The vision'R festival like the Mapping festival presented a broad variety of digital time-based artists, theorists, designers and much much more. Both of these events were dense in experience and rich with information. There is not enough time for you to watch and comment on everything at this point in the semester. What I'd like you to do is to review as many of the special "Special iPodU vision'R" iTunes video posts as you can and post your response in general or in specific to the vision'R blog. The vision'R videos are found under the NMD 430 iTunes section.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
vision'R Review Special iPodU Session Response
The vision'R festival like the Mapping festival presented a broad variety of digital time-based artists, theorists, designers and much much more. Both of these events were dense in experience and rich with information. There is not enough time for you to watch and comment on everything at this point in the semester. What I'd like you to do is to review as many of the special "Special iPodU vision'R" iTunes video posts as you can and post your response in general or in specific to the vision'R blog. The vision'R videos are found under the NMD 430 iTunes section.
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I viewed the discussion on VJ Community and got to observer the different views of what it means to be a community. The first question explored the views of identity and how artists work.
Why do some work independently or collectively? Raphael reluctantly admitted that he had to get use to working collectively because of the benefits in working that way. It wasn't the idea of working with others, it was a some what egotistical view that you must give up some of those liberties of decision making and compromise.
Toby said that he really does not like collaboration, but sees peer2peer sharing as a form of independent collaboration. By partaking in a festival he was able to see what others were doing and they could share ideas.
Intention defines the end result. And intention is defined by participants. Everything has structure, and not necessarily a hierarchy. As a community, they provide the space and the technology. That is what I understood out of the conversation.
I guess I feel that community brings not only a sense of belonging but also a sense of acceptance.
Communication allows people to belong to communities, it has been done for thousands of years and the earlier beginnings of mans history- now it's virtually- the phenomena is that these forms of community are being created at such a rapid rate.
In watching this lecture I had a realization. When talking about the performance as watching the artist in action, I thought about my own performances, and how they are the musician regurgitating the same songs every night for some of the same crowd. I thought about how this is more of a commodity than an artistic expression, and how writing the song is the real art behind it. Raphael mentioned the artist Rothko and how he described his gallery openings as people walking through the ashes of the art, and the process was the art. As a musician I thought that all my performances were just people dancing around in a pile of ashes to these regurgitated songs that I've played over a hundred times before. The creativity with another person is the greatest part of the creative process. To sit down with a drummer and a bass player and a vocalist to put all your minds together to create something is the great part, or even if you do it on your own, it is the art, and the regurgitation is the commodity.
I agree with Stephen when he says that he feels that the community brings a sense of belonging and acceptance. When you're in a band and you work with the other musicians, your voice usually gets heard and you can help drive the art and it is a push and pull, but your voice, or your touch is always on the final piece.
I listened to Ana Brendan speak for a bit about theory and philosphy in new media. I think her approach is important. A few weeks ago external reviewers were here at Umaine, and I got to sit down with a few others students at VIP lunch and talk about our program and it seems like they felt that we needed a broader base to work with before we got to the NMD200/300 levels. I agree with this, theory and philosphy isn't really everyone's cup of tea, but there should be some background, more examples, features, just more groundwork to start with. We also said there should be some more interdisciplinary study stuff going on so there is content to flow with the new media.
This seems to be a lot of what the Vision'R purpose was -- mixtures of theory and philosophy brought upon through new media. At least this is what I gathered from what Ana was saying. I do think this is important because one need's ideas and concepts to work with to integrate into projects.
This hinges onto what Stephen said about "intention defines the end result". Intentions can only be formulated with somewhat formed opinions, skills, and theories. If one has no background in order to create ideas, how will they be able to achieve interesting projects?
I really like the process that Ana talked about, it really solidified a structure that I think we need to adopt a little more in the NMD program here -- getting into other departments and processing through other education and using new media as a tool -- just my opinion though, but seems to be the process at Vision'R and some great results came from it!
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