VISA 0120 Foundations Media: Computation + Art

When thinking of time, I was most interested in how what seems to be a random, crazy, and chaotic combination of incidents at the time it is happening can shrink to a single frame of picture in memory. While the reality can be ugly, hurtful, or even meaningless, we tend to take different fragments of the real events to come up with a ‘false’ memory (in the sense that it only follows one part of the sequence as in movies, as opposed to the reality where every sequence is happening at the same time) and put it in our sanctuary, all edited and sealed and disguised as beautiful and ‘whole’.

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Monday through Thursday: 10am – midnight

Friday: closed

Saturday: 10am – 5pm

Sunday: noon – midnight

For the long weekend, it will be open on Monday and Tuesday but most likely not on Sunday.

Direction:

1. Consider the subjectivity of time.

2. Include the start and end of time.

3. Do these by adding to/editing/continuing on with your previous drawing. Love what you were doing there.

We try to capture and moments and fragments of our time through memory, and  mummify them in a sense (Pictures are one of the most popular way of doing this, which is why i chose to integrate its elemets into the piece.) The reality of the time as we experience it, however, i believe is always different from the ‘framed’ memory because we tend to distort the reality in the process of selecting which moments to keep. The clean-cut ‘frame’ in the piece represents such ‘photo moments’ that we think to have been perfect and happy, while the central part of the piece thatis much more chaotic, creepy, and seem to be exploding reflects the actual reality that is merely a collection of fragments of sensory experience and emotions occuring simultaneously.