Project 3

For this project, I will be working with Erik,

 Erik will be designing visuals, and reactive video to music, while I will be creating music and setting up a MIDI controller for the viewers to interact with.

   The project is going to be a live DJ show, with interactive music decided by the viewers. They will walk up and play the notes on the keyboard so that it will be fully decided by the viewer. The footage will react with the audio and create a video based on what they choose. We will have a variety of music to go along with variety of video effects. 

There will be a background behind the DJ booth with a crowd acting like its in a club/venue. 

The entire performance should last less then 5 minutes.

Materials:

MIDI Controller

Laptops

DJ Console

XLR Wires

Power Cords

RCA Wires

Projector(s)

Erik Duty: Video and setup

Joel Duty:Music and setup

Timeframe:

by the 2nd of november, we will have the test performance ready

by the 8th will be setup and ready for presentation.

Joel Ellis

In Defense of the Poor Image

1.     Low Resolutions

        I understand that the poor image (low resolutions image), is a second hand, hand me down image of the original, and yes some times the file names are replaced, in order to connect to a certain project. Almost every time an image is transferred over the web, it loses some of its originality. Nothing looks as brilliant and is more in-focus than an original image.

2.     Resurrection (as Poor Images)

Poor images are easier and faster to share on line. They take up less space on your computer or device, and you can upgrade them, if you seem fit. A lot of classic images/films have been copied and refurbished, as poor images, but at least, because of technology, we are able to preserve them.  

3.     Privatization and Piracy

Just like rich people can afford to purchase new clothes, cars and houses, and poor people cannot afford these luxuries, therefore brilliant original images are in a class all by themselves. Where as, poor images, as compared to poor people, do not shine as brilliant as the rich folks or poor images compared to an original image. The original image may be copy written, and may cost a lot to use the rights, thus opening the way for original image to be downloaded as a poorer image and circulated as such.

4.     Imperfect Cinema

I always believed that when a person makes a mistake, it only proves that he or she is human, comparing this to an imperfect image or film, the audience, I feel, will feel more accepting of the art/artist that is being portrayed.

5.     Comrade, what is your visual bond today?

File sharing, I believe, is the most used and most common way to establish a visual bond in today’s society, and poor images play a major role in creating this visual bond. I agree with the writer when it was said by Dziga Vertov, “The circulation of poor images thus creates “visual bonds,” This “visual bond” links the workers of the world with each other”. (https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/Web 10/25/2018)

6.     Now!

I agree with the author, that a poor image/film/video art is a reflection of a former masterpiece. The poor image takes on a life of its own, and in doing so, in its own way becomes its own ‘Original’ poor image.

V.I.P.

(Project 2)

        Wow.... this took a while and multiple shoots, but I am well pleased with the out come. The first shoot took the longest and the most work, but I was not pleased with the outcome, and to further frustrate things more, I mistakenly hit the stop button, for record, on the camera, so all that work went down the drain. 

        The second shooting went better, and I remembered not to hit the stop button on the camera for recording, but I still felt something was missing. I dug deep within and with determination and hard work, I accomplished what I wanted, something different and entertaining.

Artist Statement

         I created this artistic piece because I wanted my Project 2 to blow away the viewer, to capture their attention from the beginning to the end. I wanted them to ask why?, to feel good, to enjoy what they were experiencing and to say that they have," never had this exact experience before". 

      The concept behind this artistic piece, is to have the viewer see and feel what it is that I create in real life, how I create a happy atmosphere, through my DJing, Music producing and video production. I feel that I have accomplished this with this project and I am more that satisfied with the outcome and responses from the viewers.

Project 2 Progress 3rd Posting

This version of my Project 2 is a Jump-Scare version. I watched it several times to see if I was pleased with it, I liked it but did not Love it, I knew I could do better, so I went back into the lab and went to work....AGAIN.

Project 2 Progress

This has been an exciting project, even tho it has been a lot of work to complete. The first shoot was very had and complicated. When I was done with the first shoot, I was not happy with it, so rather than being lazy and frustrated, I checked out the projector and the projector screen, again, and went to work. 

Joel Ellis 
CH. 3 Claire Bishop's Installation Art 

        As a nighttime performer, I have always felt and seen the effects of light and sound on people of all walks of life and races. Being from the islands I have experienced almost total darkness, when the light goes out and there are no streetlights, and no back up generator. You would have to feel yourself around the house; feeling with your hands for walls, counters, tables, chairs, various obstacles and inside draws feeling for a candle and a match. This experience is gives you an eerie feeling. I agree with Roger Caillois, when he said,” [dark space] does not spread out before me but touches me directly, envelops me, embraces me, even penetrates me completely, passes through me, so that one could almost say that while the ego is permeable by darkness it is not permeable by light”. http://amper.ped.muni.cz/~jonas/knihy/10_instalace_jako_strategie/Claire%20Bishop,%20Installation%20Art.pdf   (Web.10/6/18)

        I do agree with “Lucan”, that mirrors do show the reflections of ourselves not only of out physical self but our inner self as well, and that it can be unpleasant and even disturbing as well, especially looking through the eyes. 

       I believe in the statement when Barthes says,” Ido not consider cinema to be solely the film itself, but the whole 'cinema-situation': the dark hall, the 'inoccupation of bodies' within it, viewers cocooned in their seats. Unlike television, whose domestic space holds no erotic charge, cinema's urban darkness is anonymous, and exciting”.http://amper.ped.muni.cz/~jonas/knihy/10_instalace_jako_strategie/Claire%20Bishop,%20Installation%20Art.pdf    (Web.10/6/18).

        This is what I also look forward to when I go to a Cinema, along with the hot dogs and popcorn.

Joel Ellis Project 2 Proposal

        I decided to create my Project 2 on “A Night With A DJ”. I will film the DJ (DJ Joey Jam),

performing, his equipment, the people's interactions, the bar the waitresses, the inside and

 outside of the club. I will use the projector to project different images at different place and

 times. I decided to create my Project 2 on “A Night With A DJ”. I will film the DJ (DJ Joey Jam), 

performing, his equipment, the people, the bar the waitresses, the inside and outside of the 

club. I will use the projector to project different images at different places and times.

Timeline:

9/28/18: Project Proposal due

10/5/18: Project Process Post 1 due

10/5/18: Artist assignment due

10/6/18: Film DJ Show

10/7-10/18: Edit DJ Show

10/12-18/18: continue working on project

10/19/18: Project Due


Materials:

Camera

 I-Phone, Club "The White Room" 

People in the Club

Computer

Madmapper

Computer

 Projector

Video editing software (Premiere Pro)

 Sound editing Software (Adobe Audition)

Sketches:

Joel Ellis

Pipilotti Rist

“Sip My Ocean”

        As I watched “Sip My Ocean”, by Pipilotti Rist, it allowed me to escape into a world where there are no problems, no worries, no crime, no bills, there were absolutely no negativity at all during the time I was engulfed in the art piece, “Sip My Ocean”. 

       There was no narrative to disturb the conscious or the unconscious. There was actually no need for a narrative, because her works spoke for themselves. I loved all of the interactions, The brilliant colors, the sitting and observing, looking through holes in boxes, standing on top of the art piece as it continue to move, laying on the bed as the art pieces flow on the ceiling and the soothing sounds compliment each other, and your eyes and ears are spiritually connected for that brief period.

Pipilotti Rist was born on June 21, 1962 in Rheintal, Switzerland.

The Artist statement: -

 “I likes red beets a lot. My focus is video/audio installations because there is room in them for everything (painting, technology, language, music, movement, 

flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonitions of death, sex and friendliness) – like in a compact handbag. Her opinion is: Art's task is to contribute to evolution, to encourage the mind, to guarantee a detached view of social changes, to conjure up positive energies, to create sensuousness, to reconcile reason and instinct, to research possibilities, and to destroy clichés and prejudices”. 

https://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/pipilotti-rist/a-exhibitions

https://pipilottirist.net

https://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/pipilotti-rist/bio    (Web, 10/4/2018)

Chapter 4 "Claire Bishop's Installation Art" 

I found Chapter 4 from, “Claire Bishop’s Installation Art” very interesting. I learned that Art can be used as a political weapon, an example given was, “the repression and promotion of abstraction in post-World War II USSR and USA respectively” (© Claire Bishop 2005). I agree with Joseph Beuys, that art should provoke thought and cause a person to re-act and or feel an emotion. 

I love, and agree, with the different forms: -

THINKING FORMS- how we mold our thoughts or 

SPOKENFORMS-howwe shape our thoughts into words or

SOCIAL SCULPTURE- how we mold and shape the world in which we live:

SCULPTUREASAN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST.' 

(© Claire Bishop 2005).

        I do believe that art is an individual’s way of expressing him or her self, which could lead to self-realization, and I also believe that, like in anything else, what you put into something, will equal what you get out of that same thing, with that understanding, a beautiful piece of art will not only hold physical beauty, but spiritual beauty as well.

         I also believe that art is a powerful tool, and if used correctly, it could tackle, or bring to light, some of the more serious “issues such as feminism, education, Latin American right-wing militarism, homelessness and AIDS”,(© Claire Bishop 2005).

        I don’t know if I agree with, Bourriaud, about someone having sucking on one of your sweets, is

like them sucking on your body and it’s kind of of sexy. My favorite part of this reading was the

 works by Santiago Sierra, about the immigrants and how they were unfairly treated, and how he used 

the cardboard boxes, with the immigrants inside, to illustrate that.

"REALLY"

(Project 1)

        This Project(2) was exciting to put together and fun. In life you meet a lot of people and you

think you know them, but do you really? Sometimes its hard to tell if someone is telling the truth or

not, even if you have known someone for a long time. Some people can look at you with a straight

face and lie, and they are so convincing, you believe them, but behind your back they are laughing at you.

        I wanted to create a piece of Installation Art that would reflect this, and after the first viewing,

the reaction from my piers proved that I did just that.