Audio Video Mashup + Smith and Higgins Reading - Dylan Pineo

Audio Video Mashup - Thunderous

 This was a particularly...challenging project for myself.  School work and projects outside of school have been piling up on mass and so it was a real struggle to get my creative juices flowing to come up with an idea that met the criteria for this assignment.  Perhaps choosing the word thunderous had been one of the issues given that without some heavy editing most of our sound bank sounds didn't really evoke any booming responses.  Then it came to me.  Thunderous applause.  I could find some sort video that could be based around awards and with all the struggling I had been experiencing lately I wanted to also incorporate that in my work.  And that led me to the man who struggles most at one of the prestigious award shows.  Mr. Leonardo Dicaprio.  So without ado I present what happens when you combine an elevator, wookies, a crazy laugh, and an inspirational Zsolt with Leo last year at the Oscars.

 

Smith And Higgins Reading Reaction

By Dylan Pineo

This weeks reading was a rather interesting one. It was interesting to actually get a perspective on the state of art from the 1960s and from the man who coined the term intermedia in the first place. Mr. Dick Higgins certainty appeared to have his own way about thinking about to design, communicate, and view art. 

As Smith explores what Higgins means by “art as a form of communication”, it got me thinking. While what Higgins defined what intermedia was int he 1960s, intermedia actually seems rather engrained in culture and practice all across history. Intermedia is “...an expression of an attitude and worldview. Objects, books or experiences might be generated in the creative process, but fundamentally they were acts, not things. The works become instructions (sometime even literally) to do, make and think.” So this brought my history-geek mind to wonder about ancient drawings, cravings, and pottery that were found all across the ancient settlements of South America, Africa, and the Middle East. Almost all of these works that have been preserved are either a reflection of events that effected the culture or are often religious attitudes of the people. So when some lucky potter had been deemed the task to craft an urn and paint on it the results of an incursion by another group of people we are can interpret that information from it. Perhaps I am taking this all a bit too literally in regards to the process of; event happens, event is recorded, art is created of the event, and then we are able to receive communication from the work. Yet these works are able to convey so much of the people to us. Depending on their work we have a chance to view their attitude towards other people, their own inner factions of society and so on and so forth. Now this tradition has continued greatly into the modern era. In fact I can guarantee most of us actually use these type of intermedia communication everyday. Emojis are no different than 3000 year old pots when we are talking about the expression of ourselves and our attitudes regarding certain subject matter hence my image below.