Robots Vs. Aliens
(although it's not really a fair fight when we all know aliens dominate)
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"Large object in the sky"
Artist Statement
Aww, the ageless tale of good verses evil, light verses
dark, love verses hate, aliens verses robots…? Okay, so not every opposition is
timeless, but they are always interesting. Things that perfectly mesh don’t
tell a story or drive a point. Who would read a book where everyone got exactly
what he or she wanted and never had to fight for a single thing? Of course we
wouldn’t, because that’s not what life is really like. For this Webspinna
Battle I played with the idea of juxtaposition to make something more
interesting and unique than that could be accomplished by itself.
Representing
aliens for my side of the battle, I found juxtaposition within this single
topic when I chose to use sound clips from old movies and new movies. This
union was fun to create because sound in films has changed drastically from
1951 when The Day the Earth Stood Still
was filmed, to the creepy clicks of Signs,
2002. But together it formed a historical story about how our films deal with
‘aliens.’ Then, combining all the alien sounds with the robot sounds, Caitlin
and I found a brand new story.
Similar
to DJ Spooky’s Rhythm Science our
smattering of sounds don’t make a ton of logical or sequential sense, but give
more of an idea of something. Spooky’s music was similar in that it didn’t make
any sense to put together words like theater, cool, and vector, which have no
correlation to each other, except that now Spooky has placed them together in
time, consequently giving each more meaning than before. The same can be said
for Pogo who put down a beat, then mixed in sounds from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but together they tell a brand new
story.
Picasso
was a master at combining many small elements together with other normal elements
to create something nonsensical or some kind of new story. For example, Guernica is a masterful exploration of
the bombing that took place there. But the reason that this work of art has
paid memorable homage to the incident, rather than just something that was lost
through time, is the way he makes the viewer interact with the art. On a small scale,
we see the individual shapes like triangles and squares, or we can see the individual
faces, hands and animals, but that is not the point of this art. The point is
the emotion being conveyed. I believe that even if we can’t always understand
how something is created, why it’s created or even what is created, we can
still be influenced by not only it, but also the emotion and opposition within
it.
Picasso's Guernica
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