Using Masks in Photoshop

Using Masks in Photoshop..

Points to remember:

• Be aware of what resolution you are working at (72 dpi for screen based)
  
• Be careful when using images from the Web
• Keep backing up your work

Time-Based Art, Guerilla Art & Wearable Technology

Wednesday 11th March was the last delivered lecture and as two lectures were missed, this weeks tries to cram three subjects into one week,:


This project has links to all three of this week's subjects.
Blast Theory ‘Can You See Me Now?’ http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_cysmn.html

• Time Based Art
• Guerrilla Art
• Wearable Technology
  

Including the very first week that makes a total of seven post or subjects that should be covered by students in their own Blogs...

The body in contact with textiles as a ‘personal life chronology’ (a time line which could be a starting point or even a concluding post)

Body in a Galley Baxeux Tapestry

Extended Body (Horn)

The Body As Body Art (Stellarc)

Art in the Landscape

Time-Based, Guerrilla, Wearable Technologies

Time Based Art/ Multimedia/ New-Media

Be careful if you choose to double up on posts, make sure that there is a sufficient amount of content and don't look on it as an easy short cut.

Time-Based Art

Time Based Art relates to artwork that requires an amount of time to be spend viewing (or interacting with it) so that its full effect can be experienced. Some of the Land Art we looked at last week uses the ebb and flow of the tides or the changing of day into night for its experience.

Andy Goldsworthy is considered a 'Land Artist' because his work exists within and is specific to its natural surroundings. However his work is also Ephemeral (Time-Based) and it relies on photography for its dissemination.

Time-Based Art is a fairly new term and artists working in the field use technology in their work; photography, film/video, projections, sound, computers. Time-Based Art is also know as Art & New-Media or Multimedia Art

Is not a new thing...

Eadweard Muybridge. Animal locomotion: An electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movement, 1872-1885. Philadelphia, 1887.

Muybridge looked specifically at the movement of animals using innovative photographic methods to capture images. His work has since then been regarded as important art work, particularly for the development of photography.

Muybridge was influenced by the Scientist/Artist Ettienne Jules Marey who was working at the same period in France. These are Chronophotographs from "The Human Body in Action," Scientific American, 1914

Many artists choose to work with Time-Based Art and one of my favourites is the american artists, Tony Oursler.
He is best know for projecting animated human faces onto inanimate objects, often puppets that are stuck or trapped in a bizarre situation. Using sound, the objects then talk/shout/scream in an anthropomorphic confrontation with the audience

Tony Oursler - I Get Angry Quickly 1996

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhVZ6O5rp1E

This is a useful link to the Tate gallery's definition.
http://www.tate.org.uk/conservation/time/about.htm

Guerrilla Art

Guerrilla Art also known as Street Art has links with activist art and political art.
Again there are crossovers between the terms but essentially artist who practice guerrilla tactics remain anonymous (as often their practices are illegal) and all GA is politically motivated.

Keith Harring 1958 - 1990

He began as a street artist.

Barbara Kruger takes element of contemporary advertising and shows it back to audiences on a monumental scale. Often her work is in Galleries but she also works in the public arena, although she has been known to use billboards, posters and other public spaces her work is not considered Guerrilla Art.

Billboard Liberation Front

Guerrilla Girls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Girls

Cartrain
Installed his work into the Tate gallery, and others...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5QyLj_S0b4

Banksy
(Middle East)

Other forms may include/…….

Library Books
Spray Paint? Stencil
Chalk Pavement
Fly Posters
Banners
T-Shirt Give Away

Arturo Di Modica famously made the "Charging Bull" at his own expense and had it installed in front of the New York Stock Exchange as a gift to the people of NYC. The authorities had it removed and due to public demand had it re-installed in a nearby plaza.

Postmodernism
(after modernism)
Margot Lovejoy Postmodern Currents

Wider audience accessibility
Rethink Art vs Popular Culture
Social acts or social interpretation define an artwork, NOT the artist!
The artist is Inside society
Appropriates anything!!!

Wearable Technology

Pac-Lan http://www.pac-lan.com/media.htm
Mixed Reality Games unlike Blast Theory Pac-Lan uses Radio Frequency Identification technology, and mobile phones.

Blast Theory uses a Global Positioning Satellite system.

Ubiquitous Computing http://sandbox.parc.com/ubicomp/

"..names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing.
Mark Weiser is the father of ubiquitous computing; his web page contains links to many papers ...
Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people. Virtual reality is primarily a horse power problem; ubiquitous computing is a very difficult integration of human factors, computer science, engineering, and social sciences."

Smart or intelligent fabrics will be used

http://fashion-lifestyle.blogspot.com/2008/01/fashioning-technology.html

http://www.scienceahead.com/entry/top-21-wearable-technologies/

Land Art

Land Art / Earth Art / Environmental Art

•Inextricable link between Landscape and the Artwork
•Emerged in late 60’s early70’s in USA, backlash to commercialisation of art and industrialisation of the land.
•An act of protest, Inspired by natural processes and the environment
•Often Ethemeral and concerned with time

Re-creating the natural surrounding is not something new....

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown 1716 - 1783




Brown was known for making the natural garden look even more natural than it already was!

His designs and landscapping allowed views of his work to be experienced from all vantage points.

Crop Circles.




These appear mysteriously overnight in very strange circumstances.

Crop circles have been used as a way to make political statements.

The earliest recorded image resembling a crop circle is depicted in a 17th century Englishwoodcut called the The Mowing Devil. The image depicts the Devil with a scythe mowing a circular design in a field of oats. The pamphlet containing the image states that the farmer, disgusted at the wage his mower was demanding for his work, insisted that he would rather have "the devil himself" perform the task.




People have come forward claiming to have been the creators.
http://www.circlemakers.org/
http://www.nextnature.net/?p=1283


Greenpeace campaigning against geneticly grown crops.






Ancient Earthworks.

Stonehenge, Wiltshire UK






Madien Castle, an iron age fort in Dorset UK

The Cerne Giant & the Westbury Horse have anceint roots but there is evidence that they have been re-made in more recent times.













Nazca Lines in Peru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines

Walking a Line in Peru
Richard Long 1972
http://www.flaviaormond.com/long.html





Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty 1970








Walter De Maria
Lightning Feild 1977












Michael Hiezer
Displaced Replaced Mass
1969








Christo
Wrapped Coast
1968 - 69




Nancy Holt
Sun Tunnels 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CYMox9kVo





James Turrell
Roden Crater 1980



James Turrell
Irish Garden Sky 1991
http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/310







What future developments?


GPS Drawings 'Dog Art'

http://borderwars.blogspot.com/2007/12/gps-dog-art.html

Orag Whiteman
http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/85

Art in the Age of Orbitization
http://www.orbit.zkm.de/

Body Modification / Body Art

Marina Abramovic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87

Marcel·li Antunez Roca - Epizoo 1994

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5utDR8VWxms

Stellarc

1. Sitting / Swaying event for rock suspension (Tamura Gallery, Tokyo - 11 May, 1980)Encircled by 18 granite rocks, which counterbalanced its weight, the body was suspended in a sitting position. Each rock weighed between 3.5 - 4.2 kgms, one rock for each insertion point. The rocks were first suspended from eye-bolts in the ceiling, then connected to the body sitting on the floor. The rocks were then lowered, lifting the body into space. During the suspension time of approximately 17 minutes, the body swayed, gently swinging all the rocks in different directions.

Stellarc third arm

The Extra Ear

ORLAN

http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ecook/courses/eng114em/surgeries.htm

Mona Hatoum Corps Etranger 1984

Rebecca Horn's Body Extensions

Unfortunately due to first to weather and then Ill health we have missed out on two weeks of CTP theory lectures.

Nevertheless, carrying on with the masterplan this week (18th February) I introduced the group to the early work of Rebecca Horn and specifically her body extension work from the early 1970's.


The first part of this video was shown on the data projector and when I asked the group to think about exactly what it was that they were looking at.

suggestions were:

Long Fingers
A Body extension
Contact with Surroundings
Interaction
Ballance
An Attempt to Measure Space
Different Sensations
A Nutcase Walking up and down with Long Fingers!

All of these suggestions can be said to be correct but more specifically, exactly what are you looking at right now?




...another mediated form of the artist's work, or just another nutcase walking up and down with long fingers?

On the data projector we watched at a BBC2 clip concerning Rebecca Horn's 1994 retrospective exhibition at the Tate.

We then discussed body extensions as body modification and talked about what other examples of this exist in our contemporary society:

Plastic surgery
Glasses
Earings / Jewellery
Body Sculpting
Body Symetry
Prosthetics
Wheelchairs / Mobility Aids
(what can you add to this list?)

We then briefly looked at the term Cyborg and how these extensions to the body can be mechanical... and where exactly is the divide between human and machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg

The group was then asked to Post a Blog concerning their own personal ideas on Body Extensions / Augmented Senses. Bearing in mind that in early 70's Rebecca Horn was using cutting edge technologies in her art practice. What would she use if she was to repeat her early work today?

Finally we watched this video by Chris Cunningham (music by Bjork)

Tapestry Lecture Notes

The lecture was on Wednesday 28th January

http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/

Allegory in Medievil Tapesty

Group 'Cartoons'

Tapestry copy of Picaso's Anti War Tapestry Guernica.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jan/26/picasso-tapestry-guernica

Here's the List of Student Blogs...

If you have started your Blog and are not on this list email me the web address (which is technicaly known as the URL Universal Relay Location) and I will add you.
If you have not yet started then get on with it as you will soon have a lot to catch up on.

Email me if you have problems, bojski@hotmail.com

Here's the list so far...

http://laurafullen.blogspot.com/
Laura Fullen

http://ellabarrett-ella.blogspot.com/
Ella Barrett

http://emilyblack89.blogspot.com/
Emily Black

http://bunchofletters.blogspot.com/
Rachael Stager

http://claireb90.blogspot.com/
Claire Birkbeck

http://ddavies89.blogspot.com/
Delyth Davies

http://amywills.blogspot.com/
Amy Williams

http://jessicalewton.blogspot.com/
Jessica Lewton