Contemporary Textile Practice Thoughts: 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