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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
"Imaginary People" - Rhizome Gallery Show
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2. Bliss by Lewis LaCook
3. Project Capture by sonja3
4. N3xt by Shirin Kouladjie
5. Perpetual Panshot by stephenaustin
6. Performances with Acoustic Clothing by Benoit Maubrey
7. Prima Materia by Timothy Weaver
8. Netsleeping by Gregory Chatonsky
9. Broken City by James Alliban
10. Pixel Paint by Justin Simoni
Monday, March 14, 2011
fair use - three points for discussion
1. If all work could be put on a spectrum, where on one end is blatant plagiarism, and on the other is work that is as original as possible, (since we are all full of influences and ideas from our environments to begin with) then there's clearly a lot of gray area when it comes to deciding where work with borrowed ideas falls. A borrowed idea must be changed in some way before it can be reclaimed, but exactly how much change is required? It's define this exactly but I think it occurs when the borrowed idea is incorporated as a foundation for a new set of ideas...
2.I think Fairy successfully did this with his Obama work. The use of the original photo was plagarism only in the most technical sense of the photo copyright because the photo itself was very generic, there were many like it, and the image was taken to document/represent a candidate rather than make a statement about him. When Fairly altered the image by simplifying it and raising the contrast, he changed the face to look more stenciled, a more artistic depiction, and by changing the colors of the portrait to red white and blue, and adding "hope" at the bottom, he completely overhauled the original meaning of the image to obviously endorse Obama as a patriotic, good choice of candidate for voters. Though you can still identify a similarity to the reference he used in the strong thoughtful expression on the face, the altered image's appearance and purpose are very clearly different from that of the original.
3. I think that when borrowing images it's also an important responsibility of the artist to fully understand the idea they are referencing. For example, when Fairy used an image of a skull in one of his T-shirt designs, he thought he was referencing a biker sign. Had he done only a little more research on similar images, he would have realized that the biker gang had also referenced the image, borrowing it from the Nazi gestapo. Fairy had meant to evoke the dangerous/rebel/out law pirate kind of associations one usually has with skull and crossbones imagery, but for those who recognized the symbol's original purpose, he inadvertently also evoked WWII era propaganda/ neo-nazi statements (Oops.) Symbols that have powerful connotations like this should not be used lightly, and not without specific intent relating to the roots of that power.
2.I think Fairy successfully did this with his Obama work. The use of the original photo was plagarism only in the most technical sense of the photo copyright because the photo itself was very generic, there were many like it, and the image was taken to document/represent a candidate rather than make a statement about him. When Fairly altered the image by simplifying it and raising the contrast, he changed the face to look more stenciled, a more artistic depiction, and by changing the colors of the portrait to red white and blue, and adding "hope" at the bottom, he completely overhauled the original meaning of the image to obviously endorse Obama as a patriotic, good choice of candidate for voters. Though you can still identify a similarity to the reference he used in the strong thoughtful expression on the face, the altered image's appearance and purpose are very clearly different from that of the original.
3. I think that when borrowing images it's also an important responsibility of the artist to fully understand the idea they are referencing. For example, when Fairy used an image of a skull in one of his T-shirt designs, he thought he was referencing a biker sign. Had he done only a little more research on similar images, he would have realized that the biker gang had also referenced the image, borrowing it from the Nazi gestapo. Fairy had meant to evoke the dangerous/rebel/out law pirate kind of associations one usually has with skull and crossbones imagery, but for those who recognized the symbol's original purpose, he inadvertently also evoked WWII era propaganda/ neo-nazi statements (Oops.) Symbols that have powerful connotations like this should not be used lightly, and not without specific intent relating to the roots of that power.
Friday, February 25, 2011
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
answers to first four questions
1. Jaime Merritt
2. Sophomore/ drawing, painting, printmaking
3. I don’t have that much experience with computers. I’m more used to PCs than Macs, as that is what I own. I have some knowledge of photoshop and none at all with illustrator.
4. I expect to learn how to incorporate digital imaging techniques in making art. I want to have a much better understanding of techniques of doing this, I’d like to understand the color system computers use, and the different options/considerations of qualities when printing images.
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