This project was a collaborative effort between Keysha Lacy and myself.
She did all of the artwork for this project while I did all of the coding and technical stuff.
The concept for this game was worked on by both of us.
Art 381
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Project 2
Exhibitions/Artist Presentaitons
Black Rock Press – Exhibition
Jordan DeNoce, Art 381
The speaker
began the presentation by telling about her background: working in the
Pennsylvania School system for about 15 years as an art teacher, finishing her
Masters in D.C., and eventually ending up here in the Black Rock Press. In the
rest of the presentation she details her work over the last few years.
1 in 3 – This work was about abuse victims, the name
detailing the statistic as the theme. It featured a book with pages of the
stories of victims with their faces or bodies showing bruises. The pages only
covered part of the page so the different pictures could be layered over each
other to make a whole person or picture.
1792 – The name is the revoked zip code of a Pennsylvania
town. The book is about the coal mining industry that kept the town alive until
it became the site for one of the worst industrial disasters when a great fire
cause the entire town to burn to the ground. The work, again in book format,
features pictures of the town before and after the great fire and talks about
where its residents were relocated by the government.
Code Red – This work was done around the time of the Sandy
Hook school shooting. The outer cover featured a brick pattern with the names
and locations of shooting victims. The book talks about how in the wake of these
events we should focus more on the victim then the perpetrator and how none of
the victim’s names could be found without searching them through the shooters
name. The book also raises awareness of careless gun storage in the home and
the outer cover featured the name of victims of accidental home shootings.
Old Geiger Grade – This book was heavily inspired by the
Comstock lode and the history surrounding its events. Geiger Grade was a trail
used to transport goods to and from Virginia City. The book was made to look of
the time and featured many shades of brown to give it that dusty look a trail
in the 1800s might have. A nice feature of the book was a trail that followed
through each page and around the book’s text, representing the winding trail of
Geiger Grade. The speaker stated that to get inspiration for this book and to
get into the 1800’s mindset she read Mark Twain’s Roughin It.
Tim Guthrie
Jordan DeNoce, Art 381
I though Tim
Guthrie was quite an interesting artist, he had a wide range of projects and
topics he worked on and they all showed some element of the same joking manner
he presented himself with.
His early
work comprised of these 2d paintings within a small frame. These were anything
from portraits to caricatures of himself or friends as famous artists and
celebrities. He disliked working in 2d because he felt it to be limiting so he
moved on to 3d works that looked fairly similar. They focused on a single
person with a picture of them in the background, but had an interactive display
of items that represented parts of their life or personality.
He worked on
a number of different environmental projects. One he briefly mentioned about
the cooler to save the ice I found pretty funny. A piece about the B.P. oil spill showed footage of the
event pixelated on one side to comment
on how the media influences such stories. Another project featured a collaborative
effort to make a bike that interacted with a screen depicting the square behind
the building the exhibition was in. By pedaling the bike you could keep the
square from flooding with water, which was a statement on people taking an
active role in the environment. In line with his joking nature the bike also
featured a horn that made a clown appear and a rare appearance of Godzilla. His
current project, called the Museum of Alternative History is a huge
collaborative effort between many artist where they design scientific or
historical pieces of their own imagination and write a serious looking
scientific explanation to back it up. These can range from the ridiculous finds
of Mickey Mouse’s skull to the almost believable discovery of strange new species.
Currently he is working to expand this project and take it to show in other
parts of the country.
Naomi Klein: Climate Vs. Capitalism
Jordan DeNoce, Art 381
First off I
want to say that speaker did a great job at this event, despite the subject
matter holding a foreboding tone she broke up these moments with some good
natured humor and managed to keep an hour and a half speech interesting and
engaging the whole way through. She started by talking about what the world
governments were doing to solve the climate crisis, especially when they met
for the Paris agreement in 2015. While there was a lot of good press
surrounding the event praising the fact that so many governments had come
together and managed to agree on steps forward on such an important topic she
put the numbers of the agreement in perspective. The pledge promised to keep
global warming to under 4 degree Celsius in the following years which Naomi points
out would be a unprecedented natural disaster for countries that have already
experienced a comparatively small change of 1 degree Celsius. Furthermore this
pledge was not binding in any way, if a country were to not meet its promised
standards there would be no consequences.
The second
half of her speech focused on the private sector and what role they’ve had in
climate change Vs. the public sector and what should be improved within it. She
talks about research into global warming done by oil companies as early as the
1970’s that abruptly stops around 1990 before the denial campaign, funded by
those same oil companies, takes over. She believes the solution is to make
major investments in the public sphere for things like education, renewable
energy like solar panels and finding low carbon jobs for people (jobs that do
not require use of fossil fuels like childcare). Currently the private sector
is making huge amounts of money off of oil and using that money to corrode the
political process and prevent these changes as well as information getting out
to the public. But in recent years the number of victories against big oil
companies have been increasing, notably president Obama’s denial of Exon’s plan
to build a new oil pipeline, as a growing body of citizens demand change.
Questions for the speaker:
1. 1. What
areas/countries have been most successful in transitioning to a more
sustainable energy model and can that be applied to other areas?
2. 2. Is
denial of global warming still a big issue among certain countries? How can we
spread the information so collective political action can be taken?
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