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Sushin
Level 1: 10 points
Alltime Score: 310 points
Last Logged In: April 2nd, 2009
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Art Creation Project by Sushin

January 14th, 2008 12:29 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Declare something as art. Contextualize it and critique it.


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Who needs brains?
Only 9 pints?
She slipped.
What a nice sunrise. =D
They really do mean you'll lose an eye.
She dies alot...
o_o
He almost made it...

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Okay.
posted by Burn Unit on January 14th, 2008 1:32 PM

I'll bite. "totally open to your interpretation, just like any other painting or photo" and "it doesn't have to be pretty for you to acknowledge it as art" are kind of variations on a similar theme: the recipient/viewer's mores or sense of appreciation doesn't possess any more or less authority over artwork than others, right?

However, I don't know that I see the connection to the language of the task in terms of contextualizing or critique. Have you considered that the turn of phrase this "is a little like" that seems less contextual than comparative?

Is then the declaration that your creation is art because it compares to other art or that it doesn't compare and rather confronts the aesthetic/moral judgments of the viewer?

Can you tell us a little about your process and method using this medium (i.e., the video game)? First thing in your proof is the turn of phrase "artistic". Conducting activities in artistic and artful ways may not necessarily be art or result in an artwork, right? Or, which is the art here? The photos or the actions--or in what way do these as evidence of actions combine with action to formulate your artwork? By deepening your contextualizing and critique perhaps these become artworks?

So, are you meeting the task requirements in the sense that you've declared this art or do you hear where you are describing actions adjectivally as art? Is it art or the record of an artistic gesture within a virtual space?

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posted by Sushin on January 14th, 2008 2:00 PM

Ill add some stuff then...sometimes I tend to do things my own way.

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posted by Burn Unit on January 14th, 2008 2:13 PM

Well what's here isn't about you doing things your own way, or even adding a measured "amount of stuff" (what would I or anyone else say equals enough stuff; and sometimes more is less, right? ) Perhaps it's a matter of adding clarity around just a couple of specifics?

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posted by Sushin on January 14th, 2008 2:17 PM

That's what i meant, and I think I did it.
But um...I guess you can be the judge.

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posted by Not Here No More on January 16th, 2008 7:45 AM

totally grotesque G-Moding. extremities of overgore. How does anyone like this?

=3
posted by Sushin on January 16th, 2008 9:30 AM

You would be supprised.

Yum!
posted by Caitlin Gordon on February 9th, 2008 6:39 PM

Very pretty- the blood spatters especially.

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posted by JTony Loves Brains on April 6th, 2008 5:12 PM

I didn't vote on this back when you originally posted it because I wanted to think about it, look at the pictures and really take them in. On coming back to it I'm finding little details that I actually love. The window with the blood spattered pane of glass on one side and the empty pane, sun shining through on the other. Nice. And the look of the body in the tub was also nice (though I found the blood splatters on that one felt overdone and distracting... how would you splatter that much blood and die in the tub with so little blood in the water (I know you might not have been able to do water/blood in GM)).

Anyway, I like them. No question they are art and no question that there's really great potential for great art here. I'd love to see even more with more focus on details and composition (the compositions you have are good, but I'd love to see more quirk). Nice work. And it is good to see you back!

o_o
posted by Sushin on April 7th, 2008 12:03 PM

I'm working on that. Thanks for the feedback.