Video Art - "Stoney Shots"

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Ryan Trecartin - "Wayne's World"

"Wayne's World"

According to the creators, this is basically a shot at mass media's impact on people and their values. Trecartin uses multiple "music videos" and skits, in his own incredibly unique way of course, to express different topics, including the publics infatuation with celebrity relationships, the "significance" of the images portrayed by music videos (aimed more at hip-hop booty-shaking videos I think), and of course sex. I can't really say I like what they do, and from the other works I've seen by him, they all seem to be a little too similar in overall style for my taste ("Valentine's Day Girl" for example). It almost just seems silly for the wrong reasons to me. 

Pipilotti-"I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much"

I really thought this piece was very interesting. Especially considering the technology of the day, it's a really unique piece of video art. This was actually one of my inspirations for my video art piece. It has no message and no concept. Yes, it's a girl singing a song in front of the camera, but that's not the part you focus on. You look at the video as a blank canvas, even though it's not blank, and you look at the use of the video editing tools as a paint brush. That's how the piece is created. It's not just a funny video of a girl singing and dancing in fast forward and slow motion made for the sake of amusement, it's to be seen as a whole in the most basic form possible. In that regard, I say again that I thought it was very interesting to watch and somehow actually stirs up some very interesting emotions while viewing.

Stelarc

Wow. Talk about creative. Stelarc to me is the definition of unique. Not only to be able to build the machines he does, to understand the mechanical processes and engineering that is involved in it, but to use that in the way he does is unreal. And I mean that literally. Creating an independent, functional third arm that is attached directly to his muscles is hard to believe. His more recent work is even further out of this world. Using genetic engineering to attach an artificially grown human ear to his forearm? I mean, did we just jump to the year 3000? I really love what he does and I hope someone has the balls and the brains to continue doing what he does.