sábado, 30 de enero de 2010
mi vecina tiene 4 novios en linea

hace algunos años mi vecina de enfrente, que vive con sus papas, tiene como 38 años, divorciada y con dos hijos compro su primer computadora. fue a pedirme ayuda para conectar la computadora y que le explicara las funciones basicas, ya que ella nunca habia nisiquiera prendido una. despues de explicarle lo basico, como se prende, como se apaga me pidio que le hiciera una cuenta de correo. cuando abres una cuenta de hotmail te da la opcion de incribirte para que te envien informacion de algunos temas: belleza y salud, noticias internacionales, etc. entre los que esta match.com; le explique brevemente en que consistia a lo que timidamente y entre risitas me contesto: "hay esta bien, pues inscribeme haber que". yo no sabia lo que esta inscripcion a match.com desataria. gaby se dedica a encontrar esposo en linea, si que ha encontrado partidos disponibles, ha viajado a chicago, españa, puerto rico, etc. y cada vez que vemos un taxi fuera de su casa sabemos que ya esta otro galan de otro destino visitandola. es muy gracioso porque la computadora la tienen en el recibidor, y en ocasiones dejan la puerta abierta y vemos a gaby sentada en el chat, con chanclas, shorts, una blusa muy arreglada, maquillaje y peinado elaborados, ya que solo ven su cara, solo se esmera en peinarse y maquillarese, pero el resto esta de mas. una vez habia un raton en su casa; su papa puso una trampa y cuando el raton cayo el papa fue corriendo a agarrarlo, todo esto a un lado de la computadora, cuando el sr. cosme levanta el raton pegado a la trampa, la escena entra en el rango de la camara y el novio en chicago lo ve. gaby no encontraba como explicarle lo que estaba pasando en su casa. me llama mucho la atencion, porque gaby muy apenas sabia usar la computadora y no habla ingles, entonces no acabo de entender como es que consigue no uno, sino hasta cuatro novios en linea simultaneamente que la van a visitar o le pagan el viaje para que ella vaya a visitarlos.
when something exceeds your ability to understand how it works it sort of becomes magical
martes, 26 de enero de 2010
mi hermano no trabaja pennsylvania
viernes, 22 de enero de 2010
XII Bienal Rufino Tamayo. Modelos formales de representación ( de dibujo ) - Ramón Almela


pauline ontiveros by cory arcangel
PO I’ll tell you a few things that happened. My nonprofit, Deep Listening Institute, recently did a project called the Deep Listening Convergence. We had 45 musicians in a virtual residency using Skype. The project was to have new ensembles form and rehearse online for five months. Then we brought them all together upstate at the Lifebridge Sanctuary, which is a really beautiful place, and we did three real concerts of only material that had been developed online.
CA What keeps pushing you to drive in these directions which haven’t been driven in before? To take what you just said as an example, video telephones certainly were not designed for small musical ensembles, but you decided to push the technology in that way. And now you’re working with DARPA technology to organize multi-site performances. These technologies were not designed for these uses, and yet you have continually bent them to your vision
PO I could fall off the cliff. What keeps me going is the interest and excitement. It’s very amazing to work with people in that way, and it’s also very difficult. I do believe that relationships are the Wild West, and that working physically and virtually is part of developing a more peaceful world. This has to be learned through listening and negotiating. Improvised music is a great model for community building and reconciling differences. My work with Deep Listening supports this idea. A community of Deep Listeners has grown out of the summer retreats and workshops are given in many places in the world. People who listen together grow and expand together.
CA Do you ever think about how all the things you have been working in for so long are now the direction that everything has taken? Like the online collaborations—look at the online networking sites. It’s amazing to look at all the things you’ve been hammering away at for years and now see what has happened in culture. The average funny Internet video or audio clip that gets passed around more often than not is the result of a multi-site collaboration. Most media today is participatory in this way. There might be rock bands in the future that will get together in the same way as the ensembles you brought together did.
PO Alex Carôt in Germany made a software called Soundjack to rehearse his rock band.
CA There you go.
PO Yeah, there it is. It’s very high quality and low latency; I’ve worked with it. You can download it at Virtualsoundexchange.net, which is a website where you can get all kinds of expert advice on using different technologies. That’s the net: you can start collaborations with people anywhere in the world—except for the places that don’t have the Internet.
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cory arcangel

Cory Arcangel (born 1978) is a digital artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. His work is concerned with the relationship between technology and culture, and with media appropriation.
Arcangel's best known works are his Nintendo game cartridge hacks and reworkings of obsolete computer systems of the 70's and 80's. [7]
Some examples of his work are Super Mario Clouds, a Mario cartridge from which everything but the clouds has been erased, Sans Simon, a video of Simon and Garfunkel where Arcangel films his hand blocking out the image of Paul Simon on screen, and I Shot Andy Warhol, which replaces targets in the shooting game "Hogan's Alley" with images of Pope John Paul II, Flavor Flav, and Andy Warhol.
Arcangel has worked in collaboration with the Paper Rad Art Collective to make Super Mario Movie, a 15 minute video made by replacing the Super Mario Bros. game code with a movie program written by Arcangel. All the graphics were left intact and were used by the movie engine, which tells the story of the game world becoming corrupted and Mario questioning his own existence.
In 2007, Film and Video Umbrella commissioned him to produce a new work, a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould[8], using tiny fragments of video, each containing a single note of various instruments (and some performing pets) to create an arrangement of Bach's Variation no. 1 (from the Goldberg Variations). To do this, he had to create his own video-editing software.[9]
Arcangel's recent work such as Video Painting and Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Spectrum", mousedown y=1098 x=1749.9, mouse up y=0 x=4160 addresses the role of technology in determining the way that viewers appreciate art.
"Imagine me buying some video equipment off of eBay, turning it on, pressing some random buttons, and then calling whatever comes out my ‘work.’ This mind-set is the spirit of Adult Contemporary. In contrast to some of my older work, which exercised a somewhat subversive use of modern digital tools, the pieces in this show are inspired by the idea of using technology exactly as it was designed, although in a manner best described as ‘non-expert.’ What if the possibility of using a system poorly in an uneducated manner were celebrated? What if I, as an artist, attached my name to the aesthetics of different eras of technology without really bothering to do my homework or even reading the manual (so to speak)?” - Cory Arcangel
jueves, 21 de enero de 2010
soy buenisima para dibujar a mickey mouse





cada vez que me enfrentaba a una hoja en blanco entraba en pequeñas crisis, es como el dicho de que algunos ven el vaso medio vacio y algunos ven el vaso medio lleno; algunos ven una hoja en blanco como un mundo de posibilidades y hay algunos (como yo) que vemos una gran hoja en blanco, un vacio. me encantaba el dibujo, pero cada vez que lo queria hacer no sabia que (refieriendome a imagenes), esto me llevo a varias soluciones de mi problema: cuando aun era muy pequeña dibujaba "esquemas" o "mapas" no eran esquemas ni mapas realmente, sino que era mi muy personal manera de contar historias en papel. estos se componen de pequeñas estaciones, cada estacion es un personaje, un acontecimiento o un lugar, despues estos se conectan por lineas, son como diagramas de flujo. pero despues de un tiempo el plasmar historias en dibujo no fue lo mio.
domingo, 17 de enero de 2010
hecho en casa
dibujo incosciente sobre el tiempo
yo vs. maquinas
- dibujo analogo
- dibujo maquinas
repeticion
reloj de arena
vocabulario
como se representa el tiempo? o se multiplica?
camara lenta
representacion del tiempo