Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Museum of Natural Art

Museum of Natural Art
An exhibit made of up art that focuses the viewer on the art that is present all around us in nature.
(1)Jess Rees's peice with magentism (Jess is a student at Rutgers who created an incredible peice of art that had a string tied to a needle that was being suspended horizontally by magnetism. there is more to it than that- but it was really impressive), I'll try to find pictures.



(2)Video art by David Bolinsky, a medical animator, creates incredible works of video art depicting scientifically-factual scenes of biology and physiology in action.
(3)A simple mixed-media presenting the impressive array of beautiful colors present in nature
(4)Gravity:
---Steps to a platform (with a glass display case on three sides?) and a spot for someone to stand on it (in the glass). Then a plaque that labels that person as part of a performance installation piece entitled "Behold the Power of Gravity".
---Variation: Above the person (WAY above) hangs something that would hurt the person- such as knives or something. Then the title is "Thank God for Gravity" or "... something else that has to do with thanks- just without God.
>What else:
--cycles of water
--life cycles
--electricity!
--evolution, as a design process (see other post)
--straightforward photography of beautiful places

Analogital Clocks

>analog/digital clock idea
-This idea is a way of converting an analog clock into a digital clock- meaning you can read it as a digital clock.
-It involves replacing each hand with a disc of paper (or something stronger- like chipboard or something)- the disc needs to be a circle with a triangle (or slice) missing- that slice allows you to see through to the number that tells you what hour it is.
-The minute disc is a bit tougher. You can't have it read from numbers that are on the hour disc- because the hour disc will be moving. Instead, the minutes must read from the same base as the hours- but then the hour disc must be partially transparent. The hour disc must be made up of a smaller transparent disc, with a solid outer ring. The minutes should say ":25"
-Potential Problems: as the time passes, the missing triangle area (or viewing area of the disc) may be showing a partial number or may be in between numbers, making it impossible to read.
-Solutions: Use large numbers? Eh.
-Fill the entire ring of numbers full of numbers- like :11112222333etc...
Possible variation: have numbers morph into each other in between each number's currect position.

Post-Modern Museum of Art (PoMoMoA)

I have had this idea- its more of a conceptual idea that leads to artistic ideas. I want to curate an exhibit and called it the Post-Modern Museum of Art (or PoMoMoA).
The exhibit would feature several pieces of arts that accentuate several post-modern ideals- including metaphor, representation, and the overall questioning of "What Is Art?"
Piece ideas:
-What is art? Use the same placards for all art peices (the thing that says the name of the artists and art piece title, etc) and place them on all objects- such as fire extinguishers, tiolets, tables, etc)
-Representation:
-Place painting across from mirror but only label the mirror image as the art.
-Metaphor?
-Empty frame on painted wall
-what is/isn't art?
-Pin the Plaque on the piece- have several pieces of "found art" and each has a square with a piece of velcro- the viewer gets to decide what is art and what is not.

...more to come.