This is my soundscape I created from sounds I recorded at a Kids At The Katzen day. It includes the ambient noise of children working on an art project to bring the listener back to the creative days of their youth. It also includes sounds such as a lighter lighting, unzipping and opening doors to symbolize the process of opening your mind to new and creative ideas.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Can You Expect People to Pay for This?
I thought an interesting point brought up in "'Diary: Audience 1966' A Year from Monday" was the quote by Virgil Thomson, "You can't do that sort of thing and expect people to pay for it" This is interesting because the idea of credit and compensation does not refer solely the idea of paying for a radical new form of art but shows how this type of art blends the line between performer and audience.
In traditional senses, the performer is compensated for his work, prior to and during the performance. However, in this new type of performance the audience is the one contributing to the performance. It raises the serious questions of who gets ownership of the art, the person who first conceived the idea or the audience that actually made the idea a tangible thing. The question of who gets paid denotes the new idea of who has ownership over the art.
In traditional senses, the performer is compensated for his work, prior to and during the performance. However, in this new type of performance the audience is the one contributing to the performance. It raises the serious questions of who gets ownership of the art, the person who first conceived the idea or the audience that actually made the idea a tangible thing. The question of who gets paid denotes the new idea of who has ownership over the art.
Multimedia
All of the photographs used in our narratives of the inauguration had a common theme, the photographs were taken in the spur of the moment. They feature hasty composition, weird angles and spontaneous elements.The composition of these photographs matches the idea behind text messaging as a telematic. Both enable users to send quick, direct messages to another party.
Technology played a vital role in this project. Without the use of Photoshop and Blogger we would not have been able compile our scattered narration or photos. Through Photoshop we edited the composition, angle, and color of our photos in order to bring focus to the emotion and activity that we were trying to capture. In this way we carved a naration from a large volume of information. In this instance, I edited the contrast of the photo so that the focus was on the sheer number of people surrounding me. I then captioned it with "In a large immobile crowd people are starting to get angry" in order to match the picture with a time and place.
The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace
Shannon McConnell
Reading Response #1
January 16
In the article, The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace, Levy describes telematics as having the ability to break down barriers, provide transparency, and blend the line between transmitter and receiver in communication. A communication revolution that has taken place in the last few years has been the development and acceptance of blogs. Blogs extend to all topics including politics, fashion, music, and food, but do they really provide the transparency and the individual interpretation Levy claims they do?
I attended several state political conventions in high school. These conventions were long, dull and very bureaucratic. I often thought that the most interesting part of these meetings was the area reserved for bloggers. Aisles of bloggers on both sides would attend these meeting for no other reason than to report what was happening. This may appear like an ideal way to make the process transparent to the public. However, there were significant differences in what the republican bloggers would report versus the democratic bloggers. They often used their unrestricted word counts to make jokes, state opinions and editorialize their reporting.
The use of this telematic, blogs, shows that telematics can skew an interpretation of an event for someone who did not actually attend an event. A convention that unexpectedly nominates and underdog after hours of balloting could be interpreted as an exciting, dynamic process that represents democracy as it best operates, or the demise of a well planned campaign by a party. The unrestricted flow of information does not demand any type of unbiased, balanced, or factual reporting, and we cannot rely on the public to seek out all vie ws of an event in order to obtain a complete picture. And in this case of political ideology we can easily understand how we would only seek out interpretations that align with our already pre-formed beliefs.
Reading Response #1
January 16
In the article, The Art and Architecture of Cyberspace, Levy describes telematics as having the ability to break down barriers, provide transparency, and blend the line between transmitter and receiver in communication. A communication revolution that has taken place in the last few years has been the development and acceptance of blogs. Blogs extend to all topics including politics, fashion, music, and food, but do they really provide the transparency and the individual interpretation Levy claims they do?
I attended several state political conventions in high school. These conventions were long, dull and very bureaucratic. I often thought that the most interesting part of these meetings was the area reserved for bloggers. Aisles of bloggers on both sides would attend these meeting for no other reason than to report what was happening. This may appear like an ideal way to make the process transparent to the public. However, there were significant differences in what the republican bloggers would report versus the democratic bloggers. They often used their unrestricted word counts to make jokes, state opinions and editorialize their reporting.
The use of this telematic, blogs, shows that telematics can skew an interpretation of an event for someone who did not actually attend an event. A convention that unexpectedly nominates and underdog after hours of balloting could be interpreted as an exciting, dynamic process that represents democracy as it best operates, or the demise of a well planned campaign by a party. The unrestricted flow of information does not demand any type of unbiased, balanced, or factual reporting, and we cannot rely on the public to seek out all vie ws of an event in order to obtain a complete picture. And in this case of political ideology we can easily understand how we would only seek out interpretations that align with our already pre-formed beliefs.
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