The sounds we heard in class were, in my opinion, very typical as one of them went on for a whole 5 minutes. I thought I should make my sounds different for the Soundscape homework by manipulating them.

When we looked at Chris Burden's work on the Internet, I started to respect him a little more because it looked a lot better than the recordings he had done. I was surprised to hear that Chris Burden and William Wegman were both photographers. I have respect for both of them now.

For John Cage, I was amazed to get to know that three of his movements are performed without playing a single note. I had realized that the reason why we were assigned the Soundscape project was to relate to him in a way of making sounds.

For my Artist Statement, I have nothing to change at the moment.

Response to "In Plato's Cave"

I found this passage to be very interesting because I, in fact, think very similarly to what is being said here. Since the past until this day, I have always been slow in understanding concepts and details showed or expressed verbally or in words. Instead, if a concept was explained through pictures or photographic images, I was able to understand it immediately. I learned in high school that people think in several different ways. Some of the ways are word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart. I thought myself to be picture smart because I think and remember things by thinking of a picture or a part of a picture. Also, the saying "A picture contains a thousand words" makes sense because pictures can be looked at in many different perspectives from a variety of people. I think the big picture of this passage is the usefulness of even one picture and how much information it can give people.

This is The Truth in Painting. I am curious to now if this was written by Cezanne. This passage was a very complicated one and tough to understand. I am still quite unsure of what the passage was mainly about. However, I think he is trying to say that the truth in painting is the real intention of why the painting was drawn. I thought it could also mean what the painting is trying to tell the viewer(s). On page 7, there is a sentence saying "If the phrase "the truth in painting" has the force of truth and in its play opens onto the abyss, then perhaps what is at stake in painting is truth, and in truth what is at stake is the abyss." I gave some thought to what this is means and I think it means is the "truth" is what people basically see what is on a painting and the abyss is expressed as the true intention or meaning of the painting.


Lastly, my additional thoughts to "The Medium is the Massage" is that I think the passage is directed towards new generations and how the old generations would differ from them. After all, the seven sections do seem like they are going in chronological order of a typical human being's goals in life.

I will now state my artist statement. I have recently become interested in art due to a friend who influenced me into it. How it happened was when my friend showed me a Japanese animation series called "Naruto" which gave an impact to my interest in working with and making art on the computer with programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash, and Dreamweaver.
As mentioned above, my main interest in art is making art on the computer. I believe that my major, which is Computer Art, was the perfect choice for me because I am currently enrolled in a class which involves advanced knowledge of the programs that I have listed above. Since I also love to play video games, my wish would be to create my own video game sometime in the future whether it be high-tech or not.
Lastly, the reason I am enrolled in the FND 111 Time Arts class (besides having forced to take it) is because I want to increase my skills with art-related programs by becoming more efficient and knowledgeable. Since I do not know what kinds of programs we will be using in the near future, I cannot say whether I have the confidence to do well yet. However, I will put the best of my ability into any computer work that is required.

I will start off with my opinion on Chris Burden's video. Personally, I thought he was a terrible artist. He sounded very unsure of himself while he was explaining his work (or recordings). Furthermore, his recordings just seemed like a regular recording of a flooded building that was no longer in use. The reason I thought the people were in the recordings was because they were just trying to make it look more intriguing or exciting. Burden's work was not interesting one bit to me and I found it hard to believe that his work was good for something.