Friday, May 4, 2007
Chaos Draft Edit One (Remi The Student)
***Still a draft***
CULTURE
Through my practicum I learned and invaded several different cultures. It’s interesting because the culture tells a lot about what we are. We base our ideas through culture and society. For example we eat meat but other places prefer not to. Just like how some places think eating dolphins or whales are bad, wouldn’t that be the same for eating cows and chickens? Culture differences interest me a lot. While growing up I was raised in several different cultures that I rarely experience culture shock. I belong to different cultures simultaneously and I think this is why I did my practicum piece on invading different cultures utilizing online material as well as physical. It was a very interesting experience because I had the ability to communicate with so many people through I got so many pen pal requests by posting a pen pal ad on some websites. Why do people write to people they have never met. It was something strange because I do it too. Whenever I need to obtain information from a professor, family, friends and pretty much anyone I use the internet. Some times I have never met the person I am e-mailing, such as making appointments for advising. we humans are weird.
I have need to proof read over and over what I am sending to someone who may be really important when sending an e-mail. We want to make ourselves look perfect by crafting out our words to make ourselves seem better than we actually are. Words are tools and the crafting of sentences becomes art.
Virtual culture is really strange because some people sent their addresses when I asked for it and they would even give me their phone numbers even though I didn’t ask for it. What does that tell me?
My character in my piece made over 100 pen pals. Some even snail mailed her. I really found it interesting that someone that doesn’t even know the character will take their time to write to her. I mean it is just so bizarre to me. Even though I do the same thing when I am in this virtual space.
Is it really safe to provide random information over the net. What makes them trust someone online? I don’t really know that. How would they identify if that e-mail was actually being sent to that “person”? Is it because we need to trust someone or maybe we think the person will not lie to us? Some people were open enough to ask sexual questions repeatedly when e-mailing my character. What made them think it was okay to do this and how did they feel when they became part of my piece? I would never know because they never replied back. I wonder if they’re embarrassed? Or Angry? But wouldn’t it be their fault for openly asking?
So yes you can converse with people online and feel like you have a connection. I don’t know why that happens. I don’t really know why it happens is it something to be scared of or something to be happy about? If this were to be the past when there was no computers people will only know social networks within their physical space, but now social networks go way beyond that. Just think of myspace and youtube or any other social networks that exist in virtual environments you have the ability to add and delete people from your network and don’t feel anything about it. You may know some in person. But most of them, you may not. So it becomes this huge web where people become connected. Personally, I find this to be an extremely complicated thing.
Basically it also taught me that in this environment you can lie or fabricate anything you want and most likely people will believe what you are saying. Because there are sooo many people in this space. There is bound to be people who do not doubt anything. This can be a little dangerous because that’s how they become trapped in something they never expected to be in. but I think for my practicum I used it as something to their advantage as well. Because they become part of this piece. My piece is the work of the participants who didn’t know about the piece and through my organization skills . it’s funny how they become something that they are not aware of.
I found it interesting that in this virtual culture so many cultures are available to anyone. We can travel without moving. People who never traveled have the ability to view what is going on around the world through visuals presented to us on the screens of our monitor. I myself feel as though I cannot live without the Internet anymore because I am so immersed into it. I used to watch television a lot when I was younger, but now I watch everything on the World Wide Web.
ART
To my parents and people I know who are non artists , art is something they find visually pleasing to the eye and something they “get”. But in my mind art is more conceptual and it is there to teach what goes in the world and in our society. Whoever says artists have an easy job or they are too lazy to do anything so they just draw or whatever does not really understand what artists are. Artists are educators in my own mind, but that’s just my own personal opinion on what we are. It may be different from other artists. Before attending college, I believed art to be something visually pleasing that would make me happy. My thoughts changed a lot through my college years because I have experienced creating art that may have caused damage to me emotionally and physically. I never really thought deep about the idea of creating a piece of artwork, but I realized I wanted to make artwork that would definitely invoke emotion and make my viewers think longer rather than having them just think “oh this piece is cool”. There’s more to it and if I took the time and effort in thinking and creating something I want my audience to take time in thinking about the messages I incorporate into my piece. Unfortunately this becomes a difficult task because not everyone is interested in the arts, but I believe I can raise many questions with my artworks.
Artists keep creating even if people put us down because we like what we are doing, it can be something that would make people angry, sad, happy, or whatever. We have the ability to invoke someone’s feelings with what we make. Okay so think about dada artists. People think their art style makes no sense because it’s random, but they are create this uneasy feeling for most of their viewers because they don’t understand the Dadaists’ art. Most of the time people don’t like a particular artists’ work because they simply because they don’t understand. I remember there was a time where we watched a video footage of Jackson Polluck’s paintings where he was describing what his work was about and one of my classmates didn’t understand it. She thought it was distasteful art. Because she thought anyone could make a Polluck piece and had some sort of discomfort in knowing that he is famous and she is not. I personally had no envy or jealous towards what polluck was doing because he explained himself pretty well on the video about the lines and colors of his pieces. To me I understood what he was doing. He was expressing himself and experimenting with colors and lines, but to the modern audience they just look at the piece as is. Not beyond what it is. This is probably why my piece would be confused by other people because there are so many layers behind to what they perceive, but I don’t necessarily need to people to understand because it’s what we are.
They can create their own ideas to what my piece is about and each and every viewer of my piece have their own interpretation, which becomes something really interesting.
We are controlled by our own thoughts and that creates who we are. So what I came to understand is that civilized humans want answers to everything, but there is no answer to everything. Only answers you will find is in your mind which you create with your brain. It will be different from other people and that’s okay I suppose….but maybe that’s what creates conflict because we humans have the desire to “educate” others with our own ideas, which sort of becomes forced. We become upset if someone does not have the same opinion as what we may have. This creates war and arguments.
I was thinking about something that a professor once told me in one of my classes in junior college. He told us that music; politics and religion are the main three things that create war. I think there are more. Yes, of course those do create tension between people, but there are far more things than that. People are different. Each person think their way of thinking is right when there is no such thing as right or wrong in my opinion. There are things we may find morally right or wrong in our own minds, but sometimes I wonder if they are really what we think or if it’s something we decided through knowledge. Knowledge and also how our society shapes our views. there’s also categories on humans We are grouped by how individuals perceive us through the way we act, dress, and so forth. My character looks like someone who you will never really see in physical space unless they are a cosplayer. So when I had my character enter the virtual space people just thought she was one. They did not think deeply about if this character was real or not…well I am thinking they didn’t because they asked the character if she was a cosplayer…so they pretty much generalized what she is by the way she looked. Also the way people speak or how hey present themselves makes them fit into a category of people. I personally don’t want to be labeled into anything because I am remi and I am not like anyone else in my own mind, but there will always be people who will label me. It makes no sense to me that I become categorized into a group of people, I don’t want to be associated with a group.
Just because I don’t want to be categorized, I guess iu cannot stay away from it. It’s sort of difficult. I mean everyone is a hypocrite and when they say they hate haters, they are hating haters. I remember an IM conversation I had with one of my friends that she was being harassed by a “white” girl, so her response to that was “she’s a racist white bitch” but after she realized what she said she corrected herself and said “racist bitch”. This is interesting because I don’t think we can avoid stereotyping a person. Even people say they can, I don’t think they will able to because no one is perfect. Even if people think they don’t, they think about it even though they don’t verbalize it. Just like how we humans are categorized by where we come from., we all live on earth, but we are categorized by where we come from such as the country we were born. Just because we are from a certain country that apparently makes us different because we are raised differently. This is true, but if I think more about it not all the people from a certain country thinks exactly the same. Each and every individual is different. So I personally think we should consider ourselves as one species with different characteristics rather than separating each other through categories we create for ourselves.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology has become a big part of our lives. We are controlled by technology. For example, the alarm clock. I don’t know about anyone, but for me, I depend on several alarm clocks in order to wake up at a certain time, I depend on it because I stay up very late doing random things at night because we have light. Light is also a technology because without it we cannot see and we will not have nothing better to do. We humans are changing who we are through technology. One day in the near future we will become a species that become one with technology. We will lose a lot of things about the human characteristics. Such as moving our body will become less. If you see Americans their standard life is to have a car and drive everywhere. They don’t walk as much as other countries that have other mode of transportation. Americans are one of the people who use technology to make themselves have an “easier” life. But making your life easier, does that make us really happy? Does that make us lazy?
Information always contradicts each other. I remember in a class I took when I was in junior college. They were both art history classes and the professor was talking about van Gogh’s ear and how he lost it. Their stories did not match. One of them said that he gave it to a prostitute to declare his love and the other said he gave his ear to the prostitute so she can deliver it to Gauguin because he was upset at him. I did not know which professor was telling the truth. Information is always manipulated and reproduced and plagiarized in order to tell the “truth”. So we are learning from something that is fabricated. There is no real answer to anything the more I think of things. So in the future, everything will become less clear and we will not know the truth even though we think we do. Just think of all the different ideas people come up with. Think of all the different beliefs people have on certain things, who decides what is real and what is not. Who decides that a certain idea is important? I am becoming more and more confused as I become older and experience different things. I mean if their words become so similar which one do we trust? I don’t think we can avoid plagiarizing because most of the time we obtain knowledge from other sources and manipulate it to our own words and reproduce it. We are all plagiarizing other people’s ideas. Even though we may think we’re not, we are. And the more advanced technology becomes and the more information that is available through physical or virtual space, we cannot avoid becoming pirates. Pirates as in stealing information on the virtual space as well as physical space. And then getting away with it. I don’t think in the future, copyright will exist because there will be reproductions of things. Even if we want to avoid it, we cannot. People take things to their advantage. They are not stupid beings. They know what they want and they will do anything to make themselves feel better about a certain thing. I think technology is really nice but at the same time we lose what is “real”. For example, I once was presented an image of chuck close’s painting and also a chuck close effect on the Photoshop. In photoshop with just a few clicks you can create your own chuck close picture. So it takes less time to create something with less effort. Which becomes art? Which is valued more. Even though they look completely the same. Who decides what is not art and who decides what is art? They are both created by someone, but the time and effort is different. Anyone can create a chuck close painting with Photoshop, so Photoshop gives an opportunity for non-artists to explore their “artistic talents”. Which is a good thing, but I am really confused. In the future, how will we able to differentiate the difference from computer generated art to traditional. I heard a lot more photographers are going digital now rather than printing their own prints in their studios. They say that the time it takes to print is dramatically different. And with digital cameras they can manipulate the colors on a program such as Photoshop to create something they want. So we are losing traditional photographers as well because it’s too time consuming to create one print by checking the values on the print. So technology creates easy access to materials and also our creativity. I am not sure which is better or worse nowadays because they have their own advantage and disadvantages. I have been a traditional artist my whole life, but when I entered college I decided to become a media major which focused more on the digital aspects of arts. So my life as an artist became one with the traditional and the new. This also reflects my practicum as I mixed and blended the old and the new. The past , present and future. They all become one thing and differentiation becomes impossible….well at least for me.
CULTURE
Through my practicum I learned and invaded several different cultures. It’s interesting because the culture tells a lot about what we are. We base our ideas through culture and society. For example we eat meat but other places prefer not to. Just like how some places think eating dolphins or whales are bad, wouldn’t that be the same for eating cows and chickens? Culture differences interest me a lot. While growing up I was raised in several different cultures that I rarely experience culture shock. I belong to different cultures simultaneously and I think this is why I did my practicum piece on invading different cultures utilizing online material as well as physical. It was a very interesting experience because I had the ability to communicate with so many people through I got so many pen pal requests by posting a pen pal ad on some websites. Why do people write to people they have never met. It was something strange because I do it too. Whenever I need to obtain information from a professor, family, friends and pretty much anyone I use the internet. Some times I have never met the person I am e-mailing, such as making appointments for advising. we humans are weird.
I have need to proof read over and over what I am sending to someone who may be really important when sending an e-mail. We want to make ourselves look perfect by crafting out our words to make ourselves seem better than we actually are. Words are tools and the crafting of sentences becomes art.
Virtual culture is really strange because some people sent their addresses when I asked for it and they would even give me their phone numbers even though I didn’t ask for it. What does that tell me?
My character in my piece made over 100 pen pals. Some even snail mailed her. I really found it interesting that someone that doesn’t even know the character will take their time to write to her. I mean it is just so bizarre to me. Even though I do the same thing when I am in this virtual space.
Is it really safe to provide random information over the net. What makes them trust someone online? I don’t really know that. How would they identify if that e-mail was actually being sent to that “person”? Is it because we need to trust someone or maybe we think the person will not lie to us? Some people were open enough to ask sexual questions repeatedly when e-mailing my character. What made them think it was okay to do this and how did they feel when they became part of my piece? I would never know because they never replied back. I wonder if they’re embarrassed? Or Angry? But wouldn’t it be their fault for openly asking?
So yes you can converse with people online and feel like you have a connection. I don’t know why that happens. I don’t really know why it happens is it something to be scared of or something to be happy about? If this were to be the past when there was no computers people will only know social networks within their physical space, but now social networks go way beyond that. Just think of myspace and youtube or any other social networks that exist in virtual environments you have the ability to add and delete people from your network and don’t feel anything about it. You may know some in person. But most of them, you may not. So it becomes this huge web where people become connected. Personally, I find this to be an extremely complicated thing.
Basically it also taught me that in this environment you can lie or fabricate anything you want and most likely people will believe what you are saying. Because there are sooo many people in this space. There is bound to be people who do not doubt anything. This can be a little dangerous because that’s how they become trapped in something they never expected to be in. but I think for my practicum I used it as something to their advantage as well. Because they become part of this piece. My piece is the work of the participants who didn’t know about the piece and through my organization skills . it’s funny how they become something that they are not aware of.
I found it interesting that in this virtual culture so many cultures are available to anyone. We can travel without moving. People who never traveled have the ability to view what is going on around the world through visuals presented to us on the screens of our monitor. I myself feel as though I cannot live without the Internet anymore because I am so immersed into it. I used to watch television a lot when I was younger, but now I watch everything on the World Wide Web.
ART
To my parents and people I know who are non artists , art is something they find visually pleasing to the eye and something they “get”. But in my mind art is more conceptual and it is there to teach what goes in the world and in our society. Whoever says artists have an easy job or they are too lazy to do anything so they just draw or whatever does not really understand what artists are. Artists are educators in my own mind, but that’s just my own personal opinion on what we are. It may be different from other artists. Before attending college, I believed art to be something visually pleasing that would make me happy. My thoughts changed a lot through my college years because I have experienced creating art that may have caused damage to me emotionally and physically. I never really thought deep about the idea of creating a piece of artwork, but I realized I wanted to make artwork that would definitely invoke emotion and make my viewers think longer rather than having them just think “oh this piece is cool”. There’s more to it and if I took the time and effort in thinking and creating something I want my audience to take time in thinking about the messages I incorporate into my piece. Unfortunately this becomes a difficult task because not everyone is interested in the arts, but I believe I can raise many questions with my artworks.
Artists keep creating even if people put us down because we like what we are doing, it can be something that would make people angry, sad, happy, or whatever. We have the ability to invoke someone’s feelings with what we make. Okay so think about dada artists. People think their art style makes no sense because it’s random, but they are create this uneasy feeling for most of their viewers because they don’t understand the Dadaists’ art. Most of the time people don’t like a particular artists’ work because they simply because they don’t understand. I remember there was a time where we watched a video footage of Jackson Polluck’s paintings where he was describing what his work was about and one of my classmates didn’t understand it. She thought it was distasteful art. Because she thought anyone could make a Polluck piece and had some sort of discomfort in knowing that he is famous and she is not. I personally had no envy or jealous towards what polluck was doing because he explained himself pretty well on the video about the lines and colors of his pieces. To me I understood what he was doing. He was expressing himself and experimenting with colors and lines, but to the modern audience they just look at the piece as is. Not beyond what it is. This is probably why my piece would be confused by other people because there are so many layers behind to what they perceive, but I don’t necessarily need to people to understand because it’s what we are.
They can create their own ideas to what my piece is about and each and every viewer of my piece have their own interpretation, which becomes something really interesting.
We are controlled by our own thoughts and that creates who we are. So what I came to understand is that civilized humans want answers to everything, but there is no answer to everything. Only answers you will find is in your mind which you create with your brain. It will be different from other people and that’s okay I suppose….but maybe that’s what creates conflict because we humans have the desire to “educate” others with our own ideas, which sort of becomes forced. We become upset if someone does not have the same opinion as what we may have. This creates war and arguments.
I was thinking about something that a professor once told me in one of my classes in junior college. He told us that music; politics and religion are the main three things that create war. I think there are more. Yes, of course those do create tension between people, but there are far more things than that. People are different. Each person think their way of thinking is right when there is no such thing as right or wrong in my opinion. There are things we may find morally right or wrong in our own minds, but sometimes I wonder if they are really what we think or if it’s something we decided through knowledge. Knowledge and also how our society shapes our views. there’s also categories on humans We are grouped by how individuals perceive us through the way we act, dress, and so forth. My character looks like someone who you will never really see in physical space unless they are a cosplayer. So when I had my character enter the virtual space people just thought she was one. They did not think deeply about if this character was real or not…well I am thinking they didn’t because they asked the character if she was a cosplayer…so they pretty much generalized what she is by the way she looked. Also the way people speak or how hey present themselves makes them fit into a category of people. I personally don’t want to be labeled into anything because I am remi and I am not like anyone else in my own mind, but there will always be people who will label me. It makes no sense to me that I become categorized into a group of people, I don’t want to be associated with a group.
Just because I don’t want to be categorized, I guess iu cannot stay away from it. It’s sort of difficult. I mean everyone is a hypocrite and when they say they hate haters, they are hating haters. I remember an IM conversation I had with one of my friends that she was being harassed by a “white” girl, so her response to that was “she’s a racist white bitch” but after she realized what she said she corrected herself and said “racist bitch”. This is interesting because I don’t think we can avoid stereotyping a person. Even people say they can, I don’t think they will able to because no one is perfect. Even if people think they don’t, they think about it even though they don’t verbalize it. Just like how we humans are categorized by where we come from., we all live on earth, but we are categorized by where we come from such as the country we were born. Just because we are from a certain country that apparently makes us different because we are raised differently. This is true, but if I think more about it not all the people from a certain country thinks exactly the same. Each and every individual is different. So I personally think we should consider ourselves as one species with different characteristics rather than separating each other through categories we create for ourselves.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology has become a big part of our lives. We are controlled by technology. For example, the alarm clock. I don’t know about anyone, but for me, I depend on several alarm clocks in order to wake up at a certain time, I depend on it because I stay up very late doing random things at night because we have light. Light is also a technology because without it we cannot see and we will not have nothing better to do. We humans are changing who we are through technology. One day in the near future we will become a species that become one with technology. We will lose a lot of things about the human characteristics. Such as moving our body will become less. If you see Americans their standard life is to have a car and drive everywhere. They don’t walk as much as other countries that have other mode of transportation. Americans are one of the people who use technology to make themselves have an “easier” life. But making your life easier, does that make us really happy? Does that make us lazy?
Information always contradicts each other. I remember in a class I took when I was in junior college. They were both art history classes and the professor was talking about van Gogh’s ear and how he lost it. Their stories did not match. One of them said that he gave it to a prostitute to declare his love and the other said he gave his ear to the prostitute so she can deliver it to Gauguin because he was upset at him. I did not know which professor was telling the truth. Information is always manipulated and reproduced and plagiarized in order to tell the “truth”. So we are learning from something that is fabricated. There is no real answer to anything the more I think of things. So in the future, everything will become less clear and we will not know the truth even though we think we do. Just think of all the different ideas people come up with. Think of all the different beliefs people have on certain things, who decides what is real and what is not. Who decides that a certain idea is important? I am becoming more and more confused as I become older and experience different things. I mean if their words become so similar which one do we trust? I don’t think we can avoid plagiarizing because most of the time we obtain knowledge from other sources and manipulate it to our own words and reproduce it. We are all plagiarizing other people’s ideas. Even though we may think we’re not, we are. And the more advanced technology becomes and the more information that is available through physical or virtual space, we cannot avoid becoming pirates. Pirates as in stealing information on the virtual space as well as physical space. And then getting away with it. I don’t think in the future, copyright will exist because there will be reproductions of things. Even if we want to avoid it, we cannot. People take things to their advantage. They are not stupid beings. They know what they want and they will do anything to make themselves feel better about a certain thing. I think technology is really nice but at the same time we lose what is “real”. For example, I once was presented an image of chuck close’s painting and also a chuck close effect on the Photoshop. In photoshop with just a few clicks you can create your own chuck close picture. So it takes less time to create something with less effort. Which becomes art? Which is valued more. Even though they look completely the same. Who decides what is not art and who decides what is art? They are both created by someone, but the time and effort is different. Anyone can create a chuck close painting with Photoshop, so Photoshop gives an opportunity for non-artists to explore their “artistic talents”. Which is a good thing, but I am really confused. In the future, how will we able to differentiate the difference from computer generated art to traditional. I heard a lot more photographers are going digital now rather than printing their own prints in their studios. They say that the time it takes to print is dramatically different. And with digital cameras they can manipulate the colors on a program such as Photoshop to create something they want. So we are losing traditional photographers as well because it’s too time consuming to create one print by checking the values on the print. So technology creates easy access to materials and also our creativity. I am not sure which is better or worse nowadays because they have their own advantage and disadvantages. I have been a traditional artist my whole life, but when I entered college I decided to become a media major which focused more on the digital aspects of arts. So my life as an artist became one with the traditional and the new. This also reflects my practicum as I mixed and blended the old and the new. The past , present and future. They all become one thing and differentiation becomes impossible….well at least for me.
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