3rd Outside event (artMRKT [CONTEMPORARY & MODERN ART FAIR] San Francisco

On May 19, 2013, with the ticket given from Tina in class on Thursday, I went to see the show. The whole show was very inspiring and widen my view on what nowadays contemporary artist made. Some are regular painting with many different approach or meaning. I talked to one worker Mirus Gallery. She informs me what kind of gallery they collected and how the artist approached their subject matter. I was amazed with 2 of the artists where Jaime Brett Treadwell used very nice neon color yet after talking to the girl, the meaning in the painting is so deeply concern about our society about gender and social issue. The other artist is Matthias Duwel, his works mostly concern with garbage that harm landscape. Yet, in his painting, Duwel never painted any shape of realistic trash only abstraction of shape that is rendered vaguely. Nonetheless, both artists' color pallet is very simple yet interesting. I love their work where it brinks up issues in our society yet the color use in the painting is very playful.

There are lots of artist using mixed media to create their work yet the regular painting with oil, ink, and acrylic is well rendered that I feel like most of the art works are valuable. One out of all of the artwork that relates to our class subject is "Datagrove" (2012) by Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gatttgno. Both artists collaborate using light and sound to give an interaction with visitors. So, depending on how the visitor interaction, the magenta fibers gently pulsate and respond. 

This is the picture I took from the internet. However, when it was installed in the show, the magenta light wasn't glowing as pretty as the one in the picture. 

The overall show was spectacular. I walked out with lots of different ideas and learn new things. So, this class really helps me see how technology and art can work together and make something amazing. 

     

2nd Outside event (Janine Antoni)

In march from March 20-26 I went to Texas for the NCECA ceramic convention. The first opening day was on Tuesday and the opening talk was given at 8pm. The artist who gives the opening talk isn't even a ceramic artist yet she emphasis how an artist should look at different things and be inspired. So, she talked about some of her work and where her inspiration came from. The artist is Janine Antoni. She is a New York whose work revolves around her and the society to create her art. There is this one art work she has done which is very interesting where she spent a couple months sleep in the gallery. Her "Slumber", 1993 is very interesting because when she goes to sleep, she has cables to connect her head and the computer to read her dream physcologicly. She talked about how when she sleeps, the computer read her brain and draw out a chart. From the chart she got, she has woven a very long yarn to create a nice installation piece. I think the artist used a similar system to the things we talk about in class where we did the mapping project. So, I was really inspired and taken lots of idea on how artists get their inspiration from and create something amazing that could effect the society.

Outside event one (SFSU visiting artist (Ligorano/ Reese)

Once every three weeks, at SFSU there would be visiting artist give a speech and experience in the society or the real world and how people react towards their art. So, these two joined artist of Ligorano and Reese came to SFSU and share their experience and their art work. On this particular day, the artists were caught in traffic and came late. The talk usually starts exactly at 5 pm yet on that day, the talk started at 5:30pm. At first I was a little disappointed because the waste of time I was sitting in the room for doing nothing and almost walk out of the room. However, before I even stand up, The two artists rush into the room and apologized while setting up their information. Nonetheless, I was glad that I stayed to listen to their informative talk. Their artwork is recognized by many different people and even the TV news announce and give a harsh critique on it. Their art work of giant ice sculpture really shakes the country in 2012. "MIDDLE CLASS" is the sculpted word and they put it around the city to get a person's reaction. But the biggest reaction comes from the news where this political art being talked negatively from the government point of view.
http://meltedaway.com/ this is the link they show in their presentation.

Their other work is also related to technology and chance operation where they did the neon light in combination with textile art which titled "50 different minds". I really amazed to see their work and give me new inspiration to create art that could reflect or make the viewer think to respond either positively or negatively yet, it doesn't affect what the artist want to say. They also emphasize on the freedom of speech amendment because their work was critiqued by political people and considered as negative meaning of the art work. Therefore, I think their art work is really powerful and meaningful that strong enough to make people think and consider the reality of our society.

Final Presentation for Osaka tourism

1. This is my final poster and finally find what is the connection between each individual subject in my poster.

2. I centered and try to attract audience attention by focusing on this particular manga artist who used real life places to create his manga world. Gosho Aoyama manga artist of Magic Kaito and Metantei Conan which in USA known as Detective Conan. So, I focus my tour on spots that Aoyama used in his manga and how his imagination play along in real life. 

My presentation went like this: 

A~ The famous Osaka Castle 

B~ Next to it is the famous Osaka Dome use for concert and many other performance 

C~ My monument (The Doraemon food stand). The monument I create is in relation to Aoyama Gosho and how historical change of manga from 1961 to 2012. 

D~ I also put in the reality side where Tenmangu Shrine is important because this shrine worship the God of literature and art. Without this spot in our tour, there is no connection on how language come to Japan and how language evolve into drawing medium as nowadays known as manga. 

E~ Festival in connection to Tenmangu Shrine happen once a year on July

F~ Aoyama Gosho used lot's of reference to Osaka's Koshien stadium in which it connects to reality. The building is known as the home for Osaka Hanshin Tiger baseball team. 

G~ The tour ended with this famous Tsutenkaku which is known as the night life district for food and entertainment in Osaka.

4. This is the link to download for my kmz file of the tour and monument 

http://www.mediafire.com/?k6l8jp25bfe9l8r 

5. After downloading the file, please right click on the file and open with Google Earth program in order to view the tour.

Poster and Sketchup of my building side and front view.

tourism poster 1

Osaka tourism

This poster still a trial and arrange my ideas around.
Try to find what is the connection between each individual pictures from one to another.

Mapping artists

http://www.susanareisman.com/mapping-artist-statement.html
The artist uses her daily activity to map out her action. one of her action she did was tracing movement of her right hand when she is using a computer mouse.  

Camille Utterback
http://www.for-site.org/project/international-orange-camille-utterback-span/
The artist uses custom-design software to display her work. In this International Orange project, she used the mapping idea to expose the past and how the view of the bay up to nowadays.

Sagrada Familia (Ode a la vie) by Gaudi
http://www.momentfactory.com/en/project/street/Ode_%C3%A0_la_vie_on_the_Sagrada_familia
http://blog.momentfactory.com/2013/02/20/ode-to-life/
The artist uses computer 2D and 3D animation programs especially a software called X-Agora. The software allows them to map and visualize video content on a virtual 3d modeling.

Floating Cafe Rosso

Our group got a spot near Cafe Rosso, Humanities, and back side of the Fine art building.

1. Take a picture of Cafe Rosso and create a new feeling to the environment.

2. Using Photoshop to create a simple frame animation of cafe Rosso turn into a boat and float through the ocean background.

3. Export the video and upload it to YouTube. Link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArHHVu43fPI

4. Create qr codes that link to the video and put them up around the campus. 

Our qr code is: 

5. Download the google earth kmz file here: http://www.mediafire.com/?2r28a718gxbqwlq

6. After download, if you double click it to open the kmz file, the photoshop program will appear.

So, please right click the kmz file and pick open with Google Earth program in order to open it. 

Final concept for chance operation

Steps for my chance operation:

1. Choose 8 anime to watch. With your partner, each person chooses 4 anime randomly done by lottery. (The 4 anime I got are: Ao no Exorcist, Bleach, Death Note, Samurai Champloo.)

2. Using iPhone application "Lottery" to generate ten numbers. The first digit would be minutes and second digit is second.

My lottery number are: 5-42, 12-53, 10-20, 15-34, 2-38, 20-42, 55-56, 4-55, 4-30, 43-56

Each episode will give me 8 pictures because one anime only run for about 30 minutes. So, it eliminates the 2 big numbers that don't match hour description. Now I have: 2:38, 4:30, 4:55, 5:42, 10:20, 12:53, 15:34, 20:42.
Ofcourse each person lottery number will be different and this will effect how much picture people can get. 

3. Watch Anime without skipping the opening and ending. Only watch the first 10 episodes of each Anime. Take a screen shot according to the random number you got.

4. Gather the entire picture together and create a collage portrait of some famous person that you like.

5. The arrangement of the collage is very open to the artist as they are allowed to arrange pictures in many ways they like (repetition is allow). However, The size of the portrait cannot be smaller than 16 inch x 20 inch.

This is my final product:

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Chance operation

1. PAINT ON 9 in x 11 in canvas and create a little story line.

2. Draw for an hour everyday for a week on a large surface paper around 3 feet by 8 feet and see what  link or connection do you create in your drawing.  

3. Take 100 photos in a week on a similar subject. For example, the subject is flowers. With many different kinds of flower and the wide variety of colors, from all that 100 photos, create someone portrait. (Can be anybody). 

4. Pick 8 Anime to watch and use lottery apps from iPhone to generate your number in order to take a screenshot of the scene. Before starting the movie, generate 5 numbers and take pictures during the listed then create a portrait from picture collected. 

Respond to Vannevar Bush

The article was published in July 1945 and during that period of time, WWII was coming to an end. In this time, the birth of computer and many other technology happened. Some of the prediction is correct and become more advanced than he thought of.
For example, The Vocoder and stenotype. On our iPhone, this function appears because the car rule where hands free and can not text while driving create this program. Nowadays, people can just go to the text messaging screen, click the voice recorder button and say words that you want to text to your friend.
He also talked about the keyboard machine and punch card where our current technology known as computer, fax machine, and printer/scanner. Nonetheless, he never expected how internet access become so available that it brings a new issue of copyright.

So, the three predictions that I can come up with are:
1. I heard on the news that in another 7 years which is 2020, billionaire can afford to ride on the space rocket shuttle and explore the universe. From this information, in 60 years ahead, scientist will find that one of the other planet in the universe is very similar to earth or even trying to occupy the moon as a based. Nonetheless, the more advance the technology, the bigger issue human race needs to face.

2. Currently, we have a self checkout machine in our grocery shopping store and this cut off lots of employment opportunities. Furthermore, I read an article before where IBM is researching how to scan a barcode of items that shopper bought in one go. Meaning they will build a gate like the one in security airport and once people pass that gate, the automatic scanner could able to scan all of the items inside customer basket or cart. So, in 60 years, either cashier will be replaced by robots or machine program that allow people more flexibility.

3. Since there would be a space shuttle to the outside universe, in 60 years ahead, there would be even more crazy inventions as some of the people already started doing it. Underwater car (amphibious car) and flying car is one of the possibilities. So far, one of my classmates back in De Anza college, his uncle is doing a research about the underwater car. If their or some other person's invention become successful, that means our road will have less traffic even we have to build a new floating tubular bridge for the flying car.

type for 5 min

~ Japanese animation is my favorite.
~ I wish to create manga.
~ 2nd world.
~ The digital world are so wide and i really want to go to animation. The technology that we have nowadays is really convenient. However, if people watch Gundam wing or Gundam seed and seed destiny. People might think in 50 more years earth will lose all it sources and people start to migrate to some other space. Despite of moving to other planet, peace will never be  stabilize. War and terror would always be in everyone mind.
 ~ Things that popular now will go away in the future and be replace with something newer.
 ~ So much to know and so much to learn but human have a limited amount of time and life span. It's hard to organize what we have to  do in 24 hours time to maximize study.

CIA hw#1

1. http://www.momoyotorimitsu.com/
He is an inspiring artist especially his "Bunnies" collection. Usually we see 3d blow up balloon outside the building for the purpose of advertising or logos. However, his oversized "Bunnies" collection inside the room make the situation so intense and give a suffocate feeling despite their cute appearance.
The blog look very nice clean and simple to follow and i really amazed on every single series project that he did.

2. http://www.mbehrens.com/photo.html
The blog is a clearly telling people about the artist artwork and every each project is really intense. Its more realistic view where the description of each photograph he took explain why or what make the artist wants to take the picture and where he took it.

3.  http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~nbreyer/
The blog is currently a little under maintenace. However, the some of the content is interesting.