Response: Program or Be Programmed

I agree with the article that technology has rushed us as a society.  Most of the people I know including myself check our phones constantly.  We are so used to having complete access to internet that we expect it at every second of the day.  No longer does my generation wait for dial up or letters to come in the mail, we get internet access at the touch of a screen.  So we don't think about what were saying or put a good amount of thought into things.  In the article the author talks about having time to think because we don't have real time access, which is true.  However I believe that we are somewhat taking advantage of our time more.  We don't "waste" time waiting on letters to come we can have thousands of conversations in the same amount as one letter exchange.  I do believe that some people live too much virtually which takes away from their "real" lives, but in that moment that is that person's "real" life.  Technology and life in any sense are all what every individual person makes it.  If someone loves relying on their phone and living no where else but in the internet then so be it, same to someone who doesn't believe in technology.

Program or Be Programmed Response

I really liked the foundation of this piece. The connection that the author makes between time and the Internet is a very thoughtful one. I had not really considered that when I was an adolescent in the dark ages of dail-up, I actually had to plan my Internet time. My mom and I had to negotiate between our two landline phones and our large, aqua accented Mac to figure out who could do what at which time. The idea that the digital age has increased asynchronicity, beginning with e-mail and culminating with the plethora of apps available today, is as interesting as it is dismaying. I think that this was an important article to read for our class because it addresses the fact that the very medium we are using to display time actually has no concept of time; clocks built into computers only "take orders". You can have a continuous, asynchronous conversation with someone who is halfway around the world without having to even think about time zones. Not only does the digital world have its own time zone, it is its own zone all together. Before reading this article, I hadn't been aware of these now very clear time discrepancies. This course has made me more aware of time but before now, it had not extended into my online time as well. I appreciate the fact that we read this piece for that exact reason – mindfulness of time in the digital age is few and far between and therefore important.

Program or be programmed

I think this article brings up an important point for contemporary artists because if technology is influencing the masses as heavily as the author describes then that means it is influencing our work. This article brings technology into the spotlight and I feel like it asks us to rethink why, how, and how often we use it. For our upcoming sound project it made me second guess my automatic decision to create an mp3 and led me to explore alternative presentations.

Program or Be Programed

I believe he is trying to state that in the years of technology that it is evolving more and more and that we are being consumed by it all. This relates to our class because we too are using and being consumed by technology.

Program to be Programmed

I think we read this, because it brings up a concern about technology's influence over the years and how it has evolved. I believe that this relates to the class, because it helps us have a new perspective of technology from where it used to be to where it is now, today. It also really hit on the importance of time and how we use it. I think that it helped recap a little of what we have already learned and discussed from our previous project and sets us up with a good basis for the next project.

Program or Be Programmed

I think Rushkoff made some very interesting points as to the way our society is evolving. I completely agree that people today are becoming so reliant on their technology and that in the future it will only get worse. I think this article relates to the class because we have already used so many different forms of technology for our projects. To me this article is pointing out that we need to familiarize ourselves with technology as much as possible to prepare for what lies ahead in the future.

Program or Be Programmed

     This passage basically discusses the influence of various technology over time, and how it has had a profane impact on our lives which continues to change human lives. This passage emphasized how technology began with something positive and innovative for people  then over time it developed into something that consumed humans and made them dependent on technology  in an unhealthy manner. I think the purpose of this passage for this class, is to recap the importance of time and to realize the usage of technology and how it affected the way people view time. I think it is important to consider both aspects not only when it comes to our projects but when we look and analyze other works of art.

Sound Clip Rough Draft

https://soundcloud.com/baileyrose89/sounds-of-campus

Program or be programmed

I think we read this to help us have a greater understanding of time and how time works with social media. Today most everyone has a phone where they are in constant communication with anyone through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all the other countless social media apps. This constant connectivity changes how we view time, we post a photo and constantly check back to see how many likes we can get, or at least that's what I do. This immediate concept of time and expecting things to be instantaneous has warped our idea of a proper time of frame. I think this goes along with our not only our entire class but our sound project. We need to carefully think out how to use the time we are given for the sound project, how long to record a certain sound, or where to cut out sound.

Programmed or be Programmed

This article was all about time and technology, which is basically what our class is also about, especially the time aspect. But today, we always learn about computers, and use them for our daily lives, for everything, without a second thought. This article has put that second thought in my head while using computers. Its interesting to know that computers don't run on time, they don't car about our time, they just do the task we tell them to do. It gives me a totally different concept of time when it comes t technology, because like it said in the article, we expect our computers to do everything immediately, and if it doesn't, we get mad. I think in those cases, its really important to put ourselves in the mind frame of how time works on computers compared to how it works in our lives. I think its especially important in our class because we are studying time and how it works with different things, that pretty much everything we can think of, runs on a specific time, but computers may not.

Rough Draft Sound Clip

https://app.box.com/s/usd12hlc3p32u5zbv4yn

Program or be Programmed

While I find that this article dug a little too far into the uses of technology, I can see the relevance it has for our class in particular. So far I believe this class requires us to be intuitive and find new ways to approach our subjects. Like the article, we have to consider how our approaches benefit or hurt our learning processes and likewise how it will effect the viewer's understanding of our work.

-PERI

program or be programmed

in the article the author describes how we as humans, live in present time. But we are surrendering ourselves to technology that takes away our reality and wastes time that we can't get back. i kind of agree on some topics discussed in this article, like how we do waste a lot of time and energy on technology  & how we depend on it instead of depending on ourselves. but i think that technology can help us with important things in life, as long as we can manage our time we spend on these devices , make sure we take time out and enjoy the present moment.

Sounds of the Boreal Finch

https://soundcloud.com/sarah-juntunen/boreal-finch

The patterns sound really sketchy and almost glitchy at times. It's a really neat effect.

Program or be Programmed

Clearly the author of this reading hasn't seen a flame war. Some make use of time to maintain their own finesse, but usually when people argue over the internet, rather than think, they opt to just call the other side a bunch of [homophobic slurs]* or something. (Is that appropriate to write in this blog? Can I use that sentence?)

But to be serious, I do not see what the author is trying to explain. Computer programs definitely have us using time a lot differently. However, I do not see how asynchronicity is equivalent to being "against time". Actually, technology seems far less about eliminating the effects of time and more about letting us manage time, rather than letting time manage us. I don't consider that against time, but just different use of time. Ultimately, computers will use time however you use time on them. Those messages you get don't come from a cloud in space, but from other users whose "now" might be different than the "now" when you read them. On a computer, there are things you feel the need to do right away and others that you want to wait on for a long time, but isn't that just like real life? You cannot surrender time to technology. You surrender it to whatever your habits happen to be.

Of course, since we are in a class all about time, it's interesting to read about time's role in digital media. It's a good reminder to think about how we manage time as we do our projects.

*I've changed the wording here to avoid using homophobic terms. -Liam

Leah's Clip

Alisha's sound clip

Chloe's Sound Clip

chloes Sound clip

Garage Band

birds (practice for sound project)

Garage Band

https://soundcloud.com/nickorr1/expanded-media-bird-sample

Garage Band

Practice for Project 2

Garage Band

Peri's Garage Band Edit

The program was super confusing for me to use so this is really lame sounding.

Garage Band Edit

Bailey Garage Band edit

To disappear.  Sanded a piece of balsa wood until it was gone.

To Chip

I decided to skate on a new cinderblock until it started to chip away, turned out it was a lot harder than i thought...

To Walk

My action was "To Walk". I decided to do a simple stop motion, that features me walking my daily route from my classes back to my dorm.

Art Which Can't Be Art

I think that what Alan Kaprow was trying to express in this article is that the outcome of art desn't always start with the intention of making art, and that the activities of the mundane daily routines we perform and disregard are often beautiful.  As Kaprow illustrates in his article, Duchamp initially intended the idea of making a non-art object into an art piece by simply putting it into a gallery or frame of some sort as ironic.  However, as time progressed and other artists took note and followed in Duchamp's footsteps of the art/non-art paradox it became trivialized, because the provocative questions became forgotten.  In Kaprow's piece the act of tooth brushing, which is seemingly so ordianry that we often forget where we intitaially insert our toothbrushes in our mouths, he fixated on the the motions and nuances that went into this process; therefore, bringing back the provocative questions into the viewer and performer's mind.

I believe that this relates to the overall theme in our class, because as in our current project we are choosing a verb, which is an action.  What goes into this action or how we demonstrate a specific action can become more than just the whole of the action itself.  This article will help us to examine the parts of the whole that go into our art, and our actions.

Art Which Can't Be Art

In Art Which Can't Be Art, Kaprow describes how anything, even an action as simple as brushing your teeth, can be considered art. To this assertion, he cites Marcel Duchamp who's famous ready-made piece The Fountain (1917) essentially pissed upon the notion that art required a certain degree of skill and creativity. Kaprow goes on to say, however that while this idea was novel and provocative at first, it became trivialized in the decades that followed. To avoid this pitfall, he stopped actively thinking of brushing his teeth as art. Instead, it became an exercise in mindfulness during which he examined the ritualistic quality of his actions. This allowed Kaprow to see himself in a way that he admits he didn't necessarily want to see – unpolished and ungroomed, without the guise of his public persona. Kaprow concludes by connecting the contemporary trend of bringing art outside the gallery to the act of brushing his teeth in his own bathroom. Therein, he says, lies the paradox – the artist concerned with lifelike art is the one who is indeed making art without even trying. Whether that art is recognized as such is another matter.

Kaprow's ideas about art/not art relates to our first project because just like the act of brushing his teeth, any repeated action can be seen as art. He implies that the "art" lies in the artist's intentions and sense of self rather than the execution. Therefore, observing an action such as natural decay can be seen as art too, it all depends on, quite literally, how you frame it.

Art Which Can't Be Art

I think that Alan Kaprow is trying to make us realize that we go through our daily routines mindlessly thinking that because we do it everyday it can not be art. If we were to slow down a little and take the time to pay attention to what we are doing we might find that even our simple daily routines could be art. I think that we might consider it a little silly at first because its so normal to do things everyday like brushing our teeth but with an open mind and more observation i think we would discover so much more art.

This article can relate to our class because the time based art that we are looking at and learning about is sometimes questioned if its really art or not. You have to stop and think about the true meaning or why something was created or done instead of just dismissing it because it looks so simple or normal.

Art Which Can't Be Art

In my opinion, Kaprow's main argument in this reading is that anything can be viewed as art even if it something that is done routinely and never seen as art. In this reading, Kaprow gives an example of something simple as brushing one's teeth. It was never seen as art until the details of the action was noticed.
This reading relates to the theme of the class by helping us look past what a "typical artwork" should be. It helps us realize that art can be performed in many ways and that everything that we are exposed to is basically art even if we don't actually notice it. Overall, this reading helps to think outside of the box when it comes to art and to utilize things that typically goes unnoticed as well.

Art Which Can't Be Art

I believe what Kaptow is trying to say that anything can be art if looked at a certain way. It's all a matter of perspective. Something as mundane and common as brushing your teeth becomes so much more when you pay attention. It's makes you think of what your really missing throughout the day. It makes you ask what are you missing out on when you just go through the motions.

It relates to class because the examples we have been viewing can raise questions to the casual viewer  as to what makes it art. The block if I e for example, intended to be a work of art, can be seen by some as just a guy pushing ice. It really makes perspective seem even more important.

Art Which Can't Be Art

I think Kaprow's main argument is that people (himself included) are guilty of going through everyday life without noticing the art within it, such as brushing your teeth. He references some work by Duchamp and relates that to his argument. I believe that he is talking about the irony in the difference between everyday life and turning ordinary things into artwork.

This reading relate to the theme of class, because it helps us think outside of the box. It takes an idea and takes it to another level. I think about how we are challenged to think of 10 different ways we can portray a specific action. Instead of going with your initial idea or thought, push yourself to think outside of the ordinary. I think this will help my art become more relatable to people because it is something that they do as well.

Art Which Can't Be Art

Kaprow believes that much of postmodern and contemporary art is marked by paradox. Art is something shown to be special, or notable. That is why it is framed or presented in a gallery. Conventional things are simple routine things we forget about. However, postmodern art aims to show what might be interesting about the conventional. But how can these things be art if the point is that we usually forget them, while as art, they are noticed?

When we do our projects in class, this concept will be useful for reminding us why we are making our works. It is more than claiming that something is art. We have to think about why whatever we're doing is art, otherwise there is no real point to it other than just goofing around or following routine..

art which can't be art

I think Kaprow is trying to bring out an artistic side or perspective on motions and routines we experience everyday but that we aren't necessarily conscious of. Even if in the end they aren't the type of artwork that enters galleries or even has an audience they are there to be noticed by their individual and at least able provoke that individuals thoughts enough to get him or her to write a short piece on something previously mundsane as the toothbrushing experience.

Similarly our project is asking us to take the everyday and reveal it anew, so that it can be re-experienced in a way that will provoke its viewers audience too either think or feel something new that is hopefully intriguing. Whatever verb I decide to use in the creation of my project will combine with my ideas and representation and become a unique unexpected experience I hope.

Art Which Can't Be Art

I think Kaprow was trying to say that depending on your view of the world anything can be art, but not just that. When he went into the details of what he saw while he brushed his teeth I think he wants to point out to not only look for art in unlikely places but to pay attention to the smallest of details which can contribute a lot to your art. Also perhaps when viewing others artwork to pay attention to the small details of their work to really try to see everything that they saw when they created it.

I think this concept relates to our class and and how it might help our art, because most if not all of the class is not used to considering time when we create art, just like Kaprow had never considered brushing his teeth as art. Along with that, brushing your teeth is something someone does everyday (hopefully) and the actions you do while brushing your teeth are a repeated gesture. This does give an interesting new side to our first project and what can be considered for it.

Art Which Can't Be Art

"Art Which Can't Be Art"

I believe Kaprow is explaining how our daily routine actions become nothing but repetition. We have learned to experience "art" in the context of galleries, theatre, etc. for the public eye to view and criticize. We tend to overlook our personal experiences (body motions, thoughts, processes) in every day life that can just as well be considered our own unique art.

This coincides with our class well because while we have been discussing the measuring of time we understand that it doesn't have to be so concrete. It is a range of many aspects and multiple ways of expression. This reading helps to open the mind to other ways of viewing the world and ourselves. I believe that using this will ultimately expand our own personal creativity in our art works.

"Art Which Cannot Be Art" Alan Kaprow

I think Kaprow is trying to say that the little motions we do on a daily basis, such as brushing our teeth, are not seen as traditional art, but are seen as more natural, personal kinds of art that can't be displayed in a gallery for all to see.

I believe that this reading will broaden our minds so that we can think more in depth about artwork, and more specifically our artwork. It will help us analyze the littlest details and really make them stand out in our work, which in return will make them that much more powerful to our viewers and to ourselves.

Art Which Can't be Art

I think Kaprow is talking about how examining the minuscule actions you preform during the day and really thinking about them can lead you to discover new things about yourself which can't be measured by art collectors or other people. Everything has a sort of artistic value if you take the time to look at it enough.

I think this article will really help us to think abstractly. When you first told us about the assignment, I thought that it was going to have to be a video or something that's literally about time, but now I see that this can be an abstract sort of thing or that I can approach it in a metaphorical manner.

-PERI

Five Ways to Measure Time

1. Decomposition
2. The sun
3. Temperature (measures how long something has been exposed to heat or cold)
4. Age
5. Cooking/Baking (ex: a cake takes say thirty minutes to bake, therefore it is a measure of time or the result of heat over time)

Art Which Can't be Art

In the article, Kaprow talks about the blurring of art and life, which "charge everyday with metaphoric power"
His argument is that since art has shifted away from the conventional estheticized objects in galleries and into it's life sources, his works are art. Yet at the same time, because his works stray so far from the conventional, they are not art.

This article has expanded my ideas on what art is by understanding the paradox that is contemporary art???? Therefore, I understand that the things I personally don't consider art can still be art because they "charge everyday with metaphoric power".
Similarly, this paradox of art also relates to the theme of the class because while we can do the assignments the traditional way, we can also branch out into life and do them in ways that are far removed from the traditional concepts of art. 

Art Which Can't Be Art

In "Art Which Can't Be Art," Alan Kaprow explains how brushing his teeth is a form of art. I believe what he is trying to say is that depending on how you see things, anything can be art. If all you do while brushing your teeth is think I'm simply brushing my teeth, then thats all it will ever be. But you have to look deeper into it, once you see the muscles in your hand and arm moving back and forth and the brush scrubbing against your teeth, thats when you can look at it in a form of art. Once you start to view everyday things in that way, thats when you realize that anything you do can be a form of art.

I believe that thinking and viewing things in that way will open my mind up to new things. This will be able to help me view art in a new way and also create new art much differently than I use to. This passage also relates to what we have seen in class, because most of what i have viewed has been much different than most art i have studied in the past. The artists that we have studied so far have created art by thinking more outside the box. It's almost not so much what they have created but also how they created it and the journey it took to get there.

Art Which Can't Be Art

I think Kaprow was trying to imply that most everything we do in life is artistic in some form. We may not notice it at first, but if we pay attention to our actions we will start to realize some artistic values. When we do something everyday such as brushing our teeth, it just becomes routine and our minds really don't register every gesture we make. Not everything that is artistic is something you can find in a gallery. Art can be found anywhere.

I think this article can help improve our art by opening our minds and recognizing the artistic values in everyday things; not just paintings, drawings, photos, etc. There are a lot of artists who were shown in class who take everyday items, ideas, or methods and turn them into something artistic. We just have to be able recognize them.

Time as Material

NATURAL
(IN)TANGIBLE
SPATIAL
LITERAL
PERSONAL
(META)PHYSICAL
THEORETICAL
ABSTRACT

wisdom/experience
nature
heartbeats (per minute)
travel/movement
photo (shutter speed)
money
milking
skin/hair/ the human body/aging/height/weight
emotions/milestones
perception
space (woah) lightyears
earth rotations
hourglass
moon (phases)
candle burning
society/culture
tree rings
birthdays/holidays
months
paint drying
geology/rocks/layers
baking/cooking/food
temperature (exposure to the elements)
the sun
animal behavior (hibernation)
stars
tide/ocean currents
circadian rhythm
music
fashion
decay/decomposition
leaves
evaporation
muscle growth
melting point/freezing/boiling point
hypothermia
medication
disease incubation
carbon dating
pendulum
metronome
laundry
parking meters
board games
exercise
jet lag
progress
growth
days

#timeasmaterial

Five ways to measure time :

1. sleep schedules- more tired at night and more awake during the day.

2. Flowers blooming, leaving changing, and how the nature looks around us.

3. 28-31 days in a month and 12 months in a year.

4. If your in school or not

5. Birthdays and other holidays

#timeasmaterial

1. Height
2. Weight
3. Age
4. Phases of the moon
5. Fashion

5 Ways to Measure Time

1. Laundry. "The clothes will dry in 52 minutes. Time to do some homework."
2. Parking meters. "Money can buy you things, but it can't buy you time. Unless you need a parking meter."
3. Using time in board games. "In the jungle you must wait, until the dice read 5 or 8."
4. Exercise. "You can tell you've been sprinting for thirty minutes when your legs are pretty much jello."
5. Jet lag. "The clock says it's noon, sure, but my brain still insists that it is 5 in the morning."

5 ways to measure time

1. the rings of trees
2. aging 
3. shadows
4. changes in society 
5. literature 

Time as material

decay, construction, newspapers, birthdays, and a sun dial

5 Ways to Measure Time

1. Carbon Dating
2. Hourglass
3. Pendulum
4. Distance + Speed
5. Earth's Rotation

5 Ways to Measure Time

1. Evaporation
2. Trees
3. leaves changing color
4. traveling
5. farming
 #timeasmaterial

5 Ways to Measure Time

1. Age
2. Experience
3. Growth
4. Days
5. Progress

-PERI

5 ways to tell time

Sunlight/sundial
Stars/rotation of the earth
Ocean tide/currents
Circadian rhythm
Animals/nocturnal, roosters in the morning, ect.

5 Ways to Measure Time 

1.)Growth/Shrinkage: Hair, Nails, Decrease or increase in height over time.
2.)Styles: Clothes, surroundings as they change over time.
3.)Age: How a person ages and changes.
4.)Satellite photos: The shrinkage of polar ice caps, and deforestation.
5.)Decay: To homes, surrounding, or bodies.
#TimeAsMaterial

5 Ways to Measure Time

1.) Skin
2.) Trees
3.) Photography
4.) Hair
5.) Physical Movements
#timeasmaterial