Week 5 Collage

Sweetwater http://www.asahi-net.or.jp
Japanese artist Natsuki Kimura, makes a living as a designer and influences are Mark Rothko, Richard Brautigan, Toshinobu Onosato, Warren Zevon. He takes considerable attention to the positioning, space and symmetry of image. Very controlled and simplistic approach.
Collage is an intriguing concept, last year in the Painting and Drawing class we were asked to collage images cut out from magazines. My lecturer told me to freely place images and not let the mind control the positioning. Where as now, we are digitally collaging images and alot of thought is at play with colour, space, line, effects and positioning. I feel like i am caught between the two.

Today i brought in 120 photos i have taken from the Arthouse. I initially selected two images to merge into each other as the background. One of inside the Arthouse and another from the beer garden. I first masked the layer then used the gradient icon to fade the images into each other. I then took a old pool table light from another room at the Arthouse and used the magic wand to outline the designated area. I then masked the layer and painted in black over the areas i wanted to get rid of and to clean up the image borders. I transformed the image (command T) and held shift to hold its shape and selected colour dodge as the effect. As jack the dog is (so called) the owner and security, i magic wand the area around him and transformed his size. The next image was of a band playing and the light manipulated, so once again i used the magic wand to select the image and transformed the size. Another image of a friend playing i imported next to the background layers, i changed the size, masked it and used the gradient effect. The last image i used on the Arthouse symbol and played in on top of the cigarette machine poster and used linear light as the effect. I noticed too much transparency so made the pool table light effect back to normal.
This collage i made today was quite busy and chaotic. I worked their last saturday night on a sold out show, maybe the chaos of that night is still in my mind and subconsciencly portrayed. Today was the first time i have used Photoshop so with the limited tools i used, i believe i have a long way to go, i will look at the online tutorial for Photoshop tomorrow.

Week 3 - Looking at Mobile Phone Art

We carry our mobile phones with us everywhere, why not use them as tools for creating digital art. As with sleepyurbanite, a Chicargo musician/artist has done, capturing her daily life on her mobile phone. An idea which appeals to me for my final project. I have decided to collect resources of all kinds that represents The Arthouse, a live music venue which is threatening to shut down due to new liquor licensing laws. The Arthouse has been a home, workplace, music venue and a family to me for 5 years, only a quarter of the time it has been established, so you can imagine how The Arthouse has impacted musicians and people over the 19yrs.


Bluetooth is a convenient method for transferring and sharing digital art, i found it intriguing to create artworks in Adobe Illustrator to then transfer to mobile phones. I have discovered there are so many options with mobile phone to experiment with.
Adobe Illustrator, Go to Mobile and devices document. Online library - find sony ericsson model. New Document, tick custom size for all selected devices, content type - choose, then click on CREATE. Save as SVG compressed. Bluetooth icon select send file.

Txtualhealing.com
"The Only Centainity, Death and TXT's is another digital artwork which appeals to me. Where a skeleton is projected on a wall and viewers interact by texting what they want the skeleton to say. The interactive nature of this digital art allows views to take part in creating the artwork and to a degree part-ownership. The Arthouse is having its 19th birthday in May and this could be a great idea for everyone to have there say. Ideally i would love to display images from over the years of bands, musicians, friends, colleagues, family, backpackers and allow viewers on the birthday night to have there say by texting. I looked up a couple of webites http://www.ehow.com/how_2172140_text-message-tv-screen.html which explains how to text msg to your computer screen although i think it will be too difficult to manage and operate on the night. Alternatively i could start up a website that displays the images and viewers add there text there. I would then display the website and all the interactive texts recieved on the night.

Week 2 The Text Effect

Text is a powerful way to portray aesthetics, messages and themes in art. Week One i interacted with David Wicks digital art on Rhizome: Time Spent Alone, where text supported visual images of the world. Jenny Holzer's Truisms looks at text in a dominant form where her Trusims appear endless and strong by repetitive use of large red font. When thinking about creating my own digital art using text, i feel its detrimental to be careful with word choice, colours, fonts and size, as all will influence and change the intended effect and message. Alternatively there are other approaches to text art, evident in Ern Malley's poetry "the darkening effect." He didn't have an intended effect or message and instead left it to the viewer to interpret freely (in a slightly mocking way as little sense could be made). Week Two i attempted Ern Malleys poetry and viewed The Zeitgeist Movement website. I pulled random words and sentences from the Synopsis, Psychology, Sociology, Technology and Sustainability pages to create my own poem. I constructed the poem both random and consciously.
I have not worked with Adobe Illustrator previously and found it easy to use with numerous options to support digital art and text. Week Two we brainstormed ideas for a theme or message for our digital art, ideas so far include: The Arthouse, Deutchland, Zeitgeist, Society and Identity. I am leaning towards Zeitgeist and The Arthouse for my digital artworks.

REMINDERS:
Adobe Illustrator - to select letter, right click, create outlines, direct selection tool
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphic (for publishing and printing websites.
Burning to CD "Allow multiple sessions" tick box


My attempt at Ern Malley Poem utilizing The Zeitgeist Movement and in 4 languages:

The new world order, social change.
Our current world exerts and their dominance for a long time.
The norm in our society is this pattern of lazy and corrupt.
Isolated social change has repeatedly been lost by
certain ideas in society of have nothing as a true resource.
Serious distortion of our world.
Time to persue and start looking for this pattern.
For a long time of self perpetuating and exchange and values.
Ability to interfere with our awareness and insight we then see.

Die neue Weltordnung, soziale Veränderung.
Unsere gegenwärtige Welt wendet und ihre Herrschaft für eine lange Zeit an.
Die Norm in unserer Gesellschaft ist dieses Muster von faulem und von verdorbenem. Lokalisierte soziale Veränderung ist wiederholt vorbei verloren worden bestimmte Ideen in der Gesellschaft von haben nichts als zutreffendes Hilfsmittel.
Ernste Verzerrung unserer Welt.
Zeit, und nach dieses Muster, zu suchen zu beginnen auszuüben.
Für eine lange Zeit von der Selbstverewigung und Austausch und Werte.
Fähigkeit, unser Bewusstsein zu behindern und Einblick, die wir dann sehen.

Η νέα παγκόσμια τάξη, κοινωνική αλλαγή.
Ο τρέχων κόσμος μας ασκεί και η κυριαρχία τους για πολύ.
Ο κανόνας στην κοινωνία μας είναι αυτό το σχέδιο οκνηρός και αλλοιωμένος.
Η απομονωμένη κοινωνική αλλαγή έχει χαθεί επανειλημμένα κοντά ορισμένες ιδέες στην κοινωνία δεν έχουν τίποτα ως αληθινό πόρο. Σοβαρή διαστρέβλωση του κόσμου μας.
Χρόνος να ακολουθηθεί και να αρχίσει αυτό το σχέδιο.
Για πολύ της μόνης διαιώνισης και της ανταλλαγής και των τιμών.
Δυνατότητα να παρεμποδίσουμε τη συνειδητοποίησή μας και διορατικότητα βλέπουμε έπειτα.

新世界秩序、社会の変化。私達の現在の世界は優勢長い間出。
私達の社会の標準は不精および不正のこのパターンである。
隔離された社会の変化は繰り返し失われた社会の
ある特定の考えにの本当資源として何もない。
私達の世界の深刻なゆがみ。
追求し、このパターンを捜し始める時間。
長い間自己の永続のおよび交換および価値。
私達の意識と干渉する私達が見る洞察力および能力。