performance art

The three performance artists I liked the most are Tony Oursler, Jim Campbell and Woody Vasulka. Tony makes his pictures blurred, which makes you look deeply into the picture for a while and wonder what it actually is. I really like his art because it made me feel like I actually had to stare at it and figure out what I was looking at. 

What caught my attention about Campbell's work is that he uses a lot of eyes in his art. I don't know why I have always had an attraction for eyes, and the way he mixes them with art made it look amazing to me. His pieces are also pretty colorful!!

As for Vasulka I found interesting how he uses comparer pictures and convert them to both, pixels and grey scale. I've never seen art like that before, I think it is a quite innovative idea. 

I like pretty much all of the artists, however, these three caught my attention more than the other ones.

performance art

For my performance art I combined art and one of the things I like to do the most: work out in open areas. In order to make a work out kind of artistic or different I chose a different outfit from the one I usually wear. This outfit consisted of a life jacket, male swimsuit and a scarf as a turban. One part of my work out consists of doing lunges; for this specific project, I did those lunges through a fountain. I walked through the water (looking silly in my opinion). I basically recreated the idea of working out.

here is the video!

XEROX PROJECT

The idea of this project was to create a 3D piece with 2D scans of our body parts. I chose to do some Christmas ornaments made with prints of my hands. i printed my hands many times (after snacking them), pasted four hands from the wrist, and then crossed the fingers and pasted them. After doing this I got some spheres  that I then joined with thread.I can hang them on a Christmas tree or even a wall. They look kind of those chinese lamps.

 

non sensical product

This assignment required us to create a non sensical product. My invention is called "LaCHINess" as in "laziness" and consists of a plastic item that you can put under your chin and rest on your chest so that you don't get double chin while laying on a bed. I came up with this idea because I love to lay on my bed and use my computer; however, one day I realized that if I keep doing it I will soon have a huge double chin (because of the position). Here is a picture of my product, I think it is quite useful (at least for me). hope you like it!

flip book

Although I made about 3 different designs in my flip book, this is the first one and the one I liked the most (is the one that looks better!)

grid

A grid is a framework created by lines that cross each other and form squares. For this assignment had to construct a grid with ordinary objects. for my project I chose post-it notes, and created the Facebook "like" emoji.I used blue for the edges and yellow for the rest of the shape. I had trouble to do this, so in order to make it easier for me I used a grid generator in the computer, where I created my design with small squares and then I created the actual thing. Here is a picture of my digital and final works.

21st century invention

The invention I chose is probably one of the most important inventions of the 21^st Century: the IPhone. It was released in 2007, and changed completely the way in which mobile devices are used. The older mobile devices that already existed inspired this invention. Not all of the older devices had a keyboard to send messages, screens were too small and so texts were difficult to read, and the structure of the device made it difficult for someone to execute different actions on the phone. I believe all of those negative things led to the creation of a phone were a big and touch screen allow users to execute different tasks easily, and the keyboard allows people to send text messages. In addition to these, the IPhone can have other purposes, such as music player, photo and video camera, entertainment item, and more. As the years go by, Apple adds new things to the IPhone that will definitely lead to new inventions in a future. I think that one invention that actually came out from the IPhone is the IPad, which is a mobile device similar to the IPhone. I definitely believe that the IPhone will inspire more new and peculiar gadgets/devices.

video games and operas

We analyzed the similarity between video games and operas. At the beginning  I had no idea those terms would ever have any similarities, however after talking about it I realized that they have pretty similar structure. Both of them tell or narrate stories, use music music, and have a lot of drama.  These characteristics are used to get the audience or player more involve in the either play or game.

For this project we had to convert an Opera to a video game. I chose the opera L'heure Espagnole, and converted it in a video game. I used the characters from the opera as the characters for the game, and converted the different situations from the play into different levels in the game.

art vs design

The article by Craig A Elimeliah is about the similarities and differences of art and design. Throughout the article, the writer states that the main difference between an artist and a designer is the way in they approach a project. In a few words, he says that an artist does not has limits while doing a piece of work, while a designer would most likely follow some steps or a process in order to get to the final project. Artists follow their emotions to express themselves.

 He says that in order to approach uniqueness, someone needs to have passion and not follow all the rules. He concludes saying that designers should use their emotions in order to create unique works.

RAUL CUERO

Though Cuero confronted many adversities during his early years, he learnt how to succeed.Raul's creativity and determination helped him to overcome such adversities. Cuero mentions that if someone ever tells you he/she is better than you, then you should work harder and prove them that you are capable to achieve goals just as anyone else is.

I felt related to Cuero while watching his interview, because I come from a country with similar issues. A place where people with money are the ones that succeed, where there is a lot of racism, and people from low class cannot achieve their dreams and goals. I feel like Cuero's story can be pretty inspirational not only for people with the same problems, but even more for people that has many economic/material/physical advantages and just do not take advantage of them.

Something that caught my attention from this interview is that should not be afraid of our dreams, but instead commit to them and find a "creative" way to make them happen.

ME

HI! My name is Marien Lara Orbezo. Im a Junior at UT majoring in Advertising and Public Relations with a minor in Communications. 

Although I like art and consider myself to be quite interesting in technologies, I am not quite sure of what I will learn from this class. Im very looking forward to do all the interesting assignments we will have, and hope to learn more about the impact of technology on art.