Phase 3 thoughts

My idea for phase 3 has to deal with the everyday and popular culture. I have been thinking about how my project has been traced has been about the confusing and complex effects of technology about authorship and ideology of art and technology to be blurring and always being created. The definition of art and technology is always changing and connecting with one another.

My phase 2 was about popular culture and mediums of technology. It was about how technology has changed these mediums into objects of entertainment and part of the everyday life and consumer culture. Also how art has changed by being more about being realistic or dynamic eg in movies creating the effect of real life through special effects. 

So phase 3 got me thinking about popular culture again and sounds. My idea for the capture audio is to start with me singing a song. The construction audio will be a mixture of voices eg crowds, humming, beatboxing maybe, and even clapping or even singing through a cylinder shaped or cone shaped item eg the rolls for paper towels. I want to emphasize that these sounds can create a musical composition to my voice and that it shows individuality. Music today is really popular and individualized in some ways by how people take on it. We can see this in how different types of moves or style is conveying how that person likes the music and associates with it. As for my voice, the constructed audio will change my voice that I probably will forget that I'm the one singing. 

The only thing is how can I make my singing sound edited..maybe singing through a tube shaped item like the rolls from the paper towels.. 

video commentary

I really enjoyed the first video we saw in class called "Focus". It reminded me of my experience of how I've perceived art and learned about art from elementary to now. The knowledge that you learned within art theory and from art assignments was structured, that is how I can relate to how the video switched to simple and easier to focus with the 2 video showing at the end. That to me was conventional in how I learned and was aware of art, through museums and theory. But as I have gone through my years here, my knowledge and perception of art isn't as narrowed and rather it is imploded and changing each time with new things that I learn and become aware of seeing, once I am a viewer and observer at the same time. To me that video examplified that and the way we see and perceive of art and technology in general even media, change and meaning goes hand in hand and it's always static. The 4 videos with the audio demonstrated that bombardment and implosion of new knowledge and media and perception whether in school or from everyday experiences. 

The next video we saw in class, "A Lesson in Entertainment and Consumer", I really thought that the audio was the integral part to the video because it emphasized the contrasts of the images of consumerism that is a part of our everyday life from the past till now. I liked how the audio was carefree to me in a way and really was fun, but I think as other people mentioned that it suited the dumb down of consumers buying products and advertisements. Although you can't really escape it, the audio brought your attention to that and at the same time be critical, which we really miss because we are so immersed into it and not being aware. Also the audio really connected to images that one can find dear to them, like Spiderman, Pac-man, etc. It really was effective in the transitions between cartoon images to quick flashes of reality. It definitely made me realize that how much of those images that we are dear to are so familiar and that we are really immersed into consumer culture.