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.