I chose to translate my favourite video, starring Muffy and Linette! I played with the humour of the video using a MousePressed function. I felt that it was perhaps too simple so tried adding other functions to the it, but it wasn’t as effective, so I removed them.
We chose to create a program somewhat like Paint, that enabled the user to point the wii at the screen created by two candles (placed conveniently in front of the laptop) and press ‘A’ to draw. Hitting ‘B’ enabled the user to change to a random colour. ’1′ cleared the screen.
(So called Penguin because the idea was that when one mastered this program they would be able to draw such an object.)
Aims for the future of the project:
1. Get a slide bar to adjust stroke width.
2. Create a colour palette to enable artist to choose which colour to use.
3. Simulate a better cursor.
After playing with the g-speak I thought people might find this interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxVS5nYFnkA
I intend to use the ‘mousepressed’ option to flicker between Muffy and Linette, my crazy furry boots, looking like dogs, and an image of me looking like I have stuffed my feet in their mouths. I would also location of the mouse to serve some function, but I plan on figuring that out using experimentation.
This is intended as a rather light-hearted self-portrait. There was a time when I would colour-coordinate ALL my clothing and accessories. Now not so much, but sometimes I still find it hard to resist!
This portrait shows the difference that the colour of make-up, clothing and accessories can have, and in doing so shows different sides of the self. That is not to say that what I wear effects my behaviour, but I think it is an interesting exploration of the superficial differences bought by physically changing one’s appearance.
The mousepressed option takes a different look at the effects of changing colour, by setting everything else monochrome and making the eyes ‘flash’. The face takes on a different ‘mood’ as the eyes change colour, which I used to demonstrate the importance of ones eyes in expressing emotion.
Christian Jankowski
Christian Jankowski and his work, Angels of Revenge. Photo / Kenny Rodger
Christian Jankowski is a contemporary multimedia artist who was born in Göttingen, Germany, in 1968. His work is largely focussed on photography, video, literature, performance, and instillation. He is very interested in mixing and meshing private and public, fiction and reality, which is epitomised in his piece ‘My Life as a Dove’, in which a professional magician transformed him into a dove, where he had no private life until his re-transformation. In his work ‘Let’s Get Physical/Digital’ in the boundaries between public and private are blurred and confused as the piece culminates in an intimate dialogue between Jankowski and his girl-friend that is transformed into actors playing parts.
One of his more famous creations is his work ‘Telemistica’. This is a video installation in which Jankowski questions several TV fortune-tellers live about the success of his upcoming artwork, which is, in fact, this very piece. It was included in the 1999 Venice Biennale. I was particularly interested by this piece:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=32246520673
which is set on various rooftops and particularly appealed to me because of it’s sense of humour and also because of its relevance to our current assignments. The open subtitles state that this is about “letting loose, relaxing, and contemplating on nature”, something akin to the slow passage of time.
He now lives and works in New York
The Holy Artwork, 2001. Video. 15 minutes, 52 seconds. Courtesy of Klosterfelde and maccarone, inc.
In this 15-minute video, Jankowski approaches and collapses at the feet of a televangelist and remains there while the man completes a sermon about art and God.
This piece is, in fact, a documentary about something of mine, two something’s of mine, that mean a lot to me…
I enjoyed creating it because there is humour in it and I like that it keeps the audience on edge… I hope!
This is a piece that, as you can tell from the name, is about oversleeping. Nothing is as frantic and hurried as someone when they are late, and I hoped to embody that in this film.
To me time moving slowly is embodied in boredom, which is what I hoped to portray here. I altered the sound to give the effect of time becoming slower and slower as boredom becomes more and more extreme.