Vector Exercise

This vector was created using my initials RJB.  I experimented with the effects and added backgrounds to each 4x4 tile.  I created various anchor points and had some fun with the various tools that were available for Adobe Illustrator.  I was impressed with how easy it was to catch on to using Illustrator, as opposed to trying to learn the PhotoShop program.  All in all, I had a lot of fun playing around with Illustrator and I'm excited to learn more features as I progress through the class.

Video Art (1963-1986)

Chapter 2 talks a lot about the introduction of video art, but the art that stands out the most to me is not the actual video, but the pictures of the televisions propped on their sides.  Nam June Paik was famous for filling galleries with television sets positioned in different orientations to portray a piece of artwork.


Name June Paik also created the Suite 212 and Butterly with the help of Shuya Abe.

Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain"

According to one version of the story, this piece of art was bought from the J. L. Mott Iron Works by Marcel Duchamp and was just oriented at a 90 degree position for display.  Another version has it that Duchamp did not create this piece and was submitting it for a friend.  Whether it is considered a piece of art or not, it has got people thinking when they see a urinal in this position, in front of what may have been a fabricated background.  Duchamp was trying to shift the focus of art from "physical craft to intellectual interpretation."  The fountain has been lost, and since then, there has been reproductions in 1950, 1953, 1963, and an eighth in 1964.

This is considered to be the most influential artwork of the 20th century and replicas can go for as much as 1.7 million.  It's toilet.  Really?!?!

Blast From the Past

This time-lapse is from an image taken from Google Maps, showing the intersection of 4th and Clark.  I have put some old cars in the image, dating from the 1930’s-1950’s, and even a horse and buggy from possibly the late 1800’s.  I have chosen to make the image look like there is a movement going on, with the cars driving in different directions, and I have added signs that were originally there half a century ago or longer.  I chose Pasco because this is a town I am relatively familiar with now that I have lived here for the past five years.  Although I grew up in Kennewick, and lived a few years in Richland, I appreciate what Pasco has become and how much it has changed in only a hundred years.

Finding enough images to incorporate into my photomontage was somewhat of a task, because it is hard to find particular streets that are dated.  In some cases, I had to take images that were a block or two away and incorporate them into the picture, just so I would have plenty of images.  The old street light I have hanging at the top of the photo, is almost exactly where it would have been 50 or more years ago.

Pasco has changed quite a bit in a hundred years and I can only imagine how it would look in another hundred years from now.  When the present is historic, it may be time for another time-lapse project, or maybe even elaborate on what I already have.  If this image is passed on to my kids, they can add to it as they please.

The Inheritance and other works by Hsin-Chein Huang

Hsin-Chien Huang uses new media to perform in front of a huge display in Beijing.  He is either directing the animations or following them, but either way, it is very fascinating to watch.  This artist also likes to use 3D animations in his artwork to help pull the viewer into his work.

The image below is meant to portray a vision about the artist being both a father and a son at the same time.  It is meant to trigger childhood memories that he had from four objects that belonged to his father.  If you didn't know the background of the art, you wouldn't really know what the artist is trying to portray here, other than something that is aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

"Visitors are invited to investigate the objects and their history from the vantage point of an interrogator. When wearing 3-D glasses, one can see the objects organically evolve in surprising ways that hover between reality and the virtual, decay and rebirth, memory and imagination."

http://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/huang-hsin-chien-inheritance