converter

I came across this website https://www.soundviz.com/create/vccX6dH3-VgXOqvFpNbW1w/welcome that convert your favorite music into art.

so i chose on elf my favorite song Fragile, by Gnash, and converted it

first, you upload, and then there are color palettes to choose, and then you can adjust parameters to create the shape you want. Then you can add text and adjust sizes and fonts. A digital download is freaking 30 dollars. So I screenshot it.

music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzBTquVgdk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO20Ti_RX3I

lyric art: 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw10c3agwiR/?utm_source=ig_web_options_share_sheet

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw1qmMLgeTR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuXsdzb7cKQ

Faythe

Faythe Levine:

Faythe introduce herself as a project-driven person, and introduced her works as "about other people's works". To me, it makes total sense: she is self-dependent for most of her career life, she said that she makes deadlines for her own work, it is impressive to a college student who always procrastinates and is detached from the idea of community. There are self-published magazines, a cafe that functions as a skill sharing workshop and a hub of community, there is Flying Fish Gallery with mail art, a band called Wooden Robot, there is the huge Art v.s Craft, and book and film Handmade Nation. As I write about her and rethink about everything I have done in my life: I always struggle to make something unique and ignore the possibility that artists don't just make their own art, but they collaborate and make art and ideas into something shared.

talk to the mic

If you are given a microphone, you can say anything to it and it will be played in public, what would you say?

What authority does a holding a mic give you? What position does it put you?

So many people love to give a speech, or be completely crazy at a karaoke bar. People like having control over what the audience hear, and they love to spread their beautiful voices/noises over across the room. Who's the author of their speech? You may think it is the speaker, or it is the mic, but really, it is the speech itself, whether the speech is from an individual or a group of people, whatever is talked into the mic is the art piece.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvfF6Y1A3Gx/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

sign

signs are themselves hung up on the walls,
usually rectangular
made for people to pay attention to
crucial info included

Term Project

Proposal 

My term project will be creating a series of street interviews about random questions, and when editing the footage, all the answers and questions will be separated and re-assigned so the true question-answer is unknown to the audience.  

Why: Because the Internet is very good at lying 

Because we Internet people are very easily deceived  

Because there is no truth 

To test how our imagination and logic can make things make sense 

Because randomness connects to creativity ["I am asking for your opinion, but your opinion doesn’t really matter"] 

Method: prepare 100 questions and interview 100 people.  

Interview type: interviewer’s face not showing; subtitles will be added 

Timeline: Prepare 10-15 questions by Monday, interview and film by Friday, edit on the weekends  

Alternatives: 

Creating an online presence that is only related to one specific thing: a shape, an object, a color, e.g., a face shaver blade, letter R, things that have three holes, mint green  Method: using Instagram, YouTube, Twitter Material: mainly digital images, sounds and videos. 

enjoying myself/the blanket

https://soundcloud.com/sibyl-liu/goodbye-my-friends-2
"Goodbye my friends,

 I'm looking down 

on you,

I'm swimming in clouds of

souls,

I got what I wanted.

Goodbye my friends."

self caring 1

self caring 2 

self entertaining 

self denying

self torturing 

the woods

final project--making abstraction to the extreme

From medium to medium the real is volatilized; it becomes an allegory of death, but it is reinforced by its very destruction; it becomes the real for the real, fetish of the lost object-no longer object of representation, but ecstasy of denegation and of its own ritual extermination: the hyperreal.


--Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (p.141-142)



This is the first time I have tried to use different mediums to represent one single idea: the time I spent and the space I have occupied in 28 days. As I tried to transform this one map into images and sounds, something has changed. These works seem to be remotely related, and they only make sense when they are connected as a whole. They are abstract, yet carry so much meaning.

the intro:

the process

the dream