I think it would have been a much different experience viewing this piece the way it was supposed to be shown, on nine hanging screens. With the singular screen it seemed like I was missing out on the experience that I was supposed to be receiving from this piece of art. I thought the story line of this piece was kind of boring and I had trouble paying attention however I found the cinematography beautiful. One thing I agreed with was when a girl at the end asked why he chose to show clips of the production process within the film, because for me it made the piece not flow together. I would have liked to see this only as the film and not with the weird beginning and end with the man writing on the glass and then the cleaners wiping it off. It just seemed like too much was going on. With more background on the ancient Chinese culture I feel like I may have understood what was going on a little bit better. Or if there had been some subtitles in english at the bottom at the beginning to help us going on. I know Mr. Julien tried to explain it at the beginning but I still found myself lost for most of the film. All I could focus on was how beautiful the scenery was which did help keep my attention. After discussing this show with Trevor from class we both agreed that it was strange no credit was given to anyone else who made the film.
I really like the concept of having the film on all of the different screens, and while I watched the various screens within the singular screen I tried to imagine what it would be like to see it the way it was supposed to me. This was a revolutionary idea and I wonder if other artists will follow in Julien's footsteps. The idea of movement between cultures old and new goes along nicely with the movement of the various clips on the various screens. I also thought it was interesting how Julien showed us before the movie how he used the green screen to create the illusion of people flying. I would have liked to learn more about this and then maybe watched clips of the film rather than the entire thing.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Rythm Science by Paul D Miller
It is interesting how Miller starts off by saying "Once you get in the flow of things, you're always haunted by the way things could have turned out". This is extremely applicable to my life, because I am always thinking back upon events and imagining how my life would be different if things had gone differently. This opens up the idea that we "remix" just about everything in our daily lives. When reassessing my actions, I suppose I am remixing all the different ways the scenario could have played out. Spooky defines rythm science as "a catalogue of undecided moments at the edge of my thinking process". You never know what is going to happen next or how things are going to play out to effect other things.
Spooky suggests that we may think we are entirely dependent on technology now, but in the future people won't consider technology as something they rely on, they will simply know it as their everyday life. Already technology has remixed itself into our everyday way of living, through computers, cell phones, internet, music, art, etc. Every aspect of life can have a technological side. Spooky says DJing allows you take the best of whats out there and mix it together to create something new and fantastic, but it seems as though in this day and age we can remix all kinds of things and make them work for us. For example I am remixing right now by taking Spooky's thoughts and my own thoughts to create a new theory on remixing. He says "rhythm science makes possible a music of permutation that tries to convey a sense of how conceptual art, contemporary technology, and timeless idealism might function together today". This covers just about everything I am learning in all my studies here at CU, and describes how the different areas of my education often flow in and out of one another. As an art student we are constantly discussing concepts and how we can "remix" a theme into a piece of artwork, and in this class we talk about how art and technology interact.
"DJ's have so many cultural products as material they are more willing to create psychological collage space". I love that he uses the term collage here, for remixing anything technically makes it one big collage. I think that the idea of mixing old and new comes to play here, for the book mentions how remixing can help one relive a personal experience. A certain song is coming to mind, where Ray Charles' "Georgia" lyrics start off slow and sweet, and then a beat drops and contemporary rapper Ludacris jumps in with the drop of the beat. This combination of sounds and culture creates a brand new sound and songs like this have taken over the music scene of my generation.
I am currently taking history of Jazz and I was surprised when Spooky referenced how in Jazz they use a call and response method. I never thought about this as the fundamentals of remixing but I guess even in the oldest forms of Jazz this could be considered a way of remixing because just like Ray Charles and Ludacris, two people yelling back and forth creates a new idea.
I think sampling and remixing in the music world is a really unique way to keep the music realm moving forward because after centuries of making music one could say there is nothing left to create, when using the conventional ways of making music because everything has already been done. With sampling and remixing there are endless possibilities of what could be combined to make something new. This could apply to art works as well, because in modern times it is very hard to come up with something original because so many things have already been done, but if you remix art there are so many new possibilities.
The idea of a DJ is interesting because they have the ability of staying ambiguous, much like users online have the ability to stay ambiguous. Because DJs often do not use their own voices, they can anonymously create music and send it into the world without being seen if this is what they choose. The DJ Deadmau5 stays ambiguous by always performing with a giant mouse head so no one can see his face. Although his face has been seen and is not completely kept a secret, generally when we think of this artist and his music, we think of the mouse head, and not of the actual human face that lies beneath. This goes back to the idea of creating something new, or becoming a new character that has never been done before. This makes the artist appear more creative and more memorable which are two themes which are also desirable when making music or art.
Spooky suggests that we may think we are entirely dependent on technology now, but in the future people won't consider technology as something they rely on, they will simply know it as their everyday life. Already technology has remixed itself into our everyday way of living, through computers, cell phones, internet, music, art, etc. Every aspect of life can have a technological side. Spooky says DJing allows you take the best of whats out there and mix it together to create something new and fantastic, but it seems as though in this day and age we can remix all kinds of things and make them work for us. For example I am remixing right now by taking Spooky's thoughts and my own thoughts to create a new theory on remixing. He says "rhythm science makes possible a music of permutation that tries to convey a sense of how conceptual art, contemporary technology, and timeless idealism might function together today". This covers just about everything I am learning in all my studies here at CU, and describes how the different areas of my education often flow in and out of one another. As an art student we are constantly discussing concepts and how we can "remix" a theme into a piece of artwork, and in this class we talk about how art and technology interact.
"DJ's have so many cultural products as material they are more willing to create psychological collage space". I love that he uses the term collage here, for remixing anything technically makes it one big collage. I think that the idea of mixing old and new comes to play here, for the book mentions how remixing can help one relive a personal experience. A certain song is coming to mind, where Ray Charles' "Georgia" lyrics start off slow and sweet, and then a beat drops and contemporary rapper Ludacris jumps in with the drop of the beat. This combination of sounds and culture creates a brand new sound and songs like this have taken over the music scene of my generation.
I am currently taking history of Jazz and I was surprised when Spooky referenced how in Jazz they use a call and response method. I never thought about this as the fundamentals of remixing but I guess even in the oldest forms of Jazz this could be considered a way of remixing because just like Ray Charles and Ludacris, two people yelling back and forth creates a new idea.
I think sampling and remixing in the music world is a really unique way to keep the music realm moving forward because after centuries of making music one could say there is nothing left to create, when using the conventional ways of making music because everything has already been done. With sampling and remixing there are endless possibilities of what could be combined to make something new. This could apply to art works as well, because in modern times it is very hard to come up with something original because so many things have already been done, but if you remix art there are so many new possibilities.
The idea of a DJ is interesting because they have the ability of staying ambiguous, much like users online have the ability to stay ambiguous. Because DJs often do not use their own voices, they can anonymously create music and send it into the world without being seen if this is what they choose. The DJ Deadmau5 stays ambiguous by always performing with a giant mouse head so no one can see his face. Although his face has been seen and is not completely kept a secret, generally when we think of this artist and his music, we think of the mouse head, and not of the actual human face that lies beneath. This goes back to the idea of creating something new, or becoming a new character that has never been done before. This makes the artist appear more creative and more memorable which are two themes which are also desirable when making music or art.
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