2012/10/14
Won Park - ARTIST
Not a famous artist but I wanted to post about him becuase of his awsome dollar origami.
Tim Noble and Sue Webster - ARTIST
Timothy "Tim" Noble and Susan "Sue" Webster, two British artists who work as a collaborative duo, and are associated with the post-YBA generation of artists. I will be introducing a series they made that I thought was very interesting.
Shadow Sculptures:
This series uses trash to create shadows that look like people. They hit a spotlight to things that usually are hidden from us.
Shadow Sculptures:
This series uses trash to create shadows that look like people. They hit a spotlight to things that usually are hidden from us.
Banksy - ARTIST
Banksy is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. He has traveled around the world spreading his works. If you don't know who he is I reccomend watching the documenary "Exit Through The Giftshop". My favorite work he has done is the phonebooth with the pickaxe. This was also introduced in the documenary.
The Dieline - WEBSITE
2012/10/07
Ken Feingold - ARTIST
Ken Feingold was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1952 and moved to New York City with his family in 1956. He studied at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, making experimental 16mm films and film installations and working at The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York.
Ken Feingold was an artist that incorporated artificial intelligence and speech programs into his art works. He created mechanized heads that was programed to answer to people speaking to it or each other. His mechanized heads are voiced by the text-to-speech program that most people have heard of.
Self-Portrait as the Center of the Universe (1998-2001)
This piece is a self-portrait not as a 2d but 3d form, being the center of the Universe. The center head is modeled after the artist's own surrounded by dummies. The center head talks to a projected virtual counterpart on the wall. These conversations are between the real and virtual spaces.
If/Then (2001)
This piece has two identical heads. That speaks to each other, doubting the reality of their own existence. The conversation of the two heads in a box full of Styrofoam. It makes it seem like robot parts that was sent out but accidentally turned on. They have conversions with each other determining if they really exist or not, if they are the same person or not, and if they will ever know. This piece gives the viewers the idea of self-awareness. The, "do you really know who you are?" question.
Sinking Feeling (2001)
A single head, modeled after himself. This time this character knows it alive and doesn't question its own existence but questions why he does not look like you or me. Questions like "why don't I have a body like everyone else?" or "how did I get here?" The viewer can communicate with this piece by talking into the mike which you can see both their own words as they are heard by this head. the head formulates a reply on what the viewer has said simulating a real conversation filled with misunderstandings and sometimes randomness. This work shows the head growing out a flower pot suggesting organic. Questioning what makes you, you?
Ken Feingold was an artist that incorporated artificial intelligence and speech programs into his art works. He created mechanized heads that was programed to answer to people speaking to it or each other. His mechanized heads are voiced by the text-to-speech program that most people have heard of.
Self-Portrait as the Center of the Universe (1998-2001)
This piece is a self-portrait not as a 2d but 3d form, being the center of the Universe. The center head is modeled after the artist's own surrounded by dummies. The center head talks to a projected virtual counterpart on the wall. These conversations are between the real and virtual spaces.
If/Then (2001)
This piece has two identical heads. That speaks to each other, doubting the reality of their own existence. The conversation of the two heads in a box full of Styrofoam. It makes it seem like robot parts that was sent out but accidentally turned on. They have conversions with each other determining if they really exist or not, if they are the same person or not, and if they will ever know. This piece gives the viewers the idea of self-awareness. The, "do you really know who you are?" question.
Sinking Feeling (2001)
A single head, modeled after himself. This time this character knows it alive and doesn't question its own existence but questions why he does not look like you or me. Questions like "why don't I have a body like everyone else?" or "how did I get here?" The viewer can communicate with this piece by talking into the mike which you can see both their own words as they are heard by this head. the head formulates a reply on what the viewer has said simulating a real conversation filled with misunderstandings and sometimes randomness. This work shows the head growing out a flower pot suggesting organic. Questioning what makes you, you?
COMMON TREAD - GALLERY
The theme of this gallery, in the CSUF Begovich Gallery, was traveling throughout America. This gallery was filled with a feeling of nostalgia. First, when one gets in the gallery they are welcomed to a wall fill with photos of landscapes creating a living room atmosphere. In the gallery there are other pieces of landscape photos and even a wall of car photos. Inside one will see a big screen created as a miniature billboard which changes how it looks every few seconds. The eye of the gallery would have to be the garage that was built inside the gallery. In this garage there is a map of the US with a bowl of pins below it. Where people can take the pin and put it anywhere on the map one has gone before. This creates a traveling map where the "owner" of the garage seems like they traveled all across America. I thought this gallery was nice to see and was especially surprised to see a garage in side the gallery. If you have time I recommend having a look inside.
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