Larry & Daryl

Blind

Cereal in the morning.

I would just like to welcome all the design students to my Alternative Media Processes Blog. In this class we create Performance, New Media and Installation based works. Please take a moment to take a look as we friend one another.

Thanks!
-Lisa

Reflection

Don't Turn Back

What Lies Beneath

Clubbed To Death

Sara Earle/Seth Macy Guerrilla pranks

Somebody had to do it.

Spirit Ball

growing pills by Sara Earl

My Best Friend

White Bird Parabola

White Bird Parabola

Mixed Media Installation

Chiyoko Myose

Artist Statement

      I identify myself as a sojourner, a person who stays in a place temporarily.  A sojourner is like a traveler who moves from one place to another without a place to settle down.  It resembles a white bird flying in the air.  When you look at a white bird flying, it stands out in its surrounding landscape of different colors.  In the Japanese language, we often express this kind of scene metaphorically as “The white bird looks like it never gets dyed by any colors of the surrounding landscape”.  This expression of “never getting dyed by other colors” is also used idiomatically to express people’s condition of not getting adjusted to or not being influenced by the environment.  A sojourner is like an isolated white bird flying, without getting dyed by other colors.  

     With this particular installation art piece, I expressed this feeling of a sojourner like a white bird.  The component with multiple “white feather balls” creating a parabola-like shape in the air represents the locus of the journey of a white bird.  Each ball is a separate point, but they are creating one line together.  Because its shape also looks like an “infinity” symbol, this journey can be read as an endless ongoing matter. 

     I placed one chair underneath the parabola structure to create an introspective image as a whole.  Also, the chair represents a place to rest.  By scattering feathers and feather balls on the chair and the floor, I expressed my spiritual journey in frequenting this place to rest. 

     The sojourner travels just like an isolated white bird flying endlessly.  Is the white bird sad?  To me, it looks like flying with strength and nobility.  The white bird continues to fly in the air with dynamic movement and constant rhythm.

           

Sound Project

Hi All-

Sound Projects can be uploaded the same way the video works are. Select the video icon and find and select the sound file as a video file.

Thanks-
Lisa

no video allow

I's

ET lost the way home

social network

4'33" of nature

Plastic Rain

Mike Miller

Mixed Media Installation

    The installation plastic rain is part of a series of pieces that deal with the interface between “nature and machine”. The dripping water and the sound of the drips represents the “natural” rain drops. All of the rest of the piece represents the “man-made machine”. The fake grass/astro-turf carpet with aluminum foil pie pans is the “machine man-made” lawn/fields and ponds. The neon yellow string and zip ties holding up the the black hydroponic tubing is the “machine” sky, and the black tubing is the “machine” rain clouds. The black garden hose and manifold valve is a part of the rain cloud “machine” too. The flexible plastic arms that move when drops of water hit them represent the energy that man extracts from natural sources to make our machines work. The aluminum foil covered ladder is the access for maintenance on the man-made rain clouds. As in our culture the components of the “machine” portion of the installation tend to overshadow the “natural” water drops, but the sound component of the drips and our emotional response to that sound brings the piece back into a healthy balance between “natural” and “machine”. Which is the metaphor of this piece; if we wish to have a healthy culture we need to keep the “natural and the machine" in balance.         

Here it Comes

People Need Their Papers

Framework 36 Installation

Framework 36

José Alvarado

Mix Media installation

The installation piece was in relation to my painting and drawing practice which focus on a psychological response to biomechanics. However, the piece draws toward the organic aspect. I wanted to make a piece that alludes creation or growth and interacts with its surroundings. The abstract entity fractures physical space creating a variety of perspectives for the viewer to engage in. The installation layout was dependent on its location within the gallery. I titled the work Framework 36 because it could be essentially a framework to anything. Although the piece is ambiguous it provides room for the viewer to develop some type of psychological relation and therefore making the viewer part of the works manifestation. 

High On Lights

washing

chicken and the egg

Journey

Approach

Sound Project

The Walk

Sirius

69%

Video Project

Sound Project

Received from a higher intelligence.

Downtown Monkey

Wichita Underground

In response to Sara's Visit to the casino

A Visit to the New Casino in Mulvane

Driving Home 2084

Hisakatano

Hisakatano

Mixed Media Installation

by Chiyoko Myose

II

Artist Statement

My work expresses my personal feelings and experiences as a sojourner and my spiritual journey in search of a place to fully call home.  As a sojourner, I have a physical place where I live, but simultaneously, my mind goes to the places where I used to live.  This experience makes me explore various aspects of a sojourner’s life such as place, memory, imagining, cultural displacement, and spiritual journey.

Right now, it is the season of the cherry blossom in my original country of Japan.  I imagine they are blooming beautifully now, as always.  At the same time, I am concerned that the land and the people who are living there have been going through mourning and struggles after the earthquake and tsunami disaster and the nuclear accident from a year ago.

The image of this particular installation art piece was inspired by my memory of viewing the cherry blossoms and a shoji window, a Japanese paper sliding window.  The petals fall off and form other flowers in another place.  Together with the light, shadow, mirrors, and reflection of the mirrors, I expressed my thoughts and prayers for my original country and the people there.

The title of this piece, ‘Hisakatano’ is from a waka, a short poem, by Kino Tomonori from the 9^th century.  The word Hisakatano itself does not have a meaning, but it is a word that goes with the word ‘the light’.  The poem goes like this:

Hisakatano hikarinodokeki harunohini

Shizukokoronaku hananochiruramu

ひさかたの　光のどけき　春の日に

しづ心なく　花の散るらむ

It translates to:

On such a light tranquil spring day,

Why do the cherry blossoms fall like restless thoughts?

Images with different light settings

See some more images here.  http://chiyokomyose.com/section/298717_Hisakatano_Installation_3.html

Pills and Wine in Moma's Stomach

Pills and Wine in Moma’s Stomach

Sara Earle

This video deals with my mom’s tendencies to overdose on drugs and how her addiction has killed her over time. This video portrays pills and wine going into my mother’s stomach and her heartbeat throughout time, which slows down until it finally ceases(demonstrating her demise). The video switches back and forth between the pills and my mom throughout time as she is getting older.

Pill Cocktail

Rabbit's Denial

 

Statement

This is a transcendent piece.  I struggled mightily with the problem solving.  In the end I chose the  simplest solution and was happy with it.  Normally, I come up with general ideas and leave plenty of room for improvisation and growth.  This was the first time I had the pressure of artmaking for a specific show.  I probably could have done with less indeterminacy and more planning in advance.  Still, as stated, I'm happy with the result.  As for the piece itself, I had general ideas there too.  At various times in the planning process, I wanted crossing through the portal to bring a specific change, a specific feeling, a subtle non-determined change, or be purely aesthetic.  Because of the limitations of reality and technology, I had to settle on an implied change.  This kind of ambiguity worked, and I'm pleased that the viewer is allowed to fill in the details of the experience.  As for my intentions, I believe in the idea that our thinking and feelings affect and change matter.  So my working with the materials of the piece imbued meaning directly into them, and more specifically, my own meanings.  These are felt although not directly apprehended by viewers.  I realize this kind of meaning isn't approved of or understood by academia, but so much the better.

Chair by the stream

Armageddon Noire

Angel Light and Song

Growing Pills

http://youtu.be/nKx9OQbrwgs

light house

Cow dance

Sharing Seaweeds

Blog 4

My Best Friend

http://youtu.be/yuggUOxJNbo

potato fall

Hammer and Lightbulb

short drink

dripness2

Invisible...

Blog 3

Wet bang

Hammer and Lightbulb

http://youtu.be/xlkbONJeCgc

untitled (I (L)ike to (L)ook at the (L)ines)

Feeling Affected -- From the Preshocks to the Aftershocks

Blog 2

no video allowed

Blog 2 - Rhythm

HumanoidHumanoidHumanoid

untitled (kissyface): Aerica

Rebuilding

Big and black

Watch me play with black metal.

-Seth

Being a douche with the family

This is me in a restaurant with my family.