Media arts: History and theory

 For this performance art piece, my group and I wanted to protest something else that nobody else is talking about, the housing crisis on campus. This is based on many experiences of students who were able to get housing and those who did not. I, for example, haven't got housing, so I came up with the idea and the whole team approved it. lex wanted to represent President Vaughn as greedy and corrupt for promising a good life for students when in reality they can't provide housing. I and the rest of the group represented ourselves as students who then turned into depressed students after we gave so much money to the university and they couldn't even give us housing. This was to protest how housing is super important for students and how it can backfire when there are lack of dorms on a campus when there are more than 20,000 students. 

As art continued to evolve and as artists wanted to continue trying new things that could expand their creativity, futurism came into play in the early 1900s. It was all about ideas of what would the future hold for many people with things like dynamism, movement, speed, technology, youth, violence, and change. This was also the beginning of inventors coming up with many ideas of moving cameras to make an actual moving art piece. While chronophotography might evolve the way we take pictures, it took the whole meaning to use it on a different level, creating dynamism. It mainly studied of how things can be drawn in motion, such as animals. One was painted as a dog by Italian artist Giacomo Balla. Music was another important detail as it became more and more modern. Sound effects were being used as an experiment if they could incorporate with such moving films being developed by the day. Art became so advanced and so detailed that it was later used to represent movement of light and ener...

 When it comes to chance while making art, it can be anything random and it can be something that makes sense or not. Chances are, no pun intended, that it wouldn't have a meaning since chance art is randomized and can be a gamble on what you place on the canvas. For March 27th, we had to make a chance piece by doing a collage. It was pretty interesting seeing all the possibilities we could do when it comes to putting paper randomly and it actually can turn out as a great art piece. Overall, I learned a lot that chance can be classified as art and while it may not have any meaning to it, think about how anything random can also be impressive.  GRQ 1.  The art 2.  Faktura 3.  Dada 4.  Futurist 5.  Tatlin 6.   Aleksandr Rodchenko 7.  Gabo 8.  Strepanova 9.  chance 10.  noise music 11.  Kinetic 12.  Art into life 13. readymade   14.  light, space, and motion 15.  industry 16.  Machinery Disc...

  Discussion:  What I see in the photograph are different signs that are hidden, and a person behind a pole hiding as well. I also see lots of advertisements from other places to eat and for stores as well, with prices on glass windows everywhere. What I think about every time I look at this picture is how they do all these advertisements back then, and how was the infrastructure back then as well. Was it better than the infrastructure of what we have today? And how were they able to place so many advertisements on a single wall if it can be distracting if someone is trying to read one or another. This picture makes me feel confused, but fascinated at the same time, because it can be a piece of history and shows how times were simpler and how each lifestyle was different back then, on what people would do and what people would wear.  GRC QUESTIONS 1. Camera obscura 2. Light sensitive chemistry 3. Daguerreotype 4. Negative/Positive 5. Aura 6. Commodity value 7. Exhibition ...

 As technology evolved in the industrial revolution and now that new innovations have been created, there was a new machine that made printing a little easier, the "Gutenberg Printing Press". Later on in the 17th century, newspapers were invented, but hard to see, that those were improved later on. Sooner many years later in the 18th century, the first steam engine was made! There was something more important that was created when it came to art, and that is the "Camera Obscura". This was a device that created an image from outside that artists could paint over. Then things got easier, the first camera was invented by Joseph Niepce. After the camera became a thing, artists and filmmakers started experimenting with movements to use in films. Before the camera technology got better, Etienne Jules Marey studied how pictures could move together and see the invisible "visible". This was a process called "chronophotography". He adopted and further deve...

 Let's double-check: 1. Camera obscura 2. Albrecht Durer 3. Vitruvian Man 4. Leonardo da Vinci 5. Renaissance humanism 6. Fresco 7. Petrarch 8. Jan van Eyck 9. One point perspective 10. Modernism 11. Wealthy merchants 12. Avant-garde 13. Leonardo da Vinci 14. Fauvism 15. Pablo Picasso 16. Cubism 17. Abstract painting 18. Clement Greenberg 19. Scientists 20. Nicephore Niepce 21. Etienne Jules Marey 22. Eadweard Muybridge 23. Semiotics 24. Johannes Gutenberg

Discussing the Midterm presentation with my group was fun! I did Fauvism, Ava did realism and lighting, Alex did industrialism and mindset shift, Niyah did leisure and whimsical, and Christian did freedom and experimental. It took as a while week to get the presentation done especially when I had plans for the weekend, but I created a groupme chat that would help us update on what we needed to do or what was missing. It really helped a lot and helped us communicate on what we do next as well as provide feedback, and some suggestions on what to add to the presentation. Overall, it was tough to pull it off when we were busy with other things, but time management and collaboration really helped us a lot and made us confident in presenting on Monday.