Advance Flash

Artist: Jared Tarbell and Lola Brine

Viewed: November 28, 2007

I found this site while I was looking for computer arts. I think it is worth looking at. There are a bunch of works done by Jared Tarbell and Lola Brine, and a lot of their work seems complex. They use flash, and I think also some other computer programs. Some are interactive, where the user could be in control of what will happen in the work. There is one called sea thing, which was programmed by J Tarbell, and it looks like some sea creature (see the small picture). You could also click on the body to break the thread. Another one was, the digital poetry by Brine, and Programmed by Tarbell called Itching.Poetry.Engine. Every time you go on the site, there are new sets of words. So the idea is that the user is helping to make the poetry. Unfortunately, I have tried searching for more info about them, but I could not find in depth information of their process, and all the software that they use.

http://www.levitated.net/

Music

Artist: Joseph Copley

Viewed: November 28, 2007



This work is done by an unknown artist name Joseph Copley. It attracted me because of the handcuffs on the guitar together with the word “Endangered.” I thought this design was very effective in what he is communicating. Before even reading the other texts on the layout, I knew this had something about being restricted. His message is about anti-music censorship. I also like how the guitar, and how it is shown vertically. The handle of the guitar, strings, and the handcuffs act as sort of leading lines, it makes you read the texts. Maybe the only thing I would change is take out the little circle graph on the right.

Breath in Breath out

Artist: Andrea Ray

Viewed: Wednesday, November 07
Arts 111 @ 02:30p.m




Andrea Ray is an installation and sound artist. She talks about the overwhelming feeling of the metropolitan life. I wanted to go to this show, because I know how important it is to always have a way of releasing stress. Ray's installations deals with anxiety as they offer a way of comfort and just a moment of peace. She also uses a lot of audio, using narrative story telling audios to go along with her installations. They were some pieces that I like such as filter, which faces the former World Trade Center site. Filtering is a psychological coping strategy, and in the audio you hear a male and female narrating story from being at ease to being intense and then being normal again. However, they were some other ones that I thought were quite boring like the one with the tennis court. The audio sometimes makes you want to go to sleep, but maybe that is part of her purpose. The experience will probably be better if you are at the actual site.

http://web.mac.com/rayandrea

Speak up

Artist: Ill-literacy
Viewed: Friday, October 19
Arts 111 @ 7:00p.m

Ill-literacy is a group of four outspoken young adults. They use spoken words to express their thoughts about what's going on around us from the advent of texting by the use of a cellular phone as a main tool of communication instead of calling to the oppression of minorities. Their style is appealing to the younger crowd because they perform in hip hop style, speaking words with a beat sometimes fast and sometimes slow. I was impressed by their delivery style, because they produce a lot of energy on stage, and through encouraging the audience to loosen up. I had not seen a show of spoken words, but I was entertained, delighted, and at times compelled by what they were speaking of. I was glad to see these people with the same color of my skin speak up for what they feel. The absence of musical instruments did not diminish the power of their words...to me it was pure poetry.

Check them out at http://www.ill-literacy.com/