I really enjoyed watching Yroyto's work on his site, particularly the drum kit that created images with each hit of the snare or tom or kick. It is something I have been experimenting with and it's similar to what I am exploring for my final piece.
I am curious as to how Yroyto creates his pieces and his process of working, especially when connecting physical instruments with video components.
Yroyto seems to be very interesting and very similar to Akria and a lot of the other artist we have seen from the mapping festival, they aren’t necessarily VJ’s rather that they are artist experimenting with their creativity.
I think that sculpture is an amazing art form, I love it, and I think that it has a lot to offer both to the world of Vjing and to the Art world in general. If you think about it, sculptures can be so many things, from simple pieces to pieces that can be projected onto, and change with time as they are being exposed to the elements, they are the ultimate form of interaction between the elements and the world they are created in.
I think that what Yroyto is doing is interesting in that he is using Vjing as means by which to get out into the scene and gain peoples attention. He said that he is not a VJ first, but rather a painter, and that I think is a very valid thing, if you can utilize the Vjing tools to enhance both your paintings but also to just gain access to a community of people that think like you and are working in similar ways as to you. I think that it can only help you as an artist.
Another quick and interesting lecture. Yrotyto went from being a painter to a visual artist, or at least was a painter THEN was introduced into the time based art form. However as Brian pointed out that when Yroyto was asked, he said he was a painter before a visual time based artist. I'll agree with what Brian vaguely said in that you can use one art skill and combine it with another to not only gain attention but also to show people you may be working in similar ways as them. This is the same as Yroyto is doing, he's taking his painting skills and combining them with VJ-ing.
I went and looked at the "Hyper_Space" piece on Yroyto's website. I was definitely impressed with the continuous overall theme of space that stayed constant throughout the entire piece. In some parts the arrangement of the shapes and objects reminded me of playing flight simulator games with the cross hair to aim at enemies. I don't know how he set it up, but the shapes would react to the nearby noise/music. On top of that to do such a performance completely live is quite impressive.
When I watched Yroyto's piece with the drum kit, it reminded me of one of Disney's earlier movies, Fantasia (not Fantasia 2000, the original one). In one of the sequences, they animate a "soundtrack", who comes on to the screen and demonstrates how he would "look" while creating certain noises. There was a flute, a violin, I can't really remember all of them - and a drum kit. This is what I thought of when I saw how Yroyto had made images that matched up with the drums' music. For me, it was sort of like a depiction of the music...I liked it very much. I love live music in performances as well, obviously such as theater performances and other things, and this was just a really neat thing for me to see.
As to Yroyto's comment about being a painter first, and VJing comes second - I respect that, painting will always be his first love, but if I were in such a situation in which I had the chance to talk to him, I would definitely encourage him to explore the latter medium more, because I think that his work is very innovative. I really liked that drum piece, and I think he could do a whole series like that: have instruments and create a system in which they would somehow play by themselves (that would look awesome) and have the graphics depicting their sounds!
As a musician, I loved his piece with the drum kit. Drums are the 3rd instrument I'm trying to get a good grip on. I've always wanted to do a live performance where the notes and how the musicians moved controlled the lights for the background.
I agree with Brian about how most of the VJ's are artists experimenting with their creativity, because as a musician, I'm always experimenting with different genres and different effects, and different styles. I feel that I'm never done learning, and I will never be done learning.
I really like Yroyto's Bomb Archive. I think using history in new media serves an interesting function (although I hate history) because a large piece of new media for me is challenging and questioning the given instutitional structures we are faced with, but when you question history -- that creates a really interesting project. Documentaries often do this. The film Zeitgeist examines the history of america, religion, and looks to the our desolate future as a one-world government with implanted RFID tags. Regardless, documentaries aren't for everyone, but a lot of people enjoy provocative art to some degree. Also, when people learn about history -- I really don't think that their thought process looks at history in a critical manor. I wasn't there, you weren't there, period. I have trust issues I guess, but I think much of our history is kept away from us and the other parts are buried-- why do we CELEBRATE Columbus Day? He was a heathen! Also, not everyone is very academic, so they don't learn the truth's that we lied about in elementary school about. SO, my rant ends with the fact that I think work like Yroyto's Atomic Bomb Archive just show that we should not forget our horrible past (especially to let those responsible know we aren't forgetting).
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I really enjoyed watching Yroyto's work on his site, particularly the drum kit that created images with each hit of the snare or tom or kick. It is something I have been experimenting with and it's similar to what I am exploring for my final piece.
I am curious as to how Yroyto creates his pieces and his process of working, especially when connecting physical instruments with video components.
Yroyto seems to be very interesting and very similar to Akria and a lot of the other artist we have seen from the mapping festival, they aren’t necessarily VJ’s rather that they are artist experimenting with their creativity.
I think that sculpture is an amazing art form, I love it, and I think that it has a lot to offer both to the world of Vjing and to the Art world in general. If you think about it, sculptures can be so many things, from simple pieces to pieces that can be projected onto, and change with time as they are being exposed to the elements, they are the ultimate form of interaction between the elements and the world they are created in.
I think that what Yroyto is doing is interesting in that he is using Vjing as means by which to get out into the scene and gain peoples attention. He said that he is not a VJ first, but rather a painter, and that I think is a very valid thing, if you can utilize the Vjing tools to enhance both your paintings but also to just gain access to a community of people that think like you and are working in similar ways as to you. I think that it can only help you as an artist.
Another quick and interesting lecture. Yrotyto went from being a painter to a visual artist, or at least was a painter THEN was introduced into the time based art form. However as Brian pointed out that when Yroyto was asked, he said he was a painter before a visual time based artist. I'll agree with what Brian vaguely said in that you can use one art skill and combine it with another to not only gain attention but also to show people you may be working in similar ways as them. This is the same as Yroyto is doing, he's taking his painting skills and combining them with VJ-ing.
I went and looked at the "Hyper_Space" piece on Yroyto's website. I was definitely impressed with the continuous overall theme of space that stayed constant throughout the entire piece. In some parts the arrangement of the shapes and objects reminded me of playing flight simulator games with the cross hair to aim at enemies. I don't know how he set it up, but the shapes would react to the nearby noise/music. On top of that to do such a performance completely live is quite impressive.
When I watched Yroyto's piece with the drum kit, it reminded me of one of Disney's earlier movies, Fantasia (not Fantasia 2000, the original one). In one of the sequences, they animate a "soundtrack", who comes on to the screen and demonstrates how he would "look" while creating certain noises. There was a flute, a violin, I can't really remember all of them - and a drum kit. This is what I thought of when I saw how Yroyto had made images that matched up with the drums' music. For me, it was sort of like a depiction of the music...I liked it very much. I love live music in performances as well, obviously such as theater performances and other things, and this was just a really neat thing for me to see.
As to Yroyto's comment about being a painter first, and VJing comes second - I respect that, painting will always be his first love, but if I were in such a situation in which I had the chance to talk to him, I would definitely encourage him to explore the latter medium more, because I think that his work is very innovative. I really liked that drum piece, and I think he could do a whole series like that: have instruments and create a system in which they would somehow play by themselves (that would look awesome) and have the graphics depicting their sounds!
As a musician, I loved his piece with the drum kit. Drums are the 3rd instrument I'm trying to get a good grip on. I've always wanted to do a live performance where the notes and how the musicians moved controlled the lights for the background.
I agree with Brian about how most of the VJ's are artists experimenting with their creativity, because as a musician, I'm always experimenting with different genres and different effects, and different styles. I feel that I'm never done learning, and I will never be done learning.
I really like Yroyto's Bomb Archive. I think using history in new media serves an interesting function (although I hate history) because a large piece of new media for me is challenging and questioning the given instutitional structures we are faced with, but when you question history -- that creates a really interesting project. Documentaries often do this. The film Zeitgeist examines the history of america, religion, and looks to the our desolate future as a one-world government with implanted RFID tags. Regardless, documentaries aren't for everyone, but a lot of people enjoy provocative art to some degree. Also, when people learn about history -- I really don't think that their thought process looks at history in a critical manor. I wasn't there, you weren't there, period. I have trust issues I guess, but I think much of our history is kept away from us and the other parts are buried-- why do we CELEBRATE Columbus Day? He was a heathen! Also, not everyone is very academic, so they don't learn the truth's that we lied about in elementary school about. SO, my rant ends with the fact that I think work like Yroyto's Atomic Bomb Archive just show that we should not forget our horrible past (especially to let those responsible know we aren't forgetting).
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