Video Art Piece

For my video art piece I wanted to create something out of the sounds I absolutely hate. I've always had a sort of phobia for loud eating sounds, or smacking sounds. Basically any loud cracking sound makes me feel uncomfortable. With that I thought about footsteps, and how the sound of walking depends on things like what kind of shoes you're wearing and what you are walking on. Then I thought, what if I just combine a various amount of walking sounds and try to blend them together.

I couldn't match the sound with the footsteps only because I wanted to speed up the video to be able to show as many locations as possible. I also sped up the sound of the footsteps, which I recorded separately. It's quite interesting that in the middle of the video the footsteps start to blend together and you hear one over the others, even though I matched the volume for each sound. The single footstep sound heard in the beginning is playing throughout the entire video, however it sort of disappears with the other footstep sounds. I made three different tapping sounds to create a rhythm to the piece, also to see if it would blend in with the other sounds. I would have wanted the video to run more smoothly, but I couldn't figure out how to put all the images together without just having them one after the other. I also thought about putting them transparently over each other, but there was just too many videos to do that.

Performance Art

For my performance art I wanted to create some kind of art piece using whatever was available to me. I've known about this Chess platform for a long time but this is the first time I actually use it. Keep in mind, I have no idea how to play chess. I thought it would be interesting to come up with my own pattern/game. I started out not really knowing what kind of pattern I was going to make, but then it all came along as I started putting it together. I really liked the black and white contrast, which is why I mixed the two colors in that I put black on white, and white on black. I actually did this two times but I ended up not liking the pattern I made in the other one. The man in the video that stopped was really confused with what I was doing and just thought I didn't know how to play chess...

Photocopy Assignment

It took me a while to figure out what to do for this assignment but I decided to just photocopy a bunch of random parts and then figure out what I wanted to do. It started out with more arms then hands, but then I realized there was a creepiness to the way the hands looked together, and I just started building off of that. I had this idea of a nightmare in my head where you have a group of objects coming towards you, and you have nowhere to go. It's hard to see my face in the corner but that was really to represent me sleeping as this hands are reaching for me. I added the eyes to give more life to the hands and to make it even creepier than it already was.

I could have used other body parts but I'm really happy with the way it came out just with the hands. At first I just had the one dark shade, but adding the lighter shade made it look so much better. I didn't count the amount of hands I used but it was A LOT.