Project 5: Video Cover

*The video I used for the sound is called KISS KISS KISS by Tadanori Yokoo in 1964. The original video doesn't contain any film. Every frame is presented by a drawing of kissing. There is really not movement in it, so I tried to make some stop-motion clips to create some similarity with the original video. In the beginning of KISS KISS KISS, the couple's lips are covered by a black rectangle. That makes me feel like kissing should be hided and not be shown to the public. I put this feeling on the issue of gender identity and gender orientation in present world by using my red and blue magnets as different gender identities.

The video link: KISS KISS KISS (1964)

Questions from Reading #3

1. In the reading it mentioned because the documentaries filmed by Levine and Gillette contained no artistic message at all, they were not artistic. Do you agree that? How do you define "artistic"? Must a work be artistic in order to be considered as art?

2. Video (and television) really create and develop a new field for art, what else do you think they bring to art?

Project 4: Animation Soundtracks

 *For the final animation, I added the transitions and sounds into it. The piano sound was recorded by me and the other sources were found from Freesound.org

Questions from Reading #2

1. Aura is a feeling that expressed from a person or a place. Do you think aura is an important role when people enjoy art just for distraction?

2. According to Walter Benjamin, the primary task of art is always to satisfy the desires that haven't been fulfilled yet. So what does the art of mechanical reproduction try to satisfy? In other words, what do we want to satisfy after we reproduce art works?

Project 3: Animation

*This is the animation based on the third version of my triptych. I kind of wanted to create a story for my picture. The cat is a time travel. It used its computer to transport things from different time to a weird space, and this time it brought a metal Triceratops. I also tried to made some interesting movement to the lady on the left side. She is hard to be noticed but I let her stick her head out a little bit when she saw the cat appeared. Then hide when she saw the creepy giraffe approached and came out eventually. Thanks for watching and reading!

Project 2: Digital Triptych Montage

*The theme is steampunk time travel. Before I started my project, I did a searching about steampunk. It emphasizes steam power, so I tried to use the steam image to approach this topic. Another theme need to be carried out is time travel. For that one I used some famous paintings. The reason is because I think every piece of art work tells us different parts of history, which is perfect to show the concept of time travel.

Questions From Reading #1

1. How is style related to one's aesthetics?

2. If style is only the byproduct of an ideal and does not go into a work, why does people always focus on different artists' styles?