July 2011
2 posts
Watch[WARNING!!! AUDIO WAS LOUDER THAN I EXPECTED]
“Looking for Monsters” Production Book
Team Members
Tyler Ninomura – Script, storyboard, camera operator, editor, actor
Artist Statement
Abstract
A dark, artistic horror video implementing various effects, including on- and off-camera special effects, in order to portray the horror behind everyone’s self-image and identity.
Description
This...
June 2011
5 posts
WatchProject #1: ch(I)ldhood
Project #1: Pre-Production
Team Members
Tyler Ninomura – Script, storyboard, camera operator, editor, contractor
Jaymi Matsudaira – Actor, location leaser
Artist Statement
Abstract
A black-and-white short video that uses split screens to focus on different views of the human body from conflicting perspectives in order to critique the struggles one must ordeal to achieve society’s image of the perfect person, namely, that...
Homework #2
Bill Viola’s work, Mortality of the Image, provides an interesting look at how the idea of the image has evolved over time, and captures the general human understanding of what these provide us. An intriguing combination between fiction and non-fiction, prose and script, and text and images help to highlight Viola’s points, and provides the perfect “transition” for the next section. He offers a...
WatchChannel FIVE: Human Paint by Robert Seidel
DXARTS 450/Homework #1: Film as an Art, How to...
This article offers an interesting insight into analyzing, or as Monaco puts it, “reading” a film. After an extensive history of art and society’s perception of the medium, Monaco culminates in explaining the relevance of this backdrop for new age recording media, most importantly, film and video. For Monaco, film acts as our current penultimate form of artistic expression,...
December 2010
6 posts
Research
In order for this project to come to fruition, a number of advancements in technology must be altered or invented. The list of technological devices is as follows:
· Infrared emissivity measurement
· Brain wave capture and manipulation via electric fields
· Artificial sight and auditory manipulation
There is already a good deal of advancements in these fields. Research has been...
Timeline
Technological Research and Development
2-5 years: installation of computer chip in mammals
5-10 years: installation of computer chip in human brain to supplement memory
5 years: research on black bodies leads to increased infrared reading accuracy
20 years: computer chip installation used to heighten senses (based off of already created installations); cheap to produce and install
20-40 years:...
Historical Background
One of my main motivations was Altamira by Shawn Brixey. His combination of the visual and the non-diegetic, the real and the celestial, and man and machine was one of the turning points of my project. Since then, I’ve had this planned project in my mind. Just as Brixey stimulated phosphenes in order to create his works, I plan on manipulating brain waves in an attempt to accomplish a...
Abstract
In this piece, I try to articulate some of the odd intricacies used when describing equality. Often, people argue that government-run programs that help minorities or low-income individuals go against the equal rights and opportunities that America is based upon. At the same time, sociologists argue about how race and gender are being utilized in society, and analyze their impact, claiming that...
BLANK: a DXARTS 200 Final Project
Sociologists have theorized that humanity will reach a point where all people will treat each other exactly the same; there will not be discrimination by race, gender, or even how mainstream the bands you like are. In essence, they believe that humanity will peak as nothing more than a homogenous existence.
Assume that in one hundred years that humanity reaches this high point. How we view the...
Extra Credit: Fire and Ice
Although a lot of my work stems from random, spontaneous thoughts and ideas, there are a few things I know I can draw on for inspiration. Robert Frost’s works are one of those, especially his poems.
Perhaps my favorite poem by Frost is Fire and Ice:
My goal with this piece is explained below:
While many scholars make the comparison between this poem and the nine layers of Hell in...
November 2010
3 posts
Subl(eye)me
This week’s artist presentations inspired me more than any of the previous weeks. Both Maja Petric’s work with the sublime and Ha Na Lee’s various outlooks into the darker side of the human psyche clicked with my ever present pessimistic views of society and with the darkness I feel encapsulates each and every human being. The sublime has always been a topic of great interest to me. I had taken...
Homework 6: A Day in the Life Of . . . →
Copy and paste links in the Location Descriptions to continue the journey.
Homework 5: Problems in an Auditory World
After attending the DXArts’ concert last Tuesday in Meany, I found myself underwhelmed by the overall performance. There was a lot of elements in the piece that I enjoyed; the pieces themselves were seemed innovative and accomplished their job well. However, for a concert based on 3D acoustic surround sound, I found my experience to be inclined almost entirely to the left side. Although it should...
October 2010
5 posts
Homework 2: Pt. 1 [Systems Art . . .]
Engages and encompasses any and all members of the audience
Simulates life and nature, or the systems within life and nature
Gives as much importance to the non-sensual as the sensual
Emulates other systems so that they can be made tangible
Can be pushed past its current boundaries; it’s current size and location is merely temporary
Allows the fusion of both...
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Homework 1
After reading through the four articles relating to the future of art and technology, namely, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The Future of Responsive Systems in Art, As We May Think, and The Artwork of the Future, I found that many inspired some sort of thought in me. However, Bush’s writing, As We May Think, amazed me. Here was someone who had very accurately predicted the...
