Friday

Here's just a basic list of what people need to bring on Friday:
Semira: boxes and material
Christine: laptop,the connection, mini dv?
Ellen: white clothes and black velvet
Clea: plastic, scrim poles, lamp, tape
Try and bring a still camera so you can take photos too.

Testing

Hey,
Semira and I have booked a projector for tomorrow and we will have it from 11am to 4pm. We need to try and test out our installation. I know the pool isn't free but p 1.16 has no classes between 11-2 & p 1.28 is free between 1-4:30. Can everyone who can bring a laptop?

next meeting?

so when are we meeting up next?? tuesday??
please let me know..i have 9 more assessed works to hand in by 2 weeks!

hey was just looking on the og! the images look really good. anyway see you on friday

Some photos

These are just some that looked cool.

Hooray!

Good work today guys! It went fairly smoothly and we didn't make too much mess. I thought it looked really great. I can't wait to see the video. All the web cam images look a bit wrong, though. I showed my my Mum and it was a little embarrassing. I took 43 photos but they're mainly process shots. I'll put a couple up. I'll also put some of the sketches for the set and shots etc., up.

Crazy

I put yogurt on my hand and took a couple of photos with the UV lights. Check out the pictures on my wall!

UV updates

yay..bring on the strobe lighting!!

does it come just as a bulb? or does the fixture come with it??

how exciting- the UV lights will be cool!

here's an image of my holga camera series that experimented last year, i got this in darkness with colour flash. it has that UV light feel to it, maybe it's the colour and contrast within the light and dark.

UV news

Hey everyone,
I found a place near me that hires out UV lights. They weren't in the phone book or on the internet! I only noticed it because I walked a different way. Lucky. It's about $11 per light and I think we'd only need 2, maybe 3.
Clea.

things we need

every one bring
- at least one lamp and extension cord
- cream


semira - black material, boxes, tripod, digital camera
christine- tarp/plastic cover, camera tripod, UV light
ellen- white clothes and black clothes (don't mind getting them dirty) lots towels
clea- talcom powder, face paint, garbage bags
glustina- glow sticks, bubble wrap

chump..chump....my cat is trying to eat my computer!! she's trying to bit the edge of my screen.



lol....i will try and steer away from the equation of bad day + blogging. reading back to it..i had to laugh. i reckon we need a night out...bring back memories clea?? hazy ones perhaps?

anyway, i love the first image. is that the box thing of destruction? very well done. love the contrast....i reckon on other object like the face or body parts that might be pretty cool.

anyway...good job are we sorted for the UV light then?

Blue Light

Hey guys,
This blog sure was dramatic this week! Nothing like a bit of online venting. I found a blue light on a lighter at home and had a little fiddle. It's not UV but it has a similar look. I thought I'd post a couple of crappy images just so you can get idea of the look it gives. You can really see the difference on the gloves.

Burning Man !

BURNING MAN event, ariel view 15 000 feet Crude awakening (various artists) 2007
Crude awakening (various artists) 2007

Crude awakening (various artists) 2007
The Cone (Manual Kretzer and Hans Sachs) 2007

Bone Tree (The Man in the background) 2007
Cow Car (Art Cars) 2007
Inner Mind (exterior) 2007 inner mind 2007

Big Rig Jig 2007

Unga Bunga, (art cars) 2006 Cleavege in the space, 2003
(As if a chandiler fell from the sky!)
Guardian of Eden, 2007 (Kate Raudenbush)
Warped Space 2007 (Chuck Nafziger)

Burning Man!!

Here's a synopsis of Burning Man. If it wasn't in the middle of nowhere, I'd so be there!! (wish we could do our gallery review on this!)

I've copied, paraphrased and put to together the concept/ideology of Burning Man. Hope it's clear and helpful. I'll put some photos up too but it's worth looking at the galleries. Amazing stuff in such an increible setting! Go large scale installations!

http://www.burningman.com/

Burning man takes place once a year for one week, it started in 1986 on a small San Francisco beach. Now, Burning Man has evolved into a massive event turning the Black Rock Desert in the northwest of Nevada, into a dessert city harbouring over 48, 000 people. Additionally, Burning Man has over two thousand volunteers who work before, during and after the event (many who work year-round) to make the event a reality. Providing people with the experience to be a part of an experimental community, which challenges its members to express themselves and rely on themselves to a degree that is not normally encountered in one's day-to-day life dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance. Their mission statements claim:

"Our intention is to generate society that connects each individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in community, to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater world of nature that exists beyond society. We believe that the experience of Burning Man can produce positive spiritual change in the world. To this end, it is equally important that we communicate with one another, with the citizens of Black Rock City and with the community of Burning Man wherever it may arise. Burning Man is radically inclusive, and its meaning is potentially accessible to anyone. The touchstone of value in our culture will always be immediacy: experience before theory, moral relationships before politics, survival before services, roles before jobs, embodied ritual before symbolism, work before vested interest, participant support before sponsorship. Finally, in order to accomplish these ends, Burning Man must endure as a self-supporting enterprise that is capable of sustaining the lives of those who dedicate themselves to its work. From this devotion spring those duties that we owe to one another. We will always burn the Man."

Strong in its ideology, Burning Man has successfully created an artistic community where installation art is at its best. The cultual and social ideologies are:

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  Radical Inculsion (Anyone can be part of Burning Man)
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  Gifting (Gifting is unconditional, does not contemplate a return an exchange for something)
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  Decommodification (The resisting the substitution of consumption for participatory experience in order to preserve the spirit of gifting)
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  Radical Self-Reliance (They encourage the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.)
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  Radical Self-Expression (Arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine it’s content, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.)
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  Communal Effort (The community values creative co-operation and collaboration. They strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.)
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  Civic Responsibility (Valuing a civil society)
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  Leaving No Trace (The commitment to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather.)
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  Participation (Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. "We achieve being through doing".)
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  Immediacy ("Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.")

These are values to guide behavioural change on the individual, small group, and communal level. From a social movement perspective, that’s a key ingredient to achieving a successful event juggling a new movement, an artistic doctrine under harsh physical conditions. In other words, "The giving of yourself is the greatest gift you can give to the Burning Man community, and is imperative to the survival of this unique experiment".

I suppose what should be extracted and what our interests were the - materialism, the burning of the man (their celebration of 'duties we owe to one another'), format of artisy (installtions), interactivity (in the literal and communal sense).

Any feedback?

laterz...

How about a lot annoyed?

Wow..you were really in a bad mood. I just thought I would contribute and perhaps visually extend ideas thats all.

It's not that I didn't listen Clea, I have other artists listed in that blog. Maybe our overlapping of artists examples is a good thing?? besides you did wack out books full of installation artists..the chances of us looking and perhaps finding a couple we think relevant? pretty high i reckon.

I wanted to refine our idea or essentially come to some mutual agreement about a new one, if and only if we thought of something better. and won't that be the general consensus and the aim? Which we did, refine the idea a little. the whole "materialism" aspect...

sorry clea i just didn't think you would take that personally! it wasn't aimed at you, it was a contribution to the blog and never did i reference or had any untone of judging your efforts or opinions.

Little bit annoyed...

I know about Bill Viola. I talked about him heaps last year! I have also mentioned him this year. Thanks for listening!! Have you watched that doco about him? Look up White Space on YouTube. I thought it was similar to the white creation/destruction thing we were doing. We are half way to our idea because it's going to be a continuation of the first project, so I don't get why you would say that thing about half formed ideas!

next meeting and major project

Hi group, i hate not having a computer at home. anyway, we all good to meet up on wednesday? unfortunately i have to leave soon after, i have work earlier then i thought. i have only an hour maybe. please remind me to show you these boxes i found on the street. it's good quality wood and they look like a mini stage.

but i think we need to come to the meeting with ideas thought out a bit more...

I do however think some visual aspects, in specific light, is powerfully engaging. here are some examples by bill viola (his stuff are in video installtions, very interesting stuff!)james turrell (x2 images),Olafur Eliasson and bill viola (again)

Here's a massive performative/installtion piece. i like the element of light/darkness to it.

http://www.elision.org.au/articles/push-pull/index.html

hey i thought that our performance went really well i was really impressed with our efforts.

The Andrea Rosen Gallery

Finaly I'm here, and heres a test run for me.
Here is a very nice little site about Julia Scher
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/julia-scher/
there is also her full bio log as well in pdf form

Artists

The black & white one is Bruce Nauman, Video Corridor, 1968. The colour one is Dieter Froese, Not A Model for Big Brother's Spy Cycle, 1987.

Essay stuff

The book that has info about some other artists exploring surveillance is New Media in Late 20th-Century Art by M. Rush. I used it a couple of years ago and it was good. I'm sure we nearly got it on Tuesday. I'm going to uni on Sunday so I might try and get it then. I hope no one else has got it by then. Two artists that were in it were Bruce Nauman and Dieter Froese. I would be good to compare their approaches to Julia Scher. We're meeting again 29/4, 6:30pm in Deakin library.
Clea.

Projection

Hi,
Semira and I had some trouble finding a projection today. But we managed to intrude on someone else's project (joking, they were fine with it) and get a vague idea what it will look like. The white garbage bag looked cool. The project is pretty much ready, we didn't change it that much from Tuesday night. We just put some colour into it and worked out some of the video times. We talked to Ernesto as well and he gave us some good suggestions. I'm going to put a few images up of what we were doing. I recreated the patch on my laptop at home so the colours aren't exactly the same. We actually have a kind of blue colour coming in with the second dancer. For some reason my pictures are really yellow but you get the idea. I'm also adding the "bloody" Semira one because I think it looks cool.
Clea.

Meeting

Hey,
We are meeting tomorrow at 5 at Giustina's house. Hope that's cool with everyone. I managed to get the Isadora demo to finally work on my brother's laptop and I bought a web cam today so that we can play with live feed.
Clea.

Some stuff

I made a fake white room with a box and white paper and made it progressively dirty. Here's kind of what it looked like. I took a lot more photos, I was thinking of making it an animation. I chucked some rubbish in because it was a bit boring. Is that what we were maybe thinking with the dance?
Clea.

Good news

I got an email from Ernesto saying we don't have to do our presentation until next Friday. YAY! So that gives us more time to fiddle with Isadora as a group. Like I said I had a go last Friday after class, it seems like it might be fairly simple once you get used to it.
Clea.

Here's some of the info from our Powerpoint presentation about our project. I'm putting this up so everyone is updated with the idea.

Intro:
1. Creating art through random mark making.
2.Within a controlled and uncontrolled environment.
3.Reflecting human nature.
4.Breaking the “do not touch” boundary, unpredictable movement
5.Interactive
6.Exploring post modern ideas
7.Eros and Thanatos, desire to both create and destroy
8. Ecological

Project:
1.Create a white sterile environment. Our dancer will be covered in paint, dancing her routine and staining the pure environment. We will film this.
2.We will also film paper that we place randomly in different locations (eg. The street, walk way and studio).
2.We will create a similar environment when presenting our project and the class will interact with the work. We will project pre taped footage onto it. Maybe use live feed in our piece.

Materials:
Rag paper, butchers paper
Calico
Paint
Digital camera and digital video
Isadora
Animation, stop motion
Dirt

Clea.

i'm in!

what up biach

Hi guys!

Hey,
I made this blog so we can post ideas, updates and even images. It will be way easier than trying to organize meetings over the phone or by email and you can check it whenever you want to find out what's going on. I just hope you're able to access it.
Clea.