Week 11: Research and Influences for Final Folio

Throughout this week I decided to find more meaning to my art because the way that i pictured it in my head didn't work out according to the way that i wanted it. I thought about my presentation and exactly what i wanted to talk about and why i was showing the artwork that i wanted to show. It was hard to find meaning. I have completed a series of abstraction painting that i have recently done in the passed and i wanted to explore them digitally. I want to put five of them for my final works and then incorporate photos that i have taken of landscapes. For my presentation I did want to continue researching to make things more clear in what i wanted my body of work to show. I focused on displacement and because i didn't really put images in my artwork, i decided to displace colours, formations and use constrast to bring about a different effect. My original idea of placing objects in where they do exactly fit was hard in the sense that i kind of wanted to set up my own scenes of displacement but i found that my images weres really corresponding to what i wanted to show so i decided to make use of the images that I had.

There was a range of research and influences that i looked at such as this exhibition called displacement that was held in 2008. The exhibition promotes dialogue about rapid development that was imbracing, places, such as nature, communities, neighborhood, and the physical displacement of colours. Raphaele Shirley's work creates a space for artifical landscapes that highlights orginally. The work of an artist Irit Batsry challenges perception of reality using abstraction and memory. Her photos are distortions that dislodge visual expectations and sense of perception. Documenting a town and parks located in a small town. My imahes are aso relating to this arist because they were taken in a mall town in Bacchus Marsh showing the town setting. They interweave formal devices og photography and investigate perception.

Week 11: Resolution of Final Folio

This week i didn't attend class but i did do some research on Video installation and comtemporary video art. I looked again at Matthew Barney because i really enjoyed his artwork. Matthew Barney really was an artist that i was interested in. He is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. I really found his piece on Ren and Guardian of the Veil symbolic and interesting, in the way that explored and completed his artwork. I think that the fact the he explored biology, mythology and geology showed a different view into how art can be created and the different aspects of which an artist can take to show a idea or a perspective on a certain matter that is important to them. Gary Hill was also an artist that i was interested in further exploring his work. Especially his incorporation of text in video art. I really enjoyed looking at the artwork Incidence of Catastrophe 1977-78. His sound is also effective and i never really thought that sound and text could bring about a different element in art. I also liked the immersive environments that he explored in his artwork.

Throughout this week also because it is the resolution of folio i have been putting the finishing touches on my artwork. in my proposal my main aim was to displace objects into landscapes and provide different meanings attached to why i might of creating them the way that I have.This did not go according to the way that i wanted it to. I have used 4 artworks that i have created previously using abstract forms and changed the way they look. i will also show artwork that i originally tried but didn't like the way that they turned out. This is something that i am disappointed in but i do like this abstract painting that i have created and changed. Hopefully my message and appreciation of my art will get across to my audience.

Week 10: Video Art The moving IMage:Continued

Throughout this class it was really interesting to view some of artworks that Jenna showed us some of them were really creeping but not bad to view. Throughout this class I did a lot of thinking about my final presentation. I was thinking about how exactly i would present my folio. There were two ways in which i wanted to take my ideas. I wanted to show four pieces of work that i have completed throughout a folio i have done a while back. I completed four big works on canvas using landscapes as my theme to convey to my audience. I wanted to take a photo of them and manipulate them on photoshop to see what kinds of changes i can make to them. They are very abstract and don't really show the exact formation of a landscape but they do convey the colours and the different textures that have been used. Then i want to use my photos that i have taken and two that i have completed already and extend on my ideas of changes things in landscapes where they would make them look different and really make the audience use their imagination on what my intention was. I previously wanted to try and set up my own scene of uncertainly using props that i have taken but i felt like if i started this i wouldn't get a chance to finish it because of the time it would take. I do have a bit of work to do to get my final pieces on the way but i am looking forward to show my finals even though i believe that they will be different to my first ideas that i had come up with.

Week 9- Moving image continued.

Throughout this class video art was looked at and some artists that were significant throughout this time was also looked at. An artist named Peter Callas was one that stuck out. He was a pioneer of the artistic use of the electronic image in Australia. Over the last two and half decades he has electronic and digital media to create a ongoing series of cultural portraits. He as a artists really represented video art in a significant way and i like watching his short videos. They were really powerful in the messages that they were trying to get across the images were really pop like but really showed the message really well. The way in which the artist combined the imagery it worked well and the three that was viewed really showed animation and introduced motif. The piece that i like was Film Night playing card as a recurrent symbol. it was colourful, the appeal was understood and it also showed a darker ideological bias in the set of cards at Callas disposal.

I liked the way that he used disjunctive images of war and territorial conquest (human bombs, brave feats, gas masks) thus convey more about Japans colonial aspirations. Gary Hill, Valle Export, Bill lavil were artists that were looked at also but didn't really get my attention. Another artist that really grabbed my attention was an art piece called I'm not the girl who misses much by pipiloitt rist. I think this artist was an artist that was in your face but effective, at first she looked like a crazy chick but interesting to see how something liked she created could get a message across.

Overall this week looking at the artist really opened my mind to more possibilities and with every piece that we watched it brought a emotive response. With my own artwork i am still working on my photos and trying to make a video with the images and combining them together.

Week 8: The Moving Image: Video as Digital Art

Throughout this week the focus on Video as Digital Art was soemthing that we looked at. This was interesting and mind blowing in the way that anything is possible. I learnt so much just from the people in my class that i thought was a amazing. The presentations that were completed throughout this class showed such a substantial amount of work and such experience that it was thereatening for my own work because i loved what i had saw. I learnt how using the video camera could allow for soem great work to come about.

Overall video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and audio art. Video art came into existence during 1960's and 1970's and is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of videpo installations. Looking and soem of the short videos that we saw in class it was amazing to see what kind of art can be created and the messages that could come out of the art. Although it continues to bhe produced, it is represented by two varieties. Single-channel and installations. Single-channel works much closer to the conventional idea of television: a video is screened, projected or shown as a asingle image.

Installation works involve either an environment, several distinct pieces of video presentation separartely, or any combination of video with traditional media. Inastallation video is the most common form of art used today. Sometimes it is combined with other media.

Throughout learning and exploring this type of art i came across a piece of art called self burning. It was a short video experimenting mystical form transformation in absolutely oridinary surroundings of the typical Russian countryside. Also it is a video research of the word "field". Comprehension and the look at agriculture or geography, but also like electric. Self bruning is a union of the two persons. Nikolas Luchkic and Alexsandar Shpakor. Mikolas was born in Karagend, USSK in 1979. Aleksandar was born in Semikarakosah in 1978. They meet 1998 when they started their study and creating there video artworks. When looking at the short piece it was amazing in the way that it showed just a complete different thing to the title self burning and colour and textures that were used in the short movie. i couldn't upload it but it was found on video.art.net. I enjoying viewing the video and found the class interesting in terms of ideas, the presentations and how great my classmates are and just learning something that in wouldn't of got the chance to learn.

Week 7: Digital Drawing and Painting: Continued.

Throughout this week it was my turn to present one artwork. The artwork that I presented was a photograph that had a scenery landscape and a figure of a bird that was just white. I felt that it was different to what I wanted to do for my final artworks but it was something that i liked. I do need to concrete my ideas for my final artworks and really know what I am displacing because my message is becoming unclear. I find that if I go back to how I got this idea in the first place and find the passion and true message it will become more clear. Overall my presentation of my ideas wasn't the best but there is time to improve and I need to focus on how I am going to really capture my idea throughout the last five of my artworks.

Throughout this week's class we did go through coral painter and some more techniques of what we were doing. How to my an animation and how to trace on a photograph to change it or give the photograph a different element to it. Overall i think this program allows you to be able to bring about knew elements to your artwork and to create artworks with substance and show a different side.

My main aim after this lesson is to concentrate on my finals and really produce artworks at the end of the day that i can be proud of and that show that i stayed to my technical ability but tried to become inspired by trying new techniques. I also now want to put my displacement intention into practice really get out into where i was photographing and take images that I can then collage and play around with. After this lesson the proposal is finished, my presentation and now i can really concentrate on what needs to be done. I need to take more photos and develop scene and collage. I think if i become passionate about what i am doing and really find the essence to why i wanted to do it in the first place i can create 5 finished artworks that captivate true essence of nature thst incorporate distortions that disloge visual expectations of our sense of perception.

Week 6: Digital Drawing abd Pianting:

Throughout this week in class we were working on Wacom tablets and this was done using Coral Painter X interface. This is a program that I am not familar with but it was really good in learning the process of how to use it. Throughout this week we got a introduction on how to use it and some of the applications that are involved in it. I found that this program really opened my eyes to the possible things that can be created throughout digital art.

Also throughout this class presentations started and it was really good to see what my peers were doing and the ideas that they had for their own work. Some of there works i really enjoyed looking at and i found that the meaning towards why they were creating them really made it interesting to listen to and captivated ideas and things that influence me. It was good to see that everyone had there own interpretations and that people weren't doing things that were the same.

My own work this week was focused on preparing work i have done to show to the class next week. I haven't done much of what i wanted but i am going to show to photos and explain what my intentions are and what the meaning for my artwork is going to be about. After looking at others people's work it has really pushed me to try and find a solid ground for why i am producing my artwork and what i am trying to get across to my audience. I think that my main issue that I am having is trying to work out my message when displacing the objects. The feelings that I want to create for my audience aren't known it can be kind of everything. For my presentation I want to demonstrate the effects and talk about the influences that have affected me and incorporate that all throughout my life i haven't really lived in the city or liked the city as much as the country and i want to try and take the essence of it bring it out throughout my work.

Overall my main aim for this week is to get as much as what i want to present to the class done and verify in my head the reason and the passion for why i like scenery and why this is important to me. I think once this is understood it will help me to get more done and help the intention to become clearer to my auidence. Overall it a fun lesson learning about it.