When I look back to the history of art, all artists have an influence from whom they were with, and taught.
Cy Tombly, Robert Rousenberg, Jasper Johns were in threesome relationship.
Bauhaus was where all the influencial teachers and artists gathered and were raised.
georgia o'keefe's husband was a photographer, Alfred Stieglitz, who influenced her work mainly I believe.
YBA are all inlfuenced by the professor Michael Craig Martin at Goldsmith.
I hope I will be able to meet a lot of influencial ppl throughout my life.
Monday, December 28, 2009
No pain, no gain
I think a lot of art is brought out of pain.
Felix Gonzales torres' work comes to be more touching when I heard that he dead from Aids, after his girlfriend dead of Aids. His work of candies with the weight of his girlfriend is touching, because I can feel how much he loved her and miss her and still want to feel her.
Tracey Emin's work is mostly about sexuality, and a lot of times when she works, it seems like she look back to the past when she was raped on her age of 12.
Architecture Luis Khan had 2 wives and 2 home at the same time. He also had pain, cuz he loved both?!
Louise Bourgeois's father was having relationship with the maid, while her wife knew that but stayed silent.
I wanna be a good artist, but I don't wanna live a miserable life.
Of course, these days, there are successful artists.
Mathew Barney is born in a rich family, and still in great fame and wealth.
Damien Hirst is successful in his plans and works.
But I do think that in some point these artists have all pain in common, "walking alone".
As a Grade A artist, with whom would they consult their ideas or work? Critiques are harsh, but they should not get affected too much by them.
Felix Gonzales torres' work comes to be more touching when I heard that he dead from Aids, after his girlfriend dead of Aids. His work of candies with the weight of his girlfriend is touching, because I can feel how much he loved her and miss her and still want to feel her.
Tracey Emin's work is mostly about sexuality, and a lot of times when she works, it seems like she look back to the past when she was raped on her age of 12.
Architecture Luis Khan had 2 wives and 2 home at the same time. He also had pain, cuz he loved both?!
Louise Bourgeois's father was having relationship with the maid, while her wife knew that but stayed silent.
I wanna be a good artist, but I don't wanna live a miserable life.
Of course, these days, there are successful artists.
Mathew Barney is born in a rich family, and still in great fame and wealth.
Damien Hirst is successful in his plans and works.
But I do think that in some point these artists have all pain in common, "walking alone".
As a Grade A artist, with whom would they consult their ideas or work? Critiques are harsh, but they should not get affected too much by them.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Idiation for the generative Image
These are just references for the generative image, I am trying to make. It would be organic, have a microscopic and macroscopic feature.
------Traditional, Handmade-----------
http://justineashbee.com/
The amorphous entities and reaching tentacles emerge and take form much like the navigation of a surfer within a wave.
These drawings are executed purely by hand, using paint pens. I begin with a curve, from which lines and forms begin to emerge, evolve, morph, and grow organically, in an intuitive flow, while maintaining delicate, elegant precision. The methodology is rhythmic, spontaneous, and direct, reducing interference with mark-making. Much like zen calligraphy, they are improvisational, and intuitively composed, where the physicality and the mark making become one.
I’m utilizing stark, amorphous lines to trace the movement and human experience of the non-linear and imaginational realms. Through this intuitive visual language, a negotiation of the visceral and everyday human experiences of beauty and pleasure, and feeling are given voice.
-from the artist's homepage-
------Digital, Generative-----------
postspectacular.com
http://postspectacular.com/work/forever/start
Victoria & Albert Museum presents: Forever by Universal Everything
KEF Muon launch
http://postspectacular.com/work/kef/start
Casey Reas
http://reas.com/
---------Space theory--------
Calabi-Yau Manifold
http://www.field.io/process/research/science/calabi-yau
-------Nature Image-----------
Electron microscope photography of plant pollen by Martin Oeggerli
http://www.micronaut.ch/
------Traditional, Handmade-----------
http://justineashbee.com/
The amorphous entities and reaching tentacles emerge and take form much like the navigation of a surfer within a wave.
These drawings are executed purely by hand, using paint pens. I begin with a curve, from which lines and forms begin to emerge, evolve, morph, and grow organically, in an intuitive flow, while maintaining delicate, elegant precision. The methodology is rhythmic, spontaneous, and direct, reducing interference with mark-making. Much like zen calligraphy, they are improvisational, and intuitively composed, where the physicality and the mark making become one.
I’m utilizing stark, amorphous lines to trace the movement and human experience of the non-linear and imaginational realms. Through this intuitive visual language, a negotiation of the visceral and everyday human experiences of beauty and pleasure, and feeling are given voice.
-from the artist's homepage-
------Digital, Generative-----------
postspectacular.com
http://postspectacular.com/work/forever/start
Victoria & Albert Museum presents: Forever by Universal Everything
KEF Muon launch
http://postspectacular.com/work/kef/start
Casey Reas
http://reas.com/
---------Space theory--------
Calabi-Yau Manifold
http://www.field.io/process/research/science/calabi-yau
-------Nature Image-----------
Electron microscope photography of plant pollen by Martin Oeggerli
http://www.micronaut.ch/
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Random Inspirations
I talked with LB a bit, and he give some movies that might be a good inspiration for me.
The Golden Compass, and Brazil. and maybe a Deanon? These Genres are called steam punk.
I also went to the library and asked the librarians whether there is a philosophical idea that might relate to my work.
They suggested me to try some books, "The Tao of physics : an exploration of the prallels btw modern physics & Eastern Mysticism" and "Beyond the edge of certainty: essays in contemporary science & philosophy" and "Hidden dimensions " the unification of physics & consciousness"
I think these are really helpful for me, and I think it really works, because the connection btw physics & philosophy, of the maybe mediaval period, of a bit futuristic, alchemistic style, is I think what I try to find through my work.
Like sort of magnetiscim.
The Golden Compass, and Brazil. and maybe a Deanon? These Genres are called steam punk.
I also went to the library and asked the librarians whether there is a philosophical idea that might relate to my work.
They suggested me to try some books, "The Tao of physics : an exploration of the prallels btw modern physics & Eastern Mysticism" and "Beyond the edge of certainty: essays in contemporary science & philosophy" and "Hidden dimensions " the unification of physics & consciousness"
I think these are really helpful for me, and I think it really works, because the connection btw physics & philosophy, of the maybe mediaval period, of a bit futuristic, alchemistic style, is I think what I try to find through my work.
Like sort of magnetiscim.
digital media
Digital Media helps to augment human ability.
So, digital media helps to capture something meaningful that we cannot see or could not preserve, or perceive.
What is the information that I want to make it meaningful?
I think this is what I should be thinking more., of this idea, and to be just more creative and simple and slow.
I like the growth rendering machine, in terms of the idea to plot how the plant grows,,,,,,, I think it is augmenting human ability to see what is happening in a certain time span, 24 hours.
I like CCC's Work of capturing the moment with a camera while you close your eyes. It is opposite with the way you take caemera while you take a picture while your eyes are open, bt I think it makes it more meaningful, and i think it is a good idea.
And also, I have to think of the terms of materializing and virtual and real, when I am projecting on something. what is the surface means, and what is the relationship btw the visitors? is the interaction really needed?
So, digital media helps to capture something meaningful that we cannot see or could not preserve, or perceive.
What is the information that I want to make it meaningful?
I think this is what I should be thinking more., of this idea, and to be just more creative and simple and slow.
I like the growth rendering machine, in terms of the idea to plot how the plant grows,,,,,,, I think it is augmenting human ability to see what is happening in a certain time span, 24 hours.
I like CCC's Work of capturing the moment with a camera while you close your eyes. It is opposite with the way you take caemera while you take a picture while your eyes are open, bt I think it makes it more meaningful, and i think it is a good idea.
And also, I have to think of the terms of materializing and virtual and real, when I am projecting on something. what is the surface means, and what is the relationship btw the visitors? is the interaction really needed?
Friday, December 4, 2009
Never ending drawings
I would love to draw. these kind of never ending - rotating ( connected without any top or bottom) drawings.
I would like to keep doing them when I have time. I want to cover all the ceilings and the walls.
Generative Drawings
Another Designer I came to know is Erik Natzke
His works look like painting, compared to Joshua Davis's work looks like flat iconic illustrations.
Well,, I am still not sure why I have this awe towards generative drawings, and I am not sure whether I should consider them as an artist or as a designer...
But anyway, they are awesome and challenging.
When I talked with PP, he said when you look at artworks, you have to see in 5 things, in 5 steps.
1. Description
2. Subject Matter -What is in the work
3. Format -Composition, Aesthetics
4. Subject - about
5. judgement
Most of us just go to 5 directly and we do not ever think of the 1, 2, 4 steps. but good artworks keeps us think within also 1, 2, 4th steps.
Well. So maybe that is why it is cool for just a few years, and then when another person who is better appears, then it is not cool any more.
His works look like painting, compared to Joshua Davis's work looks like flat iconic illustrations.
Well,, I am still not sure why I have this awe towards generative drawings, and I am not sure whether I should consider them as an artist or as a designer...
But anyway, they are awesome and challenging.
When I talked with PP, he said when you look at artworks, you have to see in 5 things, in 5 steps.
1. Description
2. Subject Matter -What is in the work
3. Format -Composition, Aesthetics
4. Subject - about
5. judgement
Most of us just go to 5 directly and we do not ever think of the 1, 2, 4 steps. but good artworks keeps us think within also 1, 2, 4th steps.
Well. So maybe that is why it is cool for just a few years, and then when another person who is better appears, then it is not cool any more.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Drastic Change
My work has changed a bit towards biologic art.
LLL likes my idea in terms of reconsidering Micro and Macro. She also thinks I can explore a bit more through thinking more of the Echo, within visuals and sounds. She wants me to contextualize my project within my body of work. Especially, Aurelia.
The artist she recommended me was "Cynthia Brazeal"
I think I can also think of Canadian artist and architect Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Soil, an sculpture whose shape memory alloy arms move in response to the movement of people.
But she also thinks now I have too much so that I have to narrow down a bit.
But a lot of people did not understand clearly of what is the concept and what the installation and the experience would be.
A lot of people liked the way I install thing. NP recommended me to see the anime mushi shi.
NP liked "Ephemeral Alive Individual", self recognition, birth, death, etc, "transmitting life"
hm....
Some helpful links
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html
http://www.aec.at/center_exhibitions_dsdetail_en.php?id=67
http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/
http://www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com/
Thecla Schiphorst
http://www.sfu.ca/~tschipho/
Hylozoic soil , by Philip Beesley
http://www.materialbeliefs.com/prototypes/cder.php
http://www.gutonobrega.co.uk/
http://www.hostprods.net/projects
http://www.messymix.com/
http://www.dowhile.org/physical/projects/exeter/index.html
http://hypernatural.com/
http://www.electronic-life-forms.com/
Pascal Glissman en Martina Hoefflin - Electronic Life Forms (ELF)
LLL likes my idea in terms of reconsidering Micro and Macro. She also thinks I can explore a bit more through thinking more of the Echo, within visuals and sounds. She wants me to contextualize my project within my body of work. Especially, Aurelia.
The artist she recommended me was "Cynthia Brazeal"
I think I can also think of Canadian artist and architect Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Soil, an sculpture whose shape memory alloy arms move in response to the movement of people.
But she also thinks now I have too much so that I have to narrow down a bit.
But a lot of people did not understand clearly of what is the concept and what the installation and the experience would be.
A lot of people liked the way I install thing. NP recommended me to see the anime mushi shi.
NP liked "Ephemeral Alive Individual", self recognition, birth, death, etc, "transmitting life"
hm....
Some helpful links
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html
http://www.aec.at/center_exhibitions_dsdetail_en.php?id=67
http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/
http://www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com/
Thecla Schiphorst
http://www.sfu.ca/~tschipho/
Hylozoic soil , by Philip Beesley
http://www.materialbeliefs.com/prototypes/cder.php
http://www.gutonobrega.co.uk/
http://www.hostprods.net/projects
http://www.messymix.com/
http://www.dowhile.org/physical/projects/exeter/index.html
http://hypernatural.com/
http://www.electronic-life-forms.com/
Pascal Glissman en Martina Hoefflin - Electronic Life Forms (ELF)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
what is life
what is life, what is death.
I think life itself, or being alive have a lot to say, and it is beautiful, to enable the visitors to give birth(virtually) to an artificial,(or out of nothing) through interactive pieces.
Well, to start, a striking artwork that deals with life and death is Demian Hirst's shark, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" . Another piece is a blood head sculpture " Self" , by Marc Quinn. Interactive pieces would be "pulse park" or "Spiral ...." by Rafael Lozano Hemmer.
Back to my idea, what is life? What do I want to say? Why should people interact with it? What experience should be remarkable to them? What is the process of life? What would be the end of life? What does it mean to die?
Well, I am half consciously thinking, I am just jotting down what I am thinking.
Life is light.Life is pulse. Life is breath. Life is fluctuation & flow. Life has motion. Life is warm. Life is physical.Life is present and ephemeral. Life is never contiuous. Life is limited. Life is self recognition of the self. Life is energetic. Life is blood. Life can be red. Life is humid. Life is smooth. Life is seeing.
Death is the end. Death cannot be postponed or refused. Once happend, cannot bring it back. Death is no pulse or breath. Death is blue or black. Death is cold. Death is future, but could be past also. Death is the fear of present being left as past. Death means the end of physical self. Death is mysterious. Death is bone. Death can be white. Death is dry. Death is crackle. Death is closing.
OK. Back to think my idea.
#1. Moment of present becoming the Past, (and the recognition of self and the desire to be rebel).
Chair of red, hemoglobin shape, white, is in the room with a spotlight.
You walk in, sit(or lay down). It changes into red. It pulses your beat, by vibration and sound. You realize that the chair is alive, with you. The other scuptural objects inside the room blinks according to your biosigals, following the chair. Then, suddenly, it vibrates to strong, that meaning it is irritated by you and it wants you to get off. You stand up and try to leave. Suddenly, the chair starts to Burn on fire, becomes as an ash, or crackle, meaning it dead.
#2. Giving birth to make alive.
There is a straw( or a tube) which has light coming out, and you have to blow in. When you blow in, it takes a photo of your eyes, and makes a bubbly figure appear on a screen with the image of your eyes captured. It then follows the rhythm of how you blew or how was your heartbeat during you were blowing, and it floats around the screen projection in the room. The bubbles created by others are already up in the ceiling, and it has the eyes of other people. The bubbles are all looking at the creature I created. When it floats up towards the ceiling, it gets smaller, and bluer. If you want to keep it down, you have to keep breathing inside of it. If you shake the tubing, it gets its pins up, getting sharp, and it kills other stuffs that have been created by others. If you leave it, it slowly dissolves and die. When it dies, it dies from the highest ceiling, and it makes an ash, amber, debrea fall down the wall, accumulated in the floor.
#3. the self.
There is a huge shell in the middle of the room. You approach, put your hand on it, and give them your voice, by saying something.(tell it one most precious thing for you in your life is, or you want to keep it within your life.) (or I might ask people to say one last thing they want to say) After you finish talking, you get off your hand and it will turn on to red, repeating what you have just said, it will echo along the room, lighting up the virtual creatures. Then, once it reaches the end, it echos all what other have just said, and it blinks in turn, and it dies, by turning off the light, or breathing off. It will be also like a symphony of land, with all the other people, who experienced this in the past. At the end, it will go back to my words, echoing, and it will slowly dim, meaning it is dieing. ( I have to decide, whether to ask people to say something , or just make a sound with their voice. I have to think of what kind of question to ask.)
#4. Funny. Funny. Making things that are artificial, into life.
There is a shell. Whatever you put inside, will become alive and move around and if you take it out (inside the screen). There will be an invisible camera inside, and it will take an xray photo of it. It starts to move around the screen, and then it burns and disappears. OPS. This is then about commercial objects.
I think life itself, or being alive have a lot to say, and it is beautiful, to enable the visitors to give birth(virtually) to an artificial,(or out of nothing) through interactive pieces.
Well, to start, a striking artwork that deals with life and death is Demian Hirst's shark, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" . Another piece is a blood head sculpture " Self" , by Marc Quinn. Interactive pieces would be "pulse park" or "Spiral ...." by Rafael Lozano Hemmer.
Back to my idea, what is life? What do I want to say? Why should people interact with it? What experience should be remarkable to them? What is the process of life? What would be the end of life? What does it mean to die?
Well, I am half consciously thinking, I am just jotting down what I am thinking.
Life is light.Life is pulse. Life is breath. Life is fluctuation & flow. Life has motion. Life is warm. Life is physical.Life is present and ephemeral. Life is never contiuous. Life is limited. Life is self recognition of the self. Life is energetic. Life is blood. Life can be red. Life is humid. Life is smooth. Life is seeing.
Death is the end. Death cannot be postponed or refused. Once happend, cannot bring it back. Death is no pulse or breath. Death is blue or black. Death is cold. Death is future, but could be past also. Death is the fear of present being left as past. Death means the end of physical self. Death is mysterious. Death is bone. Death can be white. Death is dry. Death is crackle. Death is closing.
OK. Back to think my idea.
#1. Moment of present becoming the Past, (and the recognition of self and the desire to be rebel).
Chair of red, hemoglobin shape, white, is in the room with a spotlight.
You walk in, sit(or lay down). It changes into red. It pulses your beat, by vibration and sound. You realize that the chair is alive, with you. The other scuptural objects inside the room blinks according to your biosigals, following the chair. Then, suddenly, it vibrates to strong, that meaning it is irritated by you and it wants you to get off. You stand up and try to leave. Suddenly, the chair starts to Burn on fire, becomes as an ash, or crackle, meaning it dead.
#2. Giving birth to make alive.
There is a straw( or a tube) which has light coming out, and you have to blow in. When you blow in, it takes a photo of your eyes, and makes a bubbly figure appear on a screen with the image of your eyes captured. It then follows the rhythm of how you blew or how was your heartbeat during you were blowing, and it floats around the screen projection in the room. The bubbles created by others are already up in the ceiling, and it has the eyes of other people. The bubbles are all looking at the creature I created. When it floats up towards the ceiling, it gets smaller, and bluer. If you want to keep it down, you have to keep breathing inside of it. If you shake the tubing, it gets its pins up, getting sharp, and it kills other stuffs that have been created by others. If you leave it, it slowly dissolves and die. When it dies, it dies from the highest ceiling, and it makes an ash, amber, debrea fall down the wall, accumulated in the floor.
#3. the self.
There is a huge shell in the middle of the room. You approach, put your hand on it, and give them your voice, by saying something.(tell it one most precious thing for you in your life is, or you want to keep it within your life.) (or I might ask people to say one last thing they want to say) After you finish talking, you get off your hand and it will turn on to red, repeating what you have just said, it will echo along the room, lighting up the virtual creatures. Then, once it reaches the end, it echos all what other have just said, and it blinks in turn, and it dies, by turning off the light, or breathing off. It will be also like a symphony of land, with all the other people, who experienced this in the past. At the end, it will go back to my words, echoing, and it will slowly dim, meaning it is dieing. ( I have to decide, whether to ask people to say something , or just make a sound with their voice. I have to think of what kind of question to ask.)
#4. Funny. Funny. Making things that are artificial, into life.
There is a shell. Whatever you put inside, will become alive and move around and if you take it out (inside the screen). There will be an invisible camera inside, and it will take an xray photo of it. It starts to move around the screen, and then it burns and disappears. OPS. This is then about commercial objects.
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