Project 4: Experimental Video

After I read a little bit about Fluxus movement I could think more about my project 4 idea.

Starting from the principle that "everyday can become art, and art become everyday"I imagine two options for my project 4. 

The first is about emotion. What people feel and what the good feelings they have when they do what they like. For this idea I can work with a friend of mine, she sings and acts, and I can take many shots of her.

The second idea is talk about the different beauties in everyday life. I was imagining that some shots for different types of beauty, and what is beautiful for one person, can't be for another one. The main idea is to capture many personal expressions, like: laughing, singing, crying...!

I am not 100% about this ideas and I have to talk with Su.

A Sound Proposal

  For Project 3, I am interested in experimenting by stripping soundscapes of their natural sounds as we recognize them, and replacing them with replicas I produce through my violin.  The visual elements can be anything from a door opening, rain, footsteps- perhaps even global scenes like Times Square or a rainforest.  After reading The Art of Noises and hearing the speaker's view of orchestral pieces as "boring," I interpreted the reading as a challenge to prove that traditional string instruments can make untraditional and unpredictable noises.  The old can be used in exciting, new ways.  I will be able to explore the tonal quality of the instrument, where even the violin's body can be used to re-imagine sounds and noises.  Using the violin as the only source of sound will create a riff off of reality, because the viewer will internalize the sound as soon as they recognize an image, but the sound isn't entirely predictable in that, for example, if glass breaks, it will be the violin's interpretation of the break, instead of the glass'.  The violin will mimic the sound as closely as possible, I do not want the violin to portray an opposite or irrelevant sound, there must be a connection between the image, expectation and the violin.  This way, I hope to create a different world and dynamic relationships between the eye and ear.

Montage Project Proposal

My first idea was based around the things that engulfed me everyday and that was my family and friends. I took several shots of me and friends during various occasions at various age, a life portrayal. But after one of my photography classes I started relating the ways in which a camera captures a single moment in time, to the idea of a montage capturing an action or event.  I literally just came up with this change,  and I'm leaning towards the idea of taking shots of an event one by one as it happens to various people. I want to show the repetition that we go through in life,  regardless of who you are.