The artist's lecture was a little out there but interesting nonetheless. Some of her pieces, such as the projections, were positively creepy and I found them somewhat uncomfortable to watch. I feel that she was more into her own work than anyone else present, which is nice to see. However, Kratz's explanations of her work seemed scatterbrained and more for her own benefit than ours.  

I found two of Kratz's pieces, the Touch of Gray Remix and the Korean Poster Campaign, pretty interesting. The way she made the connection between a song and the fans that were actually there listening decades ago was awesome. Also I can just picture this woman running around the streets of Seoul posting her art work with the help of some underground art movement. Hilarious  

Blog 1 Samantha Grandy!!!

This was a very interesting lecture about art. It was not really your typical art you would see at a museum. It was not paintings or photographs, which you would consider to be art. It was videos, poetry, and music, which was different for me to see. I guess anything can be art now of day. There was a video that was called "Cat fight" where two girls were fighting and in the same video was these clackers that kept jumping around and hitting each other. There was another video called "Elist Lake" where there was a wheelchair going down a road and by the end of the video the wheelchair collapses. Krutz's was talking about the radio active waste from mining going down to a retirement home where there was nobody there to watch the elderly.

there was a song that Krutz's made called "Sad but True". She said she downloaded 368 songs from the internet in a two week period about sadness. All the songs that she downloaded had Sad in the title. She took these songs and layered them on  top of each other to make a shole different kind of song/sound. It was very funny to listen to. For me it sounded horrible, scary and depressing. I would have never thought of making a song like that. She said it was bout 15 minutes long. There was a really unique slide show of pictures that Krutz's was showing us. Each slide had four different pictures that were cut up and it was telling 3 different story lines. There was also animation , a re-authoring of Run Lola Run. She said she took about 9600 pictures during a 6 week period. She described it as a n emotion rollercoaster, it was calm and then loud. Also which was interesting is when she made us listen to "Hippie Shit" it was people singing a Greatfull Dead song, Acappella from the year 1972. She also showed us poems but it was in a different layout. The words did not just go from left to right but in a spiral formation. She likes to experiment with different types of fonts and words she said. Krutz's also showed us these video of a neon light that was on the wall horizontally. She recorded the sound of that it was making. Very weird. I really did not understand it. This art was very different and unusual as I said early to want I usually to what I consider to be art. This made me think outside the box and push limits for me when i go to do my projects in the future.

Feb 19, 2008

Today’s presentation by Kartz Ucci was very unique. Her style of art is very interesting, and I was intrigued by the ideas that she centered her work around. Pieces that I particularly enjoyed were the colored panels on which she translated poems into what they would literally mean in English with the use of a computer program. The colors were pretty and the poetry was full of imagery. The idea of centering some of her work on sadness was a unique idea. It is not a theme that one may immediately think of in terms of art, but she used it well.

Although there were parts of her presentation that I enjoyed, there were some parts of her presentation that were a bit too abstract for my liking. Many of the videos were a little strange, and I’m not sure that any audience would be able to easily understand her meaning without an explanation. Other pieces were humorous, but difficult to understand in an art sense. Overall, I was not a fan of the work of Kartz Ucci

I wish I was a Lighthouse Something?

Concerning the artists past work, sampling songs and playing them at the same time is an interesting idea, but most radio stations use this method to run contests (guess 5 songs played over top of each other and win tickets...). As far as the translation idea, you can find that in Kung Fu movies and cheesy Anime subtitles for decades. In addition, it is more entertaining to view the "close captioned" text stream, there are far more subtle and thought provoking errors.

The neon pieces however are more interesting. I am not quite sure what I feel about the presentation (exposed cords), but I do like the message with the sentence tube. To me is as if this neon light was wishing to be something more than it is, something bigger and brighter (a lighthouse). This is something we all strive for. There was also a certain feeling of danger with the work. Having learned that there were several pieces damaged in shipping I was wondering if the fragility could lead to popping of the tube, if someone was looking at it at that time, ohno...but that is just my head thinking too much.

Kartz's lecture - Jen's Response

As usual, it took me a bit to get into the conceptual nature of Kartz's work. That type of thinking and working isn't really all that familiar to me, and I kind of have to be drawn in by something in order to give it the time of day. Honestly if I had only seen one of these installments and not heard the explanation behind it, I probably wouldn't have stopped to look. What did draw me in was her emotional appeal and the themes that she didn't necessarily address. The idea of re purposing art and altering it until it could not be recognized was interesting, especially the compilation of song titles until they became a visual pattern of text. It bothered me that when talking about the piece with the sharpening knife that she didn't address the idea of having a weapon and a child playing in the same piece. It was incredibly disturbing to me to flip between hopscotch and sharp objects, and she just ignored it like it wasn't an issue in that piece. At the end of the night, the most notable thing in my mind was that at the reception very few people bothered to go into the gallery space.

-Jen Hintz

Blog 1 assignment by Phillip Craig

I wouldn’t say the artist lecture on the 19th was the most interesting talk in the world, but most usually aren’t. What matters is if the artwork shown is interesting, and it was. Kartz’s ideas on emotion, especially on sadness, and the way she represents these emotions in her work are appealing, my favorite being the 368 songs made 1 piece. Using songs (with the word “sad” in the title) to represents different individual’s sadness is a good idea, as the kind of songs people listen to are often affected by there current emotion. Also, putting them all into one and somewhat disturbing song shows what collective sad emotions “sound like.”

Possibilities

Throwing Exercise: The only requirement here is that you make a piece 15" or higher that is thrown on the wheel or from thrown parts. You can throw multiple small forms and attach, you can throw and attach coils for a continuous form, you can make piles, you can throw and cut and assemble, throw and alter and assemble, stack etc. Be imaginative.














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http://www.ceramicart.com.au/articles/CAP66.htm

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