Performance Art

Final Performance art. For this project I chose to make a suit of glow sticks and walk around ybor city. I interacted and danced with people I did not know and made a definite impression on those who saw me. I was embarrassed at first, but after a while I ran with my idea and had fun with it. Overall I think this was a cool project. This was my first time audio editing songs to create a mixed version. I chose songs from DeadMau5 and Pitbull to create the remix. This was the most difficult part of the operation, I spent a lot of time mixing and choosing different songs to use. Overall I am happy with the result of the song, even though it is choppy, I enjoyed the effect I created to the video. I wore rave gloves for my tie to technology. People really enjoyed seeing me light up, including the drag queen who told me to come back next Thursday when it was 18+ in the bar. This was a learning experience at its best.

Illustrated Me :)

Shpongle Bot Rendered in Maya

Shpongle Shack art

The painting pallet of Shpongling :)

 This is an ode to Lizzi Giller and Margot Parsons, ah remember the days in high school driving in your car, Margot, listening to Sublime.

 Beautiful art done by Kaitlin Murray, it us made using liquid paints on a transparency of a fish. Placed over a foil sheet for optimum reflections :)

A list of quotes from the Shpongle Shack created by Justin Cacuchon, Kaitlin Murray and me.

Diego the Dinosaur, created by Margot Parsons and I for Ultra Music festival 2011. Diego's tail is proudly is attached to a children's red light saber [that doesn't light up, how lame] by neon orange duct tape. He was carried around on March 27th, my birthday as a second pinata animal [with the first being the infamous Tiki from Bonnaroo]

The Shpongle Bot

Science fiction project for my Illustration class
Meet- The Shpongle bot.
Inspired by the great band, Shpongle

These are my preliminary drawings for my 3D assignment. I will create a 3D model of the Shpongle bot in Maya 2011 (:

phase 2

So I've been riding Sheila around for about 2 weeks now since the project. and surprisingly, mostly all of the photos have stayed glued on my board ;) The most I get is a bunch of weird looks from people asking me what the hell is on my longboard, and i simply reply- my face. Its for a project. Although Sheila is now a work of art, I feel she has increased awesomeness. I really like riding her around with my face on it, as awkward as it is stepping on myself. Anyway it seems to be unravelling pretty well. I'll upload other photos as phase 3 rolls around in another few weeks :). My board definetely grabs a lot of attention, its interesting to tell people the story- Lots think its even pretty cool ;)

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Bueys used a lot of different materials to create his artwork such as food, fabric, animal fat, honey and bees wax. He studied sculpture at Düsseldorf Academy of Art and graduated in 1952. He used war as an inspiration for his art work to respond to the current events going on around him. Eventually, he met up with video artist Nam June Paik and joined a performance group called Fluxus. The group performed concerts and it were these that Beuys used as inspiration for his performance and installation art. 

He planned a project in Baltimore called the Tree Partnership Project. A project to plant 500 trees. He focused on energy conservation and global awareness in Carol Park, Patterson Park, UMBC, and Wymen Park Dell. This was an ongoing project first started by a sculpture called 7000 Oaks.

He did a titled project 30 Oaks which is a concert of performance artists and local Baltimore musicians. This art work was only meant to be performed at this space. He wanted to create a strong human relation with the forest and greenery around the performers. There was singers, dancers, sculptures, artists and dreamers participating in this project. 

One performance art included > How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. In this performance Beuys sat in a corner of a gallery and held a dead rat in his arms for the duration of the time. He carried the dead bunny around like it was very special to him. He spoke to it and treated it gently. Holding a dead hare was trying to create a radical statement on society. Sometimes people need to let go of the idea of something or someone being there all the time. Sometimes you have to give up things that you don't want too. But carrying around it's memory is just a lie to yourself that what you desire is coming back. In my life, the hardest thing to do is let go. That is what I take from this piece without reading a prior description explaining Bueys' true motives.

In his piece Infiltration Homogen für Konzertflügel (Homogenous Infiltration for Grand Piano), 1966 Beuys covered a piano in felt fabric to hide the musical instruments true purpose and sound. He used a thick covering to show that the object has been taken away it's original use. This is no longer a piano, but a wrapped object that underneath could only appear to be one. I believe Beuys was following Marcell Duchamp's Dada ideas for the de-contextualizatoin of this object.  

http://feltworks.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/joseph-beuys-felt-metaphors/

http://www.walkerart.org/archive/2/A84369EE5A576E446161.htm