Tatiana

My name is Tatiana Seikaly. I am majoring in Interior Architecture and Design. I have little experience with photoshop and art. I am interested more in art history rather than creating art myself.

Vik Muniz, an artist and photographer is a perfect example of an artist who appropriates work and recontextualizes it. He incorporates the use of found objects such as broken toys, diamonds, sugar, chocolate, even garbage. He strategically places his found objects on the ground creating deceiving imagery, where he then photographs them. The final product of his installations will often depict the Mona Lisa, a soldier, or Marylyn Monroe. Muniz recreated Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” in peanut butter and jelly, as well as Monet’s “Rouen Cathedral,” in powdered pigment and then photographed. 



Five Appropriation images









Aurasma Project

Krauss Reading Response In Krauss’s document; aesthetics of narcissism, which literally means admiring one’s attributes and afflictions associated with this, she is talking of the video production and the problems associated with it. She is mainly talking of the act in video production in which one is speaking and listing to himself, an act that she compares to mirror reflection. In the document, she talks of how production of video is done in the 1960s. She describes how a person sits between the video camera and large air and a large mirror. She describes the placing of the cameras in the production process. In one of the video production, Nauman who is an actor, he is acting video placed to rotate so that the floor at which he stands is in top of the screen. There is a description of how production is done where a tape is first recorded the image production is while the tape is playing. In her document the major issue she is tackling is the problem that the actors were facing during the production. The main issue was what she is calling the mirror reflection. The way this mirror reflection was affecting actors during the production process some of the actors saying it did disturb them. She talks of the difference between reflective and reflexive and reasons as to why many people wanted to enter into video production industry. There are notable changes in the way videos are being produced in 2015 and the way they were produced in 1960. Most of the videos that were produced in 1960 were black and white. This is evident by the pictures that are posted in the document by Krauss. If the same document was produced in 2015, the pictures could have been colored. This is due to the presence of color grading in 2015 that enhances color of a video. The cameras used in 1960 are different from the ones used in 2015. With improved technology, digital cameras with single lens reflex have been introduced that have high quality video capture. The cost of production has also reduced. Another notable difference is the way the audio and visual control is being done in 2015. There are more advanced cameras that can capture both images and sound at same time as compared to 1960 where first the sound was recorded in a tape and then images are captured later. With most advanced cameras, placement and movement of cameras is much easy and quick. What Krauss was calling “mirror reflection” that caused echoing in 1960 has been greatly reduced through use of better sounding found in current recording cameras that have audio setup. In summary, video production as been highly improved in 2015 and is done with high technology as compared to 1960 and so if Krauss was writing the same document in 2015, she could have included these advancements.