In this blog, I will explore multiple art media, share my projects and observations on art and teaching multi-diplinary art. I have High-functioning Autism, or Asperger's Syndrome. I am an artist working in oil, video, and many other media.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The Eagleman Stag
Here is a wonderful animated short I discovered, along with the "making of".
The Eagleman Stag
The Making of The Eagleman Stag
The Eagleman Stag
The Making of The Eagleman Stag
Monday, July 30, 2012
some awesome videos I found on a new site
Original article can be viewed here: http://glasstire.com/2012/07/27/dear-young-dfw-whippersnapper-artists/
"The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up.
Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists,
Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen years, about what art is, how it should look in an art fair booth or ad in Artforum, how it’s valued, how famous you can get, how dealers will snap you up, etc.? No. Congrats for paying attention and for knowing who Martin Creed is, by the way, but that kind of sophistication can only take you so far.
The new normal is that it’s all in your broke hands now. And there is no real economy for your art being made here in DFW. Almost none. Not enough to make a living. And there isn’t a mainstream press, like there is in NYC and London, to cover your career if you made a commercial leap anyway. And that’s okay. Because this kind of vacuum is when it’s time to fuck things up. This is a magic hour, a once-in-a-lifetime chance when you have nothing to lose, and the place that you’re in—your neighborhood, your city, your region—if you get busy, can get really interesting.
I’m picking on you lot because you aren’t painters (another breed entirely), and you aren’t makers of pretty things and decorative objects. Your brains are wired the right way to fuck shit up. And I’m not writing about Houston or Brooklyn or Silver Lake either. I’m writing about here.
But let’s illustrate this with an example.
Once upon a time, in the 1970s (I know, like, when your parents were young and skinny and did drugs and shit) in a place called Akron, Ohio, this thing happened. Just watch the short clip.
https://vimeo.com/43157612
The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up.
Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists,
Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen years, about what art is, how it should look in an art fair booth or ad in Artforum, how it’s valued, how famous you can get, how dealers will snap you up, etc.? No. Congrats for paying attention and for knowing who Martin Creed is, by the way, but that kind of sophistication can only take you so far.
The new normal is that it’s all in your broke hands now. And there is no real economy for your art being made here in DFW. Almost none. Not enough to make a living. And there isn’t a mainstream press, like there is in NYC and London, to cover your career if you made a commercial leap anyway. And that’s okay. Because this kind of vacuum is when it’s time to fuck things up. This is a magic hour, a once-in-a-lifetime chance when you have nothing to lose, and the place that you’re in—your neighborhood, your city, your region—if you get busy, can get really interesting.
I’m picking on you lot because you aren’t painters (another breed entirely), and you aren’t makers of pretty things and decorative objects. Your brains are wired the right way to fuck shit up. And I’m not writing about Houston or Brooklyn or Silver Lake either. I’m writing about here.
But let’s illustrate this with an example.
Once upon a time, in the 1970s (I know, like, when your parents were young and skinny and did drugs and shit) in a place called Akron, Ohio, this thing happened. Just watch the short clip.
Akron. a college town in the middle of nowhere. These guys were your age when they started paying attention and got angry and started making art (that in their case took the form of something like music, performance and video). Being polite was not on the menu. MTV did not exist. There was no Internet. And there was no local press to make them famous.
Yet they are iconic. Akron is famous for one thing, really: Devo.
Luckily, their friends back then did document enough of it, and word spread, and they kept working on their own very strange vision of the world, and within a few years they were blowing people’s minds on national television.
Back to the here and now. Why is DFW so polite? I don’t want to call this place the Metroplex, but whatever. Golden Triangle. Whatever. Its politeness is due to what you think it is: religion, screwy politics, the conservative way money is made and spent. So few artists, gallerists, curators, collectors and museums here are taking any risk, whatsoever, that you start to forget what risk looks like. Certainly the people in charge of this stuff seem to have forgotten what it is, even if they were young and interesting like you once. (“How soon will you become the people that you hated?” asks Gerald Casale.)
Why are our youngest, clearest, hormone-and-energy laden brains—you—not going ballistic? Don’t you feel like caged animals? I’m a 42-year-old writer, and I do. But I don’t make art. I just show it.
It was the ‘70s when Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale started worrying about Americans getting dumber and uglier and more violent and lazy: de-evolution. But look at the world today. As Mothersbaugh says in that clip, from a recent interview: “The last eight years have been a really swift downhill ride.”
This applies to the art world, too. The museums, the galleries, the nature of collecting, the nature of philanthropy. It’s all fossilizing and closing ranks. Pretty soon even LA MoCA, an institution founded by and protected by artists for decades, will consist only of two powerful businessmen: Eli Broad and that megalomaniacal asswipe Jeffrey Deitch.
Downhill ride, indeed, for you artists. Make it fun and honest, at least.
Just get fucking weird. Tap into those things that most turned you on last year, the year before, when you were fifteen, eighteen. The stuff you were afraid to bring to light, lest your parents or siblings or neighbors or professors stomped on it. The more genuine and honest you are about it, the better shot you have at communicating something real and identifiable to the world. It’s the secret of great art. Real art, great art, is the geeks’ paradise.
Look outside the art world if you need more reference. Look at Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Look at Patton Oswalt, Louis C.K., and Ricky Gervais and Mike Judge. David Lynch, Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling and freaking Alan Moore. Robert Crumb. The Flaming Lips, the Butthole Surfers. These people started with small, smart, impulses—subversive and impolite and odd as hell (and very, very personal) and ran with it. And wow. It worked. Subversive is not bad. Stop letting this polite environment keep you down. Collaborate, for courage, if you must (often helpful), or not. Up to you.
Sometimes rich people get wind of the good stuff, and want to own it. That’s what they do. They can’t make, so they buy it or pay to produce it. That doesn’t mean they get it, but take their money if they offer it. Plenty of people who can’t afford the work do get it, and will love you for being the shaman and truth tellers of the world. Just like everyone who knows anything loves Devo.
Godspeed.
Love,
CR"
_________________
Christina Rees was an editor at The Met and D Magazine, a full-time art and music critic at the Dallas Observer, and has covered art and music for the Village Voice and other publications. She was the owner and director of Road Agent gallery in Dallas. Rees is now the Curator of Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TCU.
"The new normal should be anything but. Time to fuck shit up.
Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists,
Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen years, about what art is, how it should look in an art fair booth or ad in Artforum, how it’s valued, how famous you can get, how dealers will snap you up, etc.? No. Congrats for paying attention and for knowing who Martin Creed is, by the way, but that kind of sophistication can only take you so far.
The new normal is that it’s all in your broke hands now. And there is no real economy for your art being made here in DFW. Almost none. Not enough to make a living. And there isn’t a mainstream press, like there is in NYC and London, to cover your career if you made a commercial leap anyway. And that’s okay. Because this kind of vacuum is when it’s time to fuck things up. This is a magic hour, a once-in-a-lifetime chance when you have nothing to lose, and the place that you’re in—your neighborhood, your city, your region—if you get busy, can get really interesting.
I’m picking on you lot because you aren’t painters (another breed entirely), and you aren’t makers of pretty things and decorative objects. Your brains are wired the right way to fuck shit up. And I’m not writing about Houston or Brooklyn or Silver Lake either. I’m writing about here.
But let’s illustrate this with an example.
Once upon a time, in the 1970s (I know, like, when your parents were young and skinny and did drugs and shit) in a place called Akron, Ohio, this thing happened. Just watch the short clip.
https://vimeo.com/43157612
Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists
Devo
Dear Young DFW Whippersnapper Artists,
Whatever the last “up” economy may have taught you, in your teen years, about what art is, how it should look in an art fair booth or ad in Artforum, how it’s valued, how famous you can get, how dealers will snap you up, etc.? No. Congrats for paying attention and for knowing who Martin Creed is, by the way, but that kind of sophistication can only take you so far.
The new normal is that it’s all in your broke hands now. And there is no real economy for your art being made here in DFW. Almost none. Not enough to make a living. And there isn’t a mainstream press, like there is in NYC and London, to cover your career if you made a commercial leap anyway. And that’s okay. Because this kind of vacuum is when it’s time to fuck things up. This is a magic hour, a once-in-a-lifetime chance when you have nothing to lose, and the place that you’re in—your neighborhood, your city, your region—if you get busy, can get really interesting.
I’m picking on you lot because you aren’t painters (another breed entirely), and you aren’t makers of pretty things and decorative objects. Your brains are wired the right way to fuck shit up. And I’m not writing about Houston or Brooklyn or Silver Lake either. I’m writing about here.
But let’s illustrate this with an example.
Once upon a time, in the 1970s (I know, like, when your parents were young and skinny and did drugs and shit) in a place called Akron, Ohio, this thing happened. Just watch the short clip.
Akron. a college town in the middle of nowhere. These guys were your age when they started paying attention and got angry and started making art (that in their case took the form of something like music, performance and video). Being polite was not on the menu. MTV did not exist. There was no Internet. And there was no local press to make them famous.
Yet they are iconic. Akron is famous for one thing, really: Devo.
Luckily, their friends back then did document enough of it, and word spread, and they kept working on their own very strange vision of the world, and within a few years they were blowing people’s minds on national television.
Back to the here and now. Why is DFW so polite? I don’t want to call this place the Metroplex, but whatever. Golden Triangle. Whatever. Its politeness is due to what you think it is: religion, screwy politics, the conservative way money is made and spent. So few artists, gallerists, curators, collectors and museums here are taking any risk, whatsoever, that you start to forget what risk looks like. Certainly the people in charge of this stuff seem to have forgotten what it is, even if they were young and interesting like you once. (“How soon will you become the people that you hated?” asks Gerald Casale.)
Why are our youngest, clearest, hormone-and-energy laden brains—you—not going ballistic? Don’t you feel like caged animals? I’m a 42-year-old writer, and I do. But I don’t make art. I just show it.
It was the ‘70s when Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale started worrying about Americans getting dumber and uglier and more violent and lazy: de-evolution. But look at the world today. As Mothersbaugh says in that clip, from a recent interview: “The last eight years have been a really swift downhill ride.”
This applies to the art world, too. The museums, the galleries, the nature of collecting, the nature of philanthropy. It’s all fossilizing and closing ranks. Pretty soon even LA MoCA, an institution founded by and protected by artists for decades, will consist only of two powerful businessmen: Eli Broad and that megalomaniacal asswipe Jeffrey Deitch.
Downhill ride, indeed, for you artists. Make it fun and honest, at least.
Just get fucking weird. Tap into those things that most turned you on last year, the year before, when you were fifteen, eighteen. The stuff you were afraid to bring to light, lest your parents or siblings or neighbors or professors stomped on it. The more genuine and honest you are about it, the better shot you have at communicating something real and identifiable to the world. It’s the secret of great art. Real art, great art, is the geeks’ paradise.
Look outside the art world if you need more reference. Look at Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Look at Patton Oswalt, Louis C.K., and Ricky Gervais and Mike Judge. David Lynch, Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling and freaking Alan Moore. Robert Crumb. The Flaming Lips, the Butthole Surfers. These people started with small, smart, impulses—subversive and impolite and odd as hell (and very, very personal) and ran with it. And wow. It worked. Subversive is not bad. Stop letting this polite environment keep you down. Collaborate, for courage, if you must (often helpful), or not. Up to you.
Sometimes rich people get wind of the good stuff, and want to own it. That’s what they do. They can’t make, so they buy it or pay to produce it. That doesn’t mean they get it, but take their money if they offer it. Plenty of people who can’t afford the work do get it, and will love you for being the shaman and truth tellers of the world. Just like everyone who knows anything loves Devo.
Godspeed.
Love,
CR"
_________________
Christina Rees was an editor at The Met and D Magazine, a full-time art and music critic at the Dallas Observer, and has covered art and music for the Village Voice and other publications. She was the owner and director of Road Agent gallery in Dallas. Rees is now the Curator of Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TCU.
Monday, July 23, 2012
As I mentioned in the last post, I am teaching Video Art at the New Arts Camp at Living Arts of Tulsa.
It is a summer arts program for students in the 5th-12th grades, and takes place every weekday for 2 weeks, 8:30am-4:30pm.
Each day, the students take 4 classes: Installation, New Music, Performance Art, and Video Art. Their final art piece that is presented on the last Friday of the camp, will involve all 4 of these media.
The students have a blast creating these personal art pieces. It really gives them an unconventional way to express themselves.
I am very proud of all my students this year. Each of them have been using the video medium in very unique ways, and creatively incorporating them into their pieces.
Student 1-
This student's piece has elements of eerie beauty and deception. She will have the audience crowd into their space, then have a projection play in front of them as a sort of a distraction from what is going on around them (she will be sneaking around the audience, secretly moving amongst them). The video is film of her her walking slowing towards the camera, going from a blur to in focus, then editing in sharp, fast movements with beautiful slow motion. Then suddenly the video will switch to a live feed of the audience's backs, with a view of the student moving through the space.
Student 2-
This student is using "finding yourself" as a theme for her project. First, she is going to read a poem that she has written, while a dry-erase board animation that she has created of a girl, with bubbles with letters on them coming from her mouth, each spelling a key work from her poem. Then, the audience will come up to her space to blow bubbles, step on bubble paper, etc. while a video of distorted faces is projected on the wall at the back of her space.
Student 3-
This student is using his love of the game "Minecraft" as the theme of his piece. He is a creating a game show, where he is the host. Before he starts, his dry-erase board animation of the logo and opening credits will play on the wall behind him. Then, he will ask 3 contestants questions. There will be a video projection response to each right and wrong answer.
Student 4-
This student will use her love of underwater life and mermaids as her theme. She has prepared a narration for her piece, where she and an other student will be dressed as mermaids. She has taken some video at our local aquarium and made a short claymation video for the backdrop of her piece.
Student 5-
This student has a love of mystical creatures, namely dragons. She has made a large dragon head and an egg that she will be "popping" out of during her piece. She has made a video of fire, which is a picture that she cut out in Photoshop and manipulated in AfterEffects to look like it is flickering, with people behind the fire, making it look as if they are on fire. She will project with video by the dragon's mouth.
Student 6-
This student is using the pressures of the business world as his theme. His presentation will start out with him inside a "cubical" wearing a suit made of newspaper…there will be a camera inside which is hooked up to a monitor. The monitor is the only view the audience will have of him during the beginning of the piece. Then, he will rush out of his cubical, where there will be a projection of an explosion and fire on him, making it look as if his suit is on fire.
Student 7-
This student a doing a sort of "Hands Across America" theme. She will have a box in the middle of her space, then the audience will be invited to put their hands in paint and put them on the box, while a video of various clips of people holding hands in various ways is projected over her piece. Then, the audience will be encouraged to hold hands, mixing the various colors of paint together.
Student 8-
This student is using birth and coming of age as her theme. She is building a sort of forest in her space, with a tress on the wall and a nest she has made sitting in the corner. A video will be projected between the two, showing her moving as a bird in a costume. She will be using a camera curing the piece, pressing the camera lens close to her body and face, creating an image that will be projected over the other video as a live feed.
Student 9-
This student has written a short, slightly comedic story with a classic "castles and princess" theme.
She is having other students play parts in the story in her space, which she has built a "castle" that is assessable to the audience. She will project a drawing of the castle directly onto her structure, giving it "windows", "bricks", and "doors". It also has instructions on it to "draw on the castle", which is painted in a chalkboard paint. The inside of the castle will be illuminated with a projection of the outside (trees, sky, etc.), turning the "inside out" in a way.
Student 10-
This student is using the feeling of "home" and security as his theme. He has built a "house" that will stand in his pace. His film of a dry-erase board animation of the house will project on it, bringing the outside of it to life; bricks will gradually start to build, a door and windows will show up, a person will walk into the door, etc. Then, the projection will change to a film of people standing stationary outside their houses, bringing his structure to life in other ways, making it look "realistic".
I am very excited to see these students' pieces come to life. I am very proud of all their creativity and progress through this entire camp. I will be sure to post picture of their presentations soon!!!
It is a summer arts program for students in the 5th-12th grades, and takes place every weekday for 2 weeks, 8:30am-4:30pm.
Each day, the students take 4 classes: Installation, New Music, Performance Art, and Video Art. Their final art piece that is presented on the last Friday of the camp, will involve all 4 of these media.
The students have a blast creating these personal art pieces. It really gives them an unconventional way to express themselves.
I am very proud of all my students this year. Each of them have been using the video medium in very unique ways, and creatively incorporating them into their pieces.
Student 1-
This student's piece has elements of eerie beauty and deception. She will have the audience crowd into their space, then have a projection play in front of them as a sort of a distraction from what is going on around them (she will be sneaking around the audience, secretly moving amongst them). The video is film of her her walking slowing towards the camera, going from a blur to in focus, then editing in sharp, fast movements with beautiful slow motion. Then suddenly the video will switch to a live feed of the audience's backs, with a view of the student moving through the space.
Student 2-
This student is using "finding yourself" as a theme for her project. First, she is going to read a poem that she has written, while a dry-erase board animation that she has created of a girl, with bubbles with letters on them coming from her mouth, each spelling a key work from her poem. Then, the audience will come up to her space to blow bubbles, step on bubble paper, etc. while a video of distorted faces is projected on the wall at the back of her space.
Student 3-
This student is using his love of the game "Minecraft" as the theme of his piece. He is a creating a game show, where he is the host. Before he starts, his dry-erase board animation of the logo and opening credits will play on the wall behind him. Then, he will ask 3 contestants questions. There will be a video projection response to each right and wrong answer.
Student 4-
This student will use her love of underwater life and mermaids as her theme. She has prepared a narration for her piece, where she and an other student will be dressed as mermaids. She has taken some video at our local aquarium and made a short claymation video for the backdrop of her piece.
Student 5-
This student has a love of mystical creatures, namely dragons. She has made a large dragon head and an egg that she will be "popping" out of during her piece. She has made a video of fire, which is a picture that she cut out in Photoshop and manipulated in AfterEffects to look like it is flickering, with people behind the fire, making it look as if they are on fire. She will project with video by the dragon's mouth.
Student 6-
This student is using the pressures of the business world as his theme. His presentation will start out with him inside a "cubical" wearing a suit made of newspaper…there will be a camera inside which is hooked up to a monitor. The monitor is the only view the audience will have of him during the beginning of the piece. Then, he will rush out of his cubical, where there will be a projection of an explosion and fire on him, making it look as if his suit is on fire.
Student 7-
This student a doing a sort of "Hands Across America" theme. She will have a box in the middle of her space, then the audience will be invited to put their hands in paint and put them on the box, while a video of various clips of people holding hands in various ways is projected over her piece. Then, the audience will be encouraged to hold hands, mixing the various colors of paint together.
Student 8-
This student is using birth and coming of age as her theme. She is building a sort of forest in her space, with a tress on the wall and a nest she has made sitting in the corner. A video will be projected between the two, showing her moving as a bird in a costume. She will be using a camera curing the piece, pressing the camera lens close to her body and face, creating an image that will be projected over the other video as a live feed.
Student 9-
This student has written a short, slightly comedic story with a classic "castles and princess" theme.
She is having other students play parts in the story in her space, which she has built a "castle" that is assessable to the audience. She will project a drawing of the castle directly onto her structure, giving it "windows", "bricks", and "doors". It also has instructions on it to "draw on the castle", which is painted in a chalkboard paint. The inside of the castle will be illuminated with a projection of the outside (trees, sky, etc.), turning the "inside out" in a way.
Student 10-
This student is using the feeling of "home" and security as his theme. He has built a "house" that will stand in his pace. His film of a dry-erase board animation of the house will project on it, bringing the outside of it to life; bricks will gradually start to build, a door and windows will show up, a person will walk into the door, etc. Then, the projection will change to a film of people standing stationary outside their houses, bringing his structure to life in other ways, making it look "realistic".
I am very excited to see these students' pieces come to life. I am very proud of all their creativity and progress through this entire camp. I will be sure to post picture of their presentations soon!!!
Monday, July 9, 2012
Video Art
I will be teaching video art at this year's New Arts Camp at Living Arts of Tulsa (http://livingarts.org/edu.htm)
Last year, I was completely new to teaching in general. I was very nervous the first day...and of course it got better over the next 2 weeks of the camp.
I have learned many things about teaching this particular subject (video art) and the first thing is to get the students to think about how video can be used to convey their thoughts and ideas...just like any medium. But of course in video, the paintbrush is film.
In my class, they will use camcorders with DV tapes, digital cameras, the Casablanca video editing system, projectors, TV monitors, DVDs and DVD players, and this year, they will be using Mac laptops installed with Photoshop, AfterEffects, Illustrator, and iMovie.
Here's a video of an awesome feedback effect in China Rose Goodner's New Art's Camp final presentation in 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivbjU-AVmVg&feature=youtu.be
Last year, I was completely new to teaching in general. I was very nervous the first day...and of course it got better over the next 2 weeks of the camp.
I have learned many things about teaching this particular subject (video art) and the first thing is to get the students to think about how video can be used to convey their thoughts and ideas...just like any medium. But of course in video, the paintbrush is film.
In my class, they will use camcorders with DV tapes, digital cameras, the Casablanca video editing system, projectors, TV monitors, DVDs and DVD players, and this year, they will be using Mac laptops installed with Photoshop, AfterEffects, Illustrator, and iMovie.
Here's a video of an awesome feedback effect in China Rose Goodner's New Art's Camp final presentation in 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivbjU-AVmVg&feature=youtu.be
Monday, May 21, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Unnamed Soundsculpture Takes Microsoft Kinetc to New Heights
http://designerscouch.org/view-log/Unnamed-Soundsculpture-Takes-Microsoft-Kinetc-to-New-Heights-1955
This is so cool. Be sure to read about it above the video.
This is so cool. Be sure to read about it above the video.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Teaching Observances
I notice how my slight Aspergers effects my teaching. Sometimes I am very unaware of multiple things going on around me and I find it extremely hard to focus on more than one thing at a time. The best thing I can do is tell the students that if they need help, to come and get me. Meanwhile I go up to each student and ask what they are working on and see if they need help. This is why I tell students to come get me because if they are calling to me I may be so focused on one thing I cant even hear them.
Now it is probably their age, but when I try to command their attention when I am telling them to respect the materials or that they need to clean up more, I feel like I am not respected as much as I need to be. I have been getting better and better at commanding respect. The first day I starting teaching in the New Arts Camp, I was a disaster. I was nervous and the kids could see it. I had never done anything like that before. Now I have no problem yelling if I need to.
Having Aspergers means that I have this need to be liked because it is hard for me to relate and converse with people. So it was hard to "be mean" to the kids (by being mean, I am speaking of actually talking commanding respect by pointing out faults and improving on them)...I wanted to be nice all the time and not yell or tell them they couldn't do things. I see more and more that I have to say, "Don't do this, don't do that." constantly. I try to revert it into "Let's do this instead", but they really need to hear "don't do THIS" or they will do it constantly (i.e. throwing markers and pencils, flinging paint, etc.). I was really amazed at first that what kids think is ok to do, like throwing things at each other and emptying out a bottle of glitter on the ground. These kids are 12-14 years old, not 5 year olds.
So I have really learned a lot more this time around in ArtCore about how I need to react and what to expect of the kids. I'm sure the process of learning to teach is basically the same for everyone, but for a person with Aspergers, it is a process that takes much longer than normal.
Now it is probably their age, but when I try to command their attention when I am telling them to respect the materials or that they need to clean up more, I feel like I am not respected as much as I need to be. I have been getting better and better at commanding respect. The first day I starting teaching in the New Arts Camp, I was a disaster. I was nervous and the kids could see it. I had never done anything like that before. Now I have no problem yelling if I need to.
Having Aspergers means that I have this need to be liked because it is hard for me to relate and converse with people. So it was hard to "be mean" to the kids (by being mean, I am speaking of actually talking commanding respect by pointing out faults and improving on them)...I wanted to be nice all the time and not yell or tell them they couldn't do things. I see more and more that I have to say, "Don't do this, don't do that." constantly. I try to revert it into "Let's do this instead", but they really need to hear "don't do THIS" or they will do it constantly (i.e. throwing markers and pencils, flinging paint, etc.). I was really amazed at first that what kids think is ok to do, like throwing things at each other and emptying out a bottle of glitter on the ground. These kids are 12-14 years old, not 5 year olds.
So I have really learned a lot more this time around in ArtCore about how I need to react and what to expect of the kids. I'm sure the process of learning to teach is basically the same for everyone, but for a person with Aspergers, it is a process that takes much longer than normal.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Workshops we did with the New Genre XIX visting artists
Every year, Living Arts of Tulsa has something called the New Genre Festival. Several artists come in from around the world to present their work to the Tulsa public for 3 weeks.
WHAT IS NEW GENRE?
New Genre refers to non-traditional forms of art, which are experimental
and fresh. The New Genre Festival presents a diverse range of artists, many
of whom cross disciplinary lines, to create exciting new art works. These
works push the limits of traditional media while incorporating the new media
made possible by today’s technology.
Artists and Artist group from the past include:
Cloud Eye Control
Kristina Wong
Emily Johnson
Eileen Doktorski
José Torres Tama
Dave Gedosh
URSULA SCHERRER & MICHELLE NAGAI
and many, many more
Some of the artist from New Genre Festival XIX (2012) include:
Kathy Rose
Lindsey Allgood
Erica Mott
tEEth
Benjamin Entner
Laura Tanner
viDEO sAVant
Artist Erica Mott encouraged the students to think outside the box with incorporating performance and objects:
Artist Kathy Rose teaches the students about using projections, objects, and shadows to create art:
WHAT IS NEW GENRE?
New Genre refers to non-traditional forms of art, which are experimental
and fresh. The New Genre Festival presents a diverse range of artists, many
of whom cross disciplinary lines, to create exciting new art works. These
works push the limits of traditional media while incorporating the new media
made possible by today’s technology.
Artists and Artist group from the past include:
Cloud Eye Control
Kristina Wong
Emily Johnson
Eileen Doktorski
José Torres Tama
Dave Gedosh
URSULA SCHERRER & MICHELLE NAGAI
and many, many more
Some of the artist from New Genre Festival XIX (2012) include:
Kathy Rose
Lindsey Allgood
Erica Mott
tEEth
Benjamin Entner
Laura Tanner
viDEO sAVant
Artist Benjamin Entner instructed a workshop with the ArtCore students and guests on how to create inflatable sculpture and installation artwork.
The students first created a shape that would be simple to turn into a 3D form (i.e. a cube, pyramid, bannana), by drawing it on a piece of paper. Then, they carefully cut it out, brought it over to the projector, set up a large piece of Tyvec on the wall, then adjusted the shadow of their projected shape to where it fit on the piece of Tyvek. They then traced the shadow, cut it out, sewed the seams, leaving a small opening for something to blow it up (i.e. a blow dryer).
The kids had a blast with this!
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Artist Erica Mott encouraged the students to think outside the box with incorporating performance and objects:
Artist Kathy Rose teaches the students about using projections, objects, and shadows to create art:
The ArtCore Program at Living Arts
The Spring 2012 ArtCore Studio project is entitled “Color My Dreams”. The students are exploring various subjects and imagery of dreams (such as flying, falling, loss, happiness, safety, etc) , all either positive and/or negative. We are conveying this imagery through the use of projections and artworks created by the students to be set up as a “dream-like” environment, inviting the onlooker to step into their dreams.
The students have chosen to create imagery of nightmares and dreams. Colors that are associated with both the positive and negative are explored through sculptural, 2D, and video work. Warmer colors, such as red and orange, are associated with nightmares, and cooler colors, such as blue and purple, are associated with dreams.
The video projections created were made to represent dreams being projected from one’s mind. There will be an area for the audience to lie down and view some projections, as well as on the walls and various objects. The students will also be creating shadows on the live projection screen, over the video that was made earlier of them doing the same thing. This is meant to create a sort of “dream with in a dream”.
-Mery McNett
Made possible with assistance from the Oklahoma Arts Council.
Monday, January 16, 2012
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