new idea

DIY 'Zine Publishing! I'm for it. I'll help with distro, printing, find contributions etc. if you'd like.
-cory

new idea

hey guys, its selena. I've recently become interested in design and i'm wondering if anyone can help me with this new idea i have to practice design and learn about it. I'm hoping to make a low-art magazine that features emerging artists (like us), using to design to help emphasis the work. I'm thinking of making it really inexpensive to produce, and showing all types of art -photos, poems, song lyrics (that could include a link to the song online), paintings, even screen shots from films.

So i guess the idea would be to use the bare minimum in materials to create an effect on the audience. You guys could all help by submitting works or giving me any suggestions on how it could work. Again, i just thought of this idea a few days ago so its really new, but everyone's input is welcome. if you have ideas you could e-mail me; sellee@yorku.ca


thanks!

Obama Night

Project Title:
Obama Night

Project Summary:
Obama night is a sixteen-minute video loop that offers an intriguing representation of time. By breaking the image down into one hundred cropped and offset layers the frame is able to show fluid dreamlike flow of six seconds of real time. This video offers a fresh look at an over exposed historical event and captures an intimate view into a group of friend’s reaction to it.

Project Description

Obama night experiments with documentary video and post-production techniques that mold 16 minutes of un-cut video from a monumental historical moment presented in a mundane way to a distorted examination of human reaction and the movement of time. The 16 minute long piece is able to show six seconds of video on one screen at one time. This is an extension of time in real time. This distortion both limits and expands the viewers perception of the image, they can only see one one-hundredth of each moment as it slowly glides down the screen but as a mass it creates a painterly view of the unfolding events. Each movement exaggerated and repeated one hundred times resulting in fluid dance like motion. Obama night offers a fresh look at a night shot from so many angles and shown on so many screens and goes beyond the politics and examines the reactions of a group of friends.

for more info go here

http://monarchybar.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post.html

On the time-image

On the time-image

Here are some quotes from Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 2: The Time-Image. I hope they clarify the concept or at least create some interesting art ideas. If you want to discuss it more, give me a call.

"the direct time-image always gives us access to that...dimension where people and things occupy a place in time which is incommensurable with the one they have in space." (pg. 39)


"The relation, sensation-motory situation [action-reaction, stimulus-response] -> indirect image of time is replaced by a non-localizable relation, pure optical and sound [and possibly other sense] situation -> direct time-image." (pg. 41)


"The [time-image] is virtual, in opposition to the actuality of the movement-image [action-reaction, stimulus-response]. But, if virtual is opposed to actual, it is not opposed to real, far from it. " (pg. 41)

Virtual vs. Actual example: A mirror image of yourself is virtual, whereas your body is actual. Both of these things are real, yet the former is intangible and the later is tangible.

-Lendl

Edit:
Something from the internet encyclopedia of philosophy. We can expand the concept beyond cinema to other mediums:
"Since the cinema of the time-image is concerned to liberate images from carrying or implying time in order to form narrative (no less than liberating time itself from narrative), images are themselves free now to express forces, "shocks of force," (pg. 139). Scenes, movements and language become expressive rather than representative." - Jon Roffe

Hey guys.... I put my dance video on youtube.
Here is the link if you want to check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD3V-H1wsG0
-rachel

Electronic Courses

Electronic Courses

http://interaccess.org/workshops/series.php

BWT on the radio

BWT on the radio

Tune in to 105.5 FM tonight (July 28 2008) around 2am to hear "What Wants One," the piece I played last Tuesday. I told the radio host to create his own acronym for BWT and play it under that name. Sorry about the late notice, I just bumped into the host today.

-Lendl

art piece #2

art piece #2

hey,

so heres the deal on the next project.
everyone create a piece of art in any discipline you want this week. email me a written description (that does not give away what medium you used) by next Tuesday, ill email everyone someone else's description and you are to create a piece to that, in whatever medium you feel suitable or inspired to do. and we'll bring them all together in two weeks.
but you have to email be the description by Tuesday so people get matched up and have enough time to create another piece.

tony

Creative Commons.

Creative Commons.

I strongly recommend every member look into Creative Commons.
http://creativecommons.org/

You can watch videos explaining it here...
http://support.creativecommons.org/videos/

In a nutshell it's a way to tell other people how much freedom you would like to give them with your art. Since we mentioned collaborating and receiving permission from others at our last meeting, I think it's something we should seriously consider implementing.

When we present something to the group we should have a CC license on it. In doing so we can already be aware of ways we could work with the specific piece. If the person presenting would not like the specific work to be used without explicit permission they could use a simple C (all rights reserved) label.

Let me know what you think.

-Lendl

took this photo of a boarded up window awhile ago. its somewhere along queen and bathurst.
i know i havent been around for awhile but i hope things are going well!

-Selena