But is that Art?
Chapter 7: Digitizing and
disseminating:
1. Select one of your own works and relate it
to a specific idea presented in this chapter? If you cannot find a connection,
describe why your work is divergent.
Throughout reading this chapter, I
read about Bill Viola whom has worked with the latest video technologies
(supplied with equipment by SONY) in experiments before broad release. His work
explores modes of perception through editing and installation displays. Viola
creates entire atmospheres by projecting video images onto walls or across
people in the gallery. I really enjoyed reading about his travels and works and
I believe this work is similar to one of my video works that I recreated Nightfall
by Bas Jan Adner. The similarities of our work is mainly the fact that we both
used Video production to manipulate and transform our videos, for mine I took
out the sound, and color, and for Bill Viola he created and added the sound and
the imagery. They both differ from each
other, but also incorporate many of the
same techniques.
Pick one work in this
chapter and answer the following questions. What ideas drive the work selected?
Who was it created for? What purpose does fill? What questions does it raise?
The work I chose to write about is Bill
Viola’s The Crossing. From
reading about this work I believe the idea that drove this work were his the
combined astonishing visual imagery with texts and readings. This piece fills
the entire room with harrying sounds of wind and storms created through
electronic static. All of these elements
were electronically created to portray this sense of storminess. I really enjoy
how his work was a video piece, and believe this helps portray the essence of a
rainy stormy day. I believe this work was created for everyone, and portrays his
efforts and purpose of trying to manipulate both sounds and visual imagery to
portray the sense of reality. I feel
like people would ask questions such as “ Why not record a storm? How hard is
it to create a virtual storm? Why is there a person in the water, and what does
he represent? And I feel like the reason
for that person in the storm is to resemble the choices and roads you chose in
life. Thus I would definitely suggest taking a look at some of Bill Violas video works.
2.
List any ideas that are new to you in
this chapter.
We can explore genres
and painters and zoom in to scrutinize details. The Louvre’s Website offers
spectacular 360 degree panoramas of artworks like the Venus de Mio. Such tours may become ever
more multi- sensory by drawing on virtual reality (VR) technology, which
includes things like goggles and gloves. Lighting and stage set designers like
architects, already use this technology in their work. Pg 178
Notes:
·
It
is not just visual art that has been made more widely accessible by new
technologies of reproduction. Operas, plays, and ballet performances are
regularly broadcast on TV, and more people know the music of Bach and Beethoven
from CDs or radio than from live concerts in churches or symphony halls. Pg 178
·
Viola
contradicts McLhan’s view that the medium has inherent possibilities to alter
perception, because he believes an artist must work in advance to achieve
enhanced perception. Pg 191
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