(Town Hall Exhibition. Image Source: Roberto Cardenas)
Town Hall Exhibition Review and Reflection
Lecture Reflection:
During this week's trip to the MFA gallery, I was most interested by Maya's discussion of social media, especially her comment that everyone's persona on social media is a "performance." I could not agree more.
This week was engaging, and the first gallery we visited had a lot to unpack and interpret in your own way. The first projects presented in the gallery struck my interest. What I took away was the influence and impact of social media and media platforms on human standards of beauty.
I recently went to the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, which had a beautiful and diverse expanse of gardens as well as a number of museums. An exhibit that particularly caught my attention in the American Art museum was “Borderlands,” which provides an account of American history through art from Native American voices who are often not heard or recognized.
Today was really interesting, as I came late to class due to an important event with my research lab. When I came to the classroom, I found it empty. So, I went over to the meteorite gallery to ideally intercept the class, since I saw it in the planned schedule. While I was there and reading about the collection of interesting specimens in the gallery, an older man (I never caught his name) came into the room in a hurry and asked me if I had any questions.
Today's visit to the DMA FMA Final Exhibition was fascinating and thought-provoking. Although various artists contributed to the exhibition, all the works of art correlate in one way or another, either through technology as a medium or through specific themes. In addition, I enjoyed Maya Man's exhibition on social media identities and the way she so kindly walked us through each of her works and the thought process behind her art. I related to what she explained about social media feeds, posts, and the identity we build for ourselves on social media.
I really enjoyed the workshop and lecture by Xtine during week 8. I was grateful that we had such a collaborative process when creating our own poems. I had taken a poetry class last year with Professor Soto, which taught me how to look at poems in a different light. There are so many different aspects to poems and so many different media. They can include art, and other visual components or they can simply be spoken.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the honor of attending a presentation by Nina Sobell. Nina Sobell is a digital artist who focuses on different experimental forms and how they interact with the performance. She is known for incorporating different tools into her art such as wireless EEG headbands, MIDI sound, webcasts, surveillance videos, etc. In the 1970s, she worked with closed-circuit videos to explore the relationship between artists and their audiences.
Sources: Nina Sobell's Presentation
Nina Sobell’s presentation was very interesting at many different levels. As a neuroscience major, the presentation was an eye opening to the concepts we can test and apply using neuroscience recording techniques and methods. Nina Sobell combines art and science into a unique form of unseen connection.
I was upset to miss class this week, as my classmates have said it was a very interesting lecture! Unfortunately I can not comment very much on the lecture as a result, but I thought it would be best to blog about some important parts that came up, and do my own research.
Hello fellow bloggers,
Here is a limerick for you.
There was a Young Man from Kent
Whose Rod was so long it bent.
So to save himself trouble
He bent it in double,
And instead of coming - he went!
The Guy from Kent
As a neuroscience major, I was absolutely intrigued by Nina Sobell’s presentation on her work and art projects. She is a pioneer in using video and computers in art, creating an interactive aspect of art. I have found a digital achieve of some, but not all of her works: https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/sobell.html.