tara

i thought she was alright…I don’t know I guess I just feel like maybe I’m a little tired of seeing how when you take away someone’s face there’s more (the photo series of the girls’ backs) since that was a major theme in one of tyanna’s works. I thought it was cool when she talked about asking others to construct a still-life so it was a representation of them – I took a portraiture art history class sometime last year so I think that would’ve been an interesting point of discussion. I enjoyed hearing how others pushed her to stop with her normal boring hospital jobs and go for things that really fulfilled her; I feel like in previous artist talks they weren’t really stuck in things they didn’t want to do, or at least they just never brought it up. Yeah, I also thought it was interesting how she described the lamps she used in her project as her kids – artists -> make stuff ->similar to having kids I guess

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art-making and kids

poster

poster

there's this idea (fact) that my dad doesn’t recognize me when i paint myself (-> my eyes, my eyebrows, my lips -> others (friends, sisters) can pick up on some of my features, but he can’t)

so i did this piece with this in mind along with the whitney biennal's Black Death Spectacle anddd in my contemporary art class we covered pop the other day

so i guess here's just a few questions/thoughts from it-

What does it take for people to interact with art?  waiting around for friends before they go in, board members just hanging out before the show, volunteers at the table with the poster right in front of them -> why do some people pay more attention to what's on the table than others, is everything on the table just stuff they already know and don't need to really look at, i'm right there my face is right there, is there too much photo manipulation
Too much stuff going on with ticketing and people entering auditorium and people going to the bathroom and talking with each other and people getting really excited to see their friends perform ??

How does its position on the ticketing table affect it? a place for people to stop and go, the people who work at the table (board members and volunteers) see it as stuff they don't really need to look at; the volunteers' job is solely to take the ticket and check it off; everything else on the table is not that relevant.
We don't actually look at decoration because it's decoration
A spectacle inside of a spectacle - the event is Cabaret, but there is another spectacle - a new poster, one that hasn't been showcased to the public before. A new design, done by someone who's never made her own poster before. An opening for Cabaret, an opening for a new kind of graphic designer. (artist??) Attracts older students because the pictures on it are from past years. Poster is attracting a particular audience. Everyone else, they don't know the pictures = they don't care
Is this piece satirical? (What elements do the speech bubble and font add?) the largest contestation in pop art is whether it critiques or celebrates pop culture; this speech bubble thing, like everything else looks serious except for it...merging high art and low art? We know what pop is, pop's already shocked us to the point that we are aware that it is a type of art...how does the general public see it, people who don't have a comprehensive understanding of Warhol and Lichtenstein...
Why did she put the speech bubble and text there
Everything else looks great
They're out of place
Poor design choice?
So a cool poster is art - yeah i guess..i think the conclusion/question should be how does this cool poster alter the social environment because it's not the actual poster and it appeals to certain audiences 

in the beginning the poster was on the side, then it was in the middle, then back on the side of the table

when it was in the middle it was positioned next to the official poster 

adds another dimension to the piece

poster design competition

tension

didn't anticipate it

oops

tyanna reflection

Tyanna’s prints (story) caught my attention primarily because of her faceless depictions – it was interesting how she expressed her vision/personality traits of certain people in her life by removing what gives a lot of works of art attention, the facial expression. It makes you think about the works you see where the expression is key, or at least they help to complete the piece, and impress something on you. Tyanna’s work got me thinking about what kinds of reactions people would have if we just took the facial expressions out of all works of art-I don’t know, it’s pretty mind-blowing to think about…especially the renaissance works because there’s some really bizarre stuff during that time period

and sometimes the facial expression is the centerpiece

i don't know what would happen to portraits and self-portraits

has anyone ever wondered what someone meant by 'oh, that looks so artsy' -

idk whose these are but theyre labeled for noncommercial use

i guess i'm thinking about how that phrase is applied to photography, particularly photography portraits
it's this type of aesthetic where people aren't wearing these generic smiling faces, and in a way you can kind of see it as model-esque because it has alot to do with the look in the eyes
but are you getting what i mean
like it's not generic smiley and not model-like
and yeah there's a ton of facial expressions in between those two, there doesn't need to be two endpoints,
but i think people kind of expect that from looking at photos -
it's either the stunning glittering eyes plush lips blinding teeth, with either this pure bliss or smoldering thing
or it's just normal people and all their flaws smiling, like in a candid of two young boys laughing while playing soccer in the summertime sun

so i guess 'oh, that looks artsy' in terms of photography is referring to that mass spectrum in between the model and the candid

i guess you could argue it's a little smoldering, a little candid, but i feel like a lot of it is this consciousness of being looked at...it shows in their eyes, their not completely smiling or frowning mouth, the concerned or wistful eyebrow angle

I particularly liked the one she talked about where she didn’t know her grandparents but then she learned about them through distant relatives and she made a print combining the original photo of them but projecting her own image onto them as well – maybe because I haven’t seen a ton of print stuff in general before, is what makes me think that’s really clever 

but then idk i remembered some cool illustrator and double exposure stuff
I found this on flickr titled 'Wired Steve Jobs'. i don't know what the one below is called but i dont think the title is as necessary as the top one.

Tyanna was still pretty cool

arena of exchange proposal

The “inter-human” game (8) that I am interested in performing and documenting involves videotaping my experience as a board member, back-stage coordinator (my main position) and participant helping to run a huge annual theatrical production – Cabaret; so these upcoming two weeks, up until the end of the final performance on April 9. The “forms”(7) and their subsequent “textures” (9) that will take part in this ‘arena of exchange’ include my interactions with fellow board members, my co-back stage coordinator, volunteers, participants, and audience members. This work will showcase a cohesive reflection of myself and spectacle of my experience, or a “transitive ethic” (9-10) as Bourriard calls it. My goal is to do it inconspicuously so that certain and true social meanings can be derived from these real and unstaged encounters.