Intro + Senses and Sensorium Assignment

Intro

Hi I'm Shaun, Maybe a little late on the intro but why no throw it in with the first assignment. I'm a third year IASC student. Like all my other fellow IASC students I have a passion for video games. And perhaps not like them I also have a passion for films and film making which have resulted in a few films over the years. I took this class to further grow my scope of different artistic mediums. 

Senses And Sensorium Assignment

For this assignment, the location I chose was the only place that I had actually never been to on the Brock university campus, which is Lowenberger residence. I had never been to this part of the campus before in my first year and then never had a reason to go to it afterword. I though this was a perfect time than to experience it before I graduate next year. As I walked in i realized that maybe this wasn’t the most unique place to pick for a first and last time visit, as it looked the same as any other cafeteria on campus, filled with students either in groups discussing things or feasting away at their dinner. The smell of the food drifted through the air at a such better quality then some of the other cafes on campus, as I had always been told that Lowenberger had the best food. While I was there I thought I may aswell try the food as I would never be able to return back. I chose the Lowenberger Burger because why not, its only here and I can never try it again. After eating it I realized that this was a terrible decision and that I wish I could have the burger again someday, but i guess I'll just have to hope someone can buy one for me some day. As I finished up the food I could hear a combination of the staff cleaning up and closing out as well as the laughs of first years, not knowing of the cruel and soul crushing years in their future. I walked towards the door, taking the long way in order to prolong my visit there and held my hand against the rocky walls which reminded me of the rest of the campus bringing it into one complete memory of Brock university. As i walked i looked down to discover a door stopper that had been pushed out of the door behind presumably by someones foot. I picked it up as a reminder and a souvenir of my visit.

While reading over this reading and thinking about how a piece of art can have the feeling of many senses as well as sometimes fails too, I looked over in my room to see something I would call a piece of art that I made this summer. This is a prop from a costume for Fan Expo that I put together just this summer. Looking at it, it reminds me of all the time and energy that was put into it for my short time at Fan Expo. Although I didn't make the actual mask, I did have to put the rest of it together. When i look at I can still smell the spray paint as I painted it in my garage, which makes me agree with Jones in the article and her importance of smell with memory. Along with the smell of the paint, the fact that it has begun to fade on the sides brings me back to that packed and hot convention centre as my sweaty hands were forced over and over again to move the mask back into position on my face where the paint has now faded back to its natural black. Funnily enough the object in itself goes with the articles point with the fact that sight and vision are used so much yet again when I see this object I remember how blind i actually was with it covering my eyes most of the times. The entire experiences of being at that convention as an art piece actually brings together all of the discussion posed in this article. Because if cosplay is a form of art, which I think it is, its more than just viewing a person or being viewed as the character. In this hot convention centre where my mouth was dry, I was blinded by the mask, smelled various odd smells and felt the heat bear down on me. I was part of the character I was being, it wasn't that I just looked the same, to the outsider I was experiencing the full spectrum of what the character was and so became a better form or visual art or whatever form cosplay fits into.