Overall, my piece represents my inability to create art through new media. I have a very hard time mastering the techniques involved in working with the many programs that are used to create new media. I have always worked best with my hands and have only ever really worked in traditional media. Because the assignment was so open, I thought it would be fun to somehow try and combine new media with traditional media. Because I still have no real skill in new media, I decided that I could at least incorporate one of the most important tools in creating new media, the computer. To touch on some of Brian Knep’s ideas of nature and growth, I immediately thought of the flower as my inspiration. Ultimately my ideas formed into painting a small rose bush on a computer screen and then photographing it in the dirt, to give the idea that the flowers were growing from the ground, but also off of the computer. Ultimately combining traditional and new media.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
URL and description for my midterm project for New Media!
http://www.massarted.org/portal/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=127&g2_itemId=8965&g2_page=2
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Emily, I really enjoyed your piece and thought it spoke to a big part of the rising popularity of recycling. A great thing to advocate for! You should go into the Bakalar Gallery ASAP and check out this painting on the first wall to the left when you walk in, it is on a hub cap!
ReplyDeleteI thought your idea to paint on a computer was a very clever way to represent your difficulty with creating art through new media. Also, I think using recycled materials is great for the classroom because it's cheap and teaches kids about recycling.
ReplyDeleteEmily-
ReplyDeleteI feel like we share similar thoughts in representing out work. It parallels in the fact I too have a hard time representing new media art. Your work was very clever and the strongest part was the presentation of your work. Had it been anywhere else other than outside, I don't think it would have been nearly successful. Good documentation of it :)
Emily,
ReplyDeleteI think this piece is a great way of using a computer to make art. I think 99.9% of people would think using a computer as in using the applications on a computer to make art. This is a wonderful example of thinking outside the box! I hope that you continue to work with this concept of using new media technology in a traditional media way. Wonderful job!
Is your piece still out in the dirt or did you have to move it???
I really enjoyed your piece. Your painting technique is beautiful to begin with and the cleverness and location in which you placed it in made it that much stronger. I liked your idea in class on documenting the reactions of people as they notice it, that could be an interesting part II to your project.
ReplyDeleteI really liked your piece. I like that you painted directly onto a computer to make a statement about your feelings on using new technology with art making. I think the painting is beautiful, and I love how it was done. It would be interesting to see you take other objects that you may have and don't use anymore to paint onto. It would be a really cool series. Awesome job!
ReplyDeleteI was absent last week but I read your blog...
ReplyDeletethe resistance to the technology of new media
and the use of the computer is my new age
challenge....am still at large. I like what you
have to say about painting and its challenge
to be compatable with computers.
i liked how you took something that is symbolic of new media, technology, and illustrated something from nature onto it. i think it would be cool to paint natural things, like flowers or trees, onto broken pieces of technology. then you should stick them into random people's gardens.
ReplyDeletei admire the way you paint. also i like how the canvas extends beyond the monitor.
If I had been one of the people walking past your "garden" I would've stopped for a while and thought about this. I agree with the previous comments and I also liked your guerilla ideas for placing this type of art (you had mentioned in class that you wanted to try a tree, etc). I'd donate my old electronics to you if you wanted to keep going with this, it's a thought provoking and out-of-place, even shocking way to make art. New wave of graffiti. Do it!
ReplyDeleteI will add to my previous comment and just
ReplyDeletesay that your piece is surreal and seems to
have motion in it....as if you are finding
the coordinaation to the technocracy.
Your flower looks really nice, it does look as if a rose was growing in-front of your computer. one suggestion I have is to put both the flower and the commuter on the same level they seem separate from one another right now. You could possibly use the monitor as a shadow box to display your painting within or you could use it as an actual flower pot.
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