SF MOMA Trip

Casey Reas, Process 7, 2010; multimedia

Casey Reas's "Process 7" was very neat to watch. Art that moves and a grows and changes on its own. As I understand it, the artwork is program that is like a formula that allows for it to grow and change within certain parameters. Feels very conceptual. With painting and sculpture you can only look at it for so before you are "done". This artwork can be viewed infinitely, I don't think it ever "loops" it just keeps growing. I didn't know that the word multimedia was in use a gallery setting to describe medium.

What really amused me was the Ed Osborn, Night-Sea Music, 1998. I loved the whimsical wriggling wires and the chiming music. I took it at totally different face value that what Ed Osborn meant it to be. Well, now that I've read what it's about it's very obvious. The short and tragic life of sperm. That's art worthy, maybe for man?

Project 3: Mining New Frontiers

Not Being in Student Body Govt = Real Life Experience

Exploration experience with Student Body Govt and how it effected me in the end. 

Shrimpums Closed System?, Not at All

How my pet Opae' ula react to stimuli outside their "closed ecosystem" as well as a possible display idea for their activities. 

Student Body Govt Run Around

Cause and effect of Student Body elections/ being President, Vice President, etc.

Other concepts related to Student Body Govt

System Art Reading/Responce

Lewitt's sentence about applying the words sculpture and painting to one's artwork would severely limited it, still resonates today. There are many artists who can't or won't use these words. To do so, would severely limit their works. Those categories are just as limiting and stiff today as they were in the sixties.
Burnham talked about the object oriented culture turning into a system oriented culture. Also that any matrix of human activity can be art.

Possible Systems for Art

-cats/dog in-out-in-out
-shrimpums (Hawaiian mini-shrimp pets in a closed circle environment)
-student government

I have some pet shrimp and they are quite lively sometimes. They shoot all over their container. Mapping their movement in relation to amount of light (they are light sensitive) would be fun.

Augmented Body Project

Scifi artists are the world's fantasy dreamers that realize that one day their dream will become reality. Science fiction also creates a sub pop culture that many people find is just the right fit. I did my augmented body project on the though of the ability to change one's appearance at will. For me this is something extremely important to me since before I could remember. To be able to change my appearance completely to comply with my emotions, thoughts and personality. I would truly be able to express myself.

This piece was hard to complete because there were so many things I wanted to express but didn't know how to. My working knowledge of photoshop allowed me to express most of what I wanted to though trail and error. I also wanted to at least express even in a overarching, simplistic way one way that this might work with technology we have available.

As humans we have always been obsessed with changing a our appearance. It's part of our nature. Whether society is telling us to look a certain way or if we a listening to our inner voice.  

Augmented Body Artists

http://www.lucyandbart.blogspot.com/
Two artists work together to play with the human body's shape with simple prosthesis.
http://www.nextnature.net/themes/augmented-bodies/
Entire section of Next Nature dedicated to augmented bodies.
http://mcdewaal.com/
Artist photographed self after male to female augmentation.

Short Response Questions:
How will America's extreme conservatism and liberalism shape our social acceptability of body augmenting?
Will technology move so fast as to make it not worthwhile to augment our bodies?
Or will augmentation become five minute fads as such the turn over rate of the iphone?
Will we augment our bodies as to more efficiently interact with technology instead of adapting technology to more humanly efficient?