Carla Re-cap

What Relational Aesthetics can learn from 4Chan.

A great article that talks about online communities and how they relate to relational aesthetics.

What Relational Aesthetics can learn from 4Chan.

Unit Proposal - Kristen Jia

Untitled, Kristen Jia, video, 2013

I took Art Visual Research 291 last semester and I made a video.The video is a reflection upon the seemingly unattached but seamlessly interwoven relationship between individuals under the backdrop of urban landscape.For this unit proposal, my initial idea is to continue the discussion over the characteristics of urban life and the collective portraiture of devoted participants in the presentation of video.

http://kuanjia.tumblr.com/
This tumblr functions as a work journal contains the research I did in the process of making the video.

Unit Proposal - Carla Adams

This body of work started as a call out that I posted on the internet to find an online relationship. My aim was to use a relationship with a stranger to examine the tension between the notions of private and public, especially in the context of online communication. 

 

 As the project developed, my interest shifted away from the relationship and I am currently more interested in how the intrinsic nature of the Internet means that it can be described using many contradictions. It is anonymous but personal, individual but collective, everywhere but nowhere, contained yet uncontrollable. Clean yet dirty.

My current studio project examines the ways in which Internet users communicate with one another and how the context of this communication changes when removed from the digital platform. I will be collecting user-generated text from various online sources and exploring how I can change the reading by placing it into a different context. User generated text may refer to comments, status updates, blog posts, memes, fan fiction, forums posts or personals ads that internet users write and post online. 

For this Media Art unit, I aim to create a body of work that compliments my studio work but explores the general notion of user-generated text in a slightly different way.

Carla Adams

www.carlaadams.net 

 

Some Emails, Carla Adams

Carla Adams, Some Emails, 2013. Digital Video (Text read aloud and translated by YouTube Auto captions) Watch on YouTube

TROIKA

SHOAL INSTALLATION

FALLING LIGHT INSTALLATION

TROIKA on VIMEO

Troika are a UK Design company whose work combines technology, design and strong aesthetic qualities.  Their work has been showcased in the Victoria & Albert Museum London, Beijing & Canada.  Troika's work processes are of interest where they combine art aesthetics with technology, architecture, light, interior design in a medium embracing Sculptural Installation.