Art History 'Utopia'

"Your presentation and poster need to address ‘utopia’: either historical constructions of, futuristic ideas for, artists who have engaged it, architectural models for, sustainability, sincerity and irony, or your own imaginings of …"

Ideas?!

Feminism!

Margret Atwood "A handmaids tale"

-Really it's a dystopian world, but wouldn't it be someones utopia?

The first thing that come to my mind when reading the brief...

Lady Gaga's video clip for 'Born This Way'

Video Clip

Links through my project

Facebook - Friends profile photographs - Saving them onto my computer - Printing the photographs out, turning them into hard copies - Taking photographs of the photos - Turning the photos of the photos into a film - Making a website, linking the photo of the photo back to Facebook

Starts and ends with Facebook

Website up and running

The link to the new website for my project:

The Web of Facebook

Layouts for Gallery

One of these layout will go along side my slideshow to give it a little something extra. Not sure which one yet...

Project Drawing: Sonic Landscapes

I have taken a lot of inspiration and ideas form Milan Knizak.


Here are some things a have experimented with:


These first two works are direct inspiration from Knizak.
I have drilled holes in this record. (I have also made sounds for this one, coming soon.)

This record has white tape stuck all over it.

I then experimented with cds:

I first burnt a song onto this cd, then scratched it a little bit. I but it into the cd player to play and it worked fine. So I took it out and scratched it a bit more. It still worked fine, you couldn't tell anything was different. So I again took it out and scratched it some more. Then it wouldn't play at all in the cd player. It was either to little or to much, I couldn't get an in between.

After finishing with that cd I got another one and burnet another song onto it. I first but tape onto and played it. The tape didn't make a difference. I then put a square of blue nail polish into the cd. This still didn't make a difference. I have scratched the cd, like I did to the other one, which had the same effect. It played up until a point and wouldn't play at all.

The Web of Many Faces

Milan Knizak

Milan Knizak (born April 19, 1940) Czechoslovakia) Knizak is a performance artist, sculptor, musician installation. To name a few.

Milan Knizak talking about his work:

"In 1963-64 I used to play records both too slowly and too fast and thus changed the quality of the music, thereby, creating new compositions. In 1965 I started to destroy records: scratch them, punch holes in them, break them. By playing them over and over again (which destroyed the needle and often the record player too) an entirely new music was created - unexpected, nerve-racking and aggressive. Compositions lasting one second or almost infinitely long (as when the needle got stuck in a deep groove and played the same phrase over and over). I developed this system further. I began sticking tape on top of records, painting over them, burning them, cutting them up and gluing different parts of records back together, etc. to achieve the widest possible variety of sounds. A glued joint created a rhythmic element separating contrasting melodic phrases... Since music that results from playing ruined gramophone records cannot be transcribed to notes or to another language (or if so, only with great difficulty), the records themselves may be considered as notations at the same time."