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Dan Norton response
The Dan Lecture was very hard to hear, even when being in the actual room.
His approach at the lecture was definitely amusing, and even inspirational.
He discusses the possibilities of technology and where its gone and come from, an example being his lecture online (which is the same as our online class, but skype is not the way to go as we found out)
Discussing traditional artist, and how it has to do with time and how theatre and literature is part of it. We can look at many different "art forms" and how technology and time has effected them.
There are many definitions of an artist, illustrator, drawing comic books, cave painters, text creators, writers, etc
Use of machine and the technology around us and how its evolved and effected our work.
I will start, as Kat has mentioned, that the lecture was very hard to hear (actually, probably much worse for us who were not able to attend).
The approach was very interesting because, while it was a lecture, watching the video, it seemed as if it were a piece itself. It was very thought provoking and posed some very interesting points to the past, present, and future of human beings and art.
One thing that I found amazing was his comment about getting art out as soon as possible as the only way to get art out today. His idea of forming small groups to work together, problem solve, and produce and display art was something that sounded very welcoming.
How are we as student artists (media, traditional, whatever) supposed to expose our art to the world if we have no audience, no space, or worse, no motivation. We use the machines today to create the art that we see in our minds, but to show it to those outside of ourselves seems to happen much more seldom than it should (at least in terms of this program).
Young artists are stupid.
I don't know if it was the speakers I was using or not, but I could really not understand much at all of what Dan was saying. I know his voice was already bogged down due to coming through the speakers in the video and the video's poor quality itself but I really tried to listen and just did not get much out of it. What I could gather was that Dan is an artist who seems to be pushing the limits of creativity and originality. These are the types of artists that I believe create the most exciting work. For me personally I have a respect for them because even though their "peice" whatever it may be on whatver medium may not be best/shiniest/most beautiful in the gallery, just their originality puts an impression on me. Whenever I leave a gallery I often find myself only remembering the unique, original, and different works over the works of others.
I'll agree with Jake in just from watching his lecture, his lecture itself seemed to be an piece of installation art. For the long periods of time where I couldn't understand any of the audio, I questioned whether Dan was presenting one of his pieces or still actually lecturing.
Like everyone else I had difficulty listening to this. I could make out a sentence or a couple words only every so often and was not able to follow much of what he had to say without getting lost
. I can say though that I enjoyed watching the visuals in the fore ground behind him. The video shown behind him is a time based piece in itself, its unfortunate that I couldn't barley make out anything said. The whole lecture especially with the echo ad distortion I heard made it all sound very surreal.
Just like everyone else I had a very hard time hearing what was being said. Every once and awhile I would be able to pick out a sentence or a word or two but I really don't know in what context those things were being said. Such as "CCTV", "Wifi" and something along the lines of "When I have an Idea I can do it in ten minutes".
The one thing that I can comment on though is what was happening in the background. The visual aspect of this lecture was very interesting because it seemed to be more or a presentation or piece than a lecture. I'm not sure if the images related to what was being said as I couldn't understand it but at one point there was the image of what I can only assume was his face and then it sort of faded out to colors and lights, in a very 2001 : A Space Odyssey way. I'm not sure if that was a comment on how much like the end of 2001 the future of Art is uncertain and you don't really know what's going on or if it was just a part of the presentation.
Having given up on understanding what he was saying, I tried to look at the lecture as a performance itself. I couldn't shake the impression of Big Brother from 1984.
I did catch what he said about succeeding as an artist. That you need to get your work out into the public as soon as possible is seemingly obvious. However, the fine arts world is so difficult to get into it seems like random circumstances are what propels an artist into fame. Interactivity and collaboration are key to a better method of getting stuff seen.
Keeping these collectives down to small numbers keeps the output at a small enough level that there is space for everyone. A major hurdle for being noticed is the sheer bulk of people out there sharing.
Some one mentioned his saying "If I have an idea I can do it in 10 minutes". I think his emphasis was the fact that with our modern tools, we can move very quickly and see the results much quicker than say, printmaking, sculpture or painting. There is still trial and error, but the speed at which we can learn from these mistakes is a great benefit. Not that there is anything wrong with printmaking, sculpture or painting.
My own experience with collaboration in New Media has been mostly positive. I find that to avoid the conflicts/compromising of artistic vision, you have two options.
Option one: Outsource. If your project is so ambitious and vast that there is no way you could learn to do everything yourself, you find skilled workers to sort out the parts you don't have time to understand. I've used this method for a few projects in the past. While on a very shallow level it is "collaborative", the intent belongs to one person, not the laborers who helped.
Option Two: Relinquish control. This option is really hard if you consider yourself a creative person. Its pretty terrifying to have a good idea misunderstood or torn up by a roomful of other creatives. Most of us want to see our ideas as close as possible to the way we imagined them, and opening up to creative input from others is extremely threatening.
Not only was this lecture hard to hear, but I found myself uninterested with what Norton was saying and more interested in the visuals behind him. It was almost like listening to a through the wall filtered audio piece to accommodate the visual performance going on, it was pretty cool. I learned more about what he was trying to say from reading other people's blog posts. I like the comment he makes about getting art out while working with small groups. I've always enjoyed working with small groups, I think it's not only good to collaborate and share ideas to try help a project evolve, but it also creates a structure and motivation the helps get the piece going.
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