Augmented Body--- Memory control device.

A device that help us to memory and help us to manage our memory.
We do not need to pay attention to memory information we receive.

And we can delete information we do not want to remember, like bad memory.


Before:

You can hear something from other people you don't like and that could be in your focus for a really long time which might make you not happy for the whole day.

Or sometime you were not paying attention for a second and missed some important information. And you don't have a chance to ask for a repeat.

With a piece of device.
Helps us memory by receiving every information we receive. And save them as a data in the device.

Now, it is how it looks like.

When you miss something they said, no need to worry, everything has been saved in the device, and if you think it is important, you can even highlight it with a MARK.

Or if you want to forget some memory that can affect your day, 

you just wipe them out entirely.

(If the bad memory will affect your behavior and you will be good if in the future, there is some magic pill can make it get out of your memory for good. 

Then why do you let the bad memory affect you right now? )

Yeah yeah yeah, i know. I can be really dark if we go deeper on this topic.

Government can use it to control our mind. If we can save and delete data. Then we can edit it with no problem as long as you has the permission. And for hackers, its not a problem.

Flesh and Metal

I like how i can come up with some picture of what the writer talks about in first paragraph.

Embodiment:

conscious mind and the physiological structures 

Embodiment is experienced from the inside, from the feelings, emotions, and sensations

When you are in a good mood, a good state, your body looks stronger, you walk faster, your chest are out open, you make eye contact with people walk by. Thats how inside change how we look outside.

body and embodiment are always dynamically interacting with one another




Abstract ideas of the body likewise arise from the interplay between prevailing cultural formations and the beliefs, observations, and experiences that count as empirical evidence in a given society. In this view, embodiment and the body are emergent phenomena arising from the dynamic flux that we try to understand analytically by parsing it into such concepts as biology and culture, evolution and technology. 

So body, the ideas of body are not just body, they are effected by the culture, evolution and technology. Like when the society are weak, they admire strong men. When people are living a peace life for a long time, Justin Beaber kind of girl like men can go up to the stage.

Chance & Indeterminacy

My system

Computer screenshot by chance.

Set the alarm in 30 mins, every time it goes off. I took a screenshot of my computer on what I am watching or doing.

It is funny to see how I waste my nights and nights.

Do it Weekend nights from 7 PM to 10 PM.

And Monday night from 7 pm to 10 pm.
So it will be 7 screenshot everyday. I will have 21 screenshot in the end.

Sat:

Sun:

Mon:

Work and medium: I will use all the screenshot as material making a digital art work.

Pieces:

The first one has the most amount of details. I even put some tear on the guy's face if you look close.

The second one here I spent a lot of time working on the shade. So the shadow and light are more realist.

 

Final Composition.

I set my phone on alarm, sometime when it goes off, I was not in front of my computer, so I walked back and took a screenshot which shows what I was doing before I left my computer.

Its interested to find out that it is not like I was excepting that most of the screenshot would be my desktop.
Most of the time when I left my computer, I dont just go back to the desktop but just leave whatever I was working on.


Q&A:

- How this working process compares to the way you usually work? What was your experience letting decisions be made by chance? What was it like to make art using someone else's recipe?

  More often than not, when teacher just tells us to do whatever we like. I lost it. I cannot design which one I want to do and wasted a lot of time on decision making process. But now, with a system to choose what material I am going to use for making the art piece, it gives me a direction and it is fun using those random stuff to create something. I think it is not a big deal using others' recipe, it is just an experience trying other's method. We need to learn from second hand experience a lot to enhance what we know and practice.

- What do you think about the work you've made? Does it have "aesthetic appeal"? Did it suggest other ideas or ways to work?

  Its fun and feel like the same situation when you go commercial and you do what people give you and told you to do.
  I tried the rule of three and tried to follow the golden ration in the way of composition. In the final composition, I assemble different three intense of tones and put them together.

- If you did so, what was it like to work collaboratively?

My work does not require any coop, but it will be more random if I use my roommates' screen shot ever 30 minutes.

Photoshop stuff

Artist Research Presentation

I like Intersections of Art, Technology, Science & Culture and photography and Activism.



Biggest Interest. Vincent Debanne

Battleships for the rich.
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2014/09/battleship.php#.VA4zA_ldU2U

Link to his website.
http://vincentdebanne.fr/

Vincent Debanne was born in 1972 Paris, France. He studied in National School of Photography, Arles, France. He is working as a photographer in Paris, France.

The moment when I saw his art, it caught my eyes with the naval battle theme. I have always been interested in these kind of battlefield photography, but what keeps me stay with Vincent's photography is what makes the difference, the content in his photography. He is not showing us a actual naval battle sense, but a photoshop work of some normal life rich people's ships. I cannot believe it when I see him just adding some smoke effect and maybe changed the color scheme with more grey color that he creates a illustration of battlefield.The smoke of gun powder. I like grey, I think its a ultimate color not only in the color wheel, but also in our life. We all live in a grey zone, there is no the ultimate right or wrong, a grey zone, middle ground is what it is.

It really funny thinking its a colored battle photo then realize it is a nicely done photoshop art piece, the emotional irritate brings viewers a good mood and laughing.

Especially this one down below. The whole photo are covered with some thin grey smoke, so I got my eyes caught by the brightest point which is the cannon fire. So my brain immediately tells me this is a sense about battle. But I found out something tricky about this photo that the ships in this photo does not look like battleships, then the funny part comes up. I laugh out loud the moment I realize this photo is been nicely photoshoped so it looks like a battle sense attracting my attention and then tells us a totally opposite story about it. 

  

  In the meanwhile, many of his projects are photography with photoshop refine to show an idea or theme better. Many photo of his, i can see  if he does not use photoshop, the complex idea would have never be presented. And the weird looking photoshop effect does not make his photo looks poor craft, instead it gives us some feel that his art piece is a big deal.

eh................System art.Systems Esthetics

To be honest, I had two pages of this article on the same time while I read it. One page in original form and the other one is in Chinese translation version. I have to constantly going backward to check the translation to figure out what it means.
Not just the word I don't understand, but the logistic of the article is somehow hard to understand for me.

What I can got from the article is that, first, System esthetics is a thing comes with the development of the whole society and technology. A new born style just like other digital art.

It is a relationship between people and the society, or we can call it, the bigger picture. The relationship between animal and the rest of the world.



So my understanding of this artical, Systems Esthetics can be like these.

Chaos theory : Everything in this kind of art has connection. It might be some very small connection. But any issue can effect others. They all have connection either in space or in time.

We can change some effect issue, but the outcome might be totally different.


In the Otto Piene's "Light Ballets", it is a system that every changes can make difference, different lighting effect and pattern.

You have to buying in to the universal principle. You will get a result whatever how crazy the design looks like. Once the time you try has increase, there will always be something, some pattern show on it.

 Free association training.

`Every time the first thing i do when i get into a new video game, is to change the audio option. Turn it down

`Find out U.I. (user interface) is important in game design.

`But designers might have a bad U.I. design in the beginning. Then we need community managers to gather information from players' response and so designers can improve their design.

`Community managers sounds like a cheap job, but the skill they require such as communication or dicision making are as important as any other members in gaming industry. They are the first response to gamer community.

`And people like to see their post or suggestion been responded by community managers.

`But why? Why are we so happy when our idea been responded? Because we like to feel significant.

`Especially when our idea been responded by people have high value, we feel more significant.

`What makes a person high value? Money? resources? reputation?

`When I went to friend's place, i like to bring some gift such as drinks or chicken nuggets. We call it bring value.

But last time when I go to my friends house, and just start talking about things, keep bring him story, and then he was like "When other friends come to my place, i feel tired about it, but when you come, i feel like you bring me more energy"

I consider it as i brought him value by bringing story.

How do i always have good story to tell?

Take note and test it on other people, sight out the best ?

1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
3. Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
4. Formal art is essentially rational.
5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
6. If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.
7. The artist's will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His wilfulness may only be ego.
8. When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.
9. The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept.
10. Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
11. Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected directions, but an idea must necessarily be completed in the mind before the next one is formed.
12. For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.
13. A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.
14. The words of one artist to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the same concept.
15. Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the artist may use any form, from an expression of words (written or spoken) to physical reality, equally.
16. If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics.
17. All ideas are art if they are concerned with art and fall within the conventions of art.
18. One usually understands the art of the past by applying the convention of the present, thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
19. The conventions of art are altered by works of art.
20. Successful art changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions.
21. Perception of ideas leads to new ideas.
22. The artist cannot imagine his art, and cannot perceive it until it is complete.
23. The artist may misperceive (understand it differently from the artist) a work of art but still be set off in his own chain of thought by that misconstrual.
24. Perception is subjective.
25. The artist may not necessarily understand his own art. His perception is neither better nor worse than that of others.
26. An artist may perceive the art of others better than his own.
27. The concept of a work of art may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made.
28. Once the idea of the piece is established in the artist's mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. There are many side effects that the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works.
29. The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.
30. There are many elements involved in a work of art. The most important are the most obvious.
31. If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist's concept involved the material.
32. Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
33. It is difficult to bungle a good idea.
34. When an artist learns his craft too well he makes slick art.
35. These sentences comment on art, but are not art.

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