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'''GIFLife.mov''' | |||
This was the main piece for the semester and the one exhibited during the summaery. The initial idea was to repeat a movie scene so many times that it becomes true to the performer, it has actually been lived and felt in his life. This scene loop was based on GIFs, but what started as a reference became the subject for the project. This piece is a video collage of four different GIF performances. The duration is about 1 hour with each performance varying between 13 to 15 minutes. | |||
''A series of GIFs are performed over and over again in a scene-loop for a predetermined time. | |||
Gifs represent what you feel and act, you act and feel what they represent.'' | |||
GIFLife.mov on youtube [https://youtu.be/OwHl035vIRU] | |||
'''GIFLife''' | |||
''Interactive piece. Please comment, like or dislike. I want your attention.'' | |||
The video collage (GIFLife.mov) can be a project by itself, but in GIFLife (the interactive piece) it is adapted to function also as a clickbait to take photos and collect comments from viewers. The performances were set to play one after the other in a app interface made with Max MSP. On this interface there was the possibility to "like", "dislike" or comment on the piece. Whenever a viewer interacted, the interaction was saved together with a picture of the person. Although there was a written disclaimer about data and photo being collected, most people seem to be unaware that their photo or input is being saved since there is no webcam display on the interface or any kind of feedback such as sound or pop-up window. | |||
[[File:GifLife_expo3.jpg|400px]] | |||
[[File:GifLifePrint.png|400px]] | |||
'''User.jpg''' | |||
Whenever someone likes, dislikes or comments on the interactive piece "GIFLife" a photo is taken and saved together with the input. User.jpg is the data collected. | |||
Whenever someone likes, dislikes or comments on the interactive piece "GIFLife" a photo is taken and saved together with the input. | |||
Read the comments, no one is anonymous. | Read the comments, no one is anonymous. | ||
This data and image appropriation came from me actually being more interested in people's reaction than on my own content, something easily observable in social media. I wished to shift the attention from my work to people's interaction. This idea itself might be an appropriation of Marcia X's performance and installation "Exposição de Ícones de Gênero Humano". Marcia's piece was a 2 day installation. In the first day there was a vernissage in which she performed as herself around people while there were video and photo recordings being made of the vernissage. On the second day the gallery opened exhibiting the products from the night before. | |||
If Marcia's intent was to bring focus to the social artistic scene and ritual of vernissages, mine is to bring focus to the interactions we have gotten used to in social media. I believe this is relevant as well to the artistic context considering the insertion of artists in these mediums as a way to publicize their art. The relation between artist and viewer has become more approachable and in this context ceased to be a specific ritual with it's own social code, such as vernissages, and adopts the same platform and behaviour as any other personal social media profile. This lack of difference between normal everyday social interaction and artist-viewer interaction becomes even more interesting when this brings up the question of what is art. When art is showcased in the same space and way, is produced and uses the same medium, is the same theme and aesthetic as any other thing in the internet, when it is not presented at a gallery, can we really tell the difference between art and… Anything else? | |||
''In this piece there is the appropriation of how social media works as a communication medium and the appropriation of topics and aesthetics used in these medias as a artistic medium, the virtually mundane becomes itself an artistic production and subject.'' | |||
The images captured were color printed in A4 paper, photo above the comment and pinned to the wall by the side of the GIFLife installation. | |||
[[File:UserjpegGIFLife-3.jpg|400px]] | |||
[[File:UserjpegGIFLife-6.jpg|400px]] | |||
[[File:UserjpegGIFLife-16.jpg|400px]] | |||
[[File:UserjpegGIFLife-12.jpg|400px]] | |||
Artist reference: Exposição de Ícones de Gênero Humano, by Marcia X. Link (text in portuguese [http://marciax.art.br/mxObra.asp?sMenu=1&sObra=39] | |||
Is any repetition an art performance? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqvZxgHI-20] | |||
'''Every experience is a learning experience''' | |||
If I do ever decide to proceed with this work I am aware of many things that could have been done differently or even errors I had not noticed before, the summaery exhibition helped to point out several of them. These are notes for myself that I believe are important to be acknowledged. | |||
i) Add a feedback that the comment, like or dislike has been received because people kept taking several photos without knowing if it was working or not. | |||
ii) Consider a lot more how the installation should be done. I would have liked to go with a overboard virtual-kirsch, make it a real life internet ambient. I like the aesthetic, I believe it fits the subject and if GIFLife is a bait to attract people to interact, being discreet might work but is not the only way. Flamboyant flowers exists to attract insects. | |||
iii) The text saved needs a margin because long comments were being cut. | |||
iv) I should have also worked on the visuals for the texts, photos and prints for User.jpg so it would visually match the identity of GIFLife. | |||
v) Lighting is so important. The light for photos was way too bright and focused and the printed images were way too dark and hidden by the lack of adequate lighting. | |||
[[File:GifLife_expo2.jpg|400px]] | |||
[[File:GifLife_expo1.jpg|400px]] | |||