Friday, May 7, 2010

abs_vid_mkwon_final

I had a problem to fix the format, so i posted this late.
http://blip.tv/file/3591110

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Cul_vid_mkwon_rough_1

http://www.vimeo.com/11544315

Cul_vid_mkwon_rough_2

http://www.vimeo.com/11544235

Cul_vid_mkwon_final

http://www.vimeo.com/11543360

Friday, April 30, 2010

sto_mkwon(Stop animation)


I worked on this project with yuting because it was group work. As soon as we saw an umbrella, we imagined umbrella flies to the sky as like butterflies. We started developing our ideas, and finally we decided to create the movement of a caterpillar's evolution.

sou_mkwon_casino




It was very funny to make because it is about how i like to stay in Casino.
Usually, i go to Turning Stone Casino when i have nothing to do. Whenever I went to the casino, i lost money in this semester. When i lost money, I always regret that i did gamble. This piece shows a process of losing my money. It was so hard to create sound of casino because most casinos do not allow people to record anything, so I created the machines sound with sound of TV and my cellphone.

Abs_mkwon_final (Abstract Sound)




For this project, I recorded many different sounds by myself. To create rhythmical structure, I repeated same sound again and again. I really like the woman's voice. People told me they do not understand what the woman say exactly, but the voice makes the piece more interesting.

env_mkwon_final(Environmental sound Part 2)







I tried to tell people about a interesting story with various sound. Finally, I decided to create scary story. The story is about a girl who was killed by a ghost. For the story, I could put many various sounds such as sound of screaming and sound of ghost.
I really like the sound of heartbeat. The sound makes me nervous and scared. Mostly, I downloaded sounds from the website which my professor told me.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Video History Analysis and Ideation 2

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1.)Hard Core Anti-War Protest
-talks about how people can be unified
-people who are against war
-specially, they talk about Vietnam
-Help people to feel sad (emotion)
2.)Rodney King
-It is about racists
-four white people (police men) hit the black person crucially
-The video really helps people to feel that racism is so bad
3.)Surv Vid Camera Players
-Instead of TV and other media, they used monitors in subway which is for security
-From the video, I felt that there are a lot of videos around me.
4.)Death game: Death reality game show
"France is reeling from a documentary about a psychological experiment disguised as a game show. Researchers staged a fictitious reality show to see how far people would go in obeying authority, especially if television reinforces that authority"
-People are easy to manipulate.
-It is so strange that they applied to play that game.
-The video make people feel fun and sad
5.)Anne Beffel Creates Collaborative Exhibition at AMUM
-It is great that two video can be one art work.
-Sitting Still: Contemplation and Creation
"Sitting Still allows the audience to discover different perspectives through the simple act of sitting still and observing videos of daily scenes, ranging from those that inspire awe to those that compel viewers to participate and intervene. It uses fast-paced new media communication forms such as video and Web sites, with an emphasis on slowing down."
6.)The Surreal World of Chatroulette
-It is so funny that people can see and talk with random people.
-The website is established by a young man in France (17 years old).
-People also can use video individually and personally
7.)Solitary Confinement
-Video gives chances people to watch various things which they can see in daily life.
-The video is about a person who was isolated for 7 days.
-Usually, it is so hard to meet person who was isolated for 7 days, but it is easy to find videos which are about that. Videos really help to spread some ideas and news in short time.

Video History Analysis and Ideation






What does video have to do with power?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BddVfcQX-v4

I watched a video which my professor posted on the blackboard.I think the video really relates to this question. From the video I c ould feel that Adolf Hitler used the effects of video to control his army. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. He also established the Nazi Party. He was a great leader of army. He used many different methods to make soldiers to follow him without problems. Even though he was very cruel, many people like him in the past.

For example, by showing the image to his people, he made citizens and other people feel that there are many people who follow him, and the images also shows that people like their country and their leader.




What does video have to do with how we live our lives?

People who live in the world. All of them are affected by televisions and media everyday. Peopl

e can learn something from the televisions such as English, Chines, math, and science. They can get a lot of information such as political news and world news. Also, people enjoy watching dramas and TV shows. How many hours do you watch TV? I usually watch TV more than three hours per a day. There is a research article which shows that how TV affects to people and children.

(http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/tv_affects_child.html) According to the website, it says too much screen time can interfere with activities such as being physically active, reading, doing homework, playing with friends, and spending time with family.

From these facts, I could know that video has bad effects and good effects.

What kind of life do you want to live and how will video technology influence that?

I really want to be the best industrial designer in the world later. I am going to study some programs which are required to create some industrial designs. I hope video can

help my objects look more great and pretty. For example, in nowadays, many designers use good advertisement company to create good CF because the video really affect to people. Also, i really like to watch dramas, so I hope I can buy 3-D TV in the future.




This project examines how technology is related to the power & authority to shape opinion using and broadcasting video.

Things that I learned in the class

1. move your erasure prevention tab
2. camera on to play
3. I movie> create new project name and save
4. I movie should recognize camera
TS:
check cable firmly attached
cam is on "play"
(not camera)
Restarting i movie
Try a different cable


(not finished )

Friday, April 16, 2010

Things that i learned

Today, We learned how to record video with disital camera.
I found out that there are alot of function that i can you when i record
Especially, I really like to use white balance.
When we zoom in red color and push the white balance botton, then everything will look like green because opposite color of red is green.
I think i can express feeling of sad and feeling of happy with this function.
Also, we experienced feeling of blinders during class. I coverd my eyes with fabric, and my teacher tolled a bell several times. I had to follow the sound of bell without other people's help.
It was so sad that nobody answered my question during the pratice. I felt so scary that I would hit a tree. It was a great pratice, and it was fun too. I could focus on hearing some sound carefully. After we did this practice, we went outside, and recorded some videos for one hour.
I went mashall street, and recorded the road and people. I found out that many things happen on the road for short time. People were talking, waking, drinking, asking, helping, driving, closing, opening, and finding. Everything was very interesting.

Manual focus
white balance
expose (AEshift) exp
Imag stabilization/ steady cam
Img Stb

Casino-plan_Min Ji Kwon











I can not take any pictures or video in casino, so I guess I should make my own casino in my house. I should record a lot of videos, and I should mix them to look like inside of casino. Also, it is possible that i will make my video with abstract videos or images.




Time, sadness, and nervous feeling are most important key words in my theme sound.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Video Techinical Training

1.Name three techniques you can use when trying to shoot steady shots without a tripod.


Whenever you try to record, You should keep your elbows to your body, bend your knees to be stable, and push the button more than ten seconds.

2.How can you minimize camera shake when walking and taping?


You should bend legs to be stable. Whenever you try to record, you should record carefully and slowly. Also, you should move slowly


3. What camera movements mimic the way the eye moves?
1.) Panning- side to side.
2.) tilting- up and down.
4. Why is it important to consider how long you remain on a shot and how quickly you move the camera?
If you do not move carefully and slowly, the picture will be crushed, so people will not know what the picture is clearly.

5. Give at least two examples of how they sugest you can avoid causing seasickness.
You should not try to take many objects at the same time, and you should not zoom in too or zoom out too much

Extra Credit Questions:
6.Go to the homepage of this organization and read a little about their mission.
gaffer's tape: This tape looks like duct tape, but the adhesive leaves less residue when removed from common surfaces. It is thicker thant common tape. It's commonly available in white or black.
-modulating of artificial light at night or indoor

Part Two





Part two: Comparison of Formal Characteristics Between Abstract Video and Real Life Media

Comparison between sara's abstract video and Final Fantasy 7 - It's my Life AMV ( Anime Music Video ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zhTKKCt8bk

1) Does this video maintain continuity by editing for graphical and rhythmical relationships as well as transitions? Given examples of this using screen shots and written description.

Both of them have good continuty by editing graphical and rhythmical relationship. From the video which is Final Fantasy 7, I could see some rhythmical movement and repetion of fighting scenes. Because of these two aspects, people can get thoughts and story from the video. As like the video, sara also put many similar and same images rhythmically. From her vidoe, I could feel some danger.

Both of them have good introductions. Final Fantasy shows all the characters individually at first, and Sara also started show important pictures slowly as like introduction of the video.


Both of them have great transition. Both of them ended with great sound of stopping.



2) Does the video modulate in pace so that it has sections of slow and fast time?

I think modulation is the most biggest difference between sara's abstract video and Final fantasy. Sara's abstract video is slow at first, and it becomes faster and faster at middle of video. At last, It becoms slow again, but Speed of the Final fantasy video is same at first and end. There is a little bit of change, but I can not see clearly. Final fantasy is kind of video which show people some story.


3) Did the artist try abstracting at least some of the images beyond recognition AKA wreck images? Give examples.

Yes, Final Fantasy had a great abstracting image. It starts with shiny light, and it bocomes fire. Later, people can see that the light is a fire monster knight. Because of the abstracting light, people get more interested in the video. As like the video, Sara also used this method to her abstract video. For example, she also used light and black right before an images of dorm.
Also, both of them moved images horizontally alot.


4) What additional formal aspects are emphasized in this video? Analyze the following:

I really like the images that Sara used because there are some contrasts between light and dark. She put lighter picture right before dark pictures, so it seemed more interesting. Also, She repeated same pictures with some effects again and again, and the shaking part was the most strong part in her video. She used earthquake effect to make the movement. I think it was a very great idea. As like Sara's video, Final Fantasy also has good images of dark and light. However, Final Fantasy has more various colors. It looks more illusion.

Analysis of my abstract video from Sara Luciano

This piece featured several different photos that seemed to be in an automotive theme. I liked how Minji progressivly zoomed in on some of her photos in correlation to the sound piece that she chose. If she could make this video better, I think she could try and better match her images with the sound. Also, I think that it would help if she modified her images a little more. Finally, I believe that this piece could have harnessed more of the formal qualities that we discussed in this project - such as pacing.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Things that i learned in the class 4/9

Today, as soon as i got into class room, we started watching Matrix trailer without sound. I was so interested because that movie was my favorite movie. When i just watched that movie without knowing Time art, i did not care about what kinds skill they used for films to make people get interested, but i could find some characteristics which make it interesting this time. From the video, I learned that we should focus on color temperature, graphical layout, composition of frames, camera angles, proximity, pacing, contrast, repetition, quality of light and sensitivity when we make video for theme sound.
When i watched the trailer, i felt that the person used horizontal and vertical views a lot, and the person used zoom in and zoom out many times. These effects makes viewers focus on the video more. Also, the contrast between light and dark has most strong effect which makes people feel interested.

After we finished watching the trailer, we were separated to two groups, and we started doing critique for our abstract videos. I felt that i should more work on skills of I-movie. I did not know that i can use many different kinds of effect to my images, but after i watched other people's videos, i found out that there are many ways i can change my video more interesting. This week, i will revise my work, and i will focus on matching my images with sound perfectly.

Critique for abstract video 4/9




Sara Luciano
1) Does the video maintain continuity by editing for graphical and rhythmical relationship as well as transitions? Give examples of this using screen shots and written description.

I really liked her abstract video because it has great repeating of images.
There are some particular images which repeat rhythmically until end of the video, so that makes me expect to see the images again and again. Also, the movement of images are so interesting because of following effects.
1.Her video sound really matches with images.
2.Images are shaking and popping when the sound goes faster.
2)Does the video modulate in pace so that it has sections of slow and fast time?Please describe.
At first, images go normally,and when the sound become more complex, the images shakes and go more faster. Because of effects, it was easy to feel the sound and images together deeply.

3)Did the artist try abstracting at least some of the images beyond recognition a.k.a wreck the images? Give examples.
Speed of her abstract video is not fast, so i could recognize every single image
I think there was a picture which i can not recognize, but i can guess that that was tunnel because i took that picture.

4) what additional formal aspects are emphasized in this video?
I really like the images she used because there are some contrasts between light and dark. She put lighter picture right before dark pictures, so it seemed more interesting. Also, She repeated same pictures with some effects again and again, and the shaking part was the most strong part in her video. She used earthquake effect to make the movement. I think it was a very great idea.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

A short History of time

“A Short History of Time” at:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/07/15
Try to in your own words explain why time is not really universal. You may have to listen to it more than once to describe this.

From the audio, I do not think Time is universal because There are a lot of people who are living independently, but i am not saying thay all the people are selfish. I mean people have their own lives. For examples, People usually take care of themselves when they have problems. Nobody will help them before they ask for help, so they should spend time to solve the problem individually. When people take tests, nobody can help them. They should spend time to answer all the questions individually.
From the examples, i just want you to understand that people live for themselve not for other peopl,so sometimes, they should stay alone and spend time indepently. Because of this fact, I think time is not universal.

After listening to “A Short History of Time” consider how being in the zone impacts our senses of duration and tempo. In other words, what happens to the length of a moment, and the speed of time in your mind and body when you are at a state of peak performance?

From the audio, i could know that how being in the zone really impacts our senses of duration and tempo.
When people are performing their the highest peak and important performance, the length of time will be longer and their bodies will move slower than usual.
According to the audio and scientific fact, the person proved that even though people have same common senses, but they feel in different ways. People feel so diffently at same thing. The following sentence really helped me understand theme of the audio. "we are all living different time capsules,”he says, Here is a great example which explain the sentence in detail. when people are running and working very fast, they feel they are fast, and they think they are fast worker and runner, but even though they are going faster, viewers will think runners and workers are not that mouch fast. They look a lot slower then they feel to viewers.



Beyond the purposeful inducement of a state of flow by athletes, musicians, artists, and religious practices, what other means, or reasons, are mentioned in “The Short History of Time” that could change our perceptions and experiences of time? Name at least two very different ways for changing our relationship to time.
There are two very different ways for changing our relationship to time. Two of them are known as take time and personal time.
When people scheduled appointments, events and celebrations, they arrange time to do these activities. From some of these events, people will feel that time goes slowly, but people feel that time goes by faster when they do funny things and enjoy their tasks. The time when people feel this kind feeling is known as take time.
Personal time is more about personal. For example, when they enjoy their birthday parties, they will feel some special things. when a mother holds their child, the mother feel that the time is so special. The mother might feel that one moment time does not move. After the activity, that moment of time possiblely becomes a great memory which the mother will not forget forever.


Given that empathy from person to person is based upon synchronicity, including our unconscious ability to sense and attune ourselves another’s rhythms, such as breath, what are the implications of living according to GMT? What are the pros and cons?


Con:London owns “real time” and everything relate with and work by “me.”

Pro:people have the power to control this entire moment. Can control time, if people want to do something, they have the ability to do.

I will live in the GMT time zone because the hours start at zero. I feel i can get a perfect schedule which is made by me in that zone. I really want to feel and experience the time zone.

Russolo and his colleagues embraced mechanical rhythms and noises. They celebrated not attunement with another human in the present moment, but the future. They were the products of the first mechanized World War, and were terribly disillusioned with Romantic ideals. How has this attitude played itself out our century? Can you think of art forms or media that celebrate the same things Russolo valued?

I think Russolo's attitude is not common in nowadays. People who live in the world are very friendly with songs that are rhythmic. rhyme and movies are related to each other so strongly If movies and songs match with each other so well, people will remember the time forever. I do not agree that people want to hear the random sounds becaouse when people feel happy, they do not want to hear some sad songs which make people cry. In nowdays, everyone carries ipod and mp3. The technology makes people independently. People do not listen to other noise carefully as Russolo thinks

Friday, March 12, 2010

Things that i learned in the class (3/12)

Today, I turned in my homework one hour late because i misunderstood how the lable folders and names of pictures. From the experience, i learned that i should prepare everyday, and i should be ready before the class starts. Because of the problem, my professor recommended a book. I am plannning to read the book if i have enough time during spring break. Also, i learnd how to create movement with taking pictures, and i learned white balance is very important for taking pictures.

Friday, March 5, 2010

march, 5, 2010-reflection

Today,all of us played with balloons in the class room. At first, we just threw the balloons individually, but later, we started to play together. I felt that all of us are unified because of playing with balloons. Also, i learned how to improve our thinking and how to make perfect process of project. For example, when we just started to play with balloons together, few of us could not understand the rules, and rules were complex to understand, but whenever we had problems, we solved together, so we could make the perfect rules for the balloon game. After we made the rules, everyone acted at the same time,so we did not have any problems. I think it is great to start project with simple idea, and we can discuss with friends later. From the discussion, we can share some good ideas. This method is what i learned in the class.

5th objective
-breaking things down into smaller parts
-central leadership
-establish a rhythm
-patience
-lifting to each other
-quality interaction with peers/ exchange of ideas
-demonstrating ideas

Things that i learned in the class (march 5 2010)

1.) Color temp
2.) graphical layout
3.) light and dark

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Things that i learned in the class (March 4,2010) Thursday class

Think critically about Research
Recognize good first moves
-how does it relate
-connections and categories

Analysis- sound vocabulary
-intention- why are you doing this and who does it matter? To whom does it matter?

Marriage of Form and intention
Formal element: duration,pitch amplitude
Principle

Sound structure:
-narrative, linear, circular
-List one common element or purpose
-documentary
-abstract sound/environmental
-montage
-voice as instrument

Friday, February 26, 2010

Things that i learned in the clss today

Rim

-Reconize good first steps
-Intuition and analysis
-Marriage of form intention

Questions that i should ask to myself about my sound
-what choices did you make in recording
-what did you gather
-listen to your clips for hints of sound structure

Materials for a narrative
introduction,Characters,conflict, and resolution

I should know list, monatage, documentation, voice as instrument, intuitio as touchstone to improve my project. I should used them.
Also, i should think about audience and connection, and before i start, i should do brainstorm.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Theme Sound Analysis and three questions

1. How would your describe the structures of this sound work?
I will use voices as instrument, and i will use some sounds for background.
Also, i think i will use circular introduction. For example, i put some words at first, and i will finish with that words.

2.Did the artist break the"no music rule", or just edge up to it with a careful use of "non-music" as defined in class.
There was one person who used music for background. People mostly listen to the person's voice, so people are not interrupted by the music. But i can say that the background was music. It has melody and rhythm. In my opinion, The person broke the "no music rule" because of the fact.

3.Why does this structure, or combination of structures, make sense for the artist's subject matter or content? Please explain
Sometime, people can not express and explain with sounds. They need specific words to make people understand easily. For example, when people explain their interesting things, they want to interview people and they want to tell people a tale of their experiences. The method is more effective than environmental sounds. However, if they combine voices and sounds(rhythm), it will make people more interested in the audio.

4.What forms of sounds, or sound qualities, support the subject matter of this audio work? Please explain and use the sound terms listed in the document provided earlier.
As i explained above question, I really like how people combine the voice and environmental sounds rhythmically. From the method, people can see that artists use human voice an instrument.(Voice as instrument)

Three questions which relate to my project
-Tell me you experience of playing gamble?
After i came to Syracuse University, I have nothing to do on weekend, so i usually go to Turning Stone Casino.
-How much have you earned from Casino in 24hours?
I have earned 1200 dollars on a day.
-How much have you lost from Casino in 24 hours?
I have lost 500 dollars on a day
-What kinds of sound do you hear in the Casino?
Sound of machine, sound of cheering, sound of yelling, etc
-Do you think you can record sounds in Casino? If you can not how are you going to record the sounds?
I think they will not allow me to record the sound, so i will record in my house, and i will act like i am in Casino, but i worry about sounds of machines.
I will ask my professor that i can use free-sound for the sound or not.

Feb,19 Friday things that i learned

How do you make work about something that interests you?

Research= Engagement
-Trust process
-begin with questions
-Know your sound vocabulary

Generating Material
-Existing Archives
-Proceeduralism
-Paying attention(Mind and body)

Theme Sound structure
-circular narrator: End up at same place
-Introduction>resolution
Voice can equipment to make music

When we do brainstorm
- think about what who how where why when

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Friday Art of Creativity Reading Questions

Min Ji Kwon
Friday Art of Creativity Reading Questions

Go to:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199203/the-art-creativity
What are the four steps to the creative process, in your own words?
The first step to the creative process is researching. People should research and study things that they are interested in, and they should be ready to create and accept other information.
The second step to the creative process is making your brain empty. People usually want to think in easy ways, and they only focus on common senses. They should get rid of that mind, and they should think newly. People should feel afraid of doing new things
The third step to the creative process is performing with the new mind. When you cannot think about new things, you should relax and do what you want. It will help you to imagine and innovate.
The final step to the creative process is showing and presenting you works to people. If you only know the new things, it is nothing, but if you share with other people. It will become useful.

What is functional fixedness and what are the problems that are associated with this way of thinking?
They will only think things that were already created in the world. They will forget to imagine, and they will only think about possibilities. When people create something, they should imagine, and they should try something that is impossible.

What are the benefits of group brainstorming?
According to the Researchers, people can know that when teams of people are working together on a problem, those groups that laugh a lot and they are more creative and productive than people who are dour and decorous counterparts. “Joking around makes good sense: Playfulness is itself a creative state.”

Explain a time when you used this (or parts of the) process in the past for a project or creative solution to an everyday problem. Do you think these stages were beneficial to the end result?
Every time when I do my project, I always research some information on Internet and from books. From the research, I get basic information and background. I usually discuss with my friends to understand the project more easily and deeply, and my friends and I share our ideas and advise each other about the ideas. After the discussion, I summarize what I planed and information from Internet, books and my friends. Finally, I imagine things, which are so creative, and I add to my plan and ideas that I got from the discussion. As like the project, when I have an everyday problem, I search on Internet and ask my friends to solve my problems. These two methods really help me to create and solve my problems because they tell me things, which I never imagine before.

Are there any methods for finding new ideas that tap into emotions, physical sensations, or actions, which serve as doorways to creativity?
I think fantasy books and comic books really help people to think creatively because usually, fantasy books and comic books talk about things, which do not exist in the world. People can get much information for future from them.

How would this kind of kinesthetic (physical movement), or emotional intelligence fair during the 1500-1800 in Europe?

Historical Roots
-Reformation 1500-1700 Europe:
Many people died because of witch-hunts. Maybe, common people could not do anything freely because the emperor and noble had strong power at the time, so they did not allow common people to live fairly.
-Renaissance 1500-1800 Europe: invention/science:
At the time, people started to invent, and they got interested in science. From the fact, people can know that people have some freedom to do with their mind and plan, but women could not be free as much as men could.
-Industrial Revolution 1700-1850 Western World: women- frail, dependent
At the time, women started to work as like men, so they could get little freedom.
-Art Press and Museums-Futurism, Surrealism, DADA, Fluxus:
According to the dictionary, Surrealism is 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
From the definition, people can know that people can live fairly.

Friday, February 12, 2010

What I learned on February,12,2010

Today, I learned that i should focus on pitch, Tone, Timbre, Rhythm when i listen sound, and i should guess what materials make the sounds.

From the Power point that my professor showed me, i could learn and feel many things. For examples, i could learn aspects of sound forms and abstract sound forms. When i listened the lecture, i tried understand how they affect people. I found out that music is made by Melody,Harmony and Beat.Also, i learned some historical events in the class such as
Historical Roots
-Reformation 1500-1700 Europe:many people died: witch hunts
-Renaissance 1500-1800 Europe:invention/science
-Industrial Revolution 1700-1850 Western World:women- frail,dependent
-Art Press and Museums-Futurism, Surrealism,DADA, Fluxus

February,12,2010

Pitch/Tone/Timbre/Rhythm
Focus on them when you listen
-Practice to listen these four things.
-What materials makes sounds

Constancy vs. Variation

How do artists/designers use sound to make people FEEL something?

Sound Forms and How They Affect Us
Perspective Space,"Realistic"
(Environmental sound)-thinking and reasoning/orderly and logical


Abstract sound Forms-Feeling and sensing/ acting and intuiting
-simultaneity
-Transitions through a balance between constancy and variation
-Timbre
-rhythm
-pitch/tone
-Non- Music
Abstract sound examples
-american beauty, nike,sunny philly
-John oswald, beethoven's ninth streched
-hugo ball

Music
-Melody:repeatable phrase
-Harmony
-Beat

Abstract sound interpretations

Historical Roots
-Reformation 1500-1700 Europe:many people died: witch hunts
-Renaissance 1500-1800 Europe:invention/science
-Industrial Revolution 1700-1850 Western World:women- frail,dependent
-Art Press and Museums-Futurism, Surrealism,DADA, Fluxus

Underlying Our Interpretations
-Edgey: nature and the body are good
-Sublime: nature is awesome, or nature is dangerous
-Mysterious:rational education is for the working class, sensing and feeling are for the rich

Learning style result

Friday, February 5, 2010

(feb/05)notes and things that i learned in the class

If people put water into the computer by an accident, they should take off the battery,

People should know how to use time machine. It helps people to save documents safely, and speed of computer will be good if people do time machine,

Differences between KB and GB
kb-kilobytes
gb-gigabytes
kilo is smaller- approx 1000kb is 1mb
1000 mb is approx 1gb
In computer technology, the strength of a system is measured with the number of bytes it can handle, process or transfe

Objective
1) Research
2)Technical proficiency
3)History/contemporary/theories/criticality
4)Formal vocabulary/terms

The free sound project-www.freesound.org
Formal qualities
-simultanelty-things happening at the same time
-Point of view/listening
sound source position
-attack and decay
quickly volume goes up

sound attitudes
Industrial Noise Love
Acoustic Ecologists/Natora Sound Lovers
Sound as beautiful education

Group2)
Five questions
1) From the video, i could feel that the forest is destroyed by people, and it relates to global warming.
People should stop making noise.
(map charts)
2)Because of sounds which people make, lyre bird copies the sound from people, and the fact shows people that people destroy the forest and make noise.
3)They think that Our technology and bad behavior destroy the nature. The sound is very complex.
4)After we finished watching the video, we could know that our technology and bad behavior destroy nature a lot, so there are many animals which are influenced by the pollution.
5) I really want to work with him because i did not know we can study about pollution and global warming through the unique way. It is very interesting to know how people destroy the forest from the sound from the bird.

Extra credit) How does Leni reifenstahl manifest power through the aesthetic choices ( forms, arrangement of forms) in her Nazi films?

Group 3)
Movement of lights
Group 1)
sound of music with some noise

Friday, January 29, 2010

John Cage about silence

"I love sounds just as there are, and i have no need for them to be no more than what they are," says John cage who is very famous artist who really likes sounds. From the interview i watched in the class, I could feel that he is a person who really love every sound. I learned that sound can be longer, shorter and louder(etc). Also, he mentioned that all the sounds are unpredictable, so every sound is very interesting. He says silence and other sounds have more meaning than music has. From the idea, I learned that if people listen to other sounds carefully then they can feel many kinds of emotions more than they can feel from music.

notes(1/29) Things that i learned

vocab
Intervention: sound interject not normally heard in that space.
EX) silence

listen to three different places
1)fore: loud/clear
2)mid:
3)back:lower character/ echo muffled reverberation (소리의) 반향[잔향]

*sound can be bounced by surfaces
EX)wet place(more still) and dry place(splashing sound)

How to Create Space:
*contrast in two different things
-clarity/character
-volume/ amplitude

John Cage(father of time art) about silence

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Three places where I visited

Everyday, I hear and listen many kinds of sound, but I usually do not listen to them carefully.
Today, I tried to listen carefully every sound that I can hear in three places for homework.
The first place where I visited is the library in Syracuse University. In the library, I heard the voices of people, the sound of quick light footsteps, a sound of dragging chairs and a sound of flipping through pages of books. All of sounds were indistinct because of the loud music from my I-pod.
The second place where I went is the parking lot which located in front of my apartment. I could hear a faint sound of engine, a noise of a car staring up, a sound of folding the plastic bag, a sound of knocking, a noise of wind and sound of turning signal. My key clicked as it turned in the lock. The doorbell went ding-dong.
Last place where I stayed is Turning Stone Casino. In the place, The hall is alive with chatter and laughter, and I heard many kinds of languages such as Korean, Chinese, Japanese and English. I heard sound of rumbling from my stomach, my heart beating in my chest, machine noise,a sound of clicking heels and a set of pipes. I was alarmed at the sudden noise from a man who set next me.
From the assignment, I realized that there are many kinds of interesting sounds which i often ignore. I decided to research and study many kinds of sound for my projects.

Three things that i most learned in class on last friday(Jan,22,2010)

On Friday morning, I went to FND111. At first, I had no idea about Time Art. After i finished the class, i learned many things about Time Art. First, I realized that audio, video and images are very important for Time Art. For example, people can feel strong emotion from audio and video. Second, I realized that people can describe and express everything through Time Art. Third, from videos which my professor showed me during the class, i thought that i have to practice and learn how to use the I-movie and Mac to make a great video with fantastic sound as other students did last year.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Objective

1) Research
2)Technical proficiency
3)History/contemporary/theories/criticality
4)Formal vocabulary/terms