Thursday 2 June 2011
Tuesday 24 May 2011
EVALUATION
What have I gained from this course? Quite abit, some of it wasn't new to me interms of practice, but there was quite alot that we learnt that I had only heard about, not actually tried for myself. Like blogging for instance. I enjoyed looking into the remix culture and the true complexity involving copyright issuses. It taught me alot and even though there was alot more work involved than I expected, it is actually useful to know these sorts of things for future references.
WEEK 11
FLOSS: Free (Libre) Open Source Software.
Offers programming which is free to use and allows the public who choose to use it, the chance to improve on the function and design of it if need be.
5 free software and what they do
Blender: 3D model/renderer
abcde: rips, tags etc CDs with one click
Gimp: image manipulation programme
Open Office: alternarive to Microsoft Office
Mozilla Firefox: search engine for www
Video for more information
Offers programming which is free to use and allows the public who choose to use it, the chance to improve on the function and design of it if need be.
5 free software and what they do
Blender: 3D model/renderer
abcde: rips, tags etc CDs with one click
Gimp: image manipulation programme
Open Office: alternarive to Microsoft Office
Mozilla Firefox: search engine for www
Video for more information
WEEK 10
Link to the group timeline 'Computers and Art', everyone had to add something to the time line.
http://www.dipity.com/gilliesrachel/Art-and-Computers/
http://www.dipity.com/gilliesrachel/Art-and-Computers/
WEEK 8
I chose this remix because quite frankly, its FUNNY AS! Anyone who has seen this film will get the humour of it all, and anyone who hasn't seen Mary Poppins before will probably think its one hell of a creepy movie, and probably will go see it. Though unless you are under the age of 12 or something, I can't understand how you can't have seen Mary Poppins before. Another reason I chose this clip, is because it is a good example of something taken out of it's original context and turned into something completely different. Love it.
As for the Downfall Parodies, personally I have watch a few and thought they were also pretty good. Especially the Pokemon one, they even made me go out and hire the actual movie to see what it was like in original context. I don't think it actually hurts the creator, the people who remix these clips aren't making profit from it they are just doing it for fun. It promotes the movie if anything.
As for the Richard Prince case, my opinion is the opposite.He clearly took someones work, cut and pasted crap all over it and called it his own and intended to make profit. Since he was manipulating photos he should have taken his own. Although being that he didn't know how to use a camera should have, aside from the obvious of learning to use one, either hired someone to take the photos for him or asked permission from Patrick Cariou in the first place. In someways such as the remix situations I think the Copy right laws are rather smothering at times but in cases such as Richard Prince they are vital in order to protect artists work being claimed by other people.
Monday 23 May 2011
WEEK 4
Animations and Transitions: What is the main difference between animations and transitions?
Main difference between the two is that transitions are used when it goes from one slide to the next. While animations are used on images and text on the actual slide.
What is slideshare.net and how can it be used?
It is a website that teaches all you need to know about making and presenting a slide show as well as let you upload the ones you have created in to share with others over the internet.
What file formats can be uploaded to Slideshare?
Powerpoint: PPT and PPS
Open Office: ODP
Keynote: for mac users
PDF: if required
Have a look at slideshare.net online: Browse some of the slide presentations and list below the URL of one particularly good one that you found, and include the name of the category it came under.
http://www.slideshare.net/chelucas/we-are-not-that-bad
week3
This week was about learning how to scan, what file formats are best suited for what, what compression was, what resolution was and re-sampling.
Common File Formats for images: List Four commonly used for image files, and indicate a use for each one.
What is compression?
Removes some of the data from your file, to reduce size. i.e when a file format makes your image small, it is applying compression to your file.
Which image file formats compress the file to create a smaller file size?
gif: graphic interchange format; lots of compression, low quality.
tiff: choose to make it a smaller file.
What is resolution?
the quality of the image
What resolution should an image be to PRINT well? 150- 300dpi
What resolution is sufficient for a file that is going on line? 72dpi
What happens when a file is resampled?
The pixel dimensions (width and height) are changed with the resolution.When it is not ticked, the pixel dimensions stay the same while you change the resolution.
Here is the image I scanned etc. Saved under 'randomjunkweek3.jpeg' and 'randomjunkweek3.tiff'
Common File Formats for images: List Four commonly used for image files, and indicate a use for each one.
| jpeg | Good for raster images. Makes images small for internet but keeps quality |
| tiff | Good for images keeps quality |
| pdf | used for variety of different things. Compacts them keeps quality |
| gif | Good for internet/vector images loses quality though. |
What is compression?
Removes some of the data from your file, to reduce size. i.e when a file format makes your image small, it is applying compression to your file.
Which image file formats compress the file to create a smaller file size?
gif: graphic interchange format; lots of compression, low quality.
tiff: choose to make it a smaller file.
What is resolution?
the quality of the image
What resolution should an image be to PRINT well? 150- 300dpi
What resolution is sufficient for a file that is going on line? 72dpi
What happens when a file is resampled?
The pixel dimensions (width and height) are changed with the resolution.When it is not ticked, the pixel dimensions stay the same while you change the resolution.
WEEK 1
SOFTWARE
List 7 Software programmes that are available on the school computers and a short description of what they do:
List 7 Software programmes that are available on the school computers and a short description of what they do:
e.g. Microsoft Word | For Writing text documents |
Indesign | very good for manipulating text design, can manipulate pictures but is best left to programs like Photoshop. |
Photoshop | focuses on editing images in a variety of different ways, can manipulate text but in very minimally |
Microsoft Media Player | Watch movies, listen to music etc |
| Adobe Premire Pro | Use to make movies etc, edit clips, add special effects, adjust time and other things. |
VLC Media Player | Good for playing music etc different formats, e.g itunes, windows. |
Adobe reader | good for viewing pdf files |
Micorsoft Word | used for writing word documents |
Tuesday 17 May 2011
WEEK 2
Tuesday 10 May 2011
copy right photo
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
- No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
here's my response for the first art history thing
THE GAZE
This assessment is based on the reading in your course book on page 11, an extract from Griselda Pollock’s “About Canons and Culture Wars” in Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s History (London & New York: Routledge, 1999), 3-6.
ALL RESPONSES MUST BE COMPLETED IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
1.What do you understand the term ‘canon’ to mean?
A canon is a rule or more often, a body of rules or principles generally created as a valid and basis in a field of art, literature, or philosophy. Its origins were that of religious matters. It represents nowadays, the best and most important texts or objects for literature, art and so forth in accordance to particular academic institutions that deem it worthy. A.K.A what must be learnt. Usually there are multiple canons competing against one and another.
2.What do you understand the term ‘the other’ to be referring to?
It is referring to the non acknowledged groups in certain canons, who have also played an influential role in the development of their canon’s history. Who don’t get the credit they deserve, as well as be excluded from educational opportunities and purposes for those yet to come, simply because they don’t fall under the ‘white male’ category. For example in American Literature, African American writers were bluntly ignored. In art, women for many years were excluded from the canon of art history simply for it was thought that only men were capable of being inspirational in this area.
3. What are feminist critics of the canon attempting to do?
They were trying to ensure female artists’ rightful place in the canon of art history which was dominated by males, and instead be placed a long side them as equals.
4. Discuss how Cabanel’s, The Birth of Venus, 1875, embodies notions of a ‘canon’ and how Manet’s, Olympia, 1863 breaks with established principles of the canon of the French Academy.
Cabanel’s “Birth of Venus” embodies the notion of a canon because it was seen as traditional and/or elegant in its time, even today. As in, the woman although painted in a somewhat luxurious manner, had a beautiful and spiritual quality to it. Meaning, even though she was naked, it didn’t seem idle or dirty to view. Manet’s painting of the naked prostitute however, was seen as disdainful. For she is looking directly into the viewers eyes with a hard stare, making her more realistic or natural than the other woman, and too close for comfort for the viewer (especially in those days) to look at. So it breaks away from the canon, for it seemed more pornographic to a sense rather than a traditional art form. For society in those days, more so than today’s society were not as open about prostitution and preferred to ignore it and to use her as a form of subject matter wasn’t exactly welcomed opened with open arms. Even the setting of Manet’s played a role in it for she was simply in a room with a servant tending to her needs which gives the viewer a sense that they are interrupting something. While Cabanel’s work, the setting the woman is in, is more unrealistic, for she is almost floating on top of the waves and seems rather unnaturally large in comparison to the waves .This excluding the use of the five naked cupids on the whole for the discussion, for that alone sets the painting in a fictional sense where it is harder for the viewer to relate to, unlike Manet’s. Also the painting techniques are quite different to each other. Cabenal paints to be as realistic as possible, with smooth shading and lack of visible paint strokes. Every aspect of Cabenal’s work and its details are carefully painted to the extreme. This more follows traditional art. Manet’s painting, although also realistic, the brush strokes are rather rough in comparison. The shading not as realistic as they could be and the minor objects such as the curtains and even the cat simplified to a degree. Note the backdrop even though has tone in it has a flat 2-D appearance. So even though both artists painted a naked woman, Manet didn’t fall under the canon of traditional art as Cabanel did, because he strayed away by using a ‘real woman’ and placing her in a setting that seemed rather personal to her and used painting techniques/style that were again different to more traditional artists.
Tuesday 5 April 2011
Digital Literacy... Week 7 ... Case Study 3
Oh so criminal was created as a response to the Australian Government's (in particular the Attorney-
General's office) "Fair Use and Other Copyright Exceptions: An examination of fair use, fair dealing and other exceptions in the Digital Age" Issues Paper, provided in May 2005. to quote: Some interest groups feel a copyright balance might be better maintained in a rapidly changing digital environment if the Copyright Act were to include an open-ended 'fair use' exception that would allow the courts to determine whether a particular use of copyright material is 'fair' and should be lawful. Others argue the present specific exceptions in the Act should be amended to make certain uses of copyright material lawful. Instead of writing a wordy submission to the Government Keir Smith decided to make an example of something that is currently illegal, but thinks should be covered by 'fair use'.
Write a discussion of Smith’s work on your blog. Do you think his work is ‘illegal’? should it be?
I can understand the use of Company logos should be prohibited, so making this video "illegal". For it is putting the company's image to the pubic in a light that perhaps they do not wish to be put in.Aside from that, however, I think it should be covered by the 'fair use' act. For the creator is not making profit from this short film, it's more for his enjoyment. It's hardly a form of advertisement, and he is not going around claiming that it is his own work. The rest of his material, in my opinion is shouldn't really be illegal, i.e the music that he has used can be heard ANYWHERE, and anyone can access it if they really want to, regardless from the fact that he happened to have used it. It is more subliminal advertisement in the artist's flavor. As for the news clips of various reporters and public figures (George Bush), they have already been released in the media, viewed by millions of people already. People have made their opinions from the original context and he hasn't mixed it in a way where he has changed what they were talking about in a believable way. Less face it, George Bush's image of being a right moron was the result of his own stupidity, not because someone just happened to remix him in a short flick.
General's office) "Fair Use and Other Copyright Exceptions: An examination of fair use, fair dealing and other exceptions in the Digital Age" Issues Paper, provided in May 2005. to quote: Some interest groups feel a copyright balance might be better maintained in a rapidly changing digital environment if the Copyright Act were to include an open-ended 'fair use' exception that would allow the courts to determine whether a particular use of copyright material is 'fair' and should be lawful. Others argue the present specific exceptions in the Act should be amended to make certain uses of copyright material lawful. Instead of writing a wordy submission to the Government Keir Smith decided to make an example of something that is currently illegal, but thinks should be covered by 'fair use'.
Write a discussion of Smith’s work on your blog. Do you think his work is ‘illegal’? should it be?
I can understand the use of Company logos should be prohibited, so making this video "illegal". For it is putting the company's image to the pubic in a light that perhaps they do not wish to be put in.Aside from that, however, I think it should be covered by the 'fair use' act. For the creator is not making profit from this short film, it's more for his enjoyment. It's hardly a form of advertisement, and he is not going around claiming that it is his own work. The rest of his material, in my opinion is shouldn't really be illegal, i.e the music that he has used can be heard ANYWHERE, and anyone can access it if they really want to, regardless from the fact that he happened to have used it. It is more subliminal advertisement in the artist's flavor. As for the news clips of various reporters and public figures (George Bush), they have already been released in the media, viewed by millions of people already. People have made their opinions from the original context and he hasn't mixed it in a way where he has changed what they were talking about in a believable way. Less face it, George Bush's image of being a right moron was the result of his own stupidity, not because someone just happened to remix him in a short flick.
Digital Literacy... Week 7 ... Case Study 2
In 1987, artist Lebbeus Woods took a graphite pencil and created his vision of a chair. The chair is shown inside a large chamber with a high ceiling, mounted on a wall in front of a suspended sphere, and with a visibly jointed grid forming the floor and wall.Universal Studios released the film 12 Monkeys in December of 1995. Bruce Willis plays the distraught time traveler, Joe. In the beginning of the movie, Joe is brought into the interrogation room and told to sit in a chair which is attached to a vertical rail on the wall. As Joe sits in the chair, it slides up the rail, suspending Joe helplessly several yards above the floor. A sphere supported by a metal armature is suspended directly in front of Joe, probing for weaknesses as the inquisitors interrogate him.
Was this chair the same chair the Woods had drawn?
Yes it was. It was more or less an exact replica of Wood's drawing he had done in 1987. Terry Gilliam even admitting to the fact that he had viewed the drawing in Wood's book, 'Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber'. They didn't really even try to alter it, or just use it as an inspirational starting point to what they wanted the room to look like. Instead they copied it almost eye to eye, the only small alterations that did occur was due to practicality in order to actually build it.
Was this chair the same chair the Woods had drawn?
Yes it was. It was more or less an exact replica of Wood's drawing he had done in 1987. Terry Gilliam even admitting to the fact that he had viewed the drawing in Wood's book, 'Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber'. They didn't really even try to alter it, or just use it as an inspirational starting point to what they wanted the room to look like. Instead they copied it almost eye to eye, the only small alterations that did occur was due to practicality in order to actually build it.
Digtital Literacy ... Week 7 ... "Can I do that?" CC issues
Case Study 1:
In 1976, ex-Beatle George Harrison was found guilty of copyright infringement for his hit single, "My
Sweet Lord." Bright Tunes Music Corporation had obtained the copyright for the 1963 hit, "He's So Fine,"
which was written by Ronald Mack and originally performed by The Chiffons. Did George Harrison borrow
his musical ideas from Mack's hit song?
Melody:5
Harmony/Chordal Structure:4
Rhythm:6
Tempo:6
Lyrics:3
Instruments:1
1. and 2. How else are the two songs similar and different?: Personally I can only really hear the resemblance mostly in the chorus. Even then its fairly vague to sue for. I mean the lyrics aren't exactly copied, they just have similiar topics. Both talking about wanting a man etc expressing their impatience in waiting for him. Its just phrased differently. Though there are plenty of singers who sing about that.
They have very similiar speed/tempo rate in some parts as well as the rhythm and harmony of the pieces, especially in the chorus. "oh my lord" and " hes so fine" (three syllables), well as some of the verses followed, have similiar chordal struture/ melody aspects. Although slight variation can be heard towards the end of each verse. Music wise they both use a different range of musical instruments, which create a different mood/style to each song. Harrison's starting piece with the guitar in my opinion doesn't refer to any part in "He's so Fine". The guitar played by Harrison and the bass in The Chiffons song are quite similiar, perhaps the more obvious connection between the two songs but not a lot else that 'sticks' as much.
In 1976, ex-Beatle George Harrison was found guilty of copyright infringement for his hit single, "My
Sweet Lord." Bright Tunes Music Corporation had obtained the copyright for the 1963 hit, "He's So Fine,"
which was written by Ronald Mack and originally performed by The Chiffons. Did George Harrison borrow
his musical ideas from Mack's hit song?
Melody:5
Harmony/Chordal Structure:4
Rhythm:6
Tempo:6
Lyrics:3
Instruments:1
1. and 2. How else are the two songs similar and different?: Personally I can only really hear the resemblance mostly in the chorus. Even then its fairly vague to sue for. I mean the lyrics aren't exactly copied, they just have similiar topics. Both talking about wanting a man etc expressing their impatience in waiting for him. Its just phrased differently. Though there are plenty of singers who sing about that.
They have very similiar speed/tempo rate in some parts as well as the rhythm and harmony of the pieces, especially in the chorus. "oh my lord" and " hes so fine" (three syllables), well as some of the verses followed, have similiar chordal struture/ melody aspects. Although slight variation can be heard towards the end of each verse. Music wise they both use a different range of musical instruments, which create a different mood/style to each song. Harrison's starting piece with the guitar in my opinion doesn't refer to any part in "He's so Fine". The guitar played by Harrison and the bass in The Chiffons song are quite similiar, perhaps the more obvious connection between the two songs but not a lot else that 'sticks' as much.
Wednesday 23 March 2011
What's happening in E.Arts
Well this post will sort of give you an insight on what I'm gettting up to in Electronic Arts. We get to make a short animation sequence using whatever media we wanna use. I'm using chalk to make an abstract stock animation. I'll post it up when I have finished it :). Some of the artists I'm looking at are New Zealand artist Len Lye; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33tS9FeS3U&feature=related Known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture, and his innovations have had an international influence. How cool is that! Another artist I looked at was Betsy Kopmar; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT2t7F4wBM8 What I like about her work is again the abstract appeal to it, but also how the music gives it a rather tranquil mood. Like the music draws you in, making you appreciate the actual beauty of her work.
Anyway I randomly decided to google chalk and see what it came up with and I found some cool pics. Not very helpful interms of my animation, but they're pretty cool so I have to share them with you ( See above top). I'm not doing something THIS awesome, don't have the time, but hey might try it in the future. Another type animation we were shown, was artists who used sand. Kseniya Simonova, an artist I stumbled upon uses this technique and creates quite stunning pieces of work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo. Another artist Yuri Norstein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmcp4XNCWRYwho is an older artist also used sand animation. (see above) Now this artist is a lot more sophisticated in their work as in didn't allow their hands to be seen. instead used a technigue a lot like stock animation (draw a little, take a photo, draw a little bit more, take a photo) and creates quite complicated and detailed scenes. Kinda wished I had done sand animation, but being a newby, it was probably best that I stuck to my chalk. Anyway thats all I have for now, and I'll post my vid up when I've finished it. Here is the full length of "Night Fishing With Cormorants" I found. http://vimeo.com/5860434
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Welcome To My Blog
Hello!!!
To whoever is reading this. My name is Anneleis, and this will be my first blog that I ever made. So it's all a bit new to me, so bear with me! As it is my first year at Art School, in time my blog will hopefully contain some of my artwork and other assortments so stay tuned and you may see something you like. :)
To whoever is reading this. My name is Anneleis, and this will be my first blog that I ever made. So it's all a bit new to me, so bear with me! As it is my first year at Art School, in time my blog will hopefully contain some of my artwork and other assortments so stay tuned and you may see something you like. :)
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