Artist I like

Mark Rothko
His work is damn sublime. It makes me feel guilty. His work is a gate towards the other space, to the absolute.





Marlene Dumas
I just saw her work at moma special exhibition of her "Measuring your own grief". Her paintings are like the last breath coming out from the flame




James turrell
James turrell works with light, and it opens up a new space and time to the visitor, and of course filled with his idea of light.
His work lets the visitors to take time to enjoy and rest. People stare and stay at his work longer than other works.
You can see his work in Moma PS1 after 4 o'clock when the sun light gets ready to dim.
His work indeed made me realize the light itself as a natural element of visual art.






Bill Viola
"There is no stillness until the moment of death."
"Every human beings transform."
-Bill Viola-





Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle), 1913,
National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund



Quotes from Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
Quotes from the artist credited as having created the first abstract watercolour.
http://painting.about.com/library/biographies/blartistquoteskandinsky.htm


"Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically."

"The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being."

"When [blue] sinks almost to black, it echoes a grief that is hardly human. When it rises towards white ... its appeal to men grows weaker and more distant." -- Kandinsky in his Concerning the Spiritual in Art from 1911.

Interior designer/architect I like

Karim Rashid
http://www.karimrashid.com/
I just like his style. The organic shapes and the hyper vivid color is so futuristic.





Frank O. Gerry
This is Billbao guggenheim museum. I admire his ability to making the lively curved surface out of steel.






Zaha Hadid
It is just wow!

LED Dress

Phiipse skin probe dress
Experiment of emotional sensing

Cool!

Also check this out.
Hussein Chalayan
Indeed, dresses can be another screen.
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070426/a-video-dress-that-combines-fashion-and-technology/

Critiquing interactive works

People are harsh towards Interactive works than to other genre of arts such as painting or sculpture, so that interactive works are hardly appreciated as supposed to be.

1. Interactive work requires the audience to be active, but the audiences are afraid that they might break the artwork so they are usually very passive and timid.

2. Audiences are lazy to "perform" the interaction. They are also afraid that they might do something wrong that was not the artist's intention. Audiences just want to learn how to interact, or just watch someone else experimenting.

3. Audiences are overwhelmed by the technology. The audiences are dazzled by the technology without getting deeper insight. Or else, the audience will feel overwhelmed by the technological devices and shy away.

4. Interaction makes the audiences calculate the cause and effect as they play a game, so that they are intellectually engaged rather than felling the experience emotionally.

5. Technological faults annoy audiences. Too much loading time, time interval of interaction or noises are not excusable to them. It is just a proof of failure for the audiences.

6. Time passes by, and the artwork cannot be seen any more. Sometimes it becomes old fashioned so nobody will appreciate it.

Data visualization net art

I am interested in the visualization of the data, and I would like those data to be from the internet, and would like those data to be reachable by the visitors.

Why I think the data should be from the internets is because of 2 reasons. 1. Data visualization art's value rely a lot of part on the data. (Yet I am still confused whether that data itself is art or the visualized work is art) The data should be valuable to get visualized and shown to others. ; I do not want to see other people's private life but I also do not want to just make a graph out of my life. I do not want to control the data, but I would like other parameters to change the data, and so I would like the users to do that. 2. Also, those data should be updating fast and so the internet lets it do that easily. If those data is past, then I am afraid it might not be interesting or valuable to look at. If the net art goes out of date, then I am afraid that it will be no longer valuable to appreciate it. It might just be staying in histor books, but no one would be enjoying it.



Animails
by Carolin Horn, 2007.
Carolin Horn visualizes our mailbox. We should download his work and put our mail address book into his files so that it can make the visual as he intended. There are 5 kinds of swarmlike figures and each of them stands for the groups which I will be putting the address into. And there is 1 spam group which Iwould be recieveing most of the mails from. It makes me realize that spam mails are like bacteria that reproduces. 
http://carohorn.de/anymails/
VISUAL SYSTEM

We feel fine
by  Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. 2006
We feel fine is the project to visualize emotions by bloggers. The color of balls stands for the emotion of the bloggers and relates similar emotions together. 
www.wefeelfine.org

10*10
by  Jonathan Harris ,2004
Collects news data and shows the top issues. 
http://www.number27.org/

artificial nature

I am interested in replicating the nature and make it interact with human. It is just pleasurable to look at the artificial environment that people make out. It seems to me as an reproduction of the nature. I have this bad dreams and imaginations that in a near future, the nature will disappear and artificial will be replacing it. The real scenery of a tree in the windows are disappearing and are being replaced with the virtual image of a tree with monitors and screens. In my house, including the living room, there is only 1 window which its width is only 40" but I never open it. My TV is 30"and I watch it every day. I never raise a plant in my home, but I am thinking of making someday, a virtual plant, which I can give water and see it grow, and I expect that could also work as a humidifier as well.




Oasis

by Yunsil Heo, Hyunwoo Bang
(Shown in Siggraph 2008)
A touch screen, covered with sand lets the visitors to interact and herd the bacteria inside the screen. It seems just fun to look at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNpFXMlqceM






Phantasm
by Takahiro Matsuo
This project is a screen of birds with a glowing ball. The visitors should hold the ball and the birds will flock, and as the light of the ball turns off, the screen of birds will disappear as it was just a dream.

http://www.monoscape.jp/index_e.html

Audio visual instrument

I am interested in playable audio and visual instrumental work. It could be tangible, or either screen-based.

I like listening to music because it relaxes me from all the tension I was having before, and fills up my emotion. Music makes a space of vibration, which I can feel as the energy to my heartbeat.

I like to listen to music but I am afraid to make music because I have not played any instrument for a long time. But the following works makes people enjoy playing with music. Also it gives a different interpretation on the forms and texture and movement of every-day objects.






Reactable
(shown in sigraph 2006)
http://mtg.upf.es/reactable/

This is a table and some blocks as an audio and visual instrument. The shape, location of the blocks make a different sound and it relates with other objects near around. The team is composed of 1 computer major, 2 music and technology major, and 1 graphic major. Who will going to use this and where it will going to be shown will make this project shown differently. It could be just a fun toy for the visitors whom will be playing with it for few minutes, but it could be an instrument for live performance for the musicians whom would be practicing with it for over a couple of days. There are several other videos of peformace with this table, and I think the music from the Berlin show is the best, because the creators of these projects whom are musicians as well did the live performance at that show. This is the Berlin show at the following link bellow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_FzLya8y4







Interstitial Fragment Processor
by Golan Levin
This work induces the audience to make some movements to make sound and express themselves. The camera catches the visitor's shape and find a closed shape. When that shape is opened, then that shape becomes an object and fall to the ground, making a sound. The sound changes according to the size of the shape. Even though it is not easy to make the sound that they want, it will be enjoyable to see, move, and listen to the outputs. People can collaborate to make larger bodies.

http://flong.com/projects/ifp/






Sound of Touch
by Hayes Raffle
This is a good example of how to relate movement and texture with sound.
This guy put a recorder and a player with a sensor on objects and made an instrument out of it. You first record the sound and then start hitting or moving the object. The sound will start to vibrate or start and stop playing, or change its speed according to how the object is manipulated. The object and the sound is flexible. The objects he created is like an instrument I have never thought before. This guy was studying sculpture as his undergraduate study. Maybe that is how he has good sense of shape and texture.

http://www.rafelandia.com/sound%20of%20touch/video.html




These projects above are audio/visual projects and relate sound with visual shapes, texture, movements, and location.
It is fun but makes me question of what is art and how to value them. It is an open project, and like an instrument for performance. Then, will the performance would be art or the artwork itself could be the art?Are they artist or a designer and developer of tools? What will make the difference for these works to be shown in a gallery space and a bar or a party? Or is it OK just to take a home video and stream it with internet to the audience?
I think I should think and set up a new criteria on what is art before I start.