offered by contemporary images
Mankind’s movement from an oral-based culture to a written culture, and later to a printed one In the age of the image, we may become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality and in the process rejecting the demands of discipline and patience that true things often require of us if we are to understand their meaning and describe it with personal experience
The image of the image
Purity and divinity
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pYcTTyMuHp425P4i0jAeJ37L7tO0VA7Z/view?usp=sharing
The image of an apple
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mKKxrXPYjdMXZ980Nv7HgycDmt6mRnr4/view?usp=sharing
180919 notes
-What is an image: visual depiction, association, perception, knowledge, documentation, frame, communication(deliver a message, a bridge to someone else)
-Image=Imagination
-Create, desire, future, freedom, culture
-Image is not natural. It is a certain way of expressing ourselves. image is not like a rock or tree but is produced based on human intention
-photography cannot be questioned. it is the documentary truth
180926 notes
-image shifts between total abstraction and information
-No image is absolutely pure
-the communication has to happen on a different level which Freud called it unconscious
-images hold certain power in changing people’s mind
persuade the woman to smoke
-Humanity. we are one, in the same position, the notion is inside everyone of us.
-there is no real connection to human access/ image as masks
-Proceed the real to these experiences led by images
Diary 0926
I had VISA210 and ARTH338 today. Both of them are three-hour courses.
I felt exhausted in the afternoon but my friend bought me a coffee during the ARTH338’s break.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gMoX0Kv5MitW4DRvzeEvi-ttYlg6s6Hf/view?usp=sharing
We learned this painting, entitled Marcus Aurelius Distributing food and medicine, today in class.
Diary 0927
I had two classes that day. And I had been working on my 900-word essay draft which was due on Friday.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjU7zhCJvkfHAQp0OsU_OXETgpS1ueEC/view?usp=sharing
Diary 0928
I handed in my essay draft and had lunch with my friend. We talked a lot about all kinds of stuffs, what we like in common and our future plans. Nothing serious. This was our first time having meal together but I felt very relaxed.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nqE4YKUegbIL_RuJF9vTsdV7Sgwnvisl/view?usp=sharing
Diary 0929
I went to the supermarket with my roommate because we were running out of sauce.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19URX_cEj014Rs2Sv4YCRxIlGJW57orx-/view?usp=sharing
Diary 0930
I was working on the readings assigned for art history classes that day.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13cKXs3ADlEj-nWqVskulyg4A8apA3JgU/view?usp=sharing
Diary 1001
I did my VISA210’s assignment using photoshop yesterday.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OVUA69UBVY7Pcut9Xywu_65m7HhsWNjU/view?usp=sharing
Diary 1002
Online weather forecast tells me that it’s 8°C today but I feel like it’s only 3 °C or 4 °C.
The way how leaves falling in the cold wind looks beautiful.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K5DbTi3vZ4_uPAg3ypaoJ80LxMSI9fbJ/view?usp=sharing
181003
-Futurist Artist
-Fillipo Tomasso Marinetti: raise the artist interest in technology
that dream of flying
-anything is possible. impact of technology. the promise of technology is bringing up a new world
-some people actually died in this attempt to fly.
-how do we describe this new world filled with technology and invention
-our everyday in a larger context
181010
What is an image
There’s nothing here: there is nothing informative here but chaos. notion/light waves/circles/depth/colors/reflection/
repetition, presentation, how do we speak today, every images speak their own time
vision as subject, we are the center of the world
Correspondence of image and the real
beyond reason
Images, technique, real
we see conflict, fascination of the unknown and mystery, perception, space, pixelation, medium specificity, manipulation, recreating, hope and reconfiguration of the real in image production
Appropriation.
all watched over by machines of loving grace
The image of the image II
A documentation of the changing process of my feelings when I listen to Claire de Lune.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Aq2QVVvmy8dBF7n58qgy0fEER8lzmQK-/view?usp=sharing
181017
The installation is important, multiple screens.
art technology freedom
Liberating themselves from the past
all of the dimensions are forcing people to move into a new world.
Technology promises freedom. everything seems possible by technology. willing to face the risk
no poor no rich, Russian ideology
everybody has access to everything
what are the new ways of beauty that is emerging from our moment
Contingency, machine offers limited freedom, being programmed, constrained by artist intention. do we really have freedom in the process.
art is based on uncertainty, not answer.
Art tech freedom
I try to create an interactive space for people to involve in, but eventually I don’t know what I am doing…
I intend to insert clear instruction in the video so that it conveys a direct information. That is what technology can do. Digital media is able to deliver messages quick and simple.
However, somehow technology also make information becomes ambiguous. The degree of how much information should be delivered is under control. And what we call freedom is not actually freedom. What we call digital art is hard to fit into hight art category.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BMBpCZMEVHXI8lFGvKohHW4Fmzfy2s2W/view?usp=sharing
181024
process is important
art is knowledge
Technology allows us to expand
drawing, prints,
photography. black and white, we lose colors. Film has limitations at that time.
Fluxus: non movement, going with the flow
Music: listening to somebody telling things,
what’s difference between sound and music
obsessed with trying to find silence. we can never listen to silence, because body makes sound.
John Cage, 4 33, doing this time everything happens become part of their art. every movement, every smile in the space.
the notion of being here
the space is defined
imagination, noise
the artist is something being invented
Fluxus performance workbook
Piano piece by George
Unabomber: terrorist
Homework1: go to Fluxus workbook and find a performance to create something
Homework2: imagination, we live in the reality that people once imagined in the past. think about the question: Do artists foresee the future, or do they create the future. what is an artist?
Fluxus
I choose the Three Lamp Events piece by George Grecht.
The instruction is written in three lines:
On. Off.
Lamp.
Off. On.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x7tmgAqDbaXjRbj0ecCVZRw-zEs_D2VQ/view?usp=sharing
This video was taken during my flight. Last year’s Christmas I visited a friend living in Tokyo and came back to school alone. The light in the airplane had been turned off and I wanted to go to the washroom before I went to sleep. but the washroom sign keeps flashing red, which means there was someone else using the wash room. I thought my growing anxiety in this silent but noisy space was interesting so I documented the process.
The Fluxus piece makes me imagine how lamps are being turned on and turned off repeatedly in a dark space full of mirrors, so that the lamps are multiply reproduced. The anxiety is similar to the flashing red light. I could not even focus onto the light because it’s too dark. So it was blurred in the video.