Reading Response #1
In response to the reading and inside out project, I tried to take this art form and try to tweak it into my own terms as best as I could. JR’s work is really big and amazing, but I knew the way he displayed his art was way too big for me to achieve. I like the fact that he tried to give the art life and give it personal identity rather than it being some sort of commercial project. I tried to take that aspect and make it mine. In doing so I tried finding murals around my area, and catering the murals to my subjects and creating a sense of energy in unison with each other. Since I am not able to create these murals I let the subjects complement the space and make the picture within the frame of my view. As JR states in the reading “When I began . . . I immediately used the street as my gallery” which is what I tried to replicate. Since the murals around town are like an open gallery for artists to draw on. There is also this connection between his art and my photographs that I found beautiful, and it's the concept that in that moment that his and my art are taken, it is only seen for a short period of time and then disappears. “As the photos get washed away, the work eventually disappears, leaving only its documentation as both proof that the work existed, and as the work itself.” As my photos captured a small moment in time and is evidence that it happened. JR’s work gets washed away since it is just paper with glue on the wall and the only evidence that it was up is through photography. Lasty, this decoration of space with murals is not the only way of decorating space with visuals as I came across my fridge with polaroids of my family and me decorating the blank canvas, and to me although its a fraction of the size, it creates energy 1000 times the size of the small polaroid frame.
Reading Response #2
Both of these readings worked very seamlessly with the project we had to do this week. It all comes down to how humans have affected the landscape either by the form of buildings or machines being left behind in the landscape affecting the overall environment, or by the creation of buildings which take up the land to create a whole new scenery. Both of which affect the terrain and how it is navigated and seen. What I took from these two readings differed a bit in what I looked up when looking for my images. For Bryan Schutmaat’s interview on his work, I got the impression that he tried to photograph the environment with run down buildings and objects which have stood the test of time to the best of their abilities, but are decomposing along the landscape. This gives his images an old feeling to them, since the objects try to reterperate the time in which they were in pristine condition, but with age they become old, and it gives the impression of time passing since the landscape has aged with the object, but the landscape still holds its natural beauty. I found many images of old mining towns which have been abandoned and left behind to tarnish. These images resemble those of Bryan’s in my eyes and give the same effect. For the reading of Miguel Guitart Vilches, I got the impression that his art was trying to represent the rawness of the construction in the 60s after war. He tried to capture the buildings being made in the process while also capturing the landscape it was built on, ultimately capturing the change these great plains of land were going through. Instead of making them aesthetically pleasing he tried to capture as much of the change as he could to document the transformation of the land, and that is exactly what I looked for in these sets of images.
Reading Response #3
I believe the youth culture generation after generation give off this powerful aura when photographed in their natural state. Without doing much, when captured in real time, teenagers and young adults give off this energy when photographered that can't be replicated. It's the fact that these teenageres are growing up and going through life living at their fullest that give these images such a strong vibe to them. It's almost as if you can capture them at any moment in any lighting and still capture this energy that can be felt for generations to come, and it resonates with other younger generations and makes them think, this is what our parents could have been doing in their glory days? And usually, it's not too far off from what we're doing nowadays. It's a beautiful sight to see young adults in their zone, whatever that may be. After reading My Most Important Photograph by Lauren Greenfield, I went to find on the internet what I believe the urban scene is to me in my context. A lot of skateboarding and urban rap scenes is what I collected in the end since these are areas of interest to me. When finding these pictures they all screamed “youth” to me and it made me feel like I understood them. The freedom, the time, the energy, all accumulated in that one second that the picture was taken, to live on forever.
Reading Response #4
This was one of the most interesting reading responses I've had in this class so far. The website was interactive and it flowed so well it made me feel like I knew Pine Point myself. I have always lived in a pretty big town myself, but a lot of the aesthetics of the pictures taken in Pine Points remind me of pictures I find of my parents and uncles in the 90s. The walls covered with wood planks and the fashion all look way too alike of my family in the 90s. This location does give me the impression of my grandma's small town in texas she lives in called Chillicothe, Texas. The times I have visited I feel so out of place since the city is so small and old. They don't have any retail stores other than a gas station and a dairy queen along the highway that runs by the small city. One hospital, one elementary, middle, and highschool, and a town in which everyone knows each other. It makes me wonder what would happen to my grandmother if all of the sudden she would have to evacuate her little town she has known most of her life. I can't imagine this town being entirely shut down, and what would be of its remains. I like how the Pine Point website gives such a nostalgic feel. The photobook images and pictures of the architecture, the people that used to live there. It almost seems to document something that never happened, the only evidence they have that Pine Point was a thing would be the photographs taken in the moment, and that is exactly what this website achieves.
Media art has changed a lot in the years and in some cases it has stayed the same. Media art is a forever transitioning practice, and as art there will be new innovation and new technology. The way we experience media art has changed over time, but the concept remains the same. When you watch a show it will be on a screen like it was over 50 years ago, maybe just a better screen. When you listen to music you use headphones, now a days you have the option to opt out of wired and use the technology of Bluetooth. When you read a story you can still find physical books to look into, you might be able to find an eBook of it as well. The way we create media art I feel has the same feeling to it. When you shoot photography now a days the quality of the Image might be better, but you’re still using a camera with a lens. When you’re filming a movie the film camera may be better, but the film style may be the same as it was back in the day. When writing, a lot of people stick to the traditional pen and paper method, or you can type it up on a computer. In conclusion all I want to say is even with the advancement of new media, it still builds off of old media and to an extent it could never be replaced. In practices now a days some creators even prefer to use older technology to give it a nostalgic feel. Just because the technology is better does not mean the content is better as well. There are plenty of movies that were created years ago that are way better than some of the movies created now with state-of-the-art technology. At that point the only thing that matters is how the creator uses his tools to the best of their possibly. With the improvement of technology also comes other things such as the crowdsourcing and the increase of this practice. Because of the internet it has made many things readily accessible to anybody by the click of a couple button. Many things are transitioning to the internet and what it means as a society is if you’re not keeping up you’re falling behind. In today’s age employers are looking for people who are well rounded and have tools that can carry on their company for the next decade or so. That is why there is such an increase in jobs that are in the computer science industry. Many things are moving online and if you want an opportunity of being a part of the next generation of doers you need to be up to par with the needs of society.
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