Appropriation Art

Bottles of Emotion

Acrylic Paint

12 x 2.5 Glass Bottles

Painted Ciroc Liquor bottles with different emotions. Each emotion represents the emotions most people go through when drinking. The different colors help back up the mood or emotion that each bottle is trying to represent.

MAKING GAME vs MAKING ART

Making a game and making art work is different in some ways but also similar in as well. When making these games they started out with an idea. Art work is made the same way for me. I usually have to think of what I would like to do before taking the steps to get it done. Another thing that is similar is when making art I may have to draw little sketches to see if what I plan to do will work. With the game making I had to draw out a diagram to get an idea of how the game will go before introducing it to my classmates.

There were many differences as well. When making the games i didn't have to worry as much about the aesthetics of it. It could have looked however I wanted it to as long as it was fun and organized. With art we always want to make something that makes people look and hold their attention. Another thing is interaction. When I make art it is not usually something that people can interact with. Unlike the art in the gallery I make art that is less interactive. So when i made this game it was completely interactive. Lastly I felt that one of the other contrasts was the fact that when making the game I had to consider other people. I had to think what people would want to do and enjoy doing. When making art I hardly consider others. I make art that would please me. Of course unless it’s for a class but even then I usually make art that I’m satisfied with and later think if others will like it.

Happening by Allan Kaprow

Name of Artist: Allan Kaprow

Name of Game: Happening

Objective: Take Place anywhere, and are often multi-disciplinary, with a nonlinear narrative and the active participation of the audience. Getting a group of people to simultaneously do the same act.

Rules: Key elements of happenings are planned, but artists sometimes retain room for improvisation.

Players: Unlimited  

Pic My Location

NAME: Pic My Location

OBJECTIVE: To race and find all your teammates by using phone to phone picture messaging.

RULES: Teams will randomly be selected by the GAME LEADER. Each team will select a TEAM LEADER who will start the game off from the HOME base. The remaining players will then be numbered from one to the last player. Each player of the team except the TEAM LEADER will get a picture sent to their phone of where they should go and hide. Players with the same number will get the same picture. The GAME LEADER will give each team time to go off to their location. Then when the game leaders gives the go lead players will text player one of their team who will then send them the picture of their location. The TEAM LEADER will try to figure out where the player is off of the picture they are sent. After finding player one the TEAM LEADER and player one will text player two and wait to receive a picture of player two’s location. Player one and the TEAM LEADER will work together to then find player two. Each player found will then work together to find the remaining players based off of the picture that is sent to them. Once all players are found the entire team must return back to the HOME base where the GAME LEADER is. First team to get back HOME wins the game. 

PLAYERS: 6 or more even players 

Show & Tell

Title: Dreamscape (Double Dream)
Date: Sept 21, 2011
Medium: Video
Dimensions:
TRT: 2:01
Description: This was my first video that I shot and edited. It represented a person having a dream inside of a dream and then finally waking up. The entire video was shot with one camera and acted out by me and a friend.

In Progress Critique

When looking at a lot of my classmate’s final project and getting feedback on my own work I learned a lot. The main thing that I was able to see was if my audience was able to get the point that I wanted to make with my video. That has always been my main goal. I want to make sure that the meaning behind my work is evident and that whoever watches it is able to connect with it somehow. Watching other people’s video I wanted to see if I could understand what they wanted to get across too. I also enjoyed hearing other people’s ideas on how they would display their work.  I wanted to do something different besides showing my video on two computer monitors but I think that is the best way for it to work.

Also getting feedback on things that I could change and things I could add into my piece was very helpful. I always want to be the best artist that I can and learn as much information as possible so any time we have critiques it is important to hear how people felt when watching my work because on a larger scale others may look at my work and feel the same way. Everyone’s ideas for their own individual pieces seem to be interesting and although we were able to see a lot of peoples work fully or close to being done I am excited to see what changes they will make and how their finished product will come out. 

Ann Arbor Film Festival Previous Winners

Although I wasn’t able to make it to the Ann Arbor Film Festival this year I was able to find some of the previous winners work. It was hard to really find any of the previous artist full work but I found excerpts and trailers of some of them. I am not sure if the work I found was the correct pieces but if they were I found a lot of nice pieces. A few that stuck out to me was one by Huang Weikai. His piece called Disorder was the winner of Michael Moore Award Best Documentary Film. I personally liked this piece because one day I want to make a documentary of my own. These types of work are great because they show real life events. In Disorder it seems like it took place in another country and although it was a trailer, to see a little of what goes on in other countries and how they differ from America is great. We as Americans that haven’t had the opportunity to travel can see a documentary like this and get a better understanding of the struggles that people in other countries have. To win an award by Michael Moore is a big deal because he is one of the most popular documentary artists around so that says even more about the piece Disorder.

Another piece that I really liked was In a Pig’s Eye by Atsushi Wada. This piece won the Prix DeVarti Funniest Film award. I was only able to find excerpts on this piece too but the little that I was able to watch was funny and interesting as well. In a lot of my video art I like to bring humor into the equation. Sometimes it is on purpose and other times it is something that comes naturally. Laughter is the key to living in my mind so to be able to make my audience laugh is something I really enjoy doing. Through all the work that I was able to view I found them pretty cool and it would have been great to see what this years festival had. I was inspired by the work I viewed to learn more and one day be able to make much more interesting pieces.