I've really enjoyed all the drawings you guys did for the worksheet. I think we should show them in class on Thursday.
Tanner could you post that link of the video responses between the autistic and mentally challenged girl and boy? I am dying to see that.
NOTES
Regarding Trecartin's videos: We agreed that the videos provoked anxiety in the viewer by their shrillness and sensory overload.
We debated the difference between watching it on Ubu and on youtube. E.J. pointed out that he didn't think it strange that one part was missing from youtube since parts of things are always missing from youtube and these days one just accepts that some information goes missing. We agreed that ubu was more of a conventional cinematic viewing experience.
We talked about how I-Be-Area while the length of a feature film, it is shown in no particular order on youtube. ( let's think more about what this means for narrative).
We talked about copy paste culture. We discussed how the way the videos are created and shown is designed into the piece. How they are easily multipurposed to fit in many different media environments such as youtube, galleries, installations etc.
We talked about how the viewer has to find moments to latch onto in the videos because so much goes by so quickly and there is never any context established for the viewer. Someone described it as "non-linear trash".
I thought that any political critique of form was only incidental, not conscious.
After class I was thinking about Eisenstein, Warhol, and filmmaking as a sculptural practice. You could say Eisenstein employs an additive process as a filmmaker and Warhol uses subtractive methods of making a film.
Also, I want to reiterate that art is not meant to be entertainment. So it's not fair to expect an artist's work to appeal to your sense of what should be. The artist has the right to impose his or her vision. So if the film is 8 hours long, you must watch it to the end or you cannot say you have seen it.
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