Installation artist

"the Visible Body"

Glenn Herbert Davis

He is a installation artist who often works with photograph, lighting effect, plywood and performance.

Physical attraction take one!

I use thumb tack to stable the scratchy fabric onto my wardrobe, and filmed my performance (behind the white fabric, inside of my wardrobe). The whole process took about 4 hours, I've used my camera, laptop and video camera to document the performance.

Basically there are still life (pressing my body parts onto the "canvas", soft movements, aggressive movements and expression movements.

In the beginning, I've tested with cloths on, and I was not satisfy with the result which texture of the clothing was showing through the fabric. Next, I've took my cloth off and keep working on my performance, I was quite please with the result, my body structure was showing clearly through the "canvas", and the movements were translucent.

The next step I'm going to edit all my documented films, and put together a short video with sound effect (still in the planing process).

Video art work II

"Three by Three"

artist

Margeaux Walter
Im interested in this piece of work, but I haven't viewed the full version of it, I have sent a request to view this full video, and am waiting for them to get back to me.
I like the idea of using white as the main colour in this video piece, it accentuated the expression of the movement, in relation to clarify the emotion(idea) that the artist wanted present.

video art work

Trailer Truths I (2 min, 2004)

This is a very creative idea of using movie trailers texts, and put together as a piece of video art work.

"Trailer Truths I is the first installment of a trilogy of short films made up of text taken from movie trailers. Words and phrases are collaged together to create a darkly humorous text about war, evil and propaganda.

The work playfully addresses the representation of power and language in the media, and the role of belief in the popular consciousness."

It sounds like almost making seance at a point, but the words (texts) kept going and they seems like leading the audience to another idea or story line.

relief sculpture

My work "physical attraction" has a strong influence from relief sculpture. And that was the way I plan to present my piece.

Randolphlee Mclver's piece "Woman, back view" October, 1996, Plaster relief.

I found that very similar to the effect of the image I have been working on.

Experiment

I took a series of photos base on my own body form, at first I was trying to work with the canvas, and take photos by pressing my body parts onto it, but it wasn't much of success, first, the canvas was too small, it was hard to press large parts of my body, second, the lighting effect wasn't working that way I planed. So I start taking photos of my body without the canvas, and there are a few that I really like, after edited in photoshop, I found the contrast of the light and dark, the bone structure are very interesting. At this point, I have no idea what to do with my idea towards this project, the canvas is not working, but I still want to stick to this idea of body parts, and body form.

cristian guerreschi

MONSTER

I was doing some research on video art for my physical attraction project, and i found this very interesting video which has nothing to do with my work. I like it because it looks simple and easy to make, which is not really, in stop motion animation, you have to narrow down the detail of your image in order to save time and have well budget towards your film. Even though, this animation was well made by the story context .