Xerox Project

For the Xerox project, we had to Xerox our entire body and make something with the scans. So i made a puppet. Here is is dancing per Santiago's request. Kinda creepy, but hey, its art! :)


Seb:

Very clever  title! Very cool how you were 2-d and everything else was 3-d. It brings up the question of reality and how material possessions and technology are viewed in such high regards. It also questions what is more important, the technology itself or the person who made the technology. Very interesting and effective piece.

Francesca:

“The Mantis” was amazing. Very sexual and exquisite piece (pun intended).  I love love loved it.

Grace:

I really liked your project. I love how you showed the motion of sex with still scans. Super cool and provocative J

Luis:

I loved how you put yourself into all different characters. It allowed you to be at many different places at once, I can see it as questioning identity and perspective. Very good project.

Hessa:

Loved the collage and the story behind it. Very good piece

Sarah:

I like how you incorporated text with the scans as well. It interestingly gives more meaning to the words than the scans of the people.

Jon:

Very cool, I liked how you morphed yourself into Popeye and Olive Oyl. It would have been cool if you just did Popeye but I like how you took on the female role as well. Very gender neutral. Love it.

Stef:

I loved your project. The eyes look 3-d. I also like the idea of the monster in the closet. Loved how you did layers and layers of scans. Very cool.

Danielle:

I LOVE LOVE LOVED YOURSS!! Soooo awesome. Definitely my favorite project. Love how you had yourself in a specific scene that we can tell has happened before J

Emily:

I loved your project. I really like that you first had the lamb and then it turned into an abstract shape. First one is like pictorial photography and the second is vernacular. Great project,

Hannah:

Ok, yours was on a completely different level. I don’t even know how you came up with such an awesome idea and I don’t know how you pulled it off either. I’m still in awe. I showed all my friends, your amazing. Hands down. Amazing.

Abby:

Very cool project. I like how it questions if the person is emerging from the ground or if they are being pulled down. Very cool and interesting project. I also liked how you made it outside so lots of people could see it. Great project!

Rubix Cube

I was planning on creating a rubix cube in Maya and adding video to the faces but it didnt work right. So here is just the Rubix cube.

Video Art Piece

Danielle:

I really liked your audio and how you were beat boxing. I also like the effects that you put on the video. My favorite part was how it pixilated out at the end. Great final project.

Hessa

I really like how you used a strobe effect with the images. It didn’t matter that we could read the text or understand what was going on in the videos because we were learning subconsciously.  I like how you were in it as well and reciting a poem. Great piece!

Luis

I really like how you merged polar opposite environments. This piece also brings up perspective because of how fast it looks like you’re going on the motorcycle and how slow it looks like you’re going in the car. It was very dream like.  Awesome final piece Luis! Great having you in class as well!!

Seb

I really like how you completely decontextualized every piece of your video and technology. I particularly enjoyed the traditional Arabic writing juxtaposed with Facebook. Great final piece and great having a class with you again! Im gonna miss you when im gone! Ma’a salama habibi.

Stef

I loved your piece! Perfectly depicts an “insane” state of mind. Awesome awesome awesome.

Emily

Really liked how you built off of your previous piece. I also likes how you made comething so taboo into a joke with the audio and visual effects. Great project.

Francesca

I really liked your piece! Loved how you made speaking into singing. Super cool and very decontextualized!

Jon

Loved your video and I wish there was more. Very creative way of looking at popcorn and connecting it to popcorn’s history with music.

Roy:

I liked your use of iTunes visualizer, especially when you used your own voice. Great work.

Hannah

I loved your video!! You put yourself into the digital world! Awesome piece!!

Sarah

I really enjoyed your piece. Lots of different devices and visual elements. Great piece.

Abby

I loved how you showed us a different perspective than we are used to seeing. Great idea and great video.

Grace

Yours was just exquisite! (pun intended) 

Performance art piece

Luis:

Yours was my favorite piece. Such a great idea and very well executed. I loved how public it was and you know what a great job you did when everyone at the beach claps! Very very very good!

Hessa:

I don’t really get how it was performance art but I enjoyed watching it lol It looks like a great time.

Abby:

I loved your project! I love the idea about how Apple keeps coming out with new products and the old ones are left behind. Very visually interesting and strong. Again, I love that you did it outside so everyone could look at it and think about Apple in a different way. Great project!

Danielle

I really like how you show your sense of identity and culture in your pieces, like your grid project. It’s like you represent New York just like the Statue of Liberty does. Great piece, I liked it a lot.

Stef:

Very interesting piece. I love that you got your hands on such an old piece of technology. I don’t know if you know anything about the innovation adoption lifecycle, but it’s a diagram in business where you learn about who is buying what products and when. In the diagram it has the innovators, which are the first people to buy new products and the last is the laggards which would be like people today who do not have a computer or an ipod. In this piece, I see you representing the laggards and saying that it’s not because they are behind the times, it can be a conscious and rational choice not to just go along and join the “iGeneration.” Great piece

Grace

Cool piece. Like how you used old phones that are not functional. I really liked where you stopped and were talking to the statue. Great piece that brings up a lot of questions about technology and always being “connected” with the world.

Seb:

I loved your piece! Sooo awesome and interactive. I wish I would have seen it and been able to interact with it. Awesome.

Emily

I loved how you gave people the opportunity to vent the anger they had towards technology without them knowing that they had any anger towards technology at all. Great piece. Loved it.

Francesca

I loved the Binary symphony, im gonna be honest that I really didn’t understand it but I liked it anyways lol.

Jon

I don’t really get how this relates to technology or performance art but it was interesting seeing all the peoples reactions to you in Walmart.

Roy

I really liked how you brought up the phasing out of human’s importance in relation to technology. Very interesting. Great piece.

Hannah:

Great piece.I loved when you were jogging with the joggers. Very comical. I also liked how you ended your piece with a cliff hanger. Very cool.

Sarah

I likes watching it and it was very pretty. 

Grid Project

Luis:

I loved your project! The tiger was awesome! I also thought it was so interesting that you used a giant light panel. The shading was amazing. Very well done. My favorite grid of them all.

Seb.

I liked your tree. I thought it was very interesting that something so temporary was inspired by a tree that grows for over 100 years. Very decontextualized J

Danielle:

I really liked how you incorporated your sense of identity in this project and you showed us three different sides to yourself. Very cool.

Emily:

The monkey was so cute. I liked it a lot. Hopefully you ate it afterwards ll it looked really yummy J

Francesca

Yours was soooo cool! I loved how you made a very 2-d element (cards) into a 3-d picture with ethe sharks teeth jutting out. Super cool!

Stef:

I love how you physically drew on the computer and it looked like something that was created by the computer. So awesome. I loved the colors and the whole idea itself. Very good project.

Jon

Interesting beehive. I’m going to be honest that I don’t really understand how it was a grid but it definitely looked cool.

Hannah

I loved your project! It was such a unique idea. So awesome that you could put it in front of the projector and see the image on the other side. I also really like that you posted the progression of the project.

Sarah

Cool beads. So funny that you glued them to the floor.

Grace

I loved your Michael Jackson. I also liked how big it was and that you showed the picture that inspired the piece. Very good project.

Mark J. Stock

Although i don't understand the method behind his creation, i do appreciate how he uses his medium. I love the fact that he is able to show imagery that people can only imagine. I have chosen a few of my favorites to show in this post

MAGMA 19
This is what i was talking about earlier how he is able to show imagery that people can only imagine. This is a visual representation of the magma at the Earth's core. No one has ever seen the Earth's core before but with science, he is able to show us a glimpse. Awesome.

WAVE FOR HOKUSAI
I love how he uses appropriation in this piece. He is appropriating "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai and recreating the imagery using his own medium. It is beautiful and peaceful. I also like how he mentions in his captions below the picture, how this particular image was very important for both art and science. It is so appropriate that he uses this picture because we can see his love for both art and science and how he shows us that they can go together beautifully. 

SPRAWL
I love how he brings up large questions with his work. Here he questions the difference between science and nature. With this image, we can see that there isn't much of a difference at all. What can this mean for our future?

Fastest Supercomputer in the World

On June 20, 2011 the Top500 Supercomputing List released which Supercomuter was the fastest in the world: the K Computer.  The "K Computer" lives at the Kobe's RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Japan and was made by Fujitsu. "K is a cluster of 672 server cabinets filled with over 68,000 Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx processors, with a combined processing punch 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second (8.2 petaflops)." (Quote from the New York Times.) For people like me who do not speak computer language, this computer is as fast as about a million desktop computers! It also uses the equivalent of about 10,000 houses worth of electricity!  

MZTV.com

Radio Show

Videos from the Brain

This is crazy. I still don't understand exactly how this can be possible. It also poses many many questions about reality versus perception. In the last paragraph of the article, it foreshadows our ability to be able to read people's mind and watch their memories. This is so invasive, I cannot even imagine it ever being legal in any way to be used in let's say a judicial manner. I can see how this would drastically change our judicial system because if there was a murder, we would just read the suspect's memories and watch them commit the murder if they were guilty. But this also brings into question the difference between imagination and reality. I can easily imagine myself committing a crime but that doesn't mean i actually committed it.

This is such a drastic jump in technology that it will take a lot of time for humanity to feel comfortable with it. As much as it scares me, i can see this being used in the distant future.

Here's my flip book animation. 

Frame by Frame animation

This is another frame by frame animation that i did for my digital arts class. It had to be creepy and inspired by Halloween. I also made the soundtrack.

Frame By Frame Animation

This is a frame by frame animation that i made for my Digital arts class. I also made the soundtrack.

Retinal Persistence

Angel De Quinta

Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life

00:52 The lights are uniquely used to create shadows of the dancing figures.

So In Love - Rachel York

00:36 The blue lighting paired with the warm pink lamp shade adds warmth to the scene. We can feel her longing and love for the man she is singing about.

Jerome Robbins Fancy Free.mp4

02:21 The single dim light in the background, which I believe is a lamp, sets the time of day and the seemingly barren scene. 

Fiddler On The Roof

01:15 The blue light and the bright moon in the background paired with the bare trees show us temperature. We can feel that the setting is a cold environment.

La Cage Aux Folles 

(Original Broadway Cast) - 

Live at the 1984 Tony Awards

00:35 Lighting combines with set design, staging, and costumes to guide our eyes to the important aspects of the scene. We can tell who we should be mainly watching because of the way the spot light is set.

Barbra Streisand 'I'd 

Rather Be Blue'

At the very beginning , the lighting adds to the story. We hear a man say “on her, her over there” as the spot light is searching for Barbara Streisand. This is comical and adds to the story. This shows us that we are most likely watching an unprofessional amateur possibly unplanned performance. The light gives us the back story.

Show Clip - South Pacific - "Younger Than Springtime"

00:07 The set with the bars is interestingly lit from the back so it casts shadows down the stage setting the scene and adding a distinct mood to the piece. 


From the multiple examples of lighting withing different Broadway performances, we can see how much more lighting can be used for other than just illuminating a set. It can be used to set temperature to a scene or even add to the plot line. There is much much more to lighting than I used to think. 

Abelardo Morell

I really like Abelardo Morell's work. It brings up a whole new side to art and interior design. I am really interested in how he actually does this because I would love to do this to my apartment. I've attached a few of my favorite pieces of his.

















I really like this one because of the juxtaposition of a calm almost empty room that is covered with busy and crowded New York City. Morell's work brings up a different side to internalizing external forces.

I love this one because even though i know that this in inside of a room, it looks like it is outside because of the picture posted on the walls.Usually the pictures being upside down throws me off but this one I didn't even notice until recently that it was upside down. Beautiful image.

I really like this one because the decoration inside works perfectly with the chapel that is being projected. I could picture the ornate mirror and the statue actually being inside of the chapel. I also love the color pictures as opposed to the black and white ones.

I like this one as well because the painting inside the room vibes bell with the Colosseum. I also love the deep red, brown and oranges of this photo
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This one is awesome. It looks like an awesome crowded jungle with beautiful Italian architecture.


















I want this to be my room. Hands down. Gorgeous. My absolute favorite. Love love love.


 

Great Depression vs. Today's Recession

There are many similarities and differences between the Great Depression and the recession that is now in our country. I have pinpointed three similarities that I find quite interesting and a few differences. I have also found a trend in the success of technology during economically hard times.

                The first similarity is the decrease in jobs. Now, the job market is very poor and unemployment has risen to a new high. Yet, luckily the job market seems to be steadily, although very slowly, increasing. Jobs during the time of the Great Depression were also scarce. This was because the stock market crashed and many businesses had much of their money in stocks so they could not afford to keep as many workers as they could before.

                The second similarity is the state of the environment at the time. During the Great Depression, many people thought the farmers would be fine because they at least had food to feed themselves but large droughts and dust storms covered the Great Plains killing most of the crops. Today, there are not localized and specific environmental factors that are affecting our economy but global warming and pollution are two environmental factors which are a threat right now.

                The final similarity that I found is a little bit of a stretch. World War II was the driving force that ended the Great Depression because it created many jobs throughout the country. Seeing the wars and unrest that is going on around the world now, particularly in the Middle East, World War III might be what takes us out of this recession.

                One large difference between this recession and the Great Depression is response time. During the Great Depression when the stock market crashed, the government did not know what to do so they took a very long time to respond. Luckily now, politicians and government officials are continually looking for new ways to solve the problems that our recession has caused. Another possible difference is the banks. The banks crashed because everyone was trying to take out their money when the stock market crashed and they just didn’t have enough money to catch up so many closed. Although banks have had problems with lending out loans now-a-days, at least there isn’t one single event, like the stock market crash, that will cause everyone to want to withdraw all of their money at the same time.

                Technology was affected by the Great Depression. Radio, the free technology used as a means of entertainment, flourished. People didn’t have much money to spend on different technologies and this is why free radio flourished. During the recession now, the same thing is happening. People are starting to stop using the technology that costs, such as video games, DVD rentals, Game consoles, etc., and are starting to stick with the free means of entertainment; the internet. If this recession continues, I believe that we may see an end to video games that are not free, we are already seeing an end to DVD rental stores, and I also think in the future, television might start to diminish as well because of sites like hulu that allow you to watch TV shows for free. 

Madama Butterfly Animation Response

This animation was very interesting to say the least. The sound was quite informative, even though I didn’t know what the voice was singing about. The song in the beginning sounds beautiful, innocent, and full of hope when it is accompanied by the nature sounds. It symbolizes how full of life and love the woman is with the man. Yet, right after she has sex with him, he begins to control the song, her song. The whole time the man is in the animation, before he leaves, he is the one controlling the music. He is playing her life and emotions for her, she has no say in the matter.

When the man leaves, so does the butterfly. The butterfly, I believe, represents love and beauty which she thought she had through his eyes and when he leaves, so does the beauty she once had. When he is gone, all she can do is listen to the song of her past and wait till the man comes back so she can begin living again. She attempts to break from the song when she becomes pregnant. She tries to sing on her own but she cannot because the song of her past is much more powerful.

After her daughter is born, she doesn’t listen to the recorder anymore. She does not need to live through her past anymore; she can live with her daughter now. I did think it was weird that the mother and daughter are physically attached to each other, like she never cut the umbilical cord. But visually, it symbolizes their bond. She and her baby are now able to fly like the butterfly she used to have when she was with the man. They are happy together; and there are no words to express this happiness.

                Yet when the man comes back and takes her child from her, it is the only time in the whole animation where it actually seems like she is the one singing the song. She is expressing how she feels in response to him. Her emotional anguish is very powerful. When she steps out of the scene, it is like reality, pain, and suffering have finally hit her.

In regards to the part with the fish bowl, I am really not sure why the fish bowl was used as a pregnant belly.  Possibly to dehumanize the baby at the beginning and show that life and beauty are built through love between mother and child. It still confuses me a little bit. I like how it visually symbolized the woman’s water breaking though. Thinking further into the visual implication, it almost seems that the fish bowl is a simplification that you would tell a child when you are trying to describe a pregnancy. Quite interesting. 

Another Commercial

This one very interestingly appropriates opera. I saw it on tv yesterday and had to post it.

HP commercial appropriating the baroque

Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Bread and Circus

The only thing I can think of to be close to the bread and circus is events that are run on volunteers and donations. For example, a non-profit organization could host an event that is only paid for by the sponsors and the guests and volunteers eat free.

Another thing that just came to mind is free happy hours in my apartment complex. Every week, there is a free happy hour where residents can go and get free drinks and socialize with the other residents. All of the events that seem to be close to the bread and circus are typically centered on membership to a certain group. 

August 31 2011 Lecture

I really enjoy learning about art history because it enables us to see where everything came from. I believe in a postmodern world where everything has been created before and through appropriation we can acknowledge the past and build upon it to respond on the present.

                One thing that I learned in class that I didn’t know before, which seems so obvious now, is the correlation between discovering gold in the Americas and the Baroque period in Europe. It makes sense that with the abundance of gold, lavish decorative style would emerge. Personally, I am not a huge fan of the saturated baroque style but it is undeniable that there is beauty there.

                I also really enjoyed the section of the lecture on music because I took a music history class this summer and it builds upon everything I learned in that class. Music can be mathematical and that still intrigues me. Although I wish we would have listened to the Fugue no2 in C minor instead because you can trace the mathematical patterns and games that Bach plays in the Fugue. Overall very interesting and informative lecture. 

Juan Carlos Delgado’s Recent Exhibition

I love this exhibit. I love how the ice manages to change and shape the sculptures giving them entirely new meaning. The original piece, without the ice, reminds me of youth, peace, and serenity yet when it starts to ice over, it changes. The end picture, showing the sculpture almost completely iced over, looks like an old woman with regrets and sadness etched all over her face. Yet, what I like even more than the fact that the piece changes is that the pictures that are on the website probably look nothing like how the piece may look now. It is ever changing and developing.

I also like the piece with the frozen over bars. The first time I saw this it made me think of an awesome piece of performance art that could be made from this piece’s inspiration. If someone were to freeze ice that looks just like bars of a prison. Symbolizing the cold, unforgiving nature of prison. Then completely shatter the ice bars. Which could then symbolize the shattering of the lives of the loved ones of these prisoners. It could also symbolize the shattering effects of a prison sentence of that prisoner’s life when he/she gets out. Or it could also represent the inability of bars to keep faith, hope, and ideas from the prisoners. If I thought deeper I’m sure I could find much more meaning behind a possible piece like this. Such as the prison behind the bars could be completely symbolic itself and stand for the bars that people tend to put up around themselves. And building upon that, they wouldn’t have to be shattered they could be allowed to slowly melt away. I have lots of ideas on a piece like that.

Farinelli Response

 I found this article very interesting. I learned about Farinelli and the “castrati” in a music history course that I took this summer. I loved the course and I found the castrati quite interesting. The reason they made castratis was because females were not allowed to perform in public so there were no soprano vocalists. Interestingly though, despite theabsence soprano vocalists, soprano parts in music were all but eradicated. This caused parents and prominent prepubescent male vocalists to contemplate castration.

                This sounds like a huge and horrific leap to make but these castrati were extremely famous in their time. With this fame also came riches. Castrati were also known to be very popular with rich women because in a time without birth control, castrated males seemed to be quite useful. Farinelli was the most famous of all the castrati of his time.

                I had never heard about Farinelli suffering from “hyperostosis frontalis interna” though. This is very interesting to hear and brings up many questions. The first that comes to my head is did this disease kill Farinelli? Also, a much farther stretch, if males who are castrated have lessened levels of testosterone and are susceptible to this post-menopausal disease then can testosterone be used as a cure for this disease in women? This research, I’m sure, will be very useful to medicinal researchers. 

My Thoughts on Juan Carlos Delgado's Work

Overall I find Juan Carlos Delgado’s work to be very intriguing. I like that it challenges us to be actively involved in viewing the art. The lack of titles, or titles that simply state the materials used to make the piece, don’t give us any clues as to the artist’s purpose. This requires us to question first, what it is, then what we think it could represent and finally what specifically it represents for ourselves.

 The first piece of Delgado’s that really stuck out to me was Object No. 9 2001. I love how he turns stationary objects like a wall and steel desks to show movement. He doesn’t only show physical movement, the wall seemingly eating the chair, but he also shows time. As I look at this piece, I can see that the wall engulfing the chair is a process that is happening over an extensive amount of time. This is one of my favorite pieces of his because it reminds me of some times in school where I would sit in the desk, bored for hours, and feel as if I was just melting into the chair and becoming one. (Obviously not referring to your class Prof. Echeverry J )

The next piece that was interesting to me was the Untitled 2001 piece that consisted of a rug made out of auto glass surrounded by oars with pictures of people on each oar. First I had no clue what was supposed to be going on in the scene, yet when I watched the video, I got an idea. The camera moved to a space in between the rug and the oars and continued to move forward. I felt as in we were being forced to walk a very thin and careful line between death/pain/suffering represented by the glass rug and the spirit world/peace/ and serenity represented by the white oars. It was actually pretty moving. I still have more to think about for this piece.

I think my favorite piece of his is 100 cubes of white light 2000. This installation reminded me of Jean-Claude and Christo’s work. I tried researching and finding the exact location the lights were put into but had no luck. I think that Delgado chose this type of installation with similar motives as Jean-Claude and Christo. To make people look at a place that they might pass by everyday in a new and different way. To bring up questions about what that location may represent to both themselves and the world. I found the lights very beautiful. I think that they represent beauty, peace, and hope. The fact that they were installed at 6pm and taken out the next morning at 8 am is very interesting. I believe the reason behind it could be to show people the beauty in every day. Beauty can come and go and if this installation can encourage you to look twice and try and find the beauty everywhere then that would be awesome.

Overall I really enjoyed Juan Carlos Delgado’s work and I find it to be very postmodern with his usage of installation and multimedia. 

Introduction

Hello :) My name is Mandi Triscritti. I am a senior at the University of Tampa scheduled to graduate in December 2011. I am a communications major, advertising minor. I originally thought I wanted to go into either news reporting or creative advertising, but as of now I am not sure. I am planning on applying to graduate school in the near future and possibly getting an MBA. My family currently resides in Saudi Arabia and has for 10 years. My father works for Saudi ARAMCO, an oil company, and plans on retiring and returning to the United States in 3 years. I have taken both music and art history classes and am interested to see how this class will build upon the others that I have already taken.