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Everyone in America is wanting their fifteen minutes of fame, and thanks to Web 2.0, is finding their way to it. But is this making us a completely narcissistic world? Using a mirror as a reflection of our physical and psychological habits, much like famous art works such as Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror and fairy tales such as Snow White which help the world see the reality of a person, I am going to use an everyday piece to relay this message and to help us become more aware of our appearance in society and media.
My piece shall be designed for the American audience in response to the movement of Web 2.0 and the American media. (See TIME’s 2006 person of the year )In an art gallery environment or setting, this sculpture-installation will be a quasi-political piece that acknowledges Web 2.0. The beauty and the beast of it.
The sculpture, temporarily entitled Fragmented Screen, will either be something as simple as a concave mirror inserted into a television or computer, as a replacement for the screen or something a bit more technologically-savvy.
Using a mirror in for an art piece is not something new. But, that doesn’t go to say that people aren’t tired of seeing themselves in one. This concave mirror, the shape of it, is much like the idea I have in mind. The difference is that this mirror is dissolving, because of its size into the background. Were it smaller, I think the people would focus more on their reflections and not the bigger picture. The reflection seen here is about space, the public and the outer space, not so much a privatized reflection.
An idea I’m starting to work with is having the screen with messages appearing on the lens …something like “I am tomorrow’s front page news.” and see how the user reacts to that when their reflection is placed upon that message. I’m not sure if I want to incorporate a concave mirror or not, but it seems as if the message would be stronger if so.
The reactions will then automatically be uploaded onto YouTube every five minutes where the experiment will continue to evolve.
Inspiration from: Phil Collin’s The World Won’t Listen
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For my final, I wanted the questions I wanted to explore are:
- We have such a fragmented frame of mind. When , why and how did it happen? When is time up? How long does it take for an attention span to last?
*note: not out to resolve this as much as I just want people to be aware of it.
-This would then relate to installations, which are in essence, very temporary. The have an expiration date, and while much art remains timeless, or becomes an artifact, much of installation art doesn’t seem to fit this mold. Where does an old installation go? Trash?! Not in a museum’s permanent collection, that’s for sure.
-Is it the materials that are being involved? Does technology itself live a short life? Does it evoke this temporary time span?
-and for the last idea that might emerge: What is it today about the “you” celebrity? How is it that everyone wants and has a chance to be that one kind of celebrity?
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Social Network Analysis–This assignment explores an element of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is a term used to describe the second web evolution (prior to has been coined Web 1.0) that uses host services (i.e. social networks) to bring a creative environment to the worldwideweb. Basically, this is the point in time where the user participates a hell of alot more.
O’Reilly running list sets firm examples of the differences between the generations:
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick | –> | Google AdSense |
| Ofoto | –> | Flickr |
| Akamai | –> | BitTorrent |
| mp3.com | –> | Napster |
| Britannica Online | –> | Wikipedia |
| personal websites | –> | blogging |
| evite | –> | upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation | –> | search engine optimization |
| page views | –> | cost per click |
| screen scraping | –> | web services |
| publishing | –> | participation |
| content management systems | –> | wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) | –> | tagging (”folksonomy”) |
| stickiness | –> | syndication |
Keeping this concept in mind, the following analysis, I will begin observing some non-obvious forms of triangulation, or methods of a user or group to communicate with the social network around them. Throughout these observations, notice how these would seize to exist were the user NOT participating. Basically, their juice is the user, or a form of communication necessary from one user to another.
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Public Art piece #1- Graffiti Research Lab in Barce at Corte Ingles (2007, Barcelona, Spain)
Graffiti Research Lab site
GRL are former alums of MFADT at Parsons and members of Eyebeam.
In this particular piece, users outside in Barce make outdoor graffiti using laser lights on the facade of El Corte Ingles. As a former resident of Barce, I commend them for choosing the most centrally located spot in the city. Barce itself is an amazingly experimental when it comes to arts and public spaces.
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Assignment: Visit a public space for 1-2 hours. Record your observations.
Place of choice: the basketball court & its surroundings, from 8:30-9:30 a.m. at Roosevelt Park.
I leave my place at 8:30 a.m. almost every morning and I see these amazingly beautiful women across the street who look like they’ve found peace in Manhattan and I am quite envious of this, as I have yet to find this myself. They move, in what seems like either a traditional? religious? or meaningful dance, and it seems to reflect motions of mother nature. The motions are repetitive and done cohesively, so they must have known this beforehand…maybe even practiced before I even noticed?
They also are the same women I see everyday, in this routine, but they’re not “stuck in this routine.” You can see this is what they truly enjoy doing.
