We have finished putting together the film and just need to organize the booklet & the jewel case cover and back.
Learned how to make stickers yesterday and how to heat plastic onto surfaces such as a mobile phone.
Tuesday 8 June 2010
Tuesday 1 June 2010
Finalizing Projects
This week and next week are our last chances to finish our projects and finish this course, We are working on the cover, back and booklet for our documentary CD case and on Thursday I will need to add my voice to my section on the documentary then it will be clipped and edited & completed.
Had a meeting at 3 o'clock with learning support downstairs yesterday to see how I was doing and what could be improved in class and for my next course.
Ive completed the back for the CD case and all I need to do now is have it transfered into Brian's computer via memory block or stick and it shall be printed in color in the library.
Had a meeting at 3 o'clock with learning support downstairs yesterday to see how I was doing and what could be improved in class and for my next course.
Ive completed the back for the CD case and all I need to do now is have it transfered into Brian's computer via memory block or stick and it shall be printed in color in the library.
Thursday 27 May 2010
Step by step video producing process
Once we have filmed a video clip we then connect the camera to the computer then import the video clips, this can take several hours or minutes.
Once imported the clips are then put into i movie and trimmed and cut and dragged into the way we want then we merge the clips together and add audio & music.
The finished movie can either be stored in itunes or a CD,DVD or USB stick.
It could be displayed via projector,cinema or tv or other portable video devices.
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Links for research I used:
www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/Stirling%20Castle_tcm4-504280.pdf
www.buildingconnections.co.uk/resources/castles/Castlesinfoall.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Castle
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I didn't find much research to go by but from the links above I gathered up what information I could from these and my past trips to stirling castle as best I could.
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Video Artists
1. Ant Farm {group}
Founded in San Francisco in 1968 by Chip Lord and Doug Michels, Ant Farm was an avant-garde architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design practice. The name was given to them by a friend to whom they had described what they were doing as “underground architecture,” taking the name literally she responded, “oh underground architecture is what ants do!” Eventually, Lord and Michels were joined by Hudson Marquez and Curtis Schreier.
The group was a self-described "art agency that promotes ideas that have no commercial potential, but which we think are important vehicles of cultural introspection." In addition to their architecture works, the collective was well-known for their counter-cultural performances and media events, such as Media Burn. Their installation, Cadillac Ranch, remains an icon of American popular culture. Ant Farm disbanded in 1978 when a fire destroyed their San Francisco studio.
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2. Zarina Bhimji
Zarina Bhimji was educated at Leicester Polytechnic (1982 – 1983), Goldsmiths' College (1983 – 1986) and Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1987 – 1989).
In 2001 Bhimji won the EAST award at EASTinternational selected by Mary Kelly and Peter Wollen.
The artist participated in Documenta 11 (June - September 2002) with her 16mm film "Out of Blue".
2003–2007, she travelled widely in India, East Africa and Zanzibar, studying legal documents and the stories of those who formed British power in those countries, carrying out interviews and taking photographs.
In 2003 Zarina Bhimji received the ICP's (International Center for Photography, New York City) Infinity Award in the Art Photography category. Other recipients for this award category have included David Hockney (1985), Chuck Close (1990), Cindy Sherman (1994), Sigmar Polke (1998), Andreas Gursky 2001), Shirin Neshat (2002) and Thomas Ruff (2006).
In 2007, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for photographs of Uganda. Their theme is the expulsion of Asians from the country by Idi Amin and the subsequent loss and grief caused. The photos were in exhibitions at Haunch of Venison gallery in London and Zurich. Her Turner Prize display includes a film, Waiting, which was shot in a sisal-processing factory. This is on high-definition video, transferred from the original 35mm film.
The Tate gallery describes her work:
“ Bhimji’s photographs capture human traces in landscape and architecture. Walls are a recurring motif, attracting her through their absorption of history as they become a record of those who built, lived within and ultimately abandoned them. Despite a conspicuous absence of the body, the photographs emit a human presence. Reference to it is sometimes explicit – a row of guns awaiting use in Illegal Sleep, yet sometimes only implied – the hanging, disconnected and electrical wires in my Burnt my heart ...
Bhimji captures her sites with relentless formal concerns intended to convey qualities of universal human emotion and existence – grief, longing, love and hope. Concrete places become abstract sentiments as the physical rhythms of landscape and architecture become psychological.
”
She lives and works in London.
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3. Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler is an artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College (1965) and the University of California, San Diego (1974).
Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and teaches art at Rutgers University and the Städelschule in Frankfurt.
She serves in an advisory capacity to the departments of education at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (all New York City). She is on the board of the Van Alen Institute and is a former board member of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, New York.
Rosler’s work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.
Her work has been seen in the Venice Biennale of 2003; the Liverpool Biennial and the Taipei Biennial (both 2004); as well as many major international survey shows, including the "documenta" exhibitions in Kassel, Germany, of 1982 and 2007, the SkulpturProjekte Münster 2007, and several Whitney Biennials. She has had numerous solo exhibitions. In 2006 her work was the subject of solo exhibitions at the University of Rennes and in 2007 at the Worcester Museum of Art. A retrospective of her work, “Positions in the Life World” (1998-2000) was shown in five European cities (Birmingham, England; Vienna; Lyon/Villeurbanne; Barcelona; and Rotterdam) and, concurrently, at the International Center of Photography and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (both in New York).
Her solo show, “London Garage Sale,” was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in June 2005, revisting a series of exhibitions she has held since 1973 that center on the American garage sale. E-flux sponsored "The Martha Rosler Library," in which, starting in November 2005, over 7,500 volumes from her private collection were made available as a public resource;[1] the collection then traveled to the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany and to Antwerp's Muhka (Museum of Contemporary Art) in conjunction with NICC, an artist-run space; to UnitedNationsPlaza School in Berlin, and, in 2007 through early 2008, to the Institut National de L'Histoire de L'Art in Paris, then to Stills in Edinburgh from August to November 2008.
Art
Among her most widely known works are the pioneering videotapes "Semiotics of the Kitchen" (1974/75), "Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained" (1977), "Losing: A Conversation with the Parents" (1977), and, with Paper Tiger Television, "Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M" (1988). Her photo/text work "The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems" (1974/75) is considered a seminal work in conceptual and postmodern photographic practice. Also widely noted are her series of photomontages, "Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain" (1966-72), addressing the photographic representation of women and domesticity and "Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful," addressing the imagery of the Vietnam War (1967-72; reprised in relation to the War in Iraq in 2004 and 2008).
Many of these works are concerned with the geopolitics of entitlements and dispossession. Her writing and photographic series on roads, the system of air transport, and urban undergrounds (subways or metros) join her other works addressing urban planning and architecture, from housing to homelessness. In 1989, in lieu of a solo exhibition at the Dia Art Foundation in New York City, Rosler organized the project "If You Lived Here...", in which over 50 artists, film- and video producers, photographers, architects, planners, homeless people, squatters, activist groups, and schoolchildren addressed contested living situations, architecture, planning, and utopian visions. In 2009, an archive exhibition based on this project, "If You Lived Here Still," opened at e-flux's gallery in New York and then traveled (2010) to Casco Office for Art Design and Theory, in Utrecht, Netherlands.
At the Utopia Station show at the Venice Biennale of 2003, she worked with about 30 of her students from Stockholm and Copenhagen, as well as a small, far-flung internet group, 'the Fleas', to produce banners and a mini-pavilion exploring utopian schemes and communities and their political and social ramifications.[2] She has done two tours of historical sites, one in Hamburg (1993) and one in Liverpool (2004), in conjunction with curated art projects. At the Frieze Art Fair (London) of 2005, she conducted a tour of this temporary site from its siting and construction to all aspects of its customer service, maintenance, and security.
About eight thousand books from her personal library have been circulating as Martha Rosler Library in the United States and Europe under the auspices of e-flux, a small organization that has organized a handful of traveling projects that often reside outside the common institutional frames of the art world. This project, a reading room rather than a library, settles down in various cities (including New York, Frankfurt, Berlin, Antwerp, and Paris) for various periods, in venues in and around art institutions, schools, and libraries. Visitors can sit and read or make free photocopies. Other projects, such as reading groups, have often been organized locally in conjunction with this project.
Published Works
Martha Rosler's essays have been published widely in catalogs, magazines, such as Artforum, Afterimage, Quaderns, and Grey Room, and edited collections, among them: Women Artists at the Millennium (October Books/MIT, 2006). She has produced numerous other "Word Works" and photo/text publications; now exploring cookery in a mock dialogue between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, now analyzing imagery of women in Russia or exploring responses to repression, crisis, and war. Her essay "In, around, and Afterthoughts (on documentary photography)" (1981 but widely cited, republished, and translated) has been credited with a great role in dismantling the myths of photographic disinterestedness and in generating a discussion about the importance of institutional and discursive framing in determining photographic meaning.
Rosler has published fifteen books of photography, art, and writing. Among them are Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Essays 1975-2001 (MIT Press, 2004), the photo books Passionate Signals (Cantz, 2005), In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (Cantz, 1997), and Rights of Passage (NYFA, 1995). If You Lived Here (Free Press, 1991) discusses and supplements her Dia project on housing, homelessness, and urban life. Several books, in English and other languages, were published in 2006, including a 25-year edition of 3 Works (Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design ISBN 0-919616-46-1). The collection "Imágenes Públicas," Spanish translations of some essays and video scripts, was published in 2007.
Awards
Rosler was awarded the Spectrum International Prize in Photography for 2005. The prize was accompanied by a photo and video retrospective, “If Not Now, When?” at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and NGBK in Berlin. The book Passionate Signals accompanied this exhibition. In 2006 she received the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest fine arts award. She received an Anonymous Was A Woman Award for 2007 and was the USA Artists NImoy Fellow, in 2009. In 2009 also she was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Residency.
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Once imported the clips are then put into i movie and trimmed and cut and dragged into the way we want then we merge the clips together and add audio & music.
The finished movie can either be stored in itunes or a CD,DVD or USB stick.
It could be displayed via projector,cinema or tv or other portable video devices.
____________
Links for research I used:
www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/Stirling%20Castle_tcm4-504280.pdf
www.buildingconnections.co.uk/resources/castles/Castlesinfoall.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Castle
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I didn't find much research to go by but from the links above I gathered up what information I could from these and my past trips to stirling castle as best I could.
___
Video Artists
1. Ant Farm {group}
Founded in San Francisco in 1968 by Chip Lord and Doug Michels, Ant Farm was an avant-garde architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design practice. The name was given to them by a friend to whom they had described what they were doing as “underground architecture,” taking the name literally she responded, “oh underground architecture is what ants do!” Eventually, Lord and Michels were joined by Hudson Marquez and Curtis Schreier.
The group was a self-described "art agency that promotes ideas that have no commercial potential, but which we think are important vehicles of cultural introspection." In addition to their architecture works, the collective was well-known for their counter-cultural performances and media events, such as Media Burn. Their installation, Cadillac Ranch, remains an icon of American popular culture. Ant Farm disbanded in 1978 when a fire destroyed their San Francisco studio.
_
2. Zarina Bhimji
Zarina Bhimji was educated at Leicester Polytechnic (1982 – 1983), Goldsmiths' College (1983 – 1986) and Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1987 – 1989).
In 2001 Bhimji won the EAST award at EASTinternational selected by Mary Kelly and Peter Wollen.
The artist participated in Documenta 11 (June - September 2002) with her 16mm film "Out of Blue".
2003–2007, she travelled widely in India, East Africa and Zanzibar, studying legal documents and the stories of those who formed British power in those countries, carrying out interviews and taking photographs.
In 2003 Zarina Bhimji received the ICP's (International Center for Photography, New York City) Infinity Award in the Art Photography category. Other recipients for this award category have included David Hockney (1985), Chuck Close (1990), Cindy Sherman (1994), Sigmar Polke (1998), Andreas Gursky 2001), Shirin Neshat (2002) and Thomas Ruff (2006).
In 2007, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for photographs of Uganda. Their theme is the expulsion of Asians from the country by Idi Amin and the subsequent loss and grief caused. The photos were in exhibitions at Haunch of Venison gallery in London and Zurich. Her Turner Prize display includes a film, Waiting, which was shot in a sisal-processing factory. This is on high-definition video, transferred from the original 35mm film.
The Tate gallery describes her work:
“ Bhimji’s photographs capture human traces in landscape and architecture. Walls are a recurring motif, attracting her through their absorption of history as they become a record of those who built, lived within and ultimately abandoned them. Despite a conspicuous absence of the body, the photographs emit a human presence. Reference to it is sometimes explicit – a row of guns awaiting use in Illegal Sleep, yet sometimes only implied – the hanging, disconnected and electrical wires in my Burnt my heart ...
Bhimji captures her sites with relentless formal concerns intended to convey qualities of universal human emotion and existence – grief, longing, love and hope. Concrete places become abstract sentiments as the physical rhythms of landscape and architecture become psychological.
”
She lives and works in London.
----
3. Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler is an artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College (1965) and the University of California, San Diego (1974).
Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and teaches art at Rutgers University and the Städelschule in Frankfurt.
She serves in an advisory capacity to the departments of education at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (all New York City). She is on the board of the Van Alen Institute and is a former board member of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, New York.
Rosler’s work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.
Her work has been seen in the Venice Biennale of 2003; the Liverpool Biennial and the Taipei Biennial (both 2004); as well as many major international survey shows, including the "documenta" exhibitions in Kassel, Germany, of 1982 and 2007, the SkulpturProjekte Münster 2007, and several Whitney Biennials. She has had numerous solo exhibitions. In 2006 her work was the subject of solo exhibitions at the University of Rennes and in 2007 at the Worcester Museum of Art. A retrospective of her work, “Positions in the Life World” (1998-2000) was shown in five European cities (Birmingham, England; Vienna; Lyon/Villeurbanne; Barcelona; and Rotterdam) and, concurrently, at the International Center of Photography and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (both in New York).
Her solo show, “London Garage Sale,” was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in June 2005, revisting a series of exhibitions she has held since 1973 that center on the American garage sale. E-flux sponsored "The Martha Rosler Library," in which, starting in November 2005, over 7,500 volumes from her private collection were made available as a public resource;[1] the collection then traveled to the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany and to Antwerp's Muhka (Museum of Contemporary Art) in conjunction with NICC, an artist-run space; to UnitedNationsPlaza School in Berlin, and, in 2007 through early 2008, to the Institut National de L'Histoire de L'Art in Paris, then to Stills in Edinburgh from August to November 2008.
Art
Among her most widely known works are the pioneering videotapes "Semiotics of the Kitchen" (1974/75), "Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained" (1977), "Losing: A Conversation with the Parents" (1977), and, with Paper Tiger Television, "Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M" (1988). Her photo/text work "The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems" (1974/75) is considered a seminal work in conceptual and postmodern photographic practice. Also widely noted are her series of photomontages, "Body Beautiful, or Beauty Knows No Pain" (1966-72), addressing the photographic representation of women and domesticity and "Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful," addressing the imagery of the Vietnam War (1967-72; reprised in relation to the War in Iraq in 2004 and 2008).
Many of these works are concerned with the geopolitics of entitlements and dispossession. Her writing and photographic series on roads, the system of air transport, and urban undergrounds (subways or metros) join her other works addressing urban planning and architecture, from housing to homelessness. In 1989, in lieu of a solo exhibition at the Dia Art Foundation in New York City, Rosler organized the project "If You Lived Here...", in which over 50 artists, film- and video producers, photographers, architects, planners, homeless people, squatters, activist groups, and schoolchildren addressed contested living situations, architecture, planning, and utopian visions. In 2009, an archive exhibition based on this project, "If You Lived Here Still," opened at e-flux's gallery in New York and then traveled (2010) to Casco Office for Art Design and Theory, in Utrecht, Netherlands.
At the Utopia Station show at the Venice Biennale of 2003, she worked with about 30 of her students from Stockholm and Copenhagen, as well as a small, far-flung internet group, 'the Fleas', to produce banners and a mini-pavilion exploring utopian schemes and communities and their political and social ramifications.[2] She has done two tours of historical sites, one in Hamburg (1993) and one in Liverpool (2004), in conjunction with curated art projects. At the Frieze Art Fair (London) of 2005, she conducted a tour of this temporary site from its siting and construction to all aspects of its customer service, maintenance, and security.
About eight thousand books from her personal library have been circulating as Martha Rosler Library in the United States and Europe under the auspices of e-flux, a small organization that has organized a handful of traveling projects that often reside outside the common institutional frames of the art world. This project, a reading room rather than a library, settles down in various cities (including New York, Frankfurt, Berlin, Antwerp, and Paris) for various periods, in venues in and around art institutions, schools, and libraries. Visitors can sit and read or make free photocopies. Other projects, such as reading groups, have often been organized locally in conjunction with this project.
Published Works
Martha Rosler's essays have been published widely in catalogs, magazines, such as Artforum, Afterimage, Quaderns, and Grey Room, and edited collections, among them: Women Artists at the Millennium (October Books/MIT, 2006). She has produced numerous other "Word Works" and photo/text publications; now exploring cookery in a mock dialogue between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, now analyzing imagery of women in Russia or exploring responses to repression, crisis, and war. Her essay "In, around, and Afterthoughts (on documentary photography)" (1981 but widely cited, republished, and translated) has been credited with a great role in dismantling the myths of photographic disinterestedness and in generating a discussion about the importance of institutional and discursive framing in determining photographic meaning.
Rosler has published fifteen books of photography, art, and writing. Among them are Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Essays 1975-2001 (MIT Press, 2004), the photo books Passionate Signals (Cantz, 2005), In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (Cantz, 1997), and Rights of Passage (NYFA, 1995). If You Lived Here (Free Press, 1991) discusses and supplements her Dia project on housing, homelessness, and urban life. Several books, in English and other languages, were published in 2006, including a 25-year edition of 3 Works (Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design ISBN 0-919616-46-1). The collection "Imágenes Públicas," Spanish translations of some essays and video scripts, was published in 2007.
Awards
Rosler was awarded the Spectrum International Prize in Photography for 2005. The prize was accompanied by a photo and video retrospective, “If Not Now, When?” at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and NGBK in Berlin. The book Passionate Signals accompanied this exhibition. In 2006 she received the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest fine arts award. She received an Anonymous Was A Woman Award for 2007 and was the USA Artists NImoy Fellow, in 2009. In 2009 also she was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Residency.
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Tuesday 25 May 2010
Tuesday 25th May
In art class on Monday we drew outside landscapes and plants with charcoal and chalk, today we are continuing designing the disc box and cover of the CD with a suitable design.
Need to make an individual statement about myself or one of my group writes it in the booklet ,to be short & family friendly.
Still need to work on my voice on my section of the video.
need credits for the movie, give thanks to historic Scotland.
Work on Easter egg & blooper reel and several other bits and pieces last chance to finish is next week.
Need to make an individual statement about myself or one of my group writes it in the booklet ,to be short & family friendly.
Still need to work on my voice on my section of the video.
need credits for the movie, give thanks to historic Scotland.
Work on Easter egg & blooper reel and several other bits and pieces last chance to finish is next week.
Tuesday 11 May 2010
todays tasks
Made a slideshow with the pictures we took on the castle trip and added ken burns effect & music.
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We will also sort out video commentary and DVD cover and extras
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We will also sort out video commentary and DVD cover and extras
The trip
At stirling castle we filmed and took photographs then transfered clips and images to the computer and printed the images onto A4 paper and our lecturer made them bigger and we monoprinted them.
The films are just in the starting stages we are cutting sections we don't want and organizing them in order.
The films are just in the starting stages we are cutting sections we don't want and organizing them in order.
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Stirling Castle photos
In the student data folder we dragged a zip folder of stirling castle images to the desktop then we unzipped the folder and dragged the images to iphoto we then selected all the images with the shift key and dragged them to the left sidebar to make an album entitled 'Stirling Castle'.
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