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artist blog: 4/3

Paul Pfeiffer

Paul Pfeiffer is a contemporary American artist born in Hawaii, but spent a majority of his life in the Philippines, then New York. His work displays a wide range of media, such as photography, film, and sculpture, revolving around a certain perception of his selected subjects, which is normally about popular culture and society. He namely creates installation pieces that are presented on small LCD screens, usually with a video looping. His pieces are usually interactive with the viewer, having the audience pay attention to other aspects of the video rather than the main subject. He also implies the viewer to create their own view and imagination into the work that he presented in front of them.

I thought his work was pretty insightful and different; I didn't embrace it as much as I thought I would, however I think his ideas and views behind each peace was more valuable than the final product that was presented.









Vito Acconci

Acconci is American artist that was born and based in New York that specializes in architecture and installation art. Starting off as a poet, Acconci evolved into a video/performance artist by using himself as his own subject. Some of his earlier works have risen tension and controversy, such as his installation called 'Seedbed', where he laid underneath a gallery wide ramp, masturbated, and voiced his thoughts and fantasies through a loud speaker to the visitors walking on the ramp above him. However, his most recent works are very innovative, mainly installations, landscape, and architecture designs that integrate public and private space, and how they can intertwine and interact within each other.

I enjoyed looking at his work actually. His works were exceptionally creative and provided an outlet of creativity that I haven't with architecture and awareness of space. A couple of his pieces that I thought worked out were the one he called "A City That Rides the Garbage Dump", because he designed the space that had methane gases release and have the garbage actually control the flow and action of the city. I also enjoyed the "Klein Bottle Playground", because he created this sculpure/installation piece that is quite ironic to the material, but conceptual.



Alex Bag

Alex Bag is a female artist who creates videos as her outlet of artistic media. Her artwork is more personal, but can relate to a certain age group, such as young adults. She is noted for her piece, 'Untitled Fall 95' which is about her surviving four years of strain, emotionally excruciating experiences, and the harsh reality of the real world when you're a young college student.

Even though it seems like a mundane, repetitive subject with barely any creativity, I once again believe that it's the underlying meaning that is more impacting than the actual art itself.

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Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney is a contemporary artist who is most known for his conceptual series, 'The Cremaster Cycle'. Each one of these different cycles portray a different story composed by Barney, along with characters, sculptures, and a setting, all depicted in very high quality photos, along with a synopsis to explain each story. Each of his stories were very eccentric and vivid, and work that definitely highlights performance art. His work at first is rather confusing upon glancing at it, but the characters and stories are all so entrancing that it helped me appreciate the ideas he was trying to portray.

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Three Websites.

Upon stumbling upon these websites I became quite partial and intrigued with the three I decided to write about. They're both simplistic and conceptual, and the audience is interactive with the piece in showing the progression of time.

Their Circular Life.

In "Their Circular Life", there's a presentation of five different scenes, all with a dial underneath the plane that the photo is presented in, and the audience 'becomes the observer' by moving the dial clockwise as actions in the photo proceeds and the sequences in the photo go from day to light; cars driving by; people lurking; water moving...and so on and so forth. Each photo sequenced together was obviously taken with a tripod, so it almost makes you wonder what the participants of each scene was thinking. However, each photo is presented at very exceptional quality, delivering extravagent photos that capture each moment of the day passing.


The Halcyon Hours.

"The Halcyon Hours" was a seemingly interesting website to look at, a simple concept again with the day passing, as seen in "Their Circular Life", but instead of a dial, there's a little bar underneath the window [which displays the time of day] and the bar portrays the timeline. On each significant point on the timeline, there's a little ornate mark above the line for the times 7am, 9am, 2pm, 4pm, 8pm, and 9pm. Upon scrolling on the timeline to the appropriate time, a little scene pops up just depicting an event that would happen around that time, such as sleeping...or waking up. I thought each scene was somber and fit well for each time, effectively impacting the progression of time as a whole.

Animator vs. Animation.

"Animator vs.Animation" is probably the most clever executions of the irony of your computer program actually fighting back after being manually controlled and forced to do everything underneath at the touch of your fingertips. I would imagine this piece took an immense amount of time and dedication, and it shows, since Flash is such a complex piece of software; but overall I believe it's just the humor and irony that catches my attention the most. Once again, another simple approach...it's not a full on cartoon character that's drawn vividly and with extreme expression, it's just a plain stick figure. As for representation of time, whether it's was the artist's intention or not, I think it's almost looking into the future that if our technology got so advanced, it would fight back against us within a matter of time, creating our own enemy. Even though I may be way off topic, that's a message I grab from it.

hello, mysterious couch.

This is mine and Daphne's Photo Sequencing Project. Our subject was the infamous blue couch at the end of the hallway in the AFO building. We decided to have the couch move to imply a progression of time with one being completely oblivious to it.

Thank you Daphne plus tripod for amazing photo skills and random peers for participating.

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i haven't updated in awhile. lets see what's been happening.



went home past thursday. i had a dental appt. on friday, and my little sister's birthday party on saturday. it's rather funny, the dentist. i go twice a year... all the same ordeal. me, my mom, and sister arrive late afternoon..around three-ish, i wait ten to fifteen minutes in the quiet, morose waiting room on the blue couch, see the same assistant, she cleans my teeth for twenty minutes, i get my complementary toothbrush and floss, and we skedaddle out of there. i hate the dentist. but without today's modern dental care and awareness, my teeth would eventually disintegrate and i would be a toothless freak. :[ so that's pretty much my motivation why i let some stranger who i've known for over four years put sharp metal inside my mouth.



my friend tony made this gif of me and andy playing a custom edit of 'crank dat soulja boy' on an in the groove 2 machine. i thought this would be rather funny to post, since there is a pause in the sequence of scrolling arrows...so there's enough time for us to do the soulja boy dance. well, at least for andy and tony. i obviously have no idea what i'm doing.



i've been playing dancing games for almost five years. it's almost sad that i still do. :\



reading einstein's dreams is highly captivating. it raises a great curiosity of time, and everything around you. you pretty much view time in a completely different perspective, wondering no matter what you do, when you do it, how you do it, time will always keep progressing.

"Time paces forward with exquisite regularity, at precisely the same velocity at every corner in space. Time is an infinite ruler. Time is absolute."

that one sticks with me.



good night.

what can be defined as time exactly?

When the earth is slowly rotating beneath us, but we cannot feel it in the slightest bit. When we, as human beings, grow taller/rounder...become more stubborn and feeble, and we don't even realize it's happening. When the beautiful things in nature such as trees and flowers bloom and become something majestic, when our back is turned.

More or less, time is invisible. Stealthy.



...repetitive, I know. But it's something.