Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Space Between


Have you ever watched a horror movie on mute? Well I tried it out awhile ago and it wasn’t as scary as it was with the sound on. I wondered to my self as I gazed upon the ongoing images on the screen, the dark unforeseen spaces on the screen seem to be so calm, placing that horror movie on mute somewhat took it away from its intended genre.


With this in mind I pondered upon the various mediums that surround our everyday life, from visual, to sound, all the way to fine prints that you find on almost every government or company form. To my understanding all these mediums compliment each another in some sort of way, however how do these mediums perform on its own? How do they generate the power to be a single entity?

Try this!!

Watching television with you eyes close.

Closing your eyes at a busy intersection *DO NOT CROSS THE ROAD* and try to divide all the sounds that you hear.

Watch the news on mute and try and figure out what is going on.

Admire a contemporary painting with loud colors firstly with classical music in the background and secondly with mind boggling gothic rock music.

*CAPTURE THE DIFFERENCE*

To conclude here is some visual art which I found very intriguing from the

Hirshhorn Modern Art Gallery

http://lg071.k12.sd.us/Art.htm

1 comment:

erika said...

Hi Eugene - that link was fascinating! However, for the blogging as a piece of assessment, you really need to link your posts in some way to at least one of the topics covered in the classes for the week (so, for week two, something about users, networks, structures, architecture, or ethics, for example)

There's a guide sheet for assessment on the Blackboard site to help.

I look forward to your next posting!