Collaboration Presentation

Participant Pragmatic Panorama
features Jim Campbell and Jeffrey Shaw

Both digital artists deal with audience interaction but go about it in different ways. Jim Campbell is more controlling when it comes to how the viewer is going to interact with the virtual world. He almost always has set choices for the participant to make; therefore, their final destination is already determined by him beforehand. Where as, Shaw lets the audience interact with the piece however they choose to do so. The viewer nor does Shaw know what their actions will result exactly.


http://www.iamas.ac.jp/interaction/i01/works/E/jim.html
http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/leaf/other/.xslt/nodenr-69351
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/html_main/frameset-works.php3
http://www.jimcampbell.tv/
http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/terminals/t1/ucsc/campbell/campbell.html
http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/illuminations/image1.htm
http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ37/JimCampbell.htm

Word Visualization

Career Pictogram - Tattoo Artist

Self Visualization Collage

Parable of the Garden

Parable of the Garden was a new media exhibit which displayed art from Iran and Central Asia. Students had to curate the exhibit and show how the pieces responded to the culture. Shahram Entekhabi work deals with immigrant identities in other places and was one artist who's was featured in the exhibit. His artwork was entitled Happy Meal and it was video which was thirteen minutes long. The video consists of a Muslim girl eating a McChicken Happy Meal in a German McDonald. The girl is wearing a chador, which is a open cloak worn by some female Iranians. As you watch the delighted child devour the sandwich you look past the foreigner status and just see a child. Once she has finished eating the sandwich she tries to open the Happy Meal toy and you see how the chador hinders her ability to do this simple task easily. After a while she places the toy under her chador and tries to open it that way. It is then that you only see her expression on her face as she struggles to get the toy open. After a while she finally succeeds and you see the joy on her face before you even see the toy. Entekhabi explores how the the culture of the immigrants is brought with them from home and how others perceive it.

Dia: Beacon

Richard Serra was one artist in which I was very interested in that I saw at Dia: Beacon. Serra was born in San Francisco in 1939 but currently lives in New York and Nova Scotia. He is best known for his Torqued Ellipses which were done during 1996-1999. The sculptures are rolled steel plates, each two inches thick and weighing two tons. I know when you hear an explanation of Serra's artwork it does not sound too impressive because it is something that you have to actually see in person. His sculptures are enormous and when you are in their presence you get this unusual feeling. This emotion is hard to explain but its almost as if your in another world just by yourself traveling to see where the paths between the steel will take you. Serra's inspiration for the work was Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane church in Rome which he had visited in 1990. The center of the church is an ellipse and you can clearly see the relationship between Serra's sculptures and the church.

Alteration #2