Emma Gristina's Blog - SA.224.04

Tonight, I attended artist Joyce Yu-Jean Lee's talk about her artwork, sponsored by the Fine Arts Department. Lee's is based in New York City and her work focuses on video, installation and performance. Her technology based artwork represents culture issues and topics that are current in the world. Her work has been recognized by the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post and more. After listening to Lee talk about her aspirations for her artwork and all that she as accomplished, I was inspired by her work and the meanings behind them. One specific artwork of Lee's that captured my attention was "Firewall: Internet Cafe." This social and engaging art project focused on what the Internet depicts of certain words when searched in the United States or in China. In this project, Lee's goal was to investigate online censorship between two different search engine, Google (used in the United States) and Baidu (used in China). Lee was interested in discove...

I thought it was interesting how the video discussed cartography and how the first maps were made this way about 6,000 years ago. The first map was created by scratching directions into a piece of stone. Its interesting how this visualization resulted into technological maps that we use today such as Google Maps. The same ideas and concepts of designing a map remain the same; however, the processes in which they are made, scratching it into stone opposed to designing it on a computer, and different. Yet, people still use maps the same way in that they are doing something with it. I didn't realize that Google Maps came from the concept of cartography and I found it interesting how the processes of cartography and its relationships with designing maps evolved. I also thought the way the video described data visualization as a linear process of decision making was interesting. Our brains are constantly working and activity is always present. Our brains work in a way that we analyze ...

Quote: " The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it." When looking at my finished Postmodernism project, the denotative aspect of this piece is a picture of different size clocks building off of each other in an outward movement. The times on the clocks are all different. On top of the clocks are images of men either reading, running, changing the time of the clocks or standing around looking confused. Albert Einstein is even on top of one of the clocks. After printing the photoshop image, gluing it on the Bristol pad and expanding on the photo, I continued creating the clocks that were cut off the image and also added circles or bubbles around the clocks. These circles/bubbles look the same as the clocks in that they are different sizes and in the color black; however, they do not have ant numbers or time on them, they are just plain. The background is a faded/streak pink col...