Ryan Trecartin seemed like a pretty cool guy from reading his interviews and reading about him, however my opinion drastically changed when watching his videos alone at the library where I felt extremely uncomfortable, and then even more so when watching it in the class room with everyone. We discussed at the end of class how some of us are simply not going to like it/allow ourselves to understand it. I was trying to decide if I was allowing myself to understand it or not, but I think I am very much on the fence because I want to understand it and I think I sort of understand but I can't help but hate it. I've learned enough about contemporary art, especially performance video art, that I more often than not dislike it but I also understand that the artist is intentionally trying to offend me by being bizarre, so in this respect I can applaud him for being successful, but if a piece makes you hate it so much that you want to turn it off is this a good thing? I don't think it is a good thing, but here I am rambling on about this video for an entire huge paragraph which says something I suppose, seeing as I am putting a lot of thought into how I feel about it.
As far as the net art for this blog assignment, I really enjoyed the triptych piece. It seems to me that a piece like this could be considered similar to Trecartin's since it moves and makes sounds and has lots of contrasting colors and ideas, but I like the way this piece flows much more (of course there is no dialouge or acting which makes it different). I especially like how the soundtrack seems to fit accordingly to each of the videos, even though they all move at their own pace and are unrelated. I also find it effective how the pieces seem to flow into each other, for example the silloutte of the man with all of the animated colors flows nicely into the screensaver-esque colorful animation below it. Art like this makes more sense to me because it is pleasing to the eye. Because I liked what I saw at the top, I was encouraged to scroll down and view the entire thing. It is interesting how it is titled "Triptych" because only one section of the piece features three works side by side, but I think that this title means that all of the pieces within the whole thing work together and speak to one another.
i think you teacher is forcing you to decide what is good art by telling you "if you don't like it, it's because you don't want to understand it" I think she is clearing out any idea of criticism by brushing off opinion as a matter of taste and ignorance. The reason you write so much about it - is not because of the piece itself but because you feel guilty for not liking it.
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