Wednesday 26th May 2010

Today's tutorial started off with watching some video's made by various artists, including Tony Oursler and Mathew Barneys's Cresmaster cycle. I found the Cresmaster cycle very disturbing because people we dying and it was very subjective but I did relay love the work of Tony Oursler. specially the first couple we watched of a fist hitting a table that was projected onto a building. i could image a person starting just underneath and being scared out of their wits because this big fist is coming down.

Today I finished off my movie on Final Cut Pro and I think I have completed my last final as well. I didn't have any of my pictures saved on my USB but i did have an image I had experimented with and added some more to it. The image is of clouds and the pictures really spoke to me because I had never seen clouds spaced out like this before. i did use a smudging tool and made the house in the foreground darker.

Hopefully I will be able to present next week and tomorrow I will head out to Officeworks and get all my work printed.

Wednesday 19th May 2010

Today was our second lesson about Video art and considering I have already filmed my Video I was really booking forward to learning about how to turn my recording into art work.

Jenna taugh me how to use Final Cut Pro as to iMovie beacuse she knew that program better. It didn't really matter to me because I have never used either.

We started the session off today with people's presentaions about their first completed artwork then had quiet time to work on our own projects. Before our time was up Jenna went thought a tutorial about artists Video art. Some of it was very weird. We watched one video for about 4 minutes and it was about a guy who was walking into a pool and then jumped and then was frozen in the air. I expected him to go in but he just stayed there. Then he disapeared and then walked away frm the pool.

I can't wait until next week when i can hopefully finish off my video and come up with an idea for my last digital art piece. I have 8 images of clouds I would like to use but i'm not sure how. There are elements of shape in each so I might incorportae that in some way.

12th May 2010

Its been a while. Two weeks of placement has flow past and lucky this class temporary closed for the time being. Coming back was good, I had a lot of ideas and questions.

Today we looked at video art and different artists that have influenced this particular type of art during the years. we particularly looked at Nam Jane Piak video's on YouTube. Other people's work was weird and a bit unsettling to watch. after that we say how to use a video camera but because I had already taped my clouds video I just continued with my work.

Today I finished another final. I will post this image up. I was very Happy with it because it had my 2 friends in it as well as an idea I had come up with.
I want to find an artist who has done similar work so when I present my artwork, I can talk about my influences. I have digitally changed a lot of this image for instance the colour as you can plainly see.

I will be looking at the video art world website and choosing an artist who I find interesting and adding some of their work onto my blog.

The artist whos work I found interesting was Claire Bain. Born in New Mexico, United States, 1975.
Her film work has informed my painting and photography, and vice versa. She has two approaches to film/video. One is more formal, primarily concerned with light, composition, emulsion and rhythm; meaning reveals itself gradually or indirectly. The other approach is a direct communication of thoughts, observations and questions through the use of characters.

I choose Clair Bain becasue of the work she has done with cats, I have not seen it all but from what I have its humourous.