This piece is very jarring (in a good way). The silence makes the listener hyper aware of their breath, but it becomes harder to breathe normally as you hear the unsteady rhythm of the piece. I really like your idea that this is how a computer would breathe. I hadn't thought of that when I first heard it, but it adds an interesting element to the sound.
Douglas Gordon is a multimedia artist who was born in Glasgow in 1966. His work has been featured in dozens of museums around the world, especially the Tate and Gagosian. His work is related to Relational Aesthetics because he is concerned with highlighting the spectator's subjectivity within the work, and exploring themes of collective identity. He does this by utilizing images in popular culture, like Hitchcock's Psycho, and distorting them to such a degree that the meaning they were originally imbued with is completely stripped away to reveal a different meaning. One of his most famous works, 24 Hour Psycho , consists of the projection of Hitchcock's Psycho slowed down so that it takes a full 24 hours to get through the movie. This highlights the constructed nature of film, and the presence of the spectator. Other dynamic examples of his video work include Play Dead; Real Time , Zidane; a 21st Century Portrait , and Phantom . He also does a series of photographs ...
My project, "greeting card event", was just a joy to plan, create, and stage. I set out to explore the relationship that people have with greeting cards and their own image. As I stated in my proposal, when people consume greeting cards, the anonymous subjects tend to take on a universal quality which allows people to connect to them. When I made my friends the subjects of the greeting cards, I had hoped to illicit a response that would be similar to greeting cards, but also change the way in which they consumed the cards. What actually happened had a very different energy which I personally associate more with Christmas. The act of gathering for gift giving (sometimes with cards) is a constructed event with certain unspoken rules or conventions that were very much present during the greeting card event. My process: I made the greeting cards on Zazzle, an easy-to-use platform that I think most people use to make personalized wedding invitations or other stuff of that...
Final project time, woo! This project is called "Boots", and it deals with either a social phenomenon or the psychic energy we have inside all of us, whatever you believe in or not. I had a really good time acting as the facilitator of this exercise, I basically just got to play with people's psyches for a bit, trying to tease out a more comprehensive image. The exercise went as follows: I set up in a space that was unfamiliar-ish, or at least not a personal space, then I asked the subject to examine the boots for as long as they felt they needed. Then I read out the following script (with a little variation based on their answers): "Close your eyes. Imagine a comforting and familiar space. It can be in your home, at school, or a place that you’ve never been. Please describe this space. Now, invite the owner of the boots into your space. Take a moment to greet them and look at them. Now describe them to me. How old are they? How tall are they? What are ...
This piece is very jarring (in a good way). The silence makes the listener hyper aware of their breath, but it becomes harder to breathe normally as you hear the unsteady rhythm of the piece. I really like your idea that this is how a computer would breathe. I hadn't thought of that when I first heard it, but it adds an interesting element to the sound.
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