Artist #6

Improv Everywhere

Gotta Share the Musical

In my sixth art piece Improv Everywhere does Gotta Share! The Musical an ode to social media technology. They talk about every platform available to users to share website and apps such as youtube, twitter, facebook, vimeo, dig, tumblr, etc they all make an appearance in the song for improv everywhere. I personally feel that Improv Everywhere are a great group but that they are hiding what they are witch is a flash mob. I don't think most of there work has a message of any sort and is just used for shock value. Gotta Share is a prime example yes we are all obsessed with our daily media life but it in no way deserves to have a song written about it and sung to us as a group. I did like it and thought it was funny but not meaningful. 

Artist #5

Survival Research Laboratories
Little Arm

This piece is called little arm and is my fifth artist piece. What I always find interesting about SRL pieces are that they show a not to distant future where there objects might not be to far fetched to believe. Like we might actually need some of there technology to fight and survive. In any case Little Arm is a small arm about 12 ft. long in length placed on a screw machine. It can be controlled remotely by a human via  an arm controller. It is gesture based. It takes 2 gallons of gasoline to operate. This reminds me of Stellarc's third arm but on a machine. I wonder how accurate this can actually be. 

Artist #4

Camera Obscura

Panoramic view of santa monica

This is more than just an art piece and more of just an innovation in technology or at least it was an innovation. This is my fourth artist piece. The camera obscura is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment. It was this invention that led to photography. The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved. The image can be produced onto paper, and then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation. The art that you could create with this instrument is crazy. Especially in the hand drawn art community. I would only imagine you would have to work fast since it is all happening in real time.

Artist #3

Velaslavasay Panorama
UnKnown

My third artist research piece is by the Velasalavasay Panorama it doesn't have a name as far as I know but what I did find about it was the viewer called it two chairs sitting under a gazebo surrounded by carnivorous plants. Carnivorous would be the key word in this piece as to say it means plants that receive most but not all of its energy from trapping and consuming animals, insects, and other arthropods. Just the thought of it is a little creepy. Makes me think of the movie Little Shop of Horrors. What I think of this is usually when you go out on dates with a male or female you are usually putting yourself out there fully to see if the male or female likes you. It can be an awful experience  almost like eating lunch always on edge. I think this would be like just sitting around the garden around all of those plants. You sit there just hoping nothing happens.

Artist #2

David Wilson
The Decaying Dice of Ricky Jay

The second piece in my artist research list is David Wilson he is the founder of Museum of Jurassic Technology. The piece that I am reviewing today is The Decaying Dice of Ricky Jay. With this piece I doubt that there is a giant meaning behind it. Unless it is a personal one from the artist like maybe a friend who a constant gambler and his dice are just decaying as the years go by. The cool thing about the piece is how the dice appear to be decaying. I wonder if this is an effect like did the artist place stuff on the dice to get the effect, did he dip the dice into something to get the look, or do dice just decay? I'll never be able to answer the question but it is an interesting piece none the least.

Artist #1

Lauren Bon
Displace

This is my first artist of this module her name is Lauren Bon and the piece that I am reviewing today is Displace. Displace is a weird but extremely powerful piece. Were shown a medium sized living room that looks to be in gray-scale. Right in the center of it is a long what might be a table with lawn grass on top. The lawn grass is in full color giving the living room the only color of this artist piece.

In most cases but not this one I really feel you should know the artist to see where they are coming from with there work as a whole. Lauren Bon does a lot of work with plant life. You can tell that she feels very strong about the environment. In this piece it is evident how she feels. The lawn in the living room especially such a green/healthy one is uncommon and just unnatural to have inside a living room. I think the artist is trying to get use to think about are own actions in the green community, like water plants, trees, keeping flowers. Making it more natural to see stuff like this.

Artist Presentation

Ana Mendieta

November 18 1948- September 8 1985

     Ana was a Cuban-American artist known for doing performance art, photographic art, and video work.
Born in Havana,Cuba but moved to the United States at a young age. In 1961, at the age of 13, she and her older sister were exiled from Cuba because her family opposed the tropical dictatorship. She was placed in several different foster care institutions throughout Iowa. She earned a BA from the University of Iowa in 1969 and earned an MA in Painting while also earning an MFA from the School of Art History in Intermedia. She created her work in different locations throughout the world for example Cuba, Mexico, Italy, and in the United States.
     Ana's work is considered to be strongly feminist by some. Her earlier art work leaned more towards violence against the female body. Later on in her career she focused on a spiritual and physical connection with land. Ana would die on September 8, 1985 at the age of 36 from a fall from a 34th floor apartment in Greenwich Village. 8 months earlier she had married the minimalist sculptor Carl Andre. Andre was tried and acquitted of her murder. Her death is describe as a possible accident or a suicide. In the absence of any witness to her death, other than (possibly) her husband Carl Andre, the exact cause of her death may never be known.

Untitled (Rape Scene) 1973

Blood Sign#2/Body Tracks 1979

People looking at blood 1973

Tree of Life 1979

Tree of Life Silueta Series 1976

Untitled (from the Sileta series)

Creek 1974

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