final ideas

after looking back at research and what interested me the most i decided to look at the human body and multiple screens

- now my idea is to freak people out with the most normal things
2 mini tvs having an eye moving on another with a nose, another with and ear and another with a hand

the next i looked at sound so i asked people make noises with their mouths and make sounds you would normally make without realising.

architecture idea

before - fragile - after ( what takes place when it falls down/run down)
feeling insecure - could fall
bright colours
facile looking
sense of community - working together
roman architecture = people got killed in a beautiful setting\
over population - in a landmark eg effiel tower - links with the shooting in paris
could fall at any moment

artist amy casey architectural despoil

''Her pieces are of tangled, rickety, and unstable worlds that are unreal enough to excite the imagination, but realistic enough to hit home. With events in the last decade as any indication, today’s society feels increasingly insecure, as if everything could fall down at any moment; Amy Casey taps into this with a beautiful array of work'' http://weburbanist.com/2010/07/01/amy-casey-painter-of-precarious-worlds/

idea development

- different thoughts, voice over
- dementia = looking through window and not recognise themselves
- so not recognising yourself or recognising whats real
- people don't like being filmed
- scary? multiple screens around room with film whats already there with something artificial/ scary moving around
- create reaction and play at the end= so record retains - lighting problem?
- game you can play wheres the spider etc?

mirror video

i edited the contest and brightness as i wanted the paint to really stand out and be vibrant. i also wanted to make it a little more interesting so also mirror it. i like how it comes from both directions and blends in with each other

Peter Dahmen

hes a graphic designer which uses paper to create these intricate designs

I think these would be good inspiration for the video work and metamorphosis

idea i got for sculpture

http://popupkarten.de/
http://www.peterdahmen.de/pd_papierdesign.html

more paper exeriments

paint video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPQLzklwma8

this is a link to the video i appeared in, we were going to cover each other but found it awkward so ended up just painting ourselves, also we didnt plan the party poppers so was quite surprised once we found it through all the paint.

bart hess

this video shows barts very personal and recognisable signature. in the way that he uses new and old materials in a very innovative way. in this video he uses an olympic swimmer which at the time were all competeing. he produces this effect by two a pair of human shavers manipulating a 2 meter long blade.. “What is important to me in my work is a sense of estranging,” admits Hess, who added the white bar in post-production to enhance the effect “I want to show the spectator an image that may not be recognizable right away.”Director Bart Hess has also worked with names as Lady Gaga, Nick Knight, Palais de Tokyo, and Lucy McRae, and has been featured in American Vogue and AnOther Magazine. 

i think his work really captures what bart hess wants which are the lines and shapes creates but the scraping away of foam and not initially seen as a mans body. also i like the background knowledge that gos with it as the swimmers do actually shave all over to help them be more streamline

andy warhol

About this scene Leth gives a few details:

[Warhol] is told that he has to say his name and that he should do so when he has finished performing his action, but what happens is that the action takes a very long time to perform; it’s simply agonizing. I have to admit that I personally adore that, because its a pure homage to Warhol. It couldn’t be more Warholesque. That’s of course why he agreed to do it.

“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.” - warhol

this shows his brand fasinaction. i just find the film very bizarre like you want to keep watching it to see what happens and if anything does or if is simply eating a burger. but also the fact that your watching a man awkwardly eating a burger kind of makes you want to look away and give him his privacy. i think the response you get from this video really works and i like the simplicity of it

Photograph inspiration

Christian Boltanski

Autel de Lycee Chases, 1986-87

with these piece of work i would like to incorporate this style but i would want mine silent . i quite like the presentation and would want mine to be more than one screen probably playing the same clip on loop but maybe in reverse or slowed down.

Joan Jonas
Mirror Piece, 1969
i dont really think this is about video art but i do like the quirkyness of it and would like to add that sense my own. i also notice that they all seem to have this colour filter on it  with either really high contrast or really low contrast.

bill viola - the crossing

the Crossing, which revolves around a freestanding, double-sided projection screen. On one side, a man walks in slow motion out of the blackness to eventually confront the viewer at over life-size. Dripping water from above gradually becomes a torrent, overwhelming the figure, whose form is eradicated. Rich in metaphor and based on common spiritual beliefs of the East and West, The Crossing  reveals the cycles and paired sides of life through the universal symbols of fire and water. This work is indicates Viola’s ability to convey quite complex meanings through simple action and scale and sound

Tung Nguyen says this piece is about balance. "The concept of balance is presented through opposite concepts that each alone is an extreme that can only be balanced by one of the other extreme. Left - right, fire - water, red - blue, warm - cool, hot - cold, bottom - top, and so on. The viewer can even sense the artist's desire for moderation, for compromise, and the message that the extremes are what harming us (burnt by fire or washed away by water) and we need a common ground to survive." 

i like the double screened effect and i think this shows how mutiple  screens can work together without it being the same clip running but also shows that they need to be linked quite closly for the video to work

videos

nam june paik - exhibition 2009 new York

at first I started looking at just the videos and his particular work didn't really interest me but after coming across his exhibition in new York it caught my attention as to how he presented his work. I really liked the mix between the older styling of the video and the modern theme of the tvs and projections.

peter campus - three transitions

Campus uses basic techniques of video technology and his own image to create metaphors for the psychology of the self. In the first "transition," Campus records with two cameras simultaneously on either side of a sheet of paper to achieve visual illusion: he appears to stab himself in the back, climb through his own body, and emerge whole on the other side. In the second exercise, Campus uses the effect of chroma-key to achieve a strrong effect. He wipes his face with his hand and, in doing so, "erases" its surface — only to reveal another image of his face underneath. Finally, in a conclusion, he appears to burn the living image of his face (as if it were a photograph), leaving only blackness.

i think thi video shows the feeling of not being comfortable on your own skin but also the impression other thing have on you. i think the performer tries to expose the illusions the artist has set up and this could also be the same as the media showing the perception that they think is right but also people underneath trying to break through

Steve McQueen Retrospective at Schaulager Basel

videos - human body

i like the use of the body in these videos as there stripped back and show innocence and just nature at its past. i think also concentrating on a certain body part such as the eye or hands kind of give it a different feeling in the way that its quite alien. 

i wanted to try and look more at the videos and not the way that shown as I've already looked t a few videos that concentrate on that