Video Art

Video Art Piece

recording by my webcam because the software kept crashing when i tried to render it out. sorry for the awful quality

Reflection

This semester has been quite an exprience and i've learned stuff, and seen things that i would probably never understood without this class. when learning about art i think its important to understand the 'Why'. even if its the fact that there is none. my confort zone has ben completely shattered with the assignments i've been through. the worst mentally was going out and creating a performance piece. but once i got one cable wrapped around me another wasnt' that big of a deal. Technically the worst was the video art which for some reason made my computer turn off every time i tried to render it out of adobe premiere, and i tried at least a dozen times. finally i jsut recorded the screen with my web cam. giving it another, though not anticipated level of video.

Many of the performance and art pieces i found to be disturbing, plain and simple, but others made you think and understanding the political, geographical, and social context of there expression made me be more open,even if i still didn't like it. Bill Viola was one video artist that i think was really cool. his Dual fire and water piece was fascinating, especially since i love opposite things. Rokeby was another that caught my attention. he walked around with a eeg creating music out of his brainwaves. this reminds me of the show dollhouse in which peoples minds are wiped clean and new personalities are inputed to the clients liking. its a scary thought that we are not more than a machine. but an interesting concept.

Xerox Project

Here is my xerox collage.

US vs Europe post war

The Avant Garde

Grid Art

For my Grid Art Project I started with a picnic table out in the courtyard, i wove a 40 foot piece of rope into into it, creating patterns. Later, using photoshop i edited the photos, mainly changing the color of the white rope. the following pictures ilustrate my project.

This is the the blank table

Here is the black & white versions of all the different weavings I did for my grid art

Changed the color of the rope and rotated the images

Some Awesome Closeups

Hover over(or click) the following 2 images to see them magically get colored.

TGH Data Center

Last Friday I took a tour of the Tampa General Hospital Data Center. its one thing to hear about things in text books, or in film... Its completely another to see them in action. They had huge IBM mainframes, not much changed from the ones in the computer history videos, though the processing power has improved quite a bit. they has a locker for tapes, which looks similar to the mainframe but refrigerated. and then there were racks and racks of servers. I'm also learning alot about this stuff in my Data Communications Class and it was great to see actual core switches and how they were completely redundant, i learned that single mode fiber was yellow and multimode was orange. They had four 56 Tb fiber SAN boxes, which i still don't understand/ or remember exactly what they did, but is alot of storage anyway you look at it. they had 16 Tb( separate) for the imaging racks alone. and probably alot more other storage. Then they also had all the storage in the backup bunker of site. The room was so nice and cool, the device for pushing cool air under the floor and up through vents was huge. and you could feel the vibrations as you walked around. The part that showed how fast stuff is evolving is when we, though VMware we saw how all the servers were virtualized. they have i think it was 11 hosts, but 130 servers. and all of this has happened in only the last 2 years. personally i think a tour like this should be done for all data communication students, and only 10 people went with us on this one. It was quite amazing.