Final Project

television.

"The television generation is a grim bunch." --Marshall McLuhan

We, the smartphone generation, is the grimmer bunch. But we love television because it is getting old-fashioned. Nowadays, the images are much more defined, sounds are all Hi-Fi, you have access to huge screens and internet everywhere. But for a real television world, you don't get to choose much. 

Televisions make things blurry, fuzzy and glitchy, because they are so old. I wouldn't call those gigantic monitors with mysterious boxes attached televisions. They at best can have the name "TV". 

You can't deny it: bringing back all old technology is becoming a trend. Art students love film cameras now, that's cooler than a thousand dollar DSLR and you don't even have to shoot great images as long as you take Instagram pictures of you holding the camera. In this sense, televisions are cool, too. Black-and-white makes everything seem simpler, but it makes our minds go wild.

technologies used in this project: ImageGlitch (iOS app), Garageband, RAD VHS (app), Adobe Premiere pro

"Something is Happening"

my friend Kun came to the show and i asked him to take pictures of me and my works.
this is what he got, he said this is also art

On November 3rd, ART240 New Media in Art had the opening of our show "Something is Happening" in the Mudd Gallery.

the visitors and the owner 

Way more people came to the show opening then I thought. It is fascinating how different our styles are, and people were enjoying each collection with somewhat of surprise. 

I love the way the collections were displayed. They were in grids, horizontal, vertical, diagonal... different, but also diverse.

Christine and the Queens

Christine and the Queens is the stage name of Héloïse Letissier, a 29-year-old French singer, songwriter and producer. Her works combine music, performance, art videos, drawings and photography, giving a unique sensual experience to the audience. The videos below is my favorites of her.

Paradis Perdus

I don't know French, but language doesn't seem important in her works: the on-stage feeling of it, the lighting, editing, concept and colors all melt into the music and the video itself. She is the biggest part of her work, and it's not just music, and the music video anymore, her music and art video cannot be separated.

Tilted

Her works remind me of the musicals in theaters, every single part of the stage is crucial to the overall vibe of the performance. The bond between the dance, her singing, and the lyrics seem so seamlessly spontaneous. Even if I am just watching in front of a computer screen, I feel like one sitting in the audience.

Here are some links to her:

http://www.christineandthequeens.com/catq_language/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_and_the_Queens
https://www.instagram.com/christineandthequeens/

glitch project progress

made it into a video

maybe I will do a video of glitches images 

with an original soundtrack that I might make in the future

pro: fun to work with technology, surprising results

con: not satisfied with the creativeness of the results, not being able to use the common method from online tutorials, only using one app to do this, limited data breaking methods

https://soundcloud.com/droidbishop/nightland

glllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllitch

Broken beauty. 

For my final project, I am going to challenge myself to try out glitch art. The first time I have ever heard about it is a former SAIC student talking about one of her classes on Youtube. I was drawn to this technological art craft immediately. There is infinite possibility and randomness within this broken beauty. 

I plan to just keep taking random photos from day to day, and use the app "ImageGlitch" to do the glitching. I have tried just using TextEdit to break the image but it is not working on my laptop, so this software is going to be my creative space. 

My goal is to get at least 20 images glitched, and select maybe 10 with titles. 

I hope that my project will turn out exciting. 

berd

new track

new sound on my Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sibyl-liu/11062017a

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn is a work of art that our eyes enjoy looking at:

her face and body are what women want,

her prettiness and sexiness is what men want,

her fame is what Hollywood wants.

Marilyn's life story is a work of art our thirsty minds desire:

her strength and intelligence is what young women want to find,

her messy private life is what needed to produce excitement,

her tragic ending is what needed to satisfy bored minds.

our TRANS family

our TRANS family is a photography project by Jeff Pearcy and Meredith Watts, who visited Lawrence and gave a talk on November 1st, 2017.

The introduction of this project, given by Helen Kramer, my former Gender Studies class professor, was so touching and inspiring. After the few Gender Studies Classes I have taken in college, transgender stories do not seem like novelties to me anymore, it is the transgender political issues that started to fill up my academics. I did not expect to be eye-opened by another talk since I have read a modest amount of works regarding transgender issues. However, Helen's talk again touched me, though I am not sure if that was the gloomy, rainy weather that made me emotional. Helen talked about her view on the concept of a "family", and her experience of a transition within the marriage. Transition is not the end of a marriage. A couple can be a family. Trans people are beautiful.

Jeff and Meredith later started to present their works and talk about the stories behind them. I wen tot this talk before I saw the show, so I listened without a single clue. The photos are great shots, I liked most of them. And this single one, a Korean American mother, who has lost her son, Skyler, holding his picture next to her chest, standing in front of a cemetery where probably Skyler sleeps, with the look of the deepest grief, courage and love all at once. It was heartbreaking. I was trying to hold my tears back but I failed a little. At that moment the whole auditorium was silent, only the speaker's voice was left in the space. I don't know why I felt so much emotion through just one photography, but the feeling was so strong that it burned a tiny mark on my heart. This is enough for me.