NAKED PHOTOS!

Erica Simone

I just found out that there was a photograph artist named Erica Simone. Hopefully her name wasn’t on the list from module 1 and 2 because if so, it’s really embarrassing…. Anyway, her works of photo were listed on the website I go very often. It is one of Korean website and her photos were NAKED!!! According to the article, it said that it is the work of photo taken from her daily life. Such as shopping, mopping street, and riding on motorcycle. The photos were taken from New York, and she started taking naked picture since two years ago. She said, “If we are to live in naked, then we wouldn’t have to spend so much money to lunch a fashion show.” I don’t understand what she meant… anyway, she also said that instead of being just naked and making great pose, she prefer and likes the idea of being natural in the photo by showing her daily things that she does in naked. Does this mean being truthful? Something that is true, meaning something that isn’t intended? INTERESTING…. ^^

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Bruce Nauman.

3^rd Artist (Bruce Nauman) 

 As I was researching on this artist, I thought about Griffith artist. He uses very simple neon sign to create art work. By using neon signs, he creates emotions and simple words that is really attractive and strongly puts what he wants to express in the art work. Unlike the Griffith artist, he doesn’t paint or draw using spray paints on the walls, but he uses simple words by neon sign which has meaning of Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, and pain. Some of his work can feel that it’s too violence and sexual, but in that work it has powerful meanings he wants to express to people. Such as a work called “sex and death,” he wants to show the meaning of fame, power, and how one’s can be failed and be looser. I think Bruce’s art work can be look as simple but it carries strong meaning by creating strong action it catches lots of attention and attractive.

NAM JUNE PAIK!

2nd artist (Nam June Paik, 백남준)

I was surprise to see a Korean name on the list! His art is known as VIDEO ART and it is really creative works. For instance, he has created a robot using several TV’s. He treated this robot as if it were a human being and said that buying a robot is similar to adapting a kid. As you can see in the picture below, his art work is really attractive. One thing I notice as looking at some of his work is that, all of his work has to do with TV. I personally like “garden TV” from his work. It has at least 30 TV’s lying on the tree and he wants to ask from audience are we dealing with a symbiosis of nature and technology, or whether the new media are leading us back into the jungle with their disordered mass of rampant images.  Nam June Paik is really creative artist that gives questions for people to think of as we look at his art work. Can we think of his work as real? Or is it fake, which uses material that is well known to everyone and tries to get attention? Can we really think of something that is relevant to us rather than just think that its interesting or funny?

1st artist! JEFFREY SHAW!

1^st artist (Jeffrey Shaw)

I started my project on this section by an artist named Jeffrey Shaw. Why did I choose this artist to begin with? It was because of his most two famous works. One was called “legible city” and the other one was called “water walk.” I thought about the concepts of legible city and water walk. I think it’s really amazed and incredible works he came up with. Audience are seated on a stationary bicycle and ‘move' through streets projected onto the surface in front of them. Isn’t amazing? I think it’s similar to watching a movie at a theater, wearing 3D glass. When I wore 3D glass and watch movie, it felt like I’m part of the actors who performs a great show in the movie. It was more like real and something that is tangible. Now days, we have played at least one choice of game. Think about a game system Wii. It requires several different types of accessories to play with, but people still plays. I personally like Wii system because it is like Jeffrey Shaw concept of art. You can play game as if you are really experiencing a car racing or playing sports with someone else. I think that Jeffrey concept was fully adapted into a Wii system witch capture people attentions. Overall, Jeffrey Shaw is really amazed and incredible artist who came up with the idea of water walk and legible city which truly fits into NEW MEDIA!

Monday Class!

hmm... first of all, I was surprise about our changed on our up-coming midterms.. I liked our group! anyway, Im also surprise to heard that we have to do 13 artist research. although 12 of them are paragraph length but still I thougt it was lot of works!  but on the other hand, I get to research 12 more artist from our list and insteading knowing only one of artist I get to know 12 more!!! hahahah... well... hopefully I can handle this project... I will definitly do AVATAR!!!! it was interesting... creating myself on computer... and the fact I can create myself as I desire to be...

IDENTITY 2 PART!!!

I did my identity collage again! I hope this time every one of you should figure out what I’m trying to show and express on my collage poster! I represent myself on collage from past to present. Hope at least one of my class-mate figures out the difference on this collage!

mid-term

Mid-Term on IDENTITY!!!
First of all, I spent twenty dollars on In-N-Out burger and not everyone had it. Number one lesson is that I don’t need to bring food for each one of our group member. Anyway, on this project I really enjoyed doing it. I felt comfortable than first project because I was more into this identity and understand better. One thing I feel bad is that on collage about my identity, I didn’t do it correctly. Just by looking at my poster, everyone should have guess what is representing and meaning, however, I had to explain in details to have our group understand what I did on my collage poster. I’m editing my collage in a better way, so that way everyone should guess what I’m trying to express on my collage poster! Overall, I like our group and lots of fun on this IDENTITY project!!!! ^__________________^