Final Video for Saudade

 

I walked through a bunch of different ideias, but all of them were around the 2D world being the missing part and the 3D being what's missing. I decide to go for a video then, trying to translate a little bit of what a feel. Along the way I ended up having some problems with my script and the video is kind of incomplete. But I think that is still expressive.

And here is the link for my final video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqi0j5WNDko&feature=youtu.be  

María Velasco 
 Is a Spanish -born artist that came to United States in 1990. She got her Bachelors  Degree in Painting from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 1989, received her Masters of Fine Arts in New  Genre from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1993. In 1995, she began teaching at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, where she currently works as an Associate Professor of Fine Arts.

Maria is creating very experimental work in New Media with the use of the projections, Installations,  animations , sculpture and Drawing. Her work investigates notions of female identity, sexuality, and language. She has worked with installation, video, sound, photography, and performance. Her approach to art is to engage with the surrounding space, to create and overwhelming experience, where viewers wouldn't be able to identify the beginning and the end of the magical world. By bringing together layers of history, culture and personal experience in poetic and intellectually challenging ways, she creates an experience rather than a single piece.

She is an internationally known artist. Her work had been displayed in Spain, Germany, Mexico, Argentina and Paraguay. Her work has been exhibited widely, nationally and internationally in university and private museums, and contemporary art venues such as The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN, the Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, CA, the ARC gallery in Chicago, IL, the Spencer Museum Of Art, Lawrence, KS, the Paula Cooper gallery and the Elizabeth Foundation For The Arts, both in NYC.
"I use my artwork as a vehicle for exploration, as a tool to encompass art and life, and as a mirror where unexpected connections and relationships arise. In my work, I seek beauty, wonder, and connection." - María Velasco
                                         Wishing Well

My Final Projection with the Painting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slc38YTO-4o

Final Project

Here is my final video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCqsaWk7Cc&feature=youtu.be

Have a great break everyone.
Melissa

Process Deck for New Forms Animation

Hey everybody!

Here is a link to the process deck I made for New Forms.

3D Animation Process Deck

Thank you,
Tom Kemper

Artist stuff

I recently found this work by Chris Larson. He has been invited to participate in the 2014 whitney biennial. his piece "deep north" was inspired by a sudden snowstorm he saw in Switzerland. 

"…while vacationing in Versiox Switzerland, an intense ice storm moved in the night before covering everything. He said it was "gorgeous and apocalyptic." This inspired him to recreate the moment in his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota. In the fall of 2008, he built a house, and then in February, the coldest month of the year in Minnesota, he sprayed hundreds of gallons of water on the house to recreate what he witnessed in Versiox. He then shot a short film inside of the house called "Deep North"."

Some people say that it is related to global warming and environmental concerns. Others say that it has Protestant imagery because the machinery and labor involved in it focuses on a way of life centered around working. I was personally attracted to the piece because it can also be related to memory and time. Interestingly these were also made into photographs and the double play of freezing time literally and metaphorically is another facet to this work. The use of objects in the house give it a sense of personalization that i am still trying to figure out in my thesis work. In some ways these pieces can be related to photographs of Chernobyl and of New Orleans after Katrina. The presence created by the objects implies inhabitants even if they are not actually pictured. I find that the frozen quality lacks the sense of tragedy or moroseness that might come from places where actual tragedy occurred. I am not sure how much historical context/knowledge plays into the viewpoint of this piece. Perhaps my perception would be different if someone told me a story of it. Because I know its created I have a positive feeling about it. Also the light quality of the ice adds to the positive feeling. Ice also gives the potential for a thaw, which is more positive than something resulting from destruction.

I have been thinking a lot about personal objects and what makes them significant. Some of the objects in this piece have a newer quality to it. Other objects have a sense of age or history to them, like the television or the push button telephone on the dresser. The use of the 'shotgun' style house was also of interest to me as that has multiple cultural associations but not very often with frozen climates.The video is very interesting but I think I find the photographs more compelling because of the frozen time association I spoke of earlier.

http://www.videoartworld.org/video_422.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkLmp8FPAUo

My process for this semester, I decided to concentrate on one piece that I was creating the projections for.

Images of Broken Art

Broken Love

Hot Love

Tear

Torn

Hype

Broken Art

Broken Art _ Movie_ with artist statement

Broken Art

                                                                                                                 Jihwan Park

Artists who art not satisfied with the accepted canon of previous art feel compelled to break that art. My Broken Art series is literally breaking artwork. This artwork references iconic images from the recent past. Through breaking, these icons, which represent things, are turned into symbols (which represent words). There is a mysterious correlation between the icons and symbols in Broken Art. Among the works in the series, the word TEAR is created by tearing canvas, and the word LOVE is created by broken wood stretchers with torn canvas cloth making a heart shape. There are other elements in the series with these semiotic characteristics.

Broken Art reflects contemporary art. It explains how some of modern art was born, and satirizes the contemporary art world. Seeking only monetary value in art is called Broken Art, but breaking art from the past in order to find a new direction can also be called Broken Art.

 My Broken Art series comes from the experience in which my artistic legacy was trampled by people. My work attempts to show that even though they may break the artist’s legacy, they cannot destroy the artist’s inspiration. Even with broken art, an artist can create something of great value.

In my research on artists who use glass in their work, I came across Shayna Leib.
Her work isn't extremely relevant to my final installation piece, but I love her use of glass with regard to space. Her piece entitled "EQ" in particular is visually interesting, in its use of different heights and proportions.

www.shaynaleib.com

artist

Russell Mills is an artist I really enjoy. His work has been used often for music related things such as album covers etc. His use of materials, in particular the textures and complexity of the images is something I really appreciate, probably more so now than before. There is a resonance to his work for me and i suspect that comes from the layers and the "old" feel to some of his pieces. He uses a lot of different materials, coal dust and wax, sometimes feathers and found objects. I see similarities to my own photographs in some of his textures etc.

http://www.russellmills.com/index_old.html

video things

A few frames i found on an old 16mm movie, edited and looped.

final video pieces

here are all my videos from the semester! thank you everybody for your comments, advice, opinions, and reactions, I really appreciate the feedback, and please comment on this or talk to me in the studio if you have anything else you wanted to say to thought about!!

afterlife

here is my final video for new forms! it is a music video for the Arcade Fire song "Afterlife." I have a few other videos I haven't shown yet that I will today in critique, that I will put up in a compilation post of all the work I have done throughout the semester.

Video Project

Here's my video project for this class. I'm not really going to provide any context for this at all, because I'd like to just hear what you think from seeing it cold. I'm imagining you'll get the jist of it pretty quick though, so don't fret too much. It's about ~5 minutes long or so.

Video

Here's where my video is at right now. I should be able to finish up soon and then project the final movie onto the original painting.

Feedback would be appreciated!

-Melissa Huang

Been workin In the Cary collection here at RIT and I've based my video on the work I've been doing there. First time working with video and I can spend so much more time editing and learning but this is what I have so far. I'd like to continue working on it still.

Process of Broken Art

I have been making Broken Art series in this semester.
You might remember what the word is inside of the canvases.
I am making artwork by breaking my artwork.
At the same time, I am referencing previous artwork directly or indirectly.
Some works of art focuses on art historical background, and others provide strange semiotic experiences. These pictures are Love pieces. At the final critique you may see other three pieces.

I want to share one shocking artist, Wim Delvoye.
He is Dutch, and now became very famous.
Here is the video about his most famous artwork Cloaca.
Cloaca is the machine that creates excrement from foods.
Have fun and please eat something before watching this.


http://vimeo.com/45127139

I wanted to share  THE HALLWAY by  Miranda July, that I happened to find. Brilliant.

http://vimeo.com/1976212#at=0

http://unlooker.com/graffiti-artists-given-massive-empty-wharehouse-unlimited-paint-wow/

This is an interesting video I just saw, really nice time-lapsed filming

Underwater Sculpture

I wanted to share with you all The Underwater Sculptures, that I found couple of month ago, but couldn't get in on the blog to post it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/artvideo/8056214/Underwater-sculpture-park-set-to-open-near-Cancun.html

Gianluigi Toccafondo

I've been looking at work by Gianluigi Toccafondo, an artist who paints directly on top of film sequences. You might have seen his work during the Robin Hood end titles:

It relates to what I'm working on right now, although his work is looser. I'm thinking of making the end of the animation I'm working on looser and messier as it progresses, sort of like this.

-Melissa

SOLIPSIST From Andrew Thomas Huang.

Hello everyone, sorry for posting this so late.
But here is the link for the video that I showed in class the other day, plus I found a making of that explains a lot and is really cool.

https://vimeo.com/37848135  - Actual video
https://vimeo.com/38040196 - Making Of

Roman Signer

Signer is a swedish "action sculptor." His sculptures undergo some action or process which has aesthetic appeal. In this way the work skirts between being sculpture, and being performance.

The work is often playful. Also, explosions!

His website - http://www.romansigner.ch/en

Not Related to My Work, But Still Cool

So I saw this video when the guy posted it a year ago, and thought it was awesome, but then I showed it to someone recently, and thought maybe you guys might enjoy it.

The video's related to painting, but I won't say much more, so you should just watch it. It's only ~3 minutes long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozc6t4KwEko

lost abstract video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1tZfky-LLU


this is something I made in the backseat of a car driving through somewhere around pittsburgh. we were lost, and I think that's the only context that's important. but I'm unsure about where I want this to go, and what if any sound is used.

so please watch and comment anything!! I would like to hear any ideas or feelings ya'll have about being lost, struggling, and what you think so far.

I found a video and image that inspired and reminded me of my work.

The movement in the link below inspired me for my cubist painting/video.  This video below is an abstract animation in black and white.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga48XKYjFLM

Another image I found that reminds me of my cubist painting is by Chidi Okoye a Nigerian sculptor, painter and poet.

The Alan Rath presentation - Maintenance is a Pain and then you die

Teaser for tomorrow: Artist Alan Rath

Everything!

This is a show about "everything," and is just a bunch of short films made by various artists, some are funny, others are disturbing, and they're all pretty weird but I am fascinated with how short most of them are and how expertly the artists convey peculiar messages. A lot of them deal with human behavior and thought, which is also interesting to me. I have been making mostly music videos like we discussed yesterday in class, and shared a few of those influences, but I think these experimental films move in a direction I want to think about more, while still continuing to use music but not necessarily making it the focus or main factor of the works.

These are links to a few of my favorite episodes:

http://www.channel101.com/episode/801
http://www.channel101.com/episode/199
http://www.channel101.com/episode/764
http://www.channel101.com/episode/155

you won't be sorry you watched these!! trust me! 

Influences

here are some of the videos that have inspired my work, and some ideas I have been exploring with time manipulation and studying action, movement, intimacy, lost moments, nostalgia, relationships, and people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcqwfFKagH4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuoTjYYqe4c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHhox4_SeHQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfD8d3XJok

Light Wave

This is especially for Patrick but everyone should check out Joe McKay's website who is in a show at ROCO in Rochester.

Gummy Bear Art

Hey everyone, although I have not gone yet for mid-term week. I have been working on a gummy bear affiliated piece. I have changed my ideas from day to day, the tape wasn't work out the way I was expecting.  I found this artist who made a chandelier out of cast acrylic gummy bears below is a link and some photos.  My work isn't quite at the point of taking a photo of it yet and it's 2D rather than sculptural.  Also my piece is made out of real gummy bears just another added touch, literally.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/12/chandelier-made-from-3000-gummy-bears-by-kevin-champeny/

NOVA documentary

Here's a link to the documentary i was talking about in my last post. It's an hour and fifteen mins but it's really interesting. Tons of different artists working mostly in new forms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ax7SD8wk4

Was just watching a documentary on Youtube about new young artists, lots of new formed materials being used. One artist I thought was interesting was Kit Webster; he uses projectors is a really interesting way.

http://vimeo.com/kitw

Saudade.

"Saudade is a Portuguese and Galician word that has no direct translation in English. It describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic or deeply melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves.

Saudade was once described as "the love that remains" after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone or something that should be there in a particular moment is missing, and the individual feels this absence. It brings sad and happy feelings all together, sadness for missing and happiness for having experienced the feeling."

...and that feeling/word is what inspired my work.

Along with this definition I'm making a video and I intend to do an installation.

I'm trying to show how it feels to be a foreigner, being far from home, the little things that make me miss my everyday life back in Brazil.

I'm trying to play with the 2D and 3D world, the 2D being the memories and the 3D the real life.

Some pictures of what I've been doing.