Artist Research 7

 Incidence of Catastrophe Gary Hill








Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007). He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.
    Incidence of Catastrophe reaches beyond these parameters in depicting the synesthesia of reading and the dreamwork of the text. Inspired by Maurice Blanchot's novel Thomas the Obscure and the experience of observing his child acquiring speech, Hill's heuristic tour de force grounds the viewer in the activity of becoming the text through a succession of evocative scenarios and motifs that detail a gradual descent into language and its labyrinth of representational configurations. Literacy is seen as soul-sickness; the final image of a drowned man before a wall of words expresses the abjection of the body in Western society's semantic culture. Hill's "writing" on Blanchot is so relentlessly revelatory, each layer of amplification so remarkably well positioned, that it inspires hopes of vital new relationships between artistic and critic l practices in literature and video.
          

Artist Research 6

1000+ Avatars by Gracie Kendal
    Gracie Kendal is a second life artist. She tries to create as many avatars as possible. These portraits illustrate the idea of anonymity and personality.This is kindda special because she wants to define the online identity.People like avatars mostly through movies, video games. An avatar is a virtual representation.Moreover, second life is a place to offer people the freedom to express their own dreams and explore changing identity. People use those avatars to escape from reality. 
 This project includes many different portraits, which represent different personalities and lives. I think each of the avatar has its own meaning, maybe presenting an ideal person such as fabulous, beautiful, modern, sexy, strong, powerful,.. or abstract person such as evil, ugly, weak,.. to give them freedom and a boundery that is not yet accepted in real physical life.

    

Artist Research 5

 Third Hand by Stelarc
        This is a mechanical human-like hand which is attched to his right arm as an additional hand. It is made to the dimensions of his real right hand. This is cast in latex from his right hand. It was never permanently worn over the mechanism because for performance purposes only the visual motion and operation was important. This Third Hand was made of Aluminium, stainless steel, acrylic, latex electronics, electrodes, cables and battery pack.
        I cannot believe when I see it. There is an robotic hand to attach t real human hand. I see many different pictures of this project. It is so cool. Whenever Stelarc' real right hand moves, the robotic hand follows exactly the same. This project kindda prove that robot can be a equipment to help people. 

              

Artist Research 4

London Wall by Thomson & Craighead

     London Wall is a physical manifestation of the invisible city all around us; a poetic snapshot of social networking traffic from within a three-mile radius of the Museum of London. Over a ten-day period, publicly available status updates from popular websites like twitter and facebook will be selected then published as a vast array of typeset posters revealing the idle mutterings of ourselves to ourselves as a form of concrete poetry. London Wall is a clunky cottage industry, where the artists manually manufacture a collision of public electronic space with the public physical space of the museum.
    All of the words or phrases or sentences put on the wall are all things people need and think of every day life. It is really pratical and connective to human lives. This is like a part of life. 

          

Artist Research 3

Collage "Retroactive 1" (1964) by Robert Rauschenberg
      Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. Rauschenberg was keenly interested in the iconography of American popular culture.
      He connects tightly with Abstract expression without losing the latter's expressiveness. He designs a stressed collage by using any types of material such as like house paint, and techniques such painting with a tire dipped in ink. This groundbreaking technique contributed to the course of modern art and creative expression. The works are sometimes called Neo-Dada. In this collage, he uses the current events that can be gatherred from newspaper and magazines. The mana in the collage is John F. Kennedy speaking at televise news conference. There is also a picture of astronaut. he overlapping, and seemingly disparate, composition creates a colorful visual commentary on a media-saturated culture struggling to come to grips with the television era.

Artist Research 2

 Catalog by John Whitney

     John Whitney, Sr. (April 8, 1917 - September 22, 1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation.
    His Catalog project is kindda incredible. He uses dots and lines to connect everything together. He also adds music and motion for those lines and dots. The picture is moving gradually and eventually changing the shape. They tends to create a new image whenver they move. The music is relaxable and enjoyable. And of course, the movement makes art quite different and even more powerful.
    I know that is why he is called the father of computer animation. Nowadays, whenever computers are in resting time, they might be changed the screen to those moving art objects. It is now so popular. And it also distributes some unique beauty for computers.

Artist Research 1

 The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney

       

         Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. The Cremaster Cycle is an art project consisting of five feature length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books; it is the best-known work of American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney. The project is filled with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation: Cremaster 1 represents the most "ascended" or undifferentiated state, Cremaster 5 the most "descended" or differentiated.

        Biologically, the cremaster is a muscle that raises and lowers the testicles. Barney uses the descension of the cremaster muscle as a symbol for the onset of male gender (which appears about nine weeks after a fetus is conceived). The five films progress from a state of undifferentiated gender (a fully ascended cremaster muscle, represented by the floating Goodyear Blimps and other symbols), through the organism’s struggle to resist gender definition, to the inevitable point where maleness can no longer be denied (complete descension of the cremaster and release of the testes).

        The film also reflects many of Barney's biography. The film is not only trace of formation of seual definition but also the creative process of astist.