Reading 5 Questions

Do you believe that the digital revolution signals a growing obsolescence for visual art?  Why or why not.

Is there a significant difference between the code-based nature of digital media and the image-based nature of both photography and film?  Why or why not?

Project 6: Interventionist Media

For this project, I wanted to comment on today's medical system.  Many people resort to researching their health problems themselves online.  Our medical systems main focus is on treating people with medical emergencies and keeping them alive.  In my opinion, our current medical system should pay more attention to chronic conditions that afflict millions of undiagnosed people and on improving quality of life for those people.

Reading 4 Questions

1. Paolo Virno defines virtuosity is an "activity which finds its own fulfillment in itself, without objectifying into an end product, without settling into a 'finished product,' or into an object which would survive the performance."  Do you agree with this definition?  Must an activity not result in a product for it to be considered virtuoso?

2. In your opinion, where does data visualization become artistic over simply being a functional or pragmatic visual?

Project 5: Video Cover Artist Statement

My video is based off of Man Ray's "Les Mystères du Château de Dé" (1929).  I used Ray's soundtrack starting at approximately 2:10.  I wanted this video to illustrate what it feels like to travel somewhere new.  In Ray's film, two men are heading for the gates of Paris which "open onto the unknown."  I wanted to convey the difference between novelty and the mundane and the importance of not becoming entrenched in the mundane aspects of daily life.  My film opens with a black and white with a person driving in rain accompanied by somewhat of a melancholic soundtrack which is symbolic of the daily grind.  The soundtrack then turns into a lively, exciting rhythm as the driver decides to go out and explore new frontiers.
http://www.ubu.com/film/ray_chateau.html

Project 5: Video Cover "Going Places"

Reading 3 Questions

In your opinion, is there a significant difference between film and video?  Is one superior over the other? Why or why not.

Just because something is created with a purpose in mind, such as a television commercial, does it automatically become disqualified from being considered art?  Why or why not?

Triptych Redo