Video 1 response (Art 21 Pierre Hyughe)

Pierre Hyughe is a fascinating artist, to say the least. His ideas of working with film are phenomenal. I am interested to see how he relates these ideas to a strange relationship with reality. He often will mix fact with fiction. This led to to make some correlations to my own work, in which I will make connections or draw conclusions from two or more completely unrelated ideas or objects and create a unified concept. The text that he uses is interesting in how it is so simple, yet when viewed, it becomes very complex and the viewer yearns to know more and to figure out what it is the artist is really saying.

Response to Digital Technologies as a Medium

My response to this article can be found at

http://public.iwork.com/document/?a=p275951931&d=Response_to_Digital_Technologies_as_a_Medium.pages

It can then be downloaded as a variety of file types.

walking pages

Repetitive Action

The following video was for the repetitive action project. In it, I spray paint along a banner for a length of time. The video shows me doing this from different views. I echo the theme of the movie Before Night Falls, the story of writer Reinaldo Arenas. The soundtrack is a reading of his poem The Parade Ends.

Jose Alvarado: Deconstructive Circles

I wanted to demonstrate a repetitive, yet simple action that results catastrophically. As well as to destroy its initial identity to become something more. In other words creating and revealing the beauty in destruction. The charcoal and conte overlapping application imprints a mark on the paper which presents information; however the interchanging of the medium destroys the initial information to become something even more. The more layers applied the further the paper becomes worn-out revealing new layers. My repetitive motion and the pressure of the medium against the paper creates a push pull effect of how information becomes manipulated and destroyed to create something greater then its initial identity.

Transformation: Jose Alvarado

This drawing is related to my biomechanical portrait. However, this drawing demonstrates a transformation and bond between organic and mechanical instead of one form having dominance. I used texture to represent the physical transitions or transformation that the central figure is undergoing within its environment. I wanted to explore an implied form of movement and "self-creation" with the use of line, texture, and light.