Time is the enemy. From a natural aspect, all life forms must come to an end. From a human cultural aspect, society has transformed time to a corrupted deal that can be used to manipulate and deceive the culture. For this project, I will be creating a short metaphorical animated film in demonstration of the twisted effectiveness of the cultural aspect of time.
Draft Thesis
Everyone has their own enemies but each individual has the ability to turn their enemies into friends by cooperating to one another. Did you know among all of your enemies that your biggest one is infinite and no matter what you do, it will never be on your side since it cannot be manipulated or cheated? In case you were wondering who or what is this rubbish enemy, then allow me to introduce to you that “time” is the enemy. Have you ever wondered how throughout your life, you’re always against times and it controls your way of living since it is unpredictable. For my project I will be creating a 3-4 minutes animation to illustrate how times operate and impact our ways of living in a metaphorical and surreal way.
Critical Texts and Media
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau.
4) Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
• What’s not to love about experimenting? I often find my experimenting process way more interesting than the final output because experimenting is where the true magic happens. By magic I mean the thought process, each time you encounter a problem, error or failure, this doesn’t mean you have to smash and destroy it because you think everything you’ve done was a waste. Instead what it means are those problems can create solutions because it opens your mind up to let you know you can take a different route could be successful.
9) Begin anywhere.
• Not knowing where to begin is really a form of paralysis. Don’t waste time! Just like drawing a circle, does it really matter where you start because you’ll get the same result or what you want at the end.
13) Slow down.
• I know time is money but relax for a bit and take thing easy, there is no need to rush because time is always your enemy no matter how hard you try to stay ahead. Why not go with the flow and surprisingly things may come your way
Eased-up little surprisingly the unexpected happen
19) Work the metaphor.
• You know what I like about metaphors? They change what I knew to what I think I know.
24) Avoid software.
• Don’t spend your whole life mastering something that many people already own because the chances are all these people can do if not better what you can do.
25) Don’t enter awards competitions.
• By you entering, you’ve decreased some else probability of winning and by nobody entering increases the chance of donating the prizes to the people who really have the need for them, the charities.
Manya Scheps, Net Art: Black Sun, White Halloween
As stated in the article, “the term “new media” indicates, quite obviously, that all other media are old stodgy, unwieldy”. There is no deny, the internet is such a deep and complex repository of resources that it has become not only effectively necessity to the people and of course the artists but also it advances our capabilities obtain greater learning. Even though net art opposed what the institution stood for and everything it had established, the internet ought to become the institutions for the fact that the institution may not effectively capitalized upon the acceleration of new media. Everything someday has to come to a change; net art has revolutionized the fixture off school.
Rosalind Krause, Sculpture in the Expanded Field
Krauss used the semiotic square to break down and define the logic of sculpture by using logical. When thinking about it, by stretching or taking things apart it gives you a better way to analyze or understanding the concept and to me that what it feels did. By the expending field, she stretches the concept of sculpture because she knew it has more elements to it than just sculpture and can be anything other than sculpture.
After knowing a little about Krauss’ I decided to come up with my semiotic square which will help me come up for my thesis for my short animation film.
-Kinetic images and 3D become the narratives because these are what will help express the concept of my the animation
-Kinetic Images and Not kinetic images result in a form of communication
-Not kinetic and not 3D, this was the hardest one for me to come up with anything because of the double negatives. I think still images work fines for it because all you can really have there is something static.
3D and Not 3D, element of designs I think is good, for instance the textures, shapes, values, space etc.
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Av-1Project4 from Jeff Marc on Vimeo.
Concrete Poetry
http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxm5630/cpp15/jxm5630.html
Concrete poetry was our third project of the semester. for this project the word “fume” was randomly given to me. I decided to illustrate the word in two different contexts to simplify as a concrete poetry. the first context are, the images which basically give the viewers an idea of what’s going on, and the second context are the texts which are the descriptions and synonyms of fume.
Art Machine
http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxm5630/sample_website/catchit.html
These are some screen shots of my flash project I called catch the fallen egg. It is a basic animation game that I did to get me familiar with action script and knowing how to assign command to a specific object. This project had allowed me to understand some of the function in flash because I kept it simple which helped me analyzed my work better and allowed me to detect my mistakes.
New Media 