Project #2. my face in letters

Sarah Kortright ;

ART 210 NOGAMI

Project 2

Reading Journal #4 Asymptote~Fluxspace 3.0

This weeks artist I chose is “Asymptote”, Asymptote is an architectural office formed by Hani Rashid and Lise-Anne Couture in 1987. From them comes Fluxspace. Fluxspace 3.0 was created in 2002. Fluxspace is a series that was made by studying the different forms of intersection between the virtual world and the actual world. They took the digital medium and brought it out into actual space. Architectural object shaped by projections of data streams in mirrored surroundings. They used 8 speakers, 5 DVD players and a reflector made of multichannel video installation

Fluxspace is amazing to me because it really does take the digital aspect of the design brings it out into almost a 3D type of atmosphere. The way the book describes it “The fluidity of virtual space becomes part of the physical environment of installation. A distorted and seemingly inverted urban landspace is projected on to an amorphous shape hanging in the middle of a room with mirror covered walls.” I would personally love to see this phenomenon for myself.
There is already a digital design that is projected onto an blank object that is also hanging in the air. That by itself would be fascinating to see but to take that object and make it look almost multiplied by using mirrors would be even more amazing. If I was viewing this, and I was in that dark room surrounded by everything described. I would no doubt feel like I was in space and like I was floating in the midst of these objects. The design itself reminds me of some kind of giant satellite that is floating in the thermosphere. It would almost seem unreal too see this display.



http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kunsttrip.org/documenta/11/bingding/bingding1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kunsttrip.org/documenta/documenta11_bingding.htm&usg=__FXmubV_a4nCzZ2PetSpoQh3WCyE=&h=319&w=425&sz=21&hl=en&start=36&um=1&tbnid=mbM9hF9LaqWQ2M:&tbnh=95&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dasymptote%2Bfluxspace%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4ADBS_enUS278US278%26sa%3DN%26start%3D18%26um%3D1
and the book pg 79

Reading Journal #3, Oliver Wasow ~ "Untitled 339"

Oliver Wasow was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1960. He currently lives in NY with his wife (artist, Dana Hoey) and his two children. Oliver teaches Digital Imaging and Photo Critique in different places such as: The Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts , The School of Visual Arts Graduate Program in Photography and Related Media, and SVA's Undergraduate Photography Program.

With this days technology, almost anything is possible to create. Oliver Wasow has taken advantage of those endless opportunities and has created some amazing, almost unreal, pieces of work. In his pieces of work, Oliver Wasow combines different pieces of photography with digital enhancing to create somewhat of a collage of different scenes and/or objects. The collages then depict a very strange and different world with various things combined that you would not normally see together in the real world; yet they mesh together so well. Most of his works do not usually have a title, they are always called “untitled” and have a different number next to them. The picture posted above is called “Untitled #339”. The minute I saw this picture in our text;

I was immediately attracted to it because of the colors and the interesting details of it. I looked even closer to see that it wasn’t just photography that someone had been minorly edited. It looked more like a “fantasy land” if you will. His work looks like something you could only imagine in your mind but would be very difficult to create. That is what I love about this artist. I can somewhat relate to him because I can always picture things in my mind that look very similar to his works. However, I do not have the experience or skills just yet to create anything near to what he can create so I was very excited to see digital art of that kind in a tangible form. When I think of digital art; The types of work that Oliver Wasow creates are exactly what I think of.


http://members.cox.net/smallworks/wasowbio.html (source)

Reading Journal #2, Annu Matthews, "What Will They Think"

The digital artist I have chosen is Annu Palakunnathu Matthew. The piece of digital art that attracted me to this artist was the “What Will People Think”. The book (Digital Art) mentions that the pieces that Annu Palakunnathu creates usually depict gender and social steriotypes in her homeland of India.

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew has a collection called “Bollywood Satirized” which is made up of of two pictures called “What Will People Think” as well as “Bomb”. Bollywood is the name given to the largest film industry in the world, concentrated in Bombay. She took posters and images from real films and edited them to a point where the image itself would provide visual aid for the viewer to understand the issues of women in India; such as the position of women in Indian society, the dowry system, arranged marriages, discrimination based on skin color, the stigma of pre-marital relationships and inter-racial relationships. Annu wanted to describe her experiences that she had as a woman growing up in India.

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew uses a software program that allows her to create unusually large images that mimic the size of movie posters. With impressive and up-to-date imaging technology, large digital output, and graphic statistical text, this is not a complex piece of work. By using real posters, combined with her own photos and words, Annu has complete control over the creation of her images, and she attempts to take control of the larger societal picture. These posters break the silence of unspoken tradition, force open a dialogue, and demand change. These two bodies of work, shown together, balance Annu's love and frustration for her countries policies

When I first saw this picture, I was wondering why there was a picture of a woman with words like “whore” and “easy”. It wasn’t until I read about this artist that I understood the meaning.One thing I really appreciate about this particular artist is her creative way of protest. Anyone can give a speech and anyone can hold signs up in an angry crowd. However, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew took it to the next level by expressing her views in a non-angry way and at the same time, showing her creativity and making a statement for all the women in India. This was Annu’s way of speaking up against all odds.




I got my information from the book as well as
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/06/07/28666.html
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.decordova.org/decordova/images/exhibitions/2001/annual01/Annu.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2001/Annual01/matthew.html&usg=__YPPzE8f6NPfuPYVq3n8LAHGam9I=&h=400&w=269&sz=46&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=OigVYoP0ZTHIjM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=83&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dannu%2Bpalakunnathu%2Bmatthew%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4ADBS_enUS278US278%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1