Family denotes a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence.
Social conservatives often express concern over a purported decay of the family and see this as a sign of the crumbling of contemporary society.
genetic distance of chimpanzees and human beings is only ~5%
Family values is a political and social concept used in various cultures to describe values that are believed to be traditional in that culture and in support of the idea that nuclear families are the basic units of culture.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Online Unmonumental Exhibition.
Montage: Unmonumental Online
Montage is the final exhibition in Unmonumental: the Object in the
21st Century at the New Museum
of Contemporary Art.
bruce nauman
Bruce Nauman's good boy bad boy video has the videos playing seperatley,
almost like they are talking to eachother.
almost like they are talking to eachother.
Collected video
Fernando Sanchez creates works with videos collected from youtube.,,
9 video tape recordings of the same American football game by different people in different context, collected via YouTube.
9 video tape recordings of the same American football game by different people in different context, collected via YouTube.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Movie Files
Sourcing segments of video files is prooving more difficult than i thought.
The files i already have as avi need to be loaded into the video editing program, that takes between 30 min- an hour... finding the dinner scene and cutting the rest of the movie out takes another decent ammount of time.
For the DVD videos i already have, i've needed to find a way to firstly save them as .avi type of files.
i found this tutorial that helps... and i've downloaded the programs it's recomended... http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an-AVI-or-MPG-File-Using-DVDx
The files i already have as avi need to be loaded into the video editing program, that takes between 30 min- an hour... finding the dinner scene and cutting the rest of the movie out takes another decent ammount of time.
For the DVD videos i already have, i've needed to find a way to firstly save them as .avi type of files.
i found this tutorial that helps... and i've downloaded the programs it's recomended... http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an-AVI-or-MPG-File-Using-DVDx
Friday, September 19, 2008
reference blog of dinner sceens.
This blog outlines some movie scenes...
good for reference.
http://misfortune-cookie.blogspot.com/2007/06/top-10-most-memorable-dinner-table.html
good for reference.
http://misfortune-cookie.blogspot.com/2007/06/top-10-most-memorable-dinner-table.html
Saturday, September 13, 2008
artists dealing with family/ place.
The family may turn your world upside down or be a safe haven of unconditional acceptance , but it is always an almost palpable receptacle for memory and self.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_/ai_93213733
Dysfunctional Family
Yinka Shonibare
1999
Shonibare uses exploration of status, alienation, and multiculturalism. He uses the creatures to play on the notion of the foreign--or "alien"--in today's social fabric.
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/8882
'untitled' / 'ray's a laugh',
1995 © richard billingham
courtesy scalo books
http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/billingham.html
Billingham takes candid photos of his family in the uk.
Housebound, alcoholic father Ray who drinks his own homebrew, tattooed, oversized mother Elizabeth, brother Jason and their assorted pets - as they live out their life in their small council flat in the Midlands of Britain.
using old family photos of both his family or that of his partner, this depicts the artist's vacillation between shame and pride.
http://www.tcmhi.org/ex_fhfilipino-american.htm#
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_/ai_93213733
Dysfunctional Family
Yinka Shonibare
1999
Shonibare uses exploration of status, alienation, and multiculturalism. He uses the creatures to play on the notion of the foreign--or "alien"--in today's social fabric.
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/8882
'untitled' / 'ray's a laugh',
1995 © richard billingham
courtesy scalo books
http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/billingham.html
Billingham takes candid photos of his family in the uk.
Housebound, alcoholic father Ray who drinks his own homebrew, tattooed, oversized mother Elizabeth, brother Jason and their assorted pets - as they live out their life in their small council flat in the Midlands of Britain.
using old family photos of both his family or that of his partner, this depicts the artist's vacillation between shame and pride.
http://www.tcmhi.org/ex_fhfilipino-american.htm#
Monday, September 8, 2008
links to video databasses
www.videoart.net
www.post-videoart.com
www.the-artist.org/tours/video-art.cfm
www.videoart.suite.dk
www.vdb.org
www.videoart.suite.dk/essays/index.htm
www.post-videoart.com
www.the-artist.org/tours/video-art.cfm
www.videoart.suite.dk
www.vdb.org
www.videoart.suite.dk/essays/index.htm
video instillation ideas.
An essay VIDEO + TIME + SPACE = VIDEO INSTALLATION
Video exists, then, not only in time but also in space:
I found this v on ebay, might buy it cheap to play the video on.
if i am intending to install the video this way, i would like to get a tv cabinet.
the instilation if made like this would give the viewer a sense of it being like home...
of more in the place...
Video exists, then, not only in time but also in space:
"Video is commonly regarded as a temporal medium. The technological nature of video, however, gives it relevance not only in time but in space. Due to the nature(s) of its representation, video exists spatially as well as temporally"
I found this v on ebay, might buy it cheap to play the video on.
if i am intending to install the video this way, i would like to get a tv cabinet.
the instilation if made like this would give the viewer a sense of it being like home...
of more in the place...
New Assignment
Place and particularities.
The second project focuses on the artist's sense of place- My sense of place.
A sense of place could be described as either physical place as in location or a feeling/ perception held by somebody.
For example, my place at work is an assistant, therefore giving me special ways to act. Another sense of place could be within a family, yet giving a person another way to act.
A sense of place, as far as the feelings go could be related to a e person's feelings of attachment and belonging..
This article in the age "A sense of place" discusses the notion of a sense of place...
"But connection to place is vital to our sense of identity - both personal and communal." the article discusses memorial spaces, and how they matter, and that the location of them is improtant.
one paragraph =
"Go to the suburb where you grew up (it's probably not very far from where you live now, stamping grounds being what they are) and walk the footpaths, the shops where you strolled and loitered as a teenager; the park where you learned to kick a football, fly a kite or trained your dog to fetch; the backyard where you took your first catch or learned to skip, climb, hide or whistle. Not significant? Go and have a look."
stomping grounds would give an important sense of place.
other places the article mention is cathedrals, churches, chapels, courts and concert halls. all places that would ignite a sense of place, even if one doesnt feel like they belong to the place.
it would be a place where anyone would recognise and 'be in touch with'.
Technological sense of place "
The second project focuses on the artist's sense of place- My sense of place.
A sense of place could be described as either physical place as in location or a feeling/ perception held by somebody.
For example, my place at work is an assistant, therefore giving me special ways to act. Another sense of place could be within a family, yet giving a person another way to act.
A sense of place, as far as the feelings go could be related to a e person's feelings of attachment and belonging..
This article in the age "A sense of place" discusses the notion of a sense of place...
"But connection to place is vital to our sense of identity - both personal and communal." the article discusses memorial spaces, and how they matter, and that the location of them is improtant.
one paragraph =
"Go to the suburb where you grew up (it's probably not very far from where you live now, stamping grounds being what they are) and walk the footpaths, the shops where you strolled and loitered as a teenager; the park where you learned to kick a football, fly a kite or trained your dog to fetch; the backyard where you took your first catch or learned to skip, climb, hide or whistle. Not significant? Go and have a look."
stomping grounds would give an important sense of place.
other places the article mention is cathedrals, churches, chapels, courts and concert halls. all places that would ignite a sense of place, even if one doesnt feel like they belong to the place.
it would be a place where anyone would recognise and 'be in touch with'.
Technological sense of place "
- Global village, a term for describing the world that people are considered to live in a planet without borders/ boundaries. It is because any change of one element has an impact on other elements in the world.
- Global village (Internet), a metaphor to describe the Internet and World Wide Web
- Global Village (term), a term for cultural mixing
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Video art.
Watching the ABC- this video cam on...
Unfed-
it was quite interesting, and could relate to the next assignment... (individualism)..
the video is "Inside the cramped bedrooms of a shared household, four dancers experience the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
Opens up the ideas of creating video using performance..
The tuning on my tv is crap so the video was shown in black and white-
i think it looks better in black and white, and could be a good thing to keep in mind when i make my vid.
Unfed-
it was quite interesting, and could relate to the next assignment... (individualism)..
the video is "Inside the cramped bedrooms of a shared household, four dancers experience the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
Opens up the ideas of creating video using performance..
The tuning on my tv is crap so the video was shown in black and white-
i think it looks better in black and white, and could be a good thing to keep in mind when i make my vid.
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