In John Ipolito’s lecture, he touched on the program Publisher a bit while discussing how people can add their own copyright license onto their own work. In today’s society, things can be posted on the internet and go completely viral and the original place where this thing was posted becomes unimportant. It is important to…

     One concept that I liked was when Steve McDonald decided to appoint himself as a base guitarist for the White Stripes. Steve took all of the songs and inserted himself as a group member. I like this concept because such collaborations can fill the world with new and unique music, movies, and texts….

After watching Jon Ippolito’s lecture I learned that even after all these years, we still have same unresolved issues. We still worry about not being able to have enough money for education and information that is important and should be accessible for everyone always requires us to pay for it first. Ippolito brings up this…

Two main issues I found particularly interesting from the Ippolito video were the way schools handle  information and learning, and the Creative Commons license for source files. The way schools share information and learning is of utmost importance to me in a personal way because I just plain dont have the financial means to go…

Jim Campbell Jim Campbell is a Chicago born San Francisco based artist whose work primarily focuses on LED light installations. Although the reading does not go into much detail about Jim Campbell, what got my attention was that he was one of the few artist to have his work displayed in a museum in a…

Photo credit: Kristin Lucas Barcode Cinema is a collaboration between Kristin Lucas and Lee Montgomery that appeared at Conflux Festival New York in 2010. It involved stickers featuring QR codes within a movie screen that were placed throughout the festival locations. By scanning the codes with smartphones, viewers gained access to video of geotagged images…

As I was reading the text I noticed mention of a lot of interactive or game related works.  These artists appealed to me especially because I spend most of my free time playing video games.  The first artist I picked was Cory Arcangel.  The reading mentions his work Super Mario Clouds, which is a Super…

Roy Lichtenstein The first artist I found that was very interesting to me, was Roy Lichtenstein. He was a pop artist during 60’s and 70’s. He is very unique in his style and work. Because he worked in a same area in which I would like to work, I was drawn to his art once…

Reading 1: Natalie Bookchin – Mass Ornament Mass Ornament is a collection of YouTube videos of people dancing in their homes that are synchronized to different pieces of music. From Natalie Bookchin’s site, “In his essay Mass Ornament (1927(, Zigfried Kracauer argued that the synchronized movements of chorus line dancers reflected the logic of the…

The reading briefly mentioned an artist who was a Net Art pioneer named Olia Lialina. She is from Moscow and makes net art as well as videos. One of my favorite pieces of hers is In Memory of Chuck Poynter.  In Memory of Chuck Poynter, 2011 I couldn’t get the actual piece into this post because…

One interesting artist form “Art in the age of distribution” was Cory Arcangel. Cory manipulated technology in order to create unique works of art. While reading the article it instanty grabbed my attention when it mentioned Cory’s “Super Mario Clouds” project. Being a gamer myself, who grew up playing Super Mario, I had to find…