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Project 3 | Interactive System

For Project 3 I have decided to use my thesis as its basis. My thesis itself, is interactive with the viewer in that they enter the space and it is moving around them. The movement is not triggered or effected by the viewers existence however, with the use of video I'd like to take the movement within my thesis outside of the actual project, and project it within the Mutable White Cube. For two of the three story boards I would like to record the interior of the space moving, and then shoot the interior not moving. In all three ideas I would like to have the viewers presence, whether it be their movement or the noise within the MWC that will trigger another effect with in the video. I have not decided if I'd like to use audio that increases in volume or if I would like to increase the frame rate or alter the color of the video, based on the movement of the viewer. Eitherway, I will be using Isadora to alter the video.

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Storyboard 3:

Interactive New Media Artists

1. Camille Utterback

http://www.camilleutterback.com/

2. Golan Levin

http://www.flong.com/

3. Daniel Rozin

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/

4. Bill Viola

http://www.billviola.com/

5. Sabrina Raaf

http://www.raaf.org/

Whitney Biennial| 2010

I atteneded the Whitney Biennial, titled 2010. I was surprised at the number of New Media artists presented in the biennial. One of the artists to stickout the most was Kate Gilmore. She is a New York based artist, whose work is more about the process and documentation of her performances, than the final outcome of the video. She works in themes of struggle, displacement and female identity. In her performances she makes self-constructed obstacles that she needs to get out of or conquer. Her piece in the Whitney Biennial was Standing Here, in which she built a column of drywall, that she had to get herself out of by kicking and punching through the walls. Another aspect of the video is her attire, which consists of heels and a skirt, contradictory to the actions shes performing. Her video performances are performed and only shot once, leaving the outcome of the video upto fate. The video itself is a metaphor for the conflicts and obstacles women face today.
I like Kate Gilmore's piece because her content is something i find myself thinking about often. I also like how she presents not only the video, but the actual column thats in the video. It brings an element of reality to the video by having the column there also.
In general, i was unimpressed with the new media artists chosen for the Whitney Biennial. Many of the videos seemed stale, and lacked content that really drew me in. If i had to chose, i liked the more abstract films, as opposed to the documentary films because they allowed for my own interpretation.

Marina Abramovic| The Artist Is Present

I visited the MOMA on Thursday March 18th, 2010. I have never been to the MOMA before, and was pleasantly surprised. I went to attend the Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present exhibition. On the first floor of the MOMA, was her live performance, which i was not expecting. The artist herself was seated at a table, in a taped off section, where audience members were invited to join her at the table and sit for aslong as they wished. I was unaware at the time that the person sitting at the table, was an audience member and not a performer. Abramovic will perform this piece, everyday untill the exhibition ends, all the while it being videotaped with a live video stream.
After experiencing the 6th floor retrospective of her work, i found that "New Media" was not used directly in her work, but more for documentation purposes. The use of video in presenting, previously performed works was effective in showing the viewers her older work. However, i do feel that the first hand experience of some of the pieces is lost when being viewed through a video camera. Technically they were presented well, some on televisions and some projected onto the wall. The first room you entered had a lot of noise and a few videos projected on to the walls, which was slightly overwhelming. I had a hard time focusing on one thing.
As for the entire retrospective I was much more interested in her live performers that were reenacting her older performances. Before visiting the show, i was unaware that the performers attended a trainging session to prepare, because they would be doing this for 7 hours a day for three months and it can be physically draining on a person. After seeing the Marina Abramovic: The artist is Present, I have a new found respect for performance artists.

In Progress| Solar Video

Solar Video| Story board III