Ryan Trecartin makes colorful, jarringly surreal videos that challenge a New York-centric, heteronormative vision of art. His videos are intentionally hyperactive and confusing.
Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist and he is credited as the founder of video art.
New Media Artists: Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Janet is an audio artist and George, her husband, helps her with her audio walks where she adds a voiceover to a video and has people put headphones in and go to these actual places and play the video. It's a really cool concept.
New Media Artist: Scott Snibbe
Scott's work, "Boundary Functions" is an interactive piece that allows viewers to step on the screen that creates these boundaries when multiple step on at a time.
Shana Moulten
This artist's video wasn't something that I would click with, but as I watched, it got continually more and more confusing, as I was asking myself 'what is this? how does this make sense but not make sense at all?' It states in the article where I found her work, "Adjectives people usually associate with video art: disturbing, overwhelming, pretentious, provocative. One adjective people don't associate with video art so often: funny." Moulten's work wasn't what I had expected but it did have some comedic moments where you would just ask 'why?' and then just laugh about it. She was able to work with not only a fun and exciting environment, but this specific video works around her own alter-ego and provides a more inside look on truly goes on behind closed doors. It provides an odd look into her own life but could also be interpreted to more.
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/best-video-artists/
To be honest, when looking at his gifs, it just made me want to climb through my computer and just sit and enjoy what was created. Burton creates quick atmospheric GIFs that truly grasp the definition of science fiction and realism. "Much of what you see here represents Burton's personal experiments", this was really interesting to read in an article full of all his GIFs he created because it makes a reader/ viewer think about what he's done in the past for him to create all these wonderful animations.
Anastassia Elias is a new media that works with recycled materials and creates art from them. For her series Rouleaux, she made a cutout of different scenes using toilet paper rolls. She created 36 for the series. Within the rolls, she's able to create 3D scenes as well through lighting. She worked with paintings as well but prefers paper.
JF Lemay is Ilustrator and Animator from Quebec, Canada. He spent 10 years working as a web designer before following his dreams of becoming an Illustrator. Lemay's artwork is inspired by macabre and H.R Giger.
This week I continued to explore GIF images. I am becoming interested deeper in how they
are used as artwork and not just a goofy image you post or text to
someone.
Erdal Inci’s creations are so hypnotizing to watch. The creative use of lights or his personal
self to create the repetitive movement are seamless and you cannot help but
appreciate the dedication to his art. This quote from the Huffington Post
summarizes his work perfectly and reflects the reason I chose him: “Artist and photographer Erdal Inci has created
a hypnotic series of GIFs that takes the concept of cloned motion to a truly eerie
level. Often using images of himself in
mundane situations, Inci transforms simple snapshots into entrancing video
loops. Believe us, these clips will
haunt your computer screen while you attempt to decipher the unique patterns.”
I have included his webpage as well as a link to a video
that talks about his work and GIFs as art.
GIF
Artist Erdal Inci | Euromaxx - Bing video
Despite the possible controversy, there is no denying his
creations are breath-taking and mesmerizing alone. He also creates videos by placing several GIFs
in one and adds music, intensifying not only the effects they can have, but creating
a whole new piece of art.
GIF Art by
DarkAngelØne | (The) Absolute (theabsolutemag.com)
Carl Burton
Carl Burton is an artist in New York who creates surrealist gif sets. Carl Burton is a New York photographer whose work was exhibited at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Color and Light: Photographs by Carl Burton in 2011. He often works with a panoramic camera capturing landscapes and cityscapes such as The Dogana, Grand Canal, Venice, Italy, pictured above. Curator of Education, Alice Novak, recently caught up with the artist to ask him about the creation of this photograph.
https://www.carlburton.io/#/gif-set-4/
James Curran
James Curran is an animator and director who makes gifs for fun. He's also known as SlimJim Studios online. Unfortunately I could not find any information about his work.
https://www.instagram.com/slimjimstudios/?hl=en
New Media Artist: Camille Utterback
I chose this artist because her work, "Entangled" which lets people stand in front of a screen and their movements draw colors on the screen in front of them using sensors. I really like the ideas of interactive art and I think this work demonstrates that perfectly.
New Media Artist: Olia Lialina
This work, I think, demonstrates GIF because you have the image of her swinging and it's going frame by frame and it's repeating. I chose it because it's interesting how she's just swinging away in open space.
Lumixar is a video production company integrating film, animation and post production. I choose this time lapse because of the place. New York happens to be one of my favorite places considering the fast pace. I was also interested in this video because of the colors/ lights.
https://vimeo.com/193281197
This is a stop motion I like the idea behind it and how simple it was. Its seems as through she did put a lot of thought behind. it considering the small details that are in pac man like the small dots in the game
For one of my artists today I decided to do David Zinn. He likes to walk around drawing chalk creatures on sidewalks and different buildings. These creatures are very detailed and he actually uses different props on the sidewalk to go along with them. He want people to envision them as real characters while they're walk so he made a short video actually animating them called Around the Block.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/category/animation/
Around the Block: David Zinn's Quirky Chalk Cartoons Spring to Life in a New Short Film
A Series of Animated Paper Video Games Evokes Digital Nostalgia
For this week's artists, I was focused on finding gif artists, no only for inspiration, but to see what creations can truly be made and explored.
Uno Moralez
Not only was this artist the first gif I looked at, but it was also the first glimpse that caught my eye. Known as a self-entitled "pixel painter", Moralez is a Russian-based artist whose pieces of work are simple yet hold a significant amount of imagery and creation.
This week I focused on looking for GIF artist.
I was attracted to Micael Reynaud’s work because it used
photographs/videos rather than illustrations.
He refers to his creations as “hypnotic very short films.” I found this not only true when watching the
GIFS, but a relatable statement as well.
A short film still tells a story and had me thinking of how we’ve have
been pushing ourselves in our own work to produce a whole story with one or
very few images.
Award-Winning
GIFs by Micaël Reynaud Warp Space and Time | Colossal (thisiscolossal.com)
INSA work caught my attention because at first it did appear
to be a combination of illustrations on top of a photograph, which essentially yes,
it is. However, the animated portion of
the GIF is his own real-world murals. I
found this amazing and an interesting concept of taking your artwork one step further. The video link below GIF shows how the artist created
this world’s largest animated GIF (if anyone is interested.) It
was photographed by satellite 400 miles away and covered 57, 515 square meters
of ground space.
New media artist: David Rokeby
I chose David Rokeby for my first new media artist because as I was scrolling through and trying to find an artist, I came across a video of his called "Very Nervous System" and he's standing in front of a computer that observes the physical gestures of human bodies through a video camera and then translates them into an improvised music directly related to the qualities of the movements themselves in real-time which I found to be really interesting. The video is linked below.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?view=detail&mid=2D9A7E2AB975160373DB2D9A7E2AB975160373DB&q=david+rokeby&shtp=GetUrl&shid=844d3182-4cf8-4977-8d09-abd49543b480&shtk=VmVyeSBOZXJ2b3VzIFN5c3RlbSAoMTk4Mi0xOTkxKSBieSBEYXZpZCBSb2tlYnk%3D&shdk=VmVyeSBOZXJ2b3VzIFN5c3RlbSB3YXMgdGhlIHRoaXJkIGdlbmVyYXRpb24gb2YgaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUgc291bmQgaW5zdGFsbGF0aW9ucyB3aGljaCBJIGhhdmUgY3JlYXRlZC4gSW4gdGhlc2Ugc3lzdGVtcywgSSB1c2UgdmlkZW8gY2FtZXJhcywgaW1hZ2UgcHJvY2Vzc29ycywgY29tcHV0ZXJzLCBzeW50aGVzaXplcnMgYW5kIGEgc291bmQgc3lzdGVtIHRvIGNyZWF0ZSBhIHNwYWNlIGluIHdoaWNoIHRoZSBtb3ZlbWVudHMgb2Ygb25lJ3MgYm9keSBjcmVhdGUgc291bmQgYW5kL29yIG11c2ljLiBJdCBoYXMgYmVlbiBwcmltYXJpbHkgcHJlc2VudGVkIGFzIGFuIGluc3RhbGxhdGlvbiBpbiAuLi4%3D&shhk=40kzZTMeK6LLXFRrXzQlT0dPXlB0aZOdCj1%2BtKZIaLg%3D&form=VDSHOT&shth=OSH.%252B1FaPfxW8TkqqpfyCvFkxA
New media artist: Lynn Hershman Leeson
I chose her for my second artist because she has a work titled "Room of One's Own" where she has the viewer look into a little box which displays a little television set and in the little room, there is a woman that asks the viewer why you're looking at her. The viewer can also see themselves looking through the viewer so the woman is looking at you, looking at her. Slightly confusing to explain but it's a really interesting piece.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?view=detail&mid=BC3EBA2D17CCE46181E7BC3EBA2D17CCE46181E7&q=lynn+hershman+leeson&shtp=GetUrl&shid=09e83743-3dc9-40e3-ad65-dbac116a71e2&shtk=RHJlYW1sYW5kczogTHlubiBIZXJzaG1hbiBMZWVzb24%3D&shdk=QXJ0aXN0IEx5bm4gSGVyc2htYW4gTGVlc29uIGRpc2N1c3NlcyBoZXIgaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUgd29ya3MsIFJvb20gb2YgT25lYg%3D%3D&shhk=iuuG9DdtEuxw6ARuObZtnWD59IQ%2BFIVhLYsiWTadD%2FI%3D&form=VDSHOT&shth=OSH.kn76%252FSAJLl8syQ7jt%252FIgyg
For this first piece, it took a bit of searching to find something that I could just find interest in, and in general, find a timelapse that actually told a story.
This timelapse is vividly made in the vision of the photographer's experience, on his memories that he cherishes, and the reason why he became a photographer. When I first watched it, I had only glimpsed at the description, as I was looking at something that I could just grab and mess with and add comments to. Yet, as I watched the timelapse, I felt at peace, distracted by all the lights, and it was just a simple video. After reading the description halfway through the timelapse, the feeling that the photographer wanted to capture came to life in my own mind.
"Liberty" is a ten-minute timelapse of the busyness in New York. "From the sensory overload of standing on a busy New York street corner. To the tranquility of standing on a skyscraper, like being on top of the world. This is a dedication to my favorite city in the world". Michael Shainblum has pushed himself to be the best he could be, he showed this in this timelapse.
Simply enough, this reminded me of the usage of drones when flying over a city or a town, it shows you a glimpse of what it is and what the town may be like, yet here, this video showed and gave a feeling of what the city truly feels like.
This stop motion piece is one that is very cute and holds a reasonable story; the creation of these videos can take a while to come together, and it's very interesting to see how they are created. Through Disney and other production companies, there are several stop motion movies that contain these types of stories. The artwork is put together, just like another piece, takes a storyline, especially for something of this nature. The storyline allows for it all to fall into place and capture the viewer. When it is being put together, it plays out in a way that not many know about, a look into this art is one that an individual might find interesting if going into the movie or videography field.
"Fishwitch", as mentioned earlier is a stop-motion animated fairytale from the National Film and Television School and tells the story of an iceberg-dwelling witch who is taken by surprise when a merman gets caught in her net and attempts to befriend her. There is then a secret uncovered which had been kept buried long in the ice.
Overall, this stop-motion was very intriguing to watch and see the details that were involved with each frame.
I found this conceptual video directed by Martyna Iwanska interesting. I found myself in a state of mixed emotions
while trying to decipher the intentions of the artist. The words quoted towards the beginning to give
some insight, “shape without form, shade without color, paralyzed force, gesture
without motion…. There are moments of peacefulness yet haunting and even some
that just were weird, but fascinating. I
purposely didn’t read the accompanying paragraph till afterwards, but instantly
found closer than I realize what the artist had created:
"Passion White" strives to achieve austerity, simplification of form and mathematical precision. It is an attempt at finding out if it is possible to create realistic tension in a sterile, minimalistic space resembling a white canvas. Each frame represents separate micro world, which carries primary, raw emotions. Unhurried pictures and perverse repetition of sounds are set out to engage the viewer in a specific dreamy state of hypnosis.
White no.1 - Video Art on Vimeo
"When we pass by landscapes they appear fixed in time but they change around us constantly. Singapore has gone through an incredible change over the past 8 years, and I have tried to capture as much of this change as possible. There are no permanent cameras used in this film, it required regular site visits over 988 shoot days and over 3300 matched shots." - accompanying description with video.
This time lapse titled "Lion City Rising" by Keith Loutit is fascinating to watch. It is memorizing to see the erection of these buildings and how the change of the city scape appears to change so quickly, compared to the reality that it seems to take forever. I appreciate the artist's dedication to the project in how he revisited the sites regularly to capture the images.
