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Artist Lecture

Blithe Riley’s lectre I found to be exciting and very much different from what I expected. Even though she had technical difficulties that sabotage her work the challenge of getting the message across was professional. The main concept I got from her work was the concept of how things get codified according to their appearance and her belief of trying to break the realness of a physical object.

Her first exhibition the “The Shaker” was pretty much a video that I somehow generated different ideas from. Her explanations which she shared about the main focus of this project left me with an open mind. And whilst watching this video clip I started interpreting her ideas in a different way which I must say was unintentional.

”The Crawler” I thought was really amazing. I liked the fact that she changed the structures from 3-D to 2-D or a flat surface almost representing our view in life. Do we live or are we trapped in a 2-D world but visualizing things in a 3-D plane? Playing with the vision is a very clever and artistic way of proving that what you’re looking at might not really be what you are seeing?

Her last piece “The Wall” was my personal favorite. Again, Blithe played with the human eye and mind. She touch bases on the experience of how the expression of different forms of objects dicipline the viewers way of interacting with it. Illusion is a waondeful thing. She ended her presentation with a little insight of her current project were she demonstrated her challenge with the pre beliefs of certain objects. Blithe Riley line of work is rather interesting and very unique

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE WORD "STOP"

Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping put up a marvelous show on Friday. I personally thought that he had something going on and he did definitely reach out to some of my friends.

His main idea about shopping and how it affects the human being is an issue that most if not all of us face today in life. It is hard to believe that there are actual times when we feel like going shopping for the shake of it. We definitely pick up our credit cards drive all the way to Wal-Mart or Target just to get ourselves probably something we do not really need at that particular moment. Yes I know it is an issue! I know for a fact that sometimes we do get the feeling of treating ourselves goodies just because we feel like we deserve it failing to realize is the harm that we are causing to mankind. Rev. Billy touches briefly on this and suggests that we should remove all those Wal-Mart’s and Target’s and that should be a step forward to stop the craving for shopping.

I think Rev Billy has a strong argument as he points out the different examples that we face today socially and mentally. Politics and the American Government was a good way of making people believe in what he was saying. The event of 09/11 and the recent elections both brought the icing on top of the cake as he mentioned JUSTICE IS NOT FOR SALE as his last words.

Even though most of the time I couldn’t relate myself with what he was trying to convey, I found Rev. Billy and his choir very dramatic. They did a good job indicating their inner most feelings about the necessities of life and what we as humans should think about and start taking actions on what we think is right. If this is the only way Rev. Billy can reach out to people, informing them just how much shopping is enough then so be it. I totally support his methodology.

LET US STOP AND GAIN CONTROL!

Cyborg Manifesto

I must say that this was rather intense. I really couldn’t understand what Donna Haraway was talking about even after reading again. I kept on getting confused. However, I think I got a little understanding about the information she was trying to convey. At the center of her ironic article, Donna Haraway introduces and defines the CYBORG which is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. She narrates that Cyborg’s are fact of the present, rather than the future, by indicating the three current "border crossings": the blurring of animal and human; human and machine; and the physical and non-physical.

Further in the article, Haraway deals specifically with the issue of feminist and strongly criticizes the radical feminism of Catherine MacKinnon, arguing that the search for the "essential woman" is not only elusive, it is dangerous. Her concept of the cyborg is a matter of fiction and lived experience that changes what counts as women's experience in the late twentieth century.

I think that the whole article is based on feminism and why we are cyborgs in Donna’s eyes.

My World of Veggies

This is a washing machine made out cauliflower. In the process of making this piece, a few decisions were made. First I had to look for a vegetable that had more or less the same shape. The Cauliflower was the best choice. It did not only distort the image but gave it a new definition. I like the effect that the cauliflower creates on the washing machine, it doesn’t only create the outer shape but also makes it seem like the detergent is bubbling out of the machine.










A lamp made out of lettuce, an onion a cucumber and a computer speaker made out of a cabbage, made the best studying desk ever. It is my small world of veggies. I love the fact that the onion blends in with the shape of a light bulb. The speakers itself is my friend’s personal favorite. She likes the effect that the different steams on the cabbage set an unusual mood. It almost seems like loud music is coming out of the speakers in the form of vibration.


This is a computer mouse made out of an Avocado. I chose the Avocado because the skin looked more like a mouse or rats skin. Inventing the Avocado Click I settled for what was representing and defining the machine rather than just taking any random vegetable and making it form the machine. I didn’t really want to move away from the subject or meaning.

Fabricating all three images I decided to leave all images in their regular positions because I wanted to construct a normal atmosphere of an everyday life.

Made History - Sovient WWII Potographs

Looking at the different photographs, I received a particular feeling that reminded me of the wars that happened in Africa, mostly Sierra Leone. The two images that caught my eye are the “Dimitrii BalTermants (1912-1990) GRIF Kerch, Crimea” and “Sergic Strunnikov (1907-1944) ZOYA KOSMODEMYANSKAYA, Partisan Heroine 1941”.

The first picture “Sergic Strunnikov (1907-1944) ZOYA KOSMODEMYANSKAYA, Partisan Heroine 1941” was an image of a dead lady. Her clothes were turned indicating that she must have been tortured well before her death which was a caused of being hanged. Looking closely to the image, even though its not in color, the woman’s face doesn’t give of any form of struggle or pain. It almost seemed like her death was something that she expected. I know if I was hanged both my eyes and mouth would have been wide open. The fact that someone could take a picture of her in that form indicates that she might have been left there to rot, as an example of to others. It was only minutes after when I read the history behind the photos that I realized that my judgments were rights. The lady in the photo was a leader called Zoya who stood up for her rights and was captured by Nazi soldiers who tortured and eventually killed her.

The second picture “Dimitrii BalTermants (1912-1990) GRIF Kerch, Crimea” was an image of grieving people. Whilst looking at the image my eyes were drawn to the grieving woman. I couldn’t help but to think of the wars that had been happening around. The feeling I got from the picture is that it must have been after a war in what was once a war field, and everyone is roaming around looking for most probably relatives or tying to identify the bodies. The fact that the bodies were not buried but left there to rot created a different emotion. I also realized that the dead bodies wee all male, which indicated that they were either soldiers or males that have been taken away from their families to help in the fights. Another thing that caught my eye was the solider that stood almost away from the bodies and doesn’t seem to give off any form of emotion.

The exhibition I thought was rather powerful in the sense that it created a type of atmosphere that one could relate to both with time and place.

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