Homework 13

1) Work on your final project and think about ways how you would like to present it. Think about the relationship between presentation and project and how context can enhance or alter your outcome. Blog about this. Bring your project and present it next time in class. Due: Dec 11. 

The followings are the three elements I got from rolling dices: 

-Storytelling->theme

-Other->traditional media (printmaking, collage, painting/drawing, performance,sculpture)

-Other->new media (audio, computer, scanner, video, photography)

Inspired by the "Physical Dialogue," I initially thought about drawing/painting over/next to/around a digital photograph taken by me so that the entire image would have a story. Then, I thought it would be too literal and boring. So, I decided to do a project of making drawing as portable as cellphones and tablets. So, I chose index cards so that I can bring them with me and draw on them whenever and wherever. 

The subject I chose to draw was a hand because we use hands to use our cellphones and tablets in these days.  

Once I started drawing the hands, it reminded me of hand acupuncture/hand pressure therapy I had when I lived in Seoul, Korea. In order to make sure, I used the Internet to do more research. Now, I have all three aspects: drawing as a traditional medium, hand acupuncture/hand pressure therapy as a storytelling, new media (using my iPhone and computer to do the research) as a part of the art making process.  

           

So, here they are: 

 

Since the whole concept of making these drawings is to make drawing portable. I put them in a index card case which I have been using to carry them around. I would like to display this final project as seen below so that viewers can go through the cards: 

2) If you were to showcase some of your work throughout the semester in an exhibition: Which works would you choose? Make some suggestions for a future (potential) display. Take this as a serious offer. 

I thought about displaying my drawings in two ways:

-in which I spread them out on a wall in the order I made them

-in which I put them in the index card case I kept my drawings so that people can shuffle them 

3) Look at your blog and brush it up if and where necessary. Would you like to redesign the template? If so, do it. 

Nope! I like it as it is!

4) Looking back: which medium of all those which we explored resonated more deeply with you? Can you describe it? This ties into a final assignment: As you revisit your blog entries and summarize what you have learnt, how do you think about new media now, at the end of this class? Recap your ideas and learning experiences, not as a list, but as a thoughtful conclusion. Due: Dec 18, one week after our last class. All unfinished assignments are due by December 18. Please contact your instructor, if you do need an extension for whatever reason so I can accommodate.

I really enjoyed doing homework 6and the final project. I think what I liked about these two assignments is that I had a lot more freedom and conceptual thinking. I found those two assignments more challenging yet intriguing than other projects whose focuses are on technologies or materials we were dealing with. 

When we discussed how each of us think about new media, I said technology, for me, is just another material for art making. And, now I still believe so. I think we as art educators have to continuously study not only what kind of new technology is available but also how we utilize the new media creatively. In other words, we, even as adults or teachers, never stop learning because there is and will be always new invention. 

Going through my own blog, I found out how much I have opened up my mind to using computers and other new media with which I were not familiar. Also, I was glad that I was able to share my ideas/works through the blog while I could see what others have done with the same materials on their blogs. I am grateful for the opportunity to get myself exposed to the various technologies and learn how to use them and apply them in future art making or art classes.

So, thank you so much everyone for the wonderful semester! and Happy Holidays! :)

Homework 8 and Homework 12

Inspired by THUD's performance which I mentioned earlier in the blog and the below music video, I came up with the idea of making a video without any sound that makes the viewer imagine its sound. 

What I found interesting about this particular music video is how movements of hands and sound correspond to each other. So, I asked my husband who used to play traditional Korean drums to play music just using his hands. Then, I eliminated the sound so that the viewer would be able to imagine what kind of sound it may be. The rhythm he made mimics a part of the below performance (starting from 00:01:21).

Here it is the silent movie I made.

And, here is the original sound which I took out. 

12.4.13 Class Notes

Circuit Bending

-instructables.com

-LilyPad-Projects
-conductive thread
-code.google.com/p/chlonos
-Drawdio (what we are going to do today) http://learn.adafruit.com/drawdio

Seunghee and I made the Drawdio from scratch and here it is!!

Homework 8 and 12 continued

Another Idea for Homework 8(making a video) and Homework 12(making a sound)

Inspired by Harvard THUD performance which I saw when I was in college, I was thinking about making a certain sound/beat for the homework (making a sound) and then making a video similar to the above for another homework (making a video). I thought about combining these two assignments because sound is the key element/component of a video, and vice versa.

Homework 12

1) Create an idea for a sound piece and execute it. Tools for recording: Quicktime, Garageband (among others). Tools for Editing: Audacity. Tools for Uploading/Hosting: Soundcloud. 

make a collage of different sounds I hear everyday?!

-record different sounds

-transfer the files to a computer 

-edit

-save

make the sound visual using the Cymatics?

hear a sound recorded from the public space (ex. Central Park, subway, etc), imagine what is going on, and draw/paint the imagined scene 

2) Research one artist who works creatively with sound; describe in which way s/he does that. 

Kenichi Kanazawa

Kenichi Kanazawa uses a simple rubber mallet to create specific patterns out of grains of sand. Kanazawa uses a scientific "sound-visualizing process" called Cymatics to create the detailed patterns. And to make the spectacle even stranger, the shapes shift in response to enhanced pitch: The higher the frequency, the more complex the patterns that emerge. 

The process goes all the way back to the 1600's, when Galileo Galilei was one of the first person to formally recognize that oscillating sounds could create patterns. In his "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems," Galileo wrote: 

"As I was scraping a brass plate with a sharp iron chisel in order to remove some spots from it and was running the chisel rather rapidly over it, I once or twice, during many strokes, heard the plate emit a rather strong and clear whistling sound: on looking at the plate more carefully, I noticed a long row of fine streaks parallel and equidistant from one another. Scraping with the chisel over and over again, I noticed that it was only when the plate emitted this hissing noise that any marks were left upon it; when the scraping was not accompanied by this sibilant note there was not the least trace of such marks."

Danny Becher 

Born 1953 in Braunschweig, germany, Danny Becher is another artist who was much inspired by Galileo Galilei. Below you find a few photos of his experiments Becher did with sound resonance in water. By generating specific frequencies and/or my music and transmitting these vibrations into water, the surface of the water is set into resonance and creates various images from symmetrical structures to irregular patterns.

3) Think back of our discussion about sound in class. What were your thoughts? What could you take away from it? 

-pretty clear when looking at the class note I took on November 20th. 

-sound is just another material/means that we can use in art or simply connect people.  

4) Come up with an interesting lesson plan for working with sound in a classroom, a brief outline is fine.  

-Visualize the Sound: make a sand artwork using Cymatics 

5) Work on your final projects and think about a way how you would like to present it (in our last class). 

-Storytelling->theme

-Other->traditional media (printmaking, collage, painting/drawing, performance, sculture)

-Other->new media (audio, computer, scanner, video, photography)

Inspired by the "Physical Dialogue," I am thinking about drawing/painting over/next to/around a digital photograph taken by me so that the entire image would have a story. 

6) We are approaching the end of our class and have explored a variety of new media. Go back to our Piratepad (http://piratepad.net/c2BDDZJxlA), revisit the statements about Strictly Classroom and edit, change, alter, refine your statements.

11.20 Class Notes

Sound as a Process

as we encounter different media (scanner, printer, camera, video, sound, etc), what is the specificity of it as a material?

how does the medium shape the work (of art)?

how does it lend itself to a creative approach?

sound?

software such as Arduino

what is sound?
-sound is global vs. images are local
-sound as an art
-makes us pay attention to ourselves and the world around us
-sound is personal

sound connects us to the space we are in

a church bell as an artwork

John Cage 4′33′′->staying silent instead of playing the music
(~Marcel Duchamp's Fountain or Rene Magritte's This is not a pipe)

Susan Philipsz

is it art itself that's interesting? or is it our presence the artwork requires?

"Audacity" software

Opsound.org

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Space to Share Information->online tutorials/courses/media lab

Website where you can trim YouTube videos-> www.splicd.com

New Media?New Software?

I just saw this video of Great Gatsby's making film, and I thought this is just too cool not to share! ;)