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Comment on Media Practices Discussion by monica@buybikini.org

monica@buybikini.org — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:34:15 +0000

Been reading your blog now for quite a long time and really like it. I don’t know if it’s your style or not , but do you think you could perhaps do a post on the oil spill in the gulf?

I love your thoughts and opinions, and would love to see your comments on this sad event.

Comment on Rambling Notes on Shooting: Uganda by Christina

Christina — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:02:05 +0000

Lori- this was a great entry! I love how you point out that the documentary filmmaker is PART of the lived experience, too. The photographs you share are only a result of your perceived experience, but no one can experience your experience…just like no one can experience my experience!

Comment on ExTV online exhibitions #1: Jodie Mack by Becky

Becky — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:00:57 +0000

Just found this interview, Jodie. I enjoyed reading it very much. Nice to learn about your interest in abstract. Interesting to think about as I am such a narrative person and always looking for the story. I always used to ask Helen about the story in her films.

And I like hearing you call Yard Work a musical. I am even more impressed now that I know you have musical ability as well. You and Paul will have a lot in common when you meet him. As you know, he always made the music for Helen’s films.

Comment on Media Practices Discussion by ecitnerp

ecitnerp — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:15:41 +0000

by the way ecinerp is prentice backwards. This is Katherine Prentice.

Comment on Media Practices Discussion by ecitnerp

ecitnerp — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:14:51 +0000

When I read the Baldessari piece. I was struck with interest in his comparison of painting and the television. I think his negativity toward television is justified, mainly because incessant advertisement and popular themes for television irritate me. However as he states, “…because TV is more and more there as it really is– a thing, a box with gray light, with dancing electric impulses.” I can again acknowledge that as just a THING, sapped of the subjectivity it projects via programs, it in equilibrium of loveliness with an abstract expressionist painting. As a sheer phenomena of fluttering pixels it has as much innocence as a simple squirt of ultramarine blue paint. A friend of mine did a painting of a classic landscape on a static television (the static being the sky). Another friend of mine cut out the silhouette of Michael Jordan from a sparkly red piece of velum and stuck it on his television so the static became Michael. A third friend of mine tends to place a colorful knit blanket he owns over the television and stares at the light beaming through. They all seem to be abstracting what is imposing about the television, using it as a buzzing canvas. Because of these examples I found Baldessari’s remarks to be a bit much, such as, “With enough disillusionment, perhaps more artists will consider doing works using the real world, consider real experiences, rather than hiding behind the screen.” One could be said of painters hiding behind the canvas, duh, duh, duh. I think that the television could, has, and is in great potentiality to coalesce as painting and sculpture, and maintain a thinginess, hence be real world.

Comment on Media Practices Discussion by nubthumb

nubthumb — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:21:26 +0000

Like maybe he needs that tension between the reality and the suspension to keep the novelty alive.

Comment on Media Practices Discussion by nubthumb

nubthumb — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:18:41 +0000

I Strongly disagree with John Baldessari when he argues that TV can be an escape from reality. I will allow that the television does have a arguably unique feed back like quality in that it can fascilitate both the perception and projection of reality however the facility in it’s self is an existing component of reality that shares the same existence as the humans it Transports. A person who watches TV still has to pay the consequences of his existence whether he devotes his faculties to it or not. Likewise the TV cannot avoid the materials that makes it’s function possible for they will erode with time. This tension is what keeps the TV as a viable art object and threat to humanity.
It would seem to me that this Idea also contradicts the author’s request that we look at the TV like a pencil or a tool that we can use to either transcend or call attention to it’s own materiality. After all, Isn’t that kind of what we do in art? If television were truly an alternative to reality this would not be possible.
Actually kind of along the same line, what Roland Barthes says about the “artifact of film” and how he needs it to take him “elsewhere” as he needs the story to take him into the plot. It’s like in a movie he is not fully adsorbed by the film, which is to say that part of his attention lies outside the plot, and floats somewhere outside where it can still feel the seats, the strangers and the whirring machinery. He does not suspend these impurities of the medium from his experience, he revels in them alongside the creative performances on screen like a sleeper who lets himself nod without drifting off so that he can appreciate sleep from the edge of consciousness. He is in love with the experience with and without the movie that plays during it. I’ve known of this level of buff before I just never quite understood the obsession with types of film and camera that I always thought freakish until I read that.

Comment on Media Practices Discussion by Zach

Zach — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:51:52 +0000

As Baldessari’s “Tv is like a pencil” describes, that looking at artists tapes was simply to witness the medium. Which when you look at the nature of the event, this statement appears to be truthful, however consider the mental engagement within the media itself. As the viewer takes into account the way frames, lighting, dialogue work through the medium as many parts working in order. At this point it begins to feel as if every part is a necessary paint stroke in a large masterpiece. While we might have intended to view the work simply from a “Tape” perspective, we subconsciously see it for much more than that.
“won’t bite your leg”
Television is much like a pencil to some extent, we use to express a feeling, narrative or simply allow the mental amusement of others. Baldessari suggests that we tempt viewers with a minimal approach, but since this art form has a large part of entertainment, are we simply implying our own artistic ideas or simply looking for a new way to take the pop and fizzle out of television. He says that this form of media is like the pencil, and I say there are several different types of pencils in this world aren’t there?