The Divine Irreference of Images

Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at Disneyland,
Anaheim, California, Christmas 2007 by Mouse Planet
"This deep-frozen infantile world happens to have been conceived and
realized by a man who is himself now cryogenised, Walt Disney,
who awaits his resurrection at minus 180 degrees centigrade."
© 1983 Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (p. 24)

ALLATONCENESS NEW MEDIA WORK

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 3:00-5:30 PM

Warch Campus Center Cinema

New media projects by 11 ART 240 Digital Processes students responding to Marshall McLuhan’s ideas of the global village from his seminal book The Medium is the Massage. Writes McLuhan, “Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness. “Time” has ceased, “Space” has vanished. We now live in a global village…a simultaneous happening…we have had to shift our stress of attention from action to reaction.” 

Chloe Stella   Dentro Di Me (Within Me)

A short stop-motion video exploring the anxiety that stems from feeling constricted by one’s physical existence. 

Molly Froman   Blind 
This video explores the relationship of the still and moving image. By layering still images I have created not only a video but also a new still image which only gradually changes over time. It aims push the limits of subtle change and what it might mean to the viewer.

Patrick O’Mahoney   A Day in the Frame

My final project will be a series of photographs set to music. I will encapsulate the daily activities of a Lawrentian using still images in attempt to tell a moving narrative.

Malcolm Lunn-Craft   STILL RUNWAY SHOW
In this project, i will be using photography to help exemplify beauty in the form of a modeling photo shoot. The models will come dressed in what they idea of beautiful is, and strike poses that make them feel beautiful. This project is meant to show beauty and diversity and how we all are unique in the same community. 

Sara Morrison   Selfie-Portrait
A photography book which presents selfies as legitimate works of self-portraiture in order to explore the link between the two and why we consider one to be art and the other to be frivolous and self-absorbed.

Alison Smith    Appear Offline
A series of photographs exploring the interpersonal interactions between players in gaming.

Colt Duncan    Censored 

A series of photos mocking censorship and all the people that try to hinder anyone’s voice or artistic vision by using censorship. “Art is anything you can get away with” – Marshall Mcluhan, and although I agree, I think you should be able to get away with all art. 

Alicia Lex   Life Bling
A magazine containing 'life bling' found in Appleton, WI. But, do these blings solely belong to Appleton? To imagine what the artist captures as bling, an abstract video will show you through the eyes of the artist.

Mark Lofgren   Amateurism in Modern Film

I believe that in modern Hollywood we have lost this aesthetic of amateurism that early 20^th century film once possessed. I seek to return modern films to the amateur.

Luis Gonzalez  Hitana    
A music video that follows a couple walking around at night and has clips of The Goat Wizard playing live hoping to capture the vibe of the song that is in very odd meter.

Pat Commins   "The Pat Show"
In hosting my own talk show with a simultaneous video and performance interaction, I examine the roles that space, identity, and the audience play into creating a piece, and the impact of amateur versus the professional aesthetic.

Anna Kosmach   In the Eye of the Beholder

This video project explores the ways in which culture influences how women perceive who and what is beautiful, and what types of women qualify. I asked women I knew to describe who they thought was an icon for beauty that they look up to, and talk about why that woman is beautiful in their eyes.

Liam Guinan   The Village of Appleton
A video exploring Appleton's "village centers" such as stores, bars, hotels etc. and the cultural rituals performed there. It's purpose is to present Appleton as a "modern village" as McLuhan described in The Message is the Massage.

Molly Hopkins   je ne sais quoi.
This video attempts to show that human beauty comes from the little things that we all do.

Something is Happening

Bob Dylan performing Ballad of a Thin Man, referenced on page 104-106 of Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage, from D.A. Pennebaker's Eat the Document. An amazing, spirited performance. McLuhan must have been impressed with the song, dedicating three pages of the book to Dylan's likeness and the words:

"Because something is happening

 But you don't know what it is

 Do you, Mister Jones?"

Although many have tried to link the lyrics to specific people and events, the song can be interpreted as a universal critique of people unaware of the world around them. It was one of a very few songs Dylan kept performing over the years, typically introducing it with the reflection that "there are still a lot of Joneses out there."

Robert Frank's Journey to the Outside

Sarah Greenough discusses the structure of The Americans in this video. She authored the 528 page volume that investigates Frank's Guggenheim project and the resulting 180 page book, first published in the United States in 1959.

The Film Studies EditShare Media Server is the place to store video and audio media for your classes in Hurvis 013. Here is a video explaining how to log in. Students enrolled in a video production class, such as ART 240 (FIST 240), are automatically allocated class media storage space on the Server, which can be accessed from all work stations in the Hurvis editing labs. Student's personal computers can NOT access the server space! Students are strongly encouraged to frequently back up all files stored on EditShare to their personal external drive.

NOTE: All files stored on EditShare will be cleared one week after the end of the term.

One of the Greatest Men of All Time

Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013), whose vision of collaboration using computer technology to help solve the urgent and complex problems of all of humanity, died on July 2, 2013. His comrades believed that his ideas were never fully realized due to his ideas and generosity of spirit. For example, he resisted patenting the "mouse" he'd invented and it eventually fell into the public domain. The robotic rigidity of institutions is also to blame -- most powerful technology companies in American relegated him to R&D. Ted Nelson, professor and inventor of the first hypertext project, delivered Engelbart's eulogy on December 9, 2013. In his tearful delivery, he said the "...real ashes to be mourned are the ashes of Doug’s great dreams and vision, that we dance around in the costume party of fonts that swept aside his ideas of structure and collaboration...Perhaps his notion of accelerating collaboration and cooperation was a pipe dream in this dirty world of organizational politics, jockeying and backstabbing and euphemizing evil." Engelbart articulated his ideas for collaboration publicly in what is known as The Mother of all Demos delivered on December 9, 1968, nearly half a century ago. Some of what he described is still in the process of being realized in commercial forms such as Skype, Google Docs, and more.

I'm a Believer NEW MEDIA WORK I'm a Believer I'm a Believer I'm a Believer

Monday, June 8, 2015 - 3:00-5:30 PM

Warch Campus Center Cinema

New media projects by 10 ART 340/540 students responding to Michel de Certeau’s ideas of "Ways of Believing" from his seminal book The Practice of Everyday Life:

For a long time people assumed that the reserves of belief were limitless. All one had to do was to create islands of rationality in the ocean of credulity, isolate and secure the fragile conquests made by critical thinking. The rest, considered inexhaustible, was supposed to be transportable toward other objects and other ends, just as waterfalls are harnessed by hydroelectric plants.

page 179

Lucy Bouman   What do you believe in?

A video project exploring what immediately comes to peoples' minds when asked what they believe in, including footage from interviews in the studio as well as from the outside world.

Rachel Wilke  The Lawrence Confessional

Bringing up hook-up culture at Lawrence University is known to be taboo. In this short video, students confess a personal hook-up story in order to break the stigma that hooking-up on campus is wrong and should be kept secret. However, there is a twist in the end. 

Steven Alexander & Htee T. Moo   “Elements”

A series of photographs and videos that explore four of the astrological elements as we interpret them.

Hannah Ganzel   Frenzy

These two videos, "feeding the masses" and "cleaning up after the masses", displays both the unending consumption of food and disposal of shit. It also displays the position of the people who work as cogs in the machine.

Olivia Rowe   #Meninism
A documentary-style film that combines the efforts of a fictionalized "meninist" with real interviews and social media posts about the feminist and meninist movements. The film aims to highlight misunderstandings and generate discussion about both causes. 

Michael Hubbarb   Memory Split
Ben Meunier returns in another starring role as a confounded young man haunted by flashes of distant memories and lurching anger as he wanders off through a dense, grassy field into unfamiliar territory.

Ridley Tankersley   June 1st, 2015

A short collection of clips from a 15-hour digital video cataloging the entirety of my day with its routines and irregularities. This video examines life through amateur videography and positions its place in the art world.

Finn Bjornerud   "This is Lawrence: Leisure"

A short video project that uses montage to blur the lines between reality and fiction concerning the activities of Lawrence students in their spare time. The kids are rowdier than you think. 

Noah Gunther   Learn to Skate

Learn to feel again in the age of manipulation and mirrors. What did you eat so far today? Imagine it's all on a plate in front of you but half-digested, like it is in your stomach. Now imagine that you're being digested. Climb up the stomach walls. Free yourself! Free yourself with Learn to Skate!

 

Molly Froman