Life sparks Questions

The question to be answered today in the artword that baffles many upon one is myself is:

What Is Art?

A darn good question too. From day to day new artists are pushing the limits that traditional artists have set for the world to explore, and by golley-G the world will break those habits of tradition! Change is required for evolution correct? So art has to evolve from painting, sculpting, and drawing to digital, mixed media, and fictitious abstractions.

What I learned in Art School: The ability to bullshit well makes a great artists.

Don't mock me, it's true! Go to an art school and see for yourself, you will be amazed at what can be called art today! I mean look at Duchamp's piece titled "fountain":

Duchamp, "Fountain"

Yes, if you are questioning yourself, that is an upside down urinal. And that abomination is called in today's society as Art. Given this was a piece in a series meant for "found art" upon which this particular piece was not displayed because it was lost according to wikipedia.

HA HA, funny fact here according to Wikipedia: "The work is regarded by some as a major landmark in 20th century art."

The art world seizes to amazed my mind! And I depend on it to fuel my creations? Bullshit time!

Ok, so world I've promised to tell you more about the project I will be creating. The idea is taking the question "Art is..." and without answering this question myself this art piece will be installed in various places around my campus and throughout the next 3-ish weeks I will secretly document my audience as they interact what they think art is. The audience will be able to participate as the performers. Which is what I love to have happen with the artwork I am most passionate with.

I will screenprint and mixed medium design and form a poster with an edition of about 2-4 so I have room to mess up or post more as I choose fit. The design will look sort of like those refrigerator magnets with the words you can take off and put together to make any sentence you want, except the words will be all on one page as I explore from friends, family and various people in the halls what they think art is in only one word.

Then I will proceed to display these posters with a box hanging next to it to hold some hand held objects that resemble an "X" and an "O", or something similar so the audience if they choose can place them upon a word that they think most describes as art. Or what they disagree what art could be.

I am planning on this poster to be about 15X20" big. So there will be plenty of words to choose from. Upon the upper middle part of the poster will be, in bigger letters, the words "Art is       " and the line afterwards is to indicate a blank space for the audience to understand as a reference for the missing word, in which I hope they will indicate the best word for themself.

My performance actually relies upon the audience participation in which I will have indicators upon the box with the playing pieces in it so the audience is invited to play or interact with the piece instead of treating the art piece like it is fragile.

I want grimy fingers upon the piece, maybe a few pieces missing, hopefully some tares in the papers. Because that will show me and my audience that this piece is meant to be played with.

So over the next few days I will be designing a sketch that will better help my ideas flow out of my head to further your impact upon my idea. Because world you are more than welcome to help me and give me feedback as I continue the journey of this project.

Now I'm off to sketch some examples for you to get a visual of my ideas...

Site-Specificity, Installation, Performance, and Intervention

Hello again World,

I just ate some yummie dill salmon, yum yum yum. So that's pretty much all thats on my mind. Don't worry I'll get to my point soon. After I endulge myself into some Fro Yo (frozen yogurt).

Ok world I'm back. I've been given this task to create a blog that will keep log of the progress from a project given to me from my Intro To Digital Media class. Now at my previous school I already had a class similar to this one, however I never was able to dabble into web/design. 

I am a Photography major so I have had some pretty heavy training in Photoshop. Which helps a ton for this digital media class. Plus a while back I did an internship working hands on with the photographer and all I did was work in Photoshop.

Digressing is not my middle name but I do it alot.  oooh shinny top gear cars! hehe

For this class I was given an objective, see just below:

Objective

You will be developing a blog based on your exploration of installation, performance and/or intervention as an art form. You will be required to create a BLOG in which to work and document your art event. This BLOG should include your research of websites, artists and materials on the topic of  Site-Specificity, Installation, Performance, and Intervention. You may want to start by first finding and developing your idea with sketches, research of other artists who work with instillation based work, both indoor and outdoor.  The blog should act as a support mechanism/diary for your research, but most importantly to document your temporary installation, performance and/or intervention. For example, scan in working sketches from your notebook, upload pictures, add web links to artist, etc. Below are some resources to get you started on you research.

Neat Hua? However in this objective I will be taking you along my journey as I create an actual project. Yes world, you will be able to watch the progression of a real life project of my own creation. How does that make you feel?

Well I did sort of skip the research of websites, artists and materials because in another class I was given a project that will allow me to use this blog to document and jot down ideas, plus get feedback from you if you'd like.

The project of the other class was given to me with an objective to create either a mixed media piece or a Poster piece. Mind you this other class is Screenprinting, so in a sort it has to also use the medium of screenprinting. With permission from my teacher in that class, I was able to mix the two choices into one big performance installation questionaire screenprint with mixed medium. And I will have real life interaction from an unknown audience as I present this piece as an installation (that means it will be placed in a site-specific spot), and the audience will be able to not only be an audience but also the performer as they will be able to interact with the piece.

Confused yet?

Well that's what this journey is for isn't it? World you also get to participate in this expedition that will proceed over a couple of weeks and it will be totally fun!

Not a bad journey hua?

Till tomorrow,

I'm signing off and saying... Adieu World!

blogger.com we meet atlass!

Here I am world. The start of something new... A blog. World I never thought I would start one, but here I am sitting on my couch typing away. Want to hear how it all started?

Well I am going to tell you anyway. Here it goes.

I have just transferred from a Liberal Arts College to a University, why in the hell would I do that do you ask of me? Because I just don't make liberal art. And I don't think in a critically necessary contemporary art pattern that my past school demanded of me.
My enjoyment through art proceeds to expand from humor, life lessons, personal stories, interactions through people, rants I randomly have, and last but not least Spontaneous Actions!


Although world for the next couple of weeks, if you decide to follow me, I will be taking you on a journey that will explore a project I have been given from a teacher. (details will be in next blog) This art piece will be designed, screenprinted, and will use mixed media then turned into a performance piece... confused yet? So am I. haha Just kidding world, with this blog I will explore and design a project that has been given to me and take you every step of the way on the journey.

So come on the yellow brick road and follow me to something magical...