Rough Cut Critique

My idea for this work was to focus on how women and their bodies are objectified and over sexualized because of society and how society has framed the way to view and essentially treat women. The imagery I am using in this work is different view point and perspectives of the female body in a state of undress to hint at the sexualization of women. The audio track is a poetry piece that accentuates women and their empowerment and strength beyond their bodies being a main identifier of them. I really want this to come across in a way that it is obviously sexually objectifying the female body but with undertones that is persuasive and impactful.

Research Response #8

Since we are now working on our final projects so I have been doing research on women's art, feminist art and videos that have a strong focus on what women's roles are defined as according to society. I found it more helpful to really just look at a lot of videos and not specifically dig into specific artists for what I was really looking for. I wanted to mostly just get more of an idea for what I wanted to do and some different ideas for how i might show that so I just watched videos about similar issues of women in society which I found pretty helpful actually. I have some ideas at this point but still have a small struggle of just what I specifically want to be in my video not what I want it to be about so seeing more helped decide a track of what I am thinking about at least. I have also found it helpful watching random videos and short film and just some audio clips about the idea of women's mistreatment and history within society and culture. I got in a youtube spiral once or twice with videos like this and it actually gave me quite a few ideas. So this research I have done more recently was a bit different but still helped me with what I think I mostly need to work on for the beginning stages of this project still.

https://theorynow.blogspot.com/2008/02/feminist-video-art-as-forerunner-to.html
This was the link that just had a lot of videos that I was able to watch without having to navigate through a lot of other works.

Reading Response #5

This article is not one that I usually find of interest because it does not follow what I typically gravitate toward but there were aspects that I found interesting about what was being said. I think this is mostly due to me being in a position where I am not very knowledgeable about the subject so I was given new knowledge and theories that are current in culture and society to be applied. I was extremely interested in the idea of the other and how the Latin American Culture in America is essentially always seen and taken apart as different than the normal no matter what the context is. After reading this I realized how true it is even though I knew that, I didn’t quite put it on a scale of how almost everything is considered that way. Through almost the entirety of this article I kept thinking about how it mentioned the view and general acceptance or embrace of the Latin American culture in American through the use and sources of mass media and younger societal outlets but I couldn’t help but think that art, especially video art should be included in the but it is still seen as a minority work. I just think that the works that were talked about in this article were trying to show a huge level of exploitation about society and culture but something to me just seemed different about what they were doing or how they were doing it when compared to other video works that attempt the same or similar styles of exploitation in their work

Do you think that there is a component that makes this work different because of how Latin American culture is viewed in our society? Especially in comparison to other cultures that face similar struggles?

Research Response #7

This week I have been trying to figure out what I want to do for my final video project. I have my idea for what I want to have a focus on but not what I really want my approach to be or how I want it to be visually so I have been just watching some videos and different work from some different artists to try and get some more ideas. I have leaned to looking at artists with some different visual aspects but have a similar focus in context and meaning to what I do but I have found this to be somewhat helpful. I am still not sure but now I defiantly have some more ideas of how I might go about showing what I want in my video. One of the artists that I found to be pretty interesting was Danielle Zorbas. I found myself to be weirdly interested in the work because of the approach she used which I feel as though I can say is less than a normal approach but I think it works really well. I payed attention mostly to the way she captured the video and the different techniques that were used and it was very rarely just focusing on one thing. Also there were multiple times where there was overlapping audio that I think made more of an impact that a clear track of audio. I found that the work still had clear intentions of meaning while not being just clear and simple in the way her video works showed which I something that I find myself wanted to be able to explore a little bit more for this last project.
https://i-d.vice.com/en_au/article/exploring-50-years-of-feminist-video-art

HD Video Response

Most of what was said in the article were things that at the very least I was familiar with or have heard of when doing work on my art or researching and looking at other things related. Although I did find the comparison made about how the evolution of standard definition (SD) to high definition (HD) was just as significant as the jump from analog to digital with I have never thought of to be on the same level of digital evolutionary advances. Some of the examples of what I knew of but not exactly what they meant were details about resolution, frame rate and HD modes. Some of the formats mentioned and formats that are typically in museums, I was aware of and definitely knew most of them but not some of the specific terminology that was used. Especially when it got into details that were very technical about how and why thins work the way they do. Some of it helped me understand the way the technology I use works but some of it I just still didn't quite understand and know after reading it. The majority helped but some was still a bit too technical for not really knowing about the technology.

Reading Response #4

I found this article to be interesting in some parts because I never considered the connection between how we define color and race are so closely connected even though after reading the very beginning I found that to be almost obvious. I think that when Vilasenor says "color is not an internal, immutable aspect of an object. Rather it is a subjectively experienced, perceptual phenomenon,"(192) is something that is very true but not often thought about in this way that is more than just what is it. I like the comparison make between color and race and how they are both things that have different definitions attached to them that are construed depending on outside factors with influence but they both relate to the definition of abstraction which is something that has multiple definitions and ways of understanding itself. I also found it very interesting the article turned to talking about purity and how in video art color tones of white were the "pure" abstraction and how this idea of purity relates back to the arguments of race and color that historically and currently is happening in society. Out of the artists mentioned in the article i found the excerpt about Cory Arcangel to be very interesting because of what he was trying to get at with his work as well as I personally enjoy that approach to work more than others. Specifically how he uses color to make connections to reality that mean more than something visually, which I felt was perfectly expressed when I read "Colors operate metaphorically but skin color is index to a reality that is not so readily mutable."(198) He is getting at something so much more than just color itself which I think is important to do and more impactful as well. I think the questions posed by Vilasenor in the last paragraph are questions that many artists consider but i feel as though in isn't that we have completely moved away from a former era that expressed certain traits but have adapted to a more current way of expressing those issues and traits of current society in the most impactful and poignant way. I also think that, especially after reading this that the connection between race and color with the idea of abstraction in mind is something that is always going to be multi-sided and unclear among the masses. \

Similar to the question posed by Vilasenor, has our idea, as current artists, of medium and purity changed when trying to address a specific question with not just one answer that is acceptable?