ART PROJECT

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I do not really know what to do in this art project. It seems "no" interest for me since I do not like art much. I with my "bfriend" just tried to do something. Exactly it is not really "art" and also very simple and wierd, but I think it kindda connects me and nature. I used nature to create art. 

FARMLAB

I went to farmlab on Friday, May 6. This trip is cool in a way. I had hard time to find farmlab since it does not have any signs stuffs to give direction. At first, when I got in there, I thought what the hell is this. I don't know why it locates at such this place. I also felt uncomfortable when they don't like to let me visit. Maybe this is their place for making movie or something like that.
I saw a lot of furnitures on my way. I did not know what is it for. Then I saw many different plants which is planted very specially. Some of them are planted in a car. This is a picture which I think really cool and weird.

There are also many "odd" and cool stuffs. They use giant water bag to keep water and use it for watering. Plants are put outside to use solar radiation as a energy source to grow trees. Also, those plants are put in like "wood box". I did not know what is its purpose, but maybe this helps trees grow better. 

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson (1938–1973) was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City. He was an American artist famous for his land art. His early exhibited artworks were collage works influenced by "homoerotic drawings and clippings from beefcake magazines", science fiction, and early Pop Art. Smithson became particularly interested in the notion of deformities within the spectrum of anti-aesthetic dynamic relationships which he saw present in the Picturesque landscape. He claimed, “the best sites for ‘earth art’ are sites that have been disrupted by industry, reckless urbanization, or nature’s own devastation. it was not necessary that the deformation become a visual aspect of a landscape; by his anti-formalist logic, more important was the temporal scar worked over by natural or human intervention. Other theoretical writings explore the relationship of a piece of art to its environment, from which he developed his concept of sites and non-sites. A site was a work located in a specific outdoor location, while a non-site was a work which could be displayed in any suitable space. In 1971 he created Broken circle, Spiral Hill for the exhibition for the Sonsbeek'71 art festival at Emmen, the Netherlands.
His land- art piece seems hard for me to understand its meaning. I quite don't like it much. I think it is a concept of site and space. But I kindda admire him since he uses his writing along to make his artwork, which is really cool.

Lauren Bon

Not A Cornfield by Lauren Bon
      “Not A Cornfield” is a project (2005) by Artist Lauren Bon. It’s a living sculpture in the form of a field of corn east of Downtown Los Angeles. This is an artwork in the form of a field of corn that transformed 32-acres of post-industrial LA and transitioned it to its next phase of life as the Los Angeles State Historic Park. Its aims are at giving focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about where it's energetic and historical center is.
      This art piece redeems a lost fertile ground, transforming what was left from the industrial era into a renewed space for the public."Not A Cornfield" is about these very questions, polemics, arguments and discoveries. It is about redemption and hope. It is about the fallibility of words to create productive change. Artists need to create on the same scale that society has the capacity to destroy. This is kindda an evidence to prove that tranforming the left of industrial into an useful and exaclty new space is possible. I already had a chance to see it when I went to Farmlab. The whole area now are in used instead of useless public land.

Survival Research Laboratories

         Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is a machine performance art group credited for pioneering the genre of large scale machine performance. Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. 
         SRL devices are usually given interesting names, such as the Flame Hurricane, the Large Shock Wave Cannon and the Hand-O'-God. Their performances are also given colorful names, such as The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts and Survival Research Laboratories Contemplates a Million Inconsiderate Experiments. SRL is considered to be the pioneer of industrial performing arts. 

Nancy Popp

Street Climbing Performance by Nancy Popp
    This is a performance in Santa Monica, on Oct 2005. Her artworks are so amazing. At first, I feel really weird and like "no idea" when I see this artwork. I am like what is it about and why it is called art. As I read through all of the stuffs about this work. I get more feelings and understand it. 

     This performance attempts to break out pattern if movement within urban space to observe the flow of the street and seek out new sightlines. This is also an exploration between public and private. Popp wrote: “The body becomes a temporary marker signifying transgression, an attempt to top the hierarchies inherent in the vertical landscape. But climbing a street pole is a seemingly ridiculous and pointless act. Its motivation is unclear, private or idiosyncratic.”

Ana Mendieta

In Depth by Ana Mendieta

       Ana Mendieta (American, born Cuba 1948–1985) is an artist whose career can be distinguished in part by her experimentation with a diverse range of artistic media.
       Ana Mendieta used her own body as both subject and media to explore issues of gender and cultural identity. The naked female form inserted in nature became a hallmark of her artistic production as she developed her own self-labeled genre of art, “earth-body art,” which can be described as a hybrid of two 1960s movements: earth art and body art. Her performances, documented with film and photography, often involved interjecting the performing body into nature in order to forge links with an ancestral past and present. 

David Wilson

David Wilson / Museum of Jurassic Technology

        David Wilson is the founding director of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, which opened in 1988. Wilson has also produced six independent films.
         The Museum of Jurassic Technology traces its inspiration to the earliest days of the institution of the museum, which it dates back to Noah's Ark, the first and most complete Museum of Natural History known to man. The Museum's catalog includes a mixture of artistic, scientific as well as some unclassifiable exhibits, and evokes the cabinets of curiosities that were the 18th century predecessors of modern natural history museums.

Maurizio Cattelan

La Nona Ora (1999)
Ora’ consists of an effigy of Pope John Paul II in full ceremonial dress being crushed by a meteor and is a good example of his typically humorous approach to work. He thinks La Nona Ora as a sculpture that doesn’t exist: a three-dimensional image that dissolves into pure communication – an object disappearing in the flux of information, news, comments, headlines, reproductions, newspapers and other seductive spectacles. On the other hand, La Nona Ora could simply be a bad joke taken too seriously, an exercise in absurdity. 

Yoko Ono

Wish Tree By Yoko Ono

         The tree has stood in the sculpture garden since 2007. It is one of many wish trees around the world installed by Ono as a part of her international peace project. Every autumn, sometime in November, the leaves fall off and the tree becomes a whispering tree. Rather than hang their wishes from the tree on small strips of paper, as they do during the warmer months, visitors are encouraged to snuggle up to the tree and whisper their wishes to it.
       This is kindda cool. Every wish people make now has put on a tree. It stands there for long time and hope it will come true. It is like a traditional style of prayer which comes from Asian culture, espcially Chinese. 

Artist Research

   Kevin Bracken

Kevin Bracken was born in Long Island, New York in 1986.
He and Lori Kufner co-founded Newmindspace during his 5-year studies in Toronto, Canada, beginning in 2004. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science & Sociology from the University of Toronto, he returned to New York to work on Refuge, a multi-purpose center for the arts in Brooklyn, where Newmindspace was then headquartered.
Kevin now divides his time between New York and Toronto, focusing his energy on distilling the culture of Newmindspace and creating new, bigger events in the future.
Newmindspace is Kevin Bracken and Lori Kufner, two fun-loving artists who live in Toronto, Canada. Since March of 2005, they have been organizing free, fun, all-ages events like parties on subway cars, public pillow fights, giant games of capture the flag on city streets, massive bubble battles, public art installations and much more. As of February 2011, they have organized over 75 outdoor events in New York City, Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco and Vancouver.
These events are part of the larger urban playground movement, a loosely-knit group of event organizers around the world who share a common goal: to promote free events in public space, bring people together and create community.

This community’s biggest day of the year is International Pillow Fight Day, the first Saturday of every April – the largest event of which is Newmindspace’s Pillow Fight NYC, which can attract up to 5,000 people.
In 2011, Newmindspace is redoubling its efforts to raise money for charities such as WWF-Canada and New York’s Coalition for the Homeless, and focusing on massive public art as a way to do good in the world.

Blanket Festivus: Explore the labyrinthine maze of softness, this time built inside a beautiful 5,000 square-foot loft on Queen West. Enjoy bedtime stories, winter- and holiday-themed areas, art installations and late-night snacks

String of Diamonds is hundreds of bright, white lights that seem to hang from the heavens. Visitors can view the 15-story tall centrepiece or help create strands of their own with friends and strangers. This shimmering landmark begins as a mystery that invites participants from kilometers away.

BUBBLE BATTLE

THE BIG KISS

BEALL MUSEUM TRIP

My Second Life Work!!!

This is an Ideal Me! 

This is not me. I do not want to be like this.

This is a designer, a job I never think of.

This is me.

Artist Project 12

13 Most Beautiful Avatars by Eva and Franco Mattes
   Eva and Franco Mattes were born in Italy in 1976. Since meeting in Madrid in 1994, they have never separated, living a nomadic life throughout Europe and the United States. Neither of them received art education; however, they are counted among the pioneers of the Net Art movement, and are renowned for their subversion of public media.  Eva and Franco first revealed their love for Second Life through their project "13 Most Beautiful Avatars". In an interview with Domenico Quaranta, they stated that the self-portraits of the 13 avatars were not meant to reveal "the way you 'are', but rather on the way you 'want to be'". The Mattes wanted to stress that our culture revolves around plagiarism. Followed by saying that their project "13 Most Beautiful Avatars" is not a completely original piece. In fact, they stated that anyone who claims that their work is an original, should really "start doubting" their mentality because practically everything in this world, not limited to art, is a reproduction or remix of something that was released once before.