(Following are the comments from the original post) Re: Selected Multi-Media Artists (Score: 0)
by Guest on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 @ 1:14 PM PDT
here is a good resource for writing your artist statement:
I find these artists (Cohen and Verostko)absolutely fascinating. I'm
not sure that they aren't some sort of cross over between inventor and
scientist as I can only begin to understand the basic concept of how
they are creating work. Although the process is so foreign to me it
more resembles scienctific research I agree that the end result is a
new I wonderful art.
I also found Roch Forowicz. I was impressed by how scary his work was
in that we as a society are loosing privacy at a very fast pace. His
work resembles that of a man with binoculars peeping into a window, yet
it is so engaging that you want to stay and look too! Re: Selected Multi-Media Artists (Score: 1)
by shell on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 @ 5:44 PM PDT
I loved today's presentation of Multi-Media Artists! See, you don't have to limit yourself to just one!
Today was a great day. I felt productive, sweaty and inspired to think
in new directions. I have found myself wanting to involve and interact
with the audience more and more. I feel new and exciting things coming.
Choices are a truly beautiful thing.
I went online to check out Annette Messager. I really like her
work...wish I could see it larger online. I'll have to go to the
library. Wrote the dreaded artist's statement. Heather's handout really
helped! A lot less excrutiating.
Looking forward to tomorrow. See y'all there.
Re: Selected Multi-Media Artists (Score: 1)
by mak on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 @ 5:47 PM PDT
I can see uses for Muybridge but is he really considered new media now?
I can relate to the old new media but I need more time to process the
new new media. Is it possible that new media is not at the point where
the viewer gets the art and not just the technological wizardry? I
dunno.
Re: Selected Multi-Media Artists (Score: 1)
by potter on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 @ 6:30 PM PDT
Reviewing some of the new media art and artists is really overwhelming
for me. I just never realized that there was SO MUCH OUT THERE! I spent
some time looking at the 99rooms and really found the images to be just
beautiful. I spent more time just looking at the images that looking
for the thing to move on with.
I was really taken with Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece. It really made
me think about how I might explore that structure for story telling of
my own and what the story would be and as always what materials. This
seems like an incredibly rich area to look at for me.
I also liked the Visaul Poetry site that was listed. I need to go back
and spend some more time there soon. I found just looking at it for the
short time that I did, it was really inspiring and thought provoking.
LOts of stuff to think about and digest. Re: Selected Multi-Media Artists (Score: 1)
by June on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 @ 6:30 PM PDT
I found a common thread of humor in the work of many Multi-Media
Artists. I guess one can't take life too seriously if you want to work
in such a creative place.
Muybridge's work reminds me of the flip books we all made in middle
school. That's who Warner Bros. got their ideas from. Muybridge Re: Selected Multi-Media Artists (Score: 1)
by Carol on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 @ 11:02 AM PDT
http://newton.mec.edu/nshs
I've always liked Nam June Paik's work - but after these past two weeks
of working, have a new appreciation of him. I like the way he deals
with bodies - combining media images with the figure. Also - refreshing
to see a different take on robot-like figures from the popular culture
images. Some day in the future (technology permitting), I'd love to
explore putting video images onto rice paper shapes that I've been
working with in my sculptures. Re: Selected Multi-Media Artists (Score: 1)
by ccommossabercrombie (
) on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 @ 11:29 AM PDT
I loved Eadweard Muybridge! I know this was a really primitive, early
new technology, but his style of producing art through media is still
being used for example in Marsching's video, or dvd or whatever we are
supposed to call it now. We can and will be using some of these in our
presentations tomorrowl Re: Selected Multi-Media Artists (Score: 1)
by Debbie on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 @ 6:06 PM PDT
The Muybridge piece really connected to a museum visit I had recently
-- to the often overlooked MIT museum on MassAve - where there's
currently a wonderful exhibition on Harold Edgerton, an incredible
scientist and artist who pioneered the concept of flash photography --
taking the artform to places folks today are still being inspired
by.....
Check out the website - http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/edgerton.html -- and by all means visit the MIT museum for "new art and technology".
In addition to the Edgerton exhibition (and lots of very cool robots)
there's an exhibition there now chronologizing the history of
holographs. The show presents holographs from both a scientific
viewpoint as well as an artistic/aesthetic perspective
I personally appreciate 'new media' when it takes a visual art form to
a new level - and I've been learning several computer programs in order
to be able to actually keep up with everything that's happening
(Photoshop, Illustrator, and just figuring out how to use my digital
camera!) I know art schools primarily train young artists -- and it was
interesting to note that in one of the articles I read that related to
my personal work it noted that young contemporary artists are "engaging
in a range of media ....that reflects art-school trends - video, bright
plastics, conceptualism, funky sewn stuff".....
So - does that mean artists today have to be inspired by (and working
in) new media in order to keep current, or (at least for those of us
with a decade (or more) of art-making under our belt....is it still
o.k. to just find inspiration in those things that have been inspiring
artists for centuries....
Perhaps it's a combination of two, which is what we seem to have been doing in our work of the past two weeks......
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