Pipilotti Rist's video art- how can we link this to science and reason? Still from 'Ever is Over All' (1997) 1. Define the 17th century 'Scientific Revolution', and say how it changed European thought and world view. the scientific revolution was created by a series of changes in the structure of European thought. changes such like systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of human knowledge into separate sciences and the view that the world acting like a machine. these views of thinking started up in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was one of the most influential to the popular mind. this was a technological change that still influences the modern mind. 2. Give examples of how we can we still see evidence of the 'Scientific Revolution' in the world today. an example of these influential ways of thinking in the modern day would have to be the widely changing view of physics. it has always been a question to great minded scientist to continue Albert einstein theory of everything or a complete guide to the workings of the natural word. because of this we have crated particle collider able to detect the smallest types of matter like courts. this is a typical human trait influenced by the scientific revolution of systematic doubt and verification though senses. 3. From your research, do you think that the contemporary art world values art work that uses new media/technology over traditional media? i think with the progression speed of technologies enhancing and changing so radically, that the art world has realized that traditional media is just limiting artiest from new media. the art world is now understanding that a piece of art can be anything. the use of film and progection show how the art word has evolved with the progression of these new technologies. 4. How has Pipilotti Rist used new media/technology to enhance the audience's experience of her work. in the work 'Ever is Over All' (1997) there are two images/films overlapping one another this technique is used to show the relation or create a relation to the two images, this is mainly traditionally used in montages of documenties or films. to use this effect in her work is to enhance the related theme to the viewer. thus creating two images that don't have any relevance to one another meaning together. 5. Comment on how the installation, sound and scale of 'Ever is Over All' (1997) could impact on the audience's experience of the work. having the film installed to be viewed from the corner of two walls breaks apart the two images to show that they are separate from one another. this gives the idea to the viewer that there is two separate images being seen at the same time. but the overlapping of the two images confuses or sets across a deferring view of these two images are in fact related. the music that goes along side with the film sets off relaxed or seemingly out off body experience giving the effect to the viewer that this is no longer a film or piece of artwork but in retrospect a experience to be shared. in one point the music stops to make way for the sound of the window of the car smashing whilst the woman takes a swing at it with her flower. this gives the effect to the viewer that this is happening and shouldn't question the work for what it is. 6. Comment on the notion of 'reason' within the content of the video. Is the woman's behaviour reasonable or unreasonable? i bellive there is no notion of reason at all to this work, making it abstract (it is what it is). the woman's behavior is shown to be normal or approved by. this is showing by the police officer walking past with a friendly smile of approval, this introduces comic tension to the film. so if you were to say if the woman's behavior is right or not one would have to consider its not real, as if its an alienated world she is in to relation to our own. 7. Comment on your 'reading' (understanding) of the work by discussion the aesthetic (look), experience and the ideologies (ideas, theories) of the work. this work makes me wonder i don't know what about but for some reason the effect that is portraits to me is a sense of two combining forces of nature acting together to create something unnatural. making it seem abstract or unexplained. http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81191 http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/pipilotti-rist/ http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/ever-is-over-all/ http://artintelligence.net/review/?p=443 hooker, r. (1996). the scientific revolution. retrieved 21 February, 2006 from: http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee?ENLIGHT/SCIREV .HTM

Pipilotti Rist's video art- how can we link this to science and reason?

 

Still from 'Ever is Over All' (1997)

 

1. Define the 17th century 'Scientific Revolution', and say how it changed European thought and world view. 

the scientific revolution was created by a series of changes in the structure of European thought. changes such like systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of human knowledge into separate sciences and the view that the world acting like a machine. these views of thinking started up in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was one of the most influential to the popular mind. this was a technological change that still influences the modern mind.

2. Give examples of how we can we still see evidence of the 'Scientific Revolution' in the world today.

an example of these influential ways of thinking in the modern day would have to be the widely changing view of physics. it has always been a question to great minded scientist to continue Albert einstein theory of everything or a complete guide to the workings of the natural word. because of this we have crated particle collider able to detect the smallest types of matter like courts. this is a typical human trait influenced by the scientific revolution of systematic doubt and verification though senses.

3. From your research, do you think that the contemporary art world values art work

that uses new media/technology over traditional media?

i think with the progression speed of technologies enhancing and changing so radically, that the art world has realized that traditional media is just limiting artiest from new media. the art world is now understanding that a piece of art can be anything. the use of film and progection show how the art word has evolved with the progression of these new technologies.

4. How has Pipilotti Rist used new media/technology to enhance the audience's experience of her work.

in the work 'Ever is Over All' (1997) there are two images/films overlapping one another this technique is used to show the relation or create a relation to the two images, this is mainly traditionally used in montages of documenties or films. to use this effect in her work is to enhance the related theme to the viewer. thus creating two images that don't have any relevance to one another meaning together.

5. Comment on how the installation, sound and scale of 'Ever is Over All' (1997) could impact on the audience's experience of the work.

having the film installed to be viewed from the corner of two walls breaks apart the two images to show that they are separate from one another. this gives the idea to the viewer that there is two separate images being seen at the same time. but the overlapping of the two images confuses or sets across a deferring view of these two images are in fact related. the music that goes along side with the film sets off  relaxed or seemingly out off body experience giving the effect to the viewer that this is no longer a film or piece of artwork but in retrospect a experience to be shared. in one point the music stops to make way for the sound of the window of the car smashing whilst the woman takes a swing at it with her flower. this gives the effect to the viewer that this is happening and shouldn't question the work for what it is.

6. Comment on the notion of 'reason' within the content of the video. Is the woman's behaviour reasonable or unreasonable?

i bellive there is no notion of reason at all to this work, making it abstract (it is what it is). the woman's behavior is shown to be normal or approved by. this is showing by the police officer walking past with a friendly smile of approval, this introduces comic tension to the film. so if you were to say if the woman's behavior is right or not one would have to consider its not real, as if its an alienated world she is in to relation to our own. 

7. Comment on your 'reading' (understanding) of the work by discussion the aesthetic (look), experience and the ideologies (ideas, theories) of the work.

this work makes me wonder i don't know what about but for some reason the effect that is portraits to me is a sense of two combining forces of nature acting together to create something unnatural. making it seem abstract or unexplained.

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81191

http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/pipilotti-rist/

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/ever-is-over-all/

http://artintelligence.net/review/?p=443

hooker, r. (1996). the scientific revolution. retrieved 21 February, 2006 from: http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee?ENLIGHT/SCIREV .HTM

Week 6-Landscape and the Sublime

Week 6-Landscape and the Sublime

'Wanderer in the mists' (1818) Caspar David Friedrich

'Untitled #2" (2002) Richard Misrach

 'Untitled # 394-03' (2003) Richard Misrach

Richard Misrach's photography reflects the concept of the Sublime, from the Enlightenment.

Research Misrach's work by reading about his intentions, and also by looking at the work. Then answer the following questions;

1. Define the Enlightenment, including its context (time and place).

the age of the enligtenment came from euope and america in the 18th centery when the christian way was questioned by science. the enligtenmet is based on the thoght everything was to have a reason for perpose. this was a comleately radical way of thinkig in this age of religious veiws. 

this age of enligtenment was the start of the scientific era.

2. Define the concept of the Sublime.

the subline reffers to the sense of a curtain something is greater or overwhelming that enduces fear into the minds of the observer without having any physical aspect or endagering the observer.

3. Explain how the concept of the Sublime came out of Enlightenment thought.

the subline was a direct outcome of the enlightenment veiw. now that people were facinated by science and the bigger picture artest could not get any costermers wanting religious paintins in which before this radical veiw were the only thing they were painting. this was the birth of lanscape painting people were now wanting butifal painting of real places. from this came the veiw of a curtain place being so unexplanible or amazing (unseen) that the subline was born. 

4. Discuss the subject matter, and aesthetic (look) of Misrach's work to identify the Sublime in his work. Include some quotes from art critics and other writers who have written about his work. 

misrach works are mainly photos of enormous siminly endless landscapes or enormous rock stuctures. this sets of the impresion of the sublime because the lancsapes are so enless or enormous that it gives the impression of overpoering greatness. ultimalty inspiriring fear into the eye of the observer. one critic has abolished this veiw saying "But the strange thing about these photos is how little they call up Turneresque feelings of awe-inspiring sublimity."

5. Add 2 new images of his work to your blog.

6. Describe how does Misrach's photography makes you feel. How does it appeal to your imagination?


his works do have a overwhelming feel to them. as if what he is trying to capture is to great for me to understand. some works have a butifull bliss to them but others have a scary unseen feel to them.

7. Identify some other artists or designers that work with ideas around the Sublime, from the Enlightenment era as well as contemporary artists.

james ward(1769-1859) was a sublime artest in the 18th centry. he painted huge dark and sometime scary murals. another sulime artest from the enlightenment age was Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797).  one contemperary sublime artest i now of is 

Ricky Allman he does works like this 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/profile/richard-misrach-on-the-beach,1147784/critic-review.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2008374684_henry11.html

http://www.thearttribune.com/Art-and-the-Sublime.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claressinka-anderson/at-home-with-dystopia-sal_b_781325.html

hamilton,p. (19920. the enlightenment and birth of social science, in hall,s.& gieben b. (eds), formations of modernity. cambridge: open university press (p.23)

my 2nd post

Damien Hirst's work 'For the Love of God' and Mercantilism

For the Love of God(2007) Damien Hirst

Research Damien Hirst's work For the Love of God (2007) in order to answer the following questions;

1. Describe the work, giving details of the form and materials:

The Damian Hirst work For the love of god(2007) is a skull shaped with 32 platinum plates set with 8,601 VVS flawless diamonds weighing 1,106.18 carats. and human teeth in which belonged to the original skull. 

2. What does the work mean? What is Damien Hirst communicating in the work?

some people say that Damian Hirst didn't have a meaning behind this work, and then there are others that say its a peace in which acts as a  reminder of how life is always in transit, and that death is enebadable after time. the idea of making it out of expensive media was inspiration from Aztec drawing and Mexican attitudes and celebrations of death eg: decorating the dead. 

3. How does Hirst's diamond encrusted skull relate to Mercantilism and to conspicuous consumption?

This work in the sense that it is made of ridiculous rare and sort after materials gives it the feel as if it is a priceless or rare item. this in relation to mercantilism and conspicuous consumption makes this work done by a artest as art transform into a luxury good or priceless artifact. meaning everyone would love to own this item so the demand of an item such like this would grow to a extream obsession for some. i could say an item like this could create such a frenzy i could possibly relate it to the gold rush or the blood diamond wars. 

4. How much did the work cost, and how much was it sold for, and who bought it?

it is said that for the love of god is the costliest piece of work ever made. sayed to had cost  £14 million to produce this work rely does go above and beyond. the art work was sold for around 100 million pounds from a investment group who remain anonymous. 

5. What are some of the differing opinions of the journalists in the newspaper and blog articles?What did they think of the work?

this work was subjected to a massive amount of criticism with critics says it was to ridiculous, to excessive and extravagant. one journalist went far enough to sat that the work had become the crowned jewels of today. others though were amazed and intreaged by the work from these people came extreamly positive reviews with one writer saying" I can't remember another art work that so perfectly embodies the cynicism and ambivalence successful artists must feel towards those who promote and collect their work. Part of what interests me so much about this whole project is the fact that Hirst is the main person who will profit by its sale. Confusing, but fascinating."

6. Based on your research, what is your opinion of the work, as an object or a work of art:

this to me is an amazing work of art in witch has transformed into a priceless item or artifact. in my opinion no other art'st has been able to do such a thing, as create a sort after item wile still alive. all the priceless painting and statues around the world were made to that state though time a long time after the art'st had passed away. this to me is a amazing anomolly that Damian hirst was able to create. 

- http:/www.damienhirst.com/for_the_love_of_god


- sean o'hagen(sunday 21st may 2006). hirst's diamond creation is arts costliest work ever. the gardian
[ online addition ] retrived from http:/www.gardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/21/arts artsnews.


- http:/www.artknowledgenews.com/damam_hirst_for_the_love_of_god .html


-http:/www.turismo.intoscana.it/allthingstuscany/tuscanyarts/damianhist-diamond-skull-pulazzo-vecchio/