Xerox Project

Performance Art

Vienna Aktionists
I found these type of art quite disturbing. It was very different then anything i have seen before. The people involved were definitely trying to make a statement, they are very extreme and like to push boundaries.

Sankai Juku
My favorite out of all the performances we viewed during class. I really enjoyed that the performance dealt with emotion and body movements instead of costume and action. The men involved were very simplistic with their shaved heads, limited wardrobe and white painted bodies.

Orlan
i found it interesting that Orlan was able to make plastic surgery into an art form. This act is usually something that people who receive it like to keep secretive, but Orlan wanted to broadcast ever surgery she had. I enjoyed her photography and her self-hybridations  more then her plastic surgery broadcasting.

Bauhaus & Fluxus

Bauhaus is a design school located in Germany in 1919. The school was very modern for its time and didn't follow traditional standards. It is most famous for its school of architecture. It was later shutdown in 1933 by the Nazi regime.

Fluxus was started in New York in 1960. The movement was influenced by Bauhaus, Dada and Zen movements. Like Bauhuas this movement was considered advanced for its time and broke away from tradition. They believed that any medium could be used to create art.

Un Chien Andalou

Luis Buñuel is a Spanish surrealist director who collaborated with Salvador Dalí to create the sixteen minute silent film. After viewing the movie i was very confused to what i had just saw since the movie had no plot, or if it did i did not comprehend it. It was definitely a movie filled with surrealism. Some of the imagery was very bizarre, especially the scene where the woman gets her eye cut open. besides all the weird scenes the special effects were very cool and i was surprised to see what they were able to create with such limited resources. I loved how the images would  layer and filter over each other when the scenes were changing.

GRID PROJECT

When i was thinking about which pre-existing grid i could use for this assignment my room mate shared a story of how this summer when she worked at camp where her campers LOVED to make patterns with the Perler Beads. She hated it because she always had to help pick the individual colors for the campers. So i decided this would a be a great way to execute the assignment because when i was a kid i also loved to make things out of these beads. I decided to recreate  a piece from one of my favorite artist Keith Haring. So with 6+ hrs gone and 6,728 beads later i was able to create this master piece.

This is the original Image

Unfortunately i didn't have the funds to recreate the exact colors so i chose to only use 4 colors

 

 

Video Games + Movies

When a movie or television show is really successful they will usually make some sort of game for the product. This is a great way to for the movie or television show to make more money and/or get more viewers. For example Spongebob is a very popular cartoon for children. If a child who enjoys Spongeboeb see's anything in a store with Spongebob on it, the child is immediately going to ask their parent to buy that product for them.

As well as if someone enjoys a movie, they will buy a video game because they liked the story line and would like to play a game and act as if they were in the movie's story line.

TETRIS

I was interested in learning more about the game of Tetris because it is a game that has survived many years. It is a very simple game that quickly becomes very challenging. I still enjoy playing it today especially when I'm able to play against a friend. This is a great website which tells you the complete history and some fun facts about the game, TETRIS HISTORY.

it was developed in 1984 by Alexey Pakitnov, a Russian scientist. Within a year is was used in the IBM PC and spread throughout the Soviet Union. However it took 4yrs for the game to be brought to the US. in 1988 Henk Rogers discovered the game and released the game for PCs. The game became a hit. In 1989 the Nintendo Gameboy was created with the Tetris game cartridge. This past year tetris just spent ther 25th anniversary and they are still hold out strong!

Fun Fact: "Tetris is ranked as one of the All-Time Top 10 Paid Applications on the Apple iTunes App Store."