Dlectricity

Dlectricity was a great event. I liked it more than anything because it brought people to Detroit. There is always bad talk about the city of Detroit but this was a great event to bring a lot of people to the city. My sister and I went to the show on Saturday night. We mostly walked up Woodward and saw most of the art work there. There were great pieces of art all over and the fact that the event was out doors at night with many pieces that had light effects and such made the event even better. One of the types of art that i liked was the videos that were projected on the buildings. Because I work with video a lot in my recent art work I liked the fact that instead of projecting these pieces on regular white projectors they used buildings. One of my favorite ones would have to be the piece called WORK. This was one of the first projections that I saw. I think it was projected from inside the building rather from the street like many of the other ones were. Each window had a projection playing on it that together made one video. There were also other art pieces and things going on that night that were interesting.

In one of the museums there were these cars that were painted and some mechanically mad so that they moved. Although they didn't allow any body to take pictures of this art it was interesting. Most of the cars had mechanics shirts with different names on them laying around the base of the care. I really didn't understand the meaning of the the work and it didn't have any artist statements to my knowledge but it was still very cool. They also had drinks and other art work plus music playing and people dancing. All of these great things made Dlectricity a really good event and a good way to bring more people to visit the city.

Appropriation Artist - Kelley Walker

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ARTIST: Kelley Walker

BORN: 1969, Columbus Georgia

LIVES/WORKS: New York

SCHOOL:  BFA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

MEDIUM: Painting and digital imagery

CONCEPTS: Kelly Walker was considered a post pop artist. He did art with silkscreens and things like tooth paste on magazines. He liked to work out side of the norm.

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.