Final Project: Proposal

For the Final Project, I want to re-exhibit an older project of mine, re-edited, and embellish on it a bit more through an installation. The project will again take on the concept of perspective and, generally, how information is viewed and taken in. The installation will mainly be the video projected on to a sheet, with speakers set so that the video is also audible. I am still fine tuning the my overall Installation space, but I do know that it will mostly be set up in a way so that it does not take focus away from the video piece, but still have a specific aesthetic on its own. Im open to where I can set it up, but have considered any of the curtained areas near the entrance to the hall.

"technical" requirements:

1 projector
1 stand for the projector
1 set of speakers

dream project

Jomajo
1:58 (loop)
video collage
Mauricio Gudino


We exhibit alot of what we see or experience through out our lives in daily occurances. Wether it be verbally or physically, little traces of what weve lived through leak through towards the surface yet, there is still alot that goes unsaid. For this project it was decided as a group to tap into this area of the mind and try to exhibit it as in a dream related landscape. We "tapped into our subconcious" and one by one built up a video collage that was to our immediate liking, with out much thought, so that we could truely display something that was instantaneous. Like dreams, the subconcious holds alot of what goes silenced by certain filters in the mind, and can be a very true representaion of personality and one's own thought process. Once the video portion of the project was completed we created an exhibition space wich would tie in the concept of dreams, to our exquisite corpse-esqe video.In the end, we decided to have the video loop on three pillows which tie in closely to the idea of being in a dream state.

Dream videos

Automatic Writing (2003)
2:38
William Kentridge
Hand-drawn Animation

This short film is an animation created by W. Kentridge. It is mainly comprised up of drawn out morphing or evolving letters, numbers, and figures. It appears to be created on one piece of paper, evident by the erasure lines, with charcoal or pencil. The animationed process looks as if the artist drew and erased over and over, capturing along the way, so it gives the video a very distinct flow and look.


The over all landscape that W.Kentridge creates lends itself to an idea that one may be dreaming because of the sporadic positioning and movement of the subjects in the shot. They dont seem to have any specific line of direction. The Letters and numbers come and go.The random figures, which in the end, eventually evolve into a human form seem as if they create the main character. The Idea of automatic writing, or in this case the images created are also something that lends itself to a idea of dreaming because it deals with the subconcious and an image created, that comes from the subconcious, is easliy relatable to what most people see while dreaming.

Video Poem

For this project, i created what i feel is more of an instructional tool (mainly due to the use of old instructional videos)than a visual poem. This video is based upon the theory that everything in life is structured upon nuanced patterns of information which then create a larger picture. Each pattern eventually evolves into another as they lay in an ever growing plain. Ones character and level of over all understanding is based on how closely tuned in the individual is. This video hopefully opens up peoples understanding of how finely tuned life can be and the level of affection one object can cause on another due to its presense.

Video example

my video.

Online Video Poem

According to description on Playgallery.com, this video created using a sequence of images taken with an MRI machine of a live snail. But the images taken with the MRI abstract the snail as the machine revolves around it, so at first you are presented with an abstract object which, as the video progresses,"morphs" its way into the recognizable "biological structure"- a snail. This video could not be interesting without the compelling movement and coloration. The morphing takes you on a pathway to recognition that allows you to think about perspective and the power it holds. Along side that, the colors, although probably not chosen, have a unique aesthetic quality, and also engage you to watch as they also "morph" and change from one to another. I feel that the movement and overall composition that this video exhibits overall can be a good example of poetic gesture through video compositions, whether it was made to exhibit this quality or not.

Self Portrait: "...master bedroom"

When ever you enter somebody’s bedroom, you enter someone’s personal living space. You enter a space in which one can come to for comfort. One accommodates their own bedroom, or over all living space, to their own fulfillment. This video portrait portrays the idea that one's bedroom, as well as having definitive qualities, can be a person's personal sanctuary.

Me, You, and Everyone We Know

Ok I just finished watching "Me, You, and Everyone We Know" andI just want to stay that this was not my first time watching this movie. Ive actually watched it many times, and always just enjoyed it for what it is. I never really viewed with a mind frame of trying to figure out Miranda July's role as the producer for the film, so its kind of tough trying to come up with words to describe what her role is, because my opinion on it is already pretty engraved into my brain. This movie, as whole,is done from a extremely personal perceptive and has very well definied moments. I think this is so that the audience understands the emotion being portrayed and can not be misconstrued. There are no loose strings left to pick up on. Everything viewed is everything that Miranda is trying to get across. There are a couple of things that could represent some underlying statements of her opinions on society, and life but taking it in straight on it seems like alot of dialog could possibly come straight from her life. And thats how the movie feels, like it all just kind of plopped out of her head, and onto the camera. A great word to describe it would be organic. There is nothing too impressive about the movie besides how much of Miranda's personality you can see in it. This can be easily understood because she of her acting role in the movie. She plays a character who is a video artist just as she is in real life. So, if her acting role is at all accurate with how she works in real life, then obviously she likes to put alot of who she is, and her own personal perspective on life as possible, her own opinions on daily life, and her own day to day emotions. A good example of this is when she is visiting her friend and his girlfriend over at the nursing homes, and she is given the advice of allowing someone else to help her "create" and she tells them that she is a solo artist, and likes to work alone, even though at the end she ends up using her friend for one of her pieces at her exhibit. With this movie she created a very personal piece, yet it can easily be understood by anyone watching it, and I think thats how she portrays her character because that is who she is.