4D art

       For our project, we decided to do a performance that explores a topic relating to mental health, as this is a really prominent issue in today's society. Specifically, we decided to explore the interplay between anxiety and depression: two illnesses that are common among students. To do this, we have the subject (Jesse) being encircled by the entity of depression (me) and anxiety (kong). Throughout the performance, Jesse's reactions will show the effect of the illnesses on her mental health.        I feel that our project does a really good job of illustrating the idea we had, as the everything from the costumes to the specific actions of each partner is set up to fit in with our goal. Also, this performance could not have been done with less than three people, so we definitely got the most out of all of our resources. One drawback is that we were limited by the amount of money we were willing to spend on materials as well as th...

Jesse, Kong, and I started with the map to nowhere option, so we wrote directions for each other to follow and then took photos of where we ended up. Next, I felt the textures of the walls around the building/outside. It was actually kinda cool since you don't usually notice those things as you walk around. Next, I did the folding option. I have no idea how to fold a paper crane, so I settled on a paper airplane. Honestly, pretty anticlimactic lol. Did the crying in line thing. I didn't sob because that would be waaay too much, honestly. I just got some concerned looks lol. I noticed all the lines for the booths, and you could sometimes tell what people were waiting for based on what they wore, but I kinda think it might've just been confirmation bias on my part.

does the fact that any single performance cannot be exactly reproduced change the idea of permanence in performance art? How will technology such as virtual reality and augmented reality change the idea of performance art?

It seems like some of my images/videos won't load properly, so here's a link to the slideshow. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zVOAe7-D9Gy4A3g1simzV6bf9KB35nxQJEaj0ijqlz8/edit#slide=id.p My Camouflage Project:    The idea behind my Intervention Project, is to use an inanimate object as a representation of people in an increasingly "plastic" world. What I mean by plastic, is that we're all locked up in our own digital worlds, presenting our contrived personas online. We use inanimate objects (phones and computers) to interface with an inanimate world, to connect with inanimate/fake representations of people.      Additionally, this digital world is bleeding into reality in the form of plastic surgery, low self esteem, anxiety, and the inability to express our true opinions in reality. I think that we're getting so involved with our contrived digital worlds that our personalities and experiences are more and more being shaped by them. To be clea...

     The idea behind my Intervention Project, is to use an inanimate object as a representation of people in an increasingly "plastic" world. What I mean by plastic, is that we're all locked up in our own digital worlds, presenting our contrived personas online. We use inanimate objects (phones and computers) to interface with an inanimate world, to connect with inanimate/fake representations of people.      Additionally, this digital world is bleeding into reality in the form of plastic surgery, low self esteem, anxiety, and the inability to express our true opinions in reality. I think that we're getting so involved with our contrived digital worlds that our personalities and experiences are more and more being shaped by them. To be clear, I'm not saying that a "plastic" world is necessarily a bad thing, I'm simply acknowledging its presence.      In order to achieve this, I've decided to make a sort of ironic intervention in normal life...