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Using a flatbed scanner and incorporating printed images and objects, the intent of the project was to create a montage type art that consisted of images that provoked a depiction of social identities. With feminist theory in mind, I’ve exemplified the complexity of the ideology and how it has re-constructed identities of both genders over the years, blurring the abstract divisions between the female and male identity; we’ve come to see how vague the top hat really is.
Digital Art, Fine Arts, Writing
2010
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I ventured into creating a collage that provoked a dissonance in regards to images that contradicted, complimented, and fashioned a discrepancy. The piece, which I have titled, Me and Them, speaks of the idiosyncrasies and the binary characterization between artists (or performers) and their audiences where both serve and contribute towards a transcending goal set apart from them. Me and Them is presented in a digital format created using an imaging software – which aided me in assembling a mosaic of images (a total of 135) that has been taken from personal and various internet sources. The total time spent on creating this piece was approximately 4 to 5 hours, which excludes the duration of collecting personal inputs from me and from my peers. In regards to the artistic intention, my pursuit was to create a piece that demonstrated the transition and the process of how memory affects and becomes the predicate of how we establish prejudices and meaning. The central goal for the piece was to exhibit the various facets of subjective interpretations taken from multiple accounts, including mine, and demonstrating the dissonance (or harmony) resulting from such compilation. Two of the key texts used that helped me through this process were Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida and Susan Sontag’s On Photography.
Digital Art, Fine Arts, Writing
2010
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For my video art class during the winter semester of 2010, I decided to remake or recreate Stan Douglas’ piece Der Sandman (1995). Douglas, in the film, ventures into discovering the effects and influence of intersecting history and memory. Using a post-Cold war Germany backdrop, he fuses E.T.A Hoffmann’s eponymous tale, Freud’s citation of it in “The Uncanny,” his personal study of repetition and repression, and the social impulses behind 19th century German urban-planning. Accordingly, Douglas sought to formulate the uncanny by traversing two separate versions of the same location – differing only time – contemplating the temporality and transformative effects of history. Therefore, I sought to recreate Der Sandmann based on Douglas’ exploration of the ideas and concepts he conveyed in his film. (More details below)
Film, Fine Arts, Writing
2010
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This project was assigned for a video art class with specific direction and objectives. We weren’t allowed to use any post production manipulation and were supposed to generate and document the concepts and ideas that were presented to us. Both the shots were a one-take without any cuts and were shot within a limited time frame (1 minute each). Thus, the goal was to explore the concept of psychological time versus real time and also working on a sense of analogically (by that I mean, without post-manipulation) “compressing” and “expanding” time.
So, the question is: Which one of the video gives to the viewer a sense of time being “compressed” and which one seems “expanded”?
Film, Fine Arts
2009
