I did not know what to do about this art project. It seems hard for me. I just did a very simple piece, maybe not even "art" in a way. I did it with my girlfriend and we had great time to do art together. That is a cool windy day so we do not have a chance to go to the beach. We just decided to do it in my garden and collect some leaves and stuffs from my garden. 

FARMLAB

I went to farmlab 2 weeks ago. It was so hard to find farmlab. I had lost 2 times and went many rounds to get there. It was first amazing because I have never seen one like this before. It is also called Metabolic Studio. They told me that everything single thing here is used for making movie.
I saw a lot of trees and flowers here. The most important energy source they use for planting is water and solar source. There are 3 huge bags that contains water. All trees here are planted in many different ways which I have never seen before. They all put together in a box and stand outside faced to the sun. There are also a "car-flower" which is really awesome. As I researched, it is made by Lauren Bon, a land artist.

Artist Project 8

KEVIN BRACKEN
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. These events seek out the fun and take art as a part to do good for community.

Artist Project 7

Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic
   The performances were very trying and physically exhaustive, they involved the physical and mental concentration of the artist, and they included Gina Pane's Self-Portraits that required lying on a bed frame suspended over a grid of lit candles and Vito Acconci's 1972 performance in which he masturbated under the floorboards of a gallery as visitors walked overhead. It is argued that she re-performed these works so as to pay her respect to the past, though many of the performances were altered from their originals.
   She was using a razor blade to cut the first line of a five-pointed star drawn on her stomach. The place was packed. Abramovic, naked, was installed on a round platform in the middle of the rotunda. Spectators filled the floor in front of her and lined the first few spirals of the museum's ramp, with a scattering higher up. Although one could safely assume that those on the floor had come to see Abramovic, at least some of the others must have been caught on their descent from the museum's concurrent Russia! exhibit.

Artist Project 6

Japanese Garden at UNESCO by Isamu Noguchi
         The garden is of great historical significance, being the first to have been created by a sculptor. His creation is perhaps more profoundly Japanese than anything a Japanese artist who had remained in Japan would have created, because he was trying to understand the culture of his childhood.
Isamu Noguchi is a deeply Japanese sculptor but ultimately very international and modern in his assertion of himself as an artist (a Western concept).
          UNESCO’s garden, a donation by the japanese government, is marked throughout by the Japanese spirit and at the same time it expresses Noguchi’s individual artistic creativity.

Artist Project 5

Cacophony Society

         The Cacophony Society is “a randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society.” It was started in 1986 by surviving members of the now defunct Suicide Club of San Francisco. Cacophony has been described as an indirect culture jamming outgrowth of the Dada movement, and the Situationists. One of its central concepts is the Trip to the Zone, or Zone Trip, inspired by the Temporary Autonomous Zone.
           The Society is a loosely-structured network of individuals, banded together -- as our name suggests -- by a common love of cultural noise: belief systems, aesthetics, and ways of living striking a note of discord against prevailing harmonies.

Artist Project 4

I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) by Joseph Beuys
          In May 1974 Beuys flew to New York and was taken by ambulance to the site of the performance, a room in the René Block Gallery on East Broadway. Beuys lay on the ambulance stretcher swathed in felt. He shared this room with a wild coyote, for eight hours over three days. At times he stood, wrapped in a thick, grey blanket of felt, leaning on a large shepherd's staff. At times he lay on the straw, at times he watched the coyote as the coyote watched him and cautiously circled the man, or shredded the blanket to pieces, and at times he engaged in symbolic gestures, such as striking a large triangle or tossing his leather gloves to the animal; the performance continuously shifted between elements that were required by the realities of the situation, and elements that had purely symbolic character. At the end of the three days, Beuys hugged the coyote that had grown quite tolerant of him, and was taken to the airport. Again he rode in a veiled ambulance, leaving America without having set foot on its ground. As Beuys later explained: ‘I wanted to isolate myself, insulate myself, see nothing of America other than the coyote.’
         This seems to be odd in a way of being isolated from the world around.  Beuys spent a week living with a coyote caged in the gallery and protected by felt and a cane. Eventually, the coyote and Beuys learned to co-exist in the same space. The action was Beuys way of signifying, on one level at least, that human beings need to take a closer look at the dynamic interactions of nature (coyote) and culture (Beuys). Understanding the complexities of interdependency is one of the first steps toward ecological sustainability.

Artist Project 3

Vanessa Beecroft VB61 Still Death! Darfur Still Deaf?

         
         Approximately 30 Sudanese women lie face-down on a white canvas on the ground, simulating dead bodies piled on top of one another. The bodies, darkened by make-up, will remain motionless with eyes shut as Beecroft covers the canvas and the women's bodies with a wide horizontal stroke of red paint.
        Inspired by Actionism, the performance and body art movement prominent in 1960s and 1970s Vienna, Beecroft's aims are at once artistic and political. The performance serves as a graphic representation of the ongoing violent massacres in Africa, particularly the genocide happening in the Darfur region of Sudan. The graphic nature of the performance is a critique on the public's desensitization to brutality due to the mass dissemination of images of war and violence in the media.

Artist Project 2

Improv Everywhere

     Improv Everywhere is a comedic performance art group based in New York City, formed in 2001 by Charlie Todd. Its slogan is "We Cause Scenes." The group carries out pranks, which they call "missions", in public places. The stated goal of these missions is to cause scenes of "chaos and joy." Some of the group's missions use hundreds of performers and are similar to flash mobs, while other missions utilize only a handful of performers. 
     This is kindda odd and not like art. They create many different mission which I found really weird. Their missions are such as No Underwear Subway Ride on April's Fool Day, and the "Best Funeral Ever" prank. IE claims the missions are benevolent, aiming to give the observers a laugh and an experience.

Artist Project 1

Donatella Versace
      Donatella Versace is an Italian fashion designer and current Vice-President of the Versace Group, as well as chief designer. Donatella is the first to use notable celebrities to broadcast her clothing into the world on the catwalk and other public media such as advertisements, instead of using unknown models. Donatella soon proved to be the public relations giant within the Versace label and spread its name throughout Europe and most of the United States. Donatella chose to place some of her good friends, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Demi Moore, in high esteem in the Versace advertising sector, making them and other A-List celebrities such as Beyonce and January Jones the persona and image of Versace. Her popularity grew when she designed the famous Versace Green Dress, also known as the Jungle-Dress, which was worn by Jennifer Lopez at the Grammys in 2000.
      I cannot find any particular designs of Versace. I just give some stuffs about Versace. To be a famous and luxury brand like Versace, it must take a lot of efforts to establish it. Versace now continues to grow bigger and bigger.

Artist Research

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. He primarily identified himself as a painter during this time, but after a three year rest from the art world, Smithson emerged in 1964 as a proponent of the emerging minimalist movement.Crystalline structures and the concept of entropy became of particular interest to him, and informed a number of sculptures completed during this period, including Alogon 2.

In 1967 Smithson began exploring industrial areas around New Jersey and was fascinated by the sight of dump trucks excavating tons of earth and rock that he described in an essay as the equivalents of the monuments of antiquity. In1968, Smithson published the essay "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects" in Artforum that promoted the work of the first wave of land art artists, and in 1969 he began producing land art pieces to further explore concepts gained from his readings. In his essay "Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan" Smithson documents a series of temporary sculptures made with mirrors at particular locations around the Yucatan peninsula.
Smithson's interest in the temporal is explored in his writings in part through the recovery of the ideas of the picturesque.
After that, 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. For him, however, 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.

Spiral Jetty from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April 2005. It was created in 1970 and still exists although it has often been submerged by the fluctuating lake level. It consists of some 6500 tons of basalt, earth and salt. Spiral Jetty is an example of a sited work, while Smithson's non-site pieces frequently consist of photographs of a particular location, often exhibited alongside some material (such as stones or soil) removed from that location.

 Broken Circle

 Spiral Hills

MUSEUM TRIP

Second Life Project

An Ideal Me....

Not Me...This is an abtract of me.

This is just something really fantasy. I like this outfit

And this is me.

Artist Research 12

JENNICAM by Jennifer Ringley

      Jennifer Kaye Ringley is an Internet personality and former lifecaster. She is known for creating the popular website JenniCam. Regarded by some as a conceptual artist, Ringley viewed her site as a straight-forward document of her life. She did not wish to filter the events that were shown on her camera, so sometimes she was shown nude or engaging in sexual behavior, including sexual intercourse and masturbation. This was a new use of Internet technology in 1996 and viewers were stimulated both for its sociological implications and for sexual arousal. The JenniCam web site coincided with a rise in surveillance as a feature of popular culture, particularly reality television programs such as Big Brother, and as a feature of contemporary art and new media art. Ringley's desire to maintain the purity of the cam-eye view of her life eventually created the need to establish that she was within her rights as an adult to broadcast such information, in the legal sense, and that it was not harmful to other adults. Unlike later for-profit webcam services, Ringley did not spend her day displaying her naked body, and she spent much more time discussing her romantic life than she did her sex life. Ringley maintained her webcam site for seven 
years.

Artist Research 11

Spectropia by Toni Dove
       Toni Dove is an artist who works primarily with electronic media, including virtual reality and
interactive video laser disk installations that engage viewers in responsive and immersive narrative
environments. Spectropia is a hybrid of sci-fi and film noir, with elements of time travel and telepathy. The
story opens in the future where Spectropia, a young woman in her twenties, lives in the salvage
district of an urban center known as the Informal Sector. It’s a black market subculture of
salvage and barter where knowledge spans only a person’s experience and recorded history is
forbidden. This culture of consumption floats on islands of garbage; saving anything is
punishable by law. Spectropia is addicted to the illegal activity of collecting artifacts from the
past. Her companion, a cyborg creature called the Duck, (part human and part wireless robot)
runs a black market business in retro objects—their livelihood. The Duck is a babysitter bot, in
loco parentis, programmed by Spectropia’s father, who disappeared in time while searching for
a lost inheritance. Using a machine of her own invention to search the past for her father, she
discovers William, a man from 1931 New York City after the Great Crash. Spectropia is
accidentally transported to NYC in 1931 when her machine short circuits and she finds herself in
the body of another woman, Verna de Mott, an amateur sleuth. A mystery and a romantic
triangle unfold across centuries as two women in one body drive one man crazy.

Artist Research 10

Vices And Virtues by Bruce Nauman
        Nauman's Vices and Virtues for the Stuart Collection consists of seven pairs of words superimposed in blinking neon, which run like a frieze around the top of the Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory. Seven vices alternate with seven virtues: FAITH/LUST, HOPE/ENVY, CHARITY/SLOTH, PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE, TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER. Atop a laboratory where engineers erect and then stress parts of buildings to test their resistance to earthquakes, this cataclysmic list of moral opposites, created long ago, takes on special significance. The virtues flash sequentially clockwise around the building at one rate; and the vices circulate counterclockwise at a slightly faster rate. At brief intervals, both the seven virtues and the seven vices flash together. The progression of the two repeating cycles playing off each other allows all possible combinations of the words to be displayed. This complicated performance, generated by the mechanical sequencing of a simple moral dichotomy, dramatizes the instability of any ethical judgment. As Nauman implies in this work, we may know the difference between faith and lust, or hope and envy, but in real experience these vices and virtues are never experienced purely. They continually show themselves in new and baffling combinations. The letters are seven feet high and placed over glass windows six stories up. Each letter is a combination of two colors, with a total of fourteen colors and nearly a mile of neon tubing. This work, first proposed in 1983, was completed and erected in October of 1988.

Artist Research 9

Electronic Superhighway by Nam June Paik
    Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean-born American artist. He worked with 
a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist. Paik is credited with an early usage (1974) 
of the term "super highway" in application to telecommunications. Nam June Paik then began participating 
in the Neo-Dada art movement, known as Fluxus, which was inspired by the composer John Cage and his 
use of everyday sounds and noises in his music. He made his big debut at an exhibition known as Exposition 
of Music-Electronic Television, in which he scattered televisions everywhere and used magnets to alter or 
distort their images.
    To design this monumental map of the United States, the artist Nam June Paik arranged 336 televisions on 
a scaffold and overlaid it with almost 600 feet of neon. Fifty DVD players send multimedia simultaneously 
to screens populating each state. Walking along the entire length of this installation suggests the enormous scale of the nation that confronted the young Korean artist when he arrived. Neon outlines the monitors, 
recalling the multicolored maps and glowing enticements of motels and restaurants that beckoned 
Americans to the open road. The different colors remind us that individual states still have distinct 
identities and cultures, even in today's information age.

Artist Research 8

Matrix II by Erwin Reld
    Erwin Redl in Gföhl, Lower Austria is an Austrian-born artist currently living in USA. As artistic
medium he uses LEDs. His work includes installations, videos, graphics, computerart and electronic music.
Matrix II is the premiere showing of the artist's theatrical scale light-emitting diode (or LED) artwork since
it was acquired by MCASD in 2007. This room-size work offers viewers a space that seems to recede in
all directions, as if the walls were mirrored. Floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall, the room is filled with
grids of phosphor green LEDs, creating an immersive web of light.
    The work consists of thousands of tiny LEDs deployed in a dense grid that fills the entire volume of the
museum’s largest gallery. The faint glow emanating from each of the LEDs combines with all of the other’s
to saturate the gallery with a light-presence that seems almost physical and appears to extend beyond
identifiable limits. The experience is so unlike the real world that our senses normally encounter that a visit
 to “Matrix II” can be quite unnerving in a benign, even cleansing way.