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GMU:Appropriation within Digital Worlds

2018-06-09T14:26:15Z

HankFinestra: /* 14.06.2018 */

Lecturer: [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Jörg_Brinkmann Jörg Brinkmann] 
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS 
Date: Thursdays, 17:00 - 20:30 
Venue: Performance Platform, Digital Bauhaus Lab (Room 001) 
First meeting: Thursday, April 12th 2018, 17:00 

 

'''DESCRIPTION''' 
Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.
The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).
In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. A notable example are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp.

But when is appropriation a homage, when is it art and when is it just plain plagiarism? And what are the effects of technology on this ongoing appropriation? Now that boundaries of authenticity and originality are even more blurred, artists (indeed anyone) can recycle and re-upload images, text and audio material more quickly and easily than ever before. Sampling, remixing and mashups proliferate online, and allow people to even adopt a social media profile that appropriates or parodies a well-known persona.

In this course we will look at contemporary artistic strategies of appropriation. We will discuss artforms like Post-Internet art that embraces meme-culture, or music styles like Vapourwave that appropriates 1980s and 1990s styles of mood music.

We will investigate, question and challenge modern and historical concepts related to the topic and create artistic works that can be presented in the form of live performances, video works or installations. The course supports and excercises independent,
self-motivated work. Together, we will create an environment in which students can produce and discuss their own subjects related to the matter.

'''CRITERIA FOR PASSING''' 
In order to successfully participate you will have to develop and document your own project on the GMU Wiki. Also, regularly attend to the sessions and participation is mandatory.

'''LANGUAGE''' 
The course will be in English, unless all participants are speaking German.

== '''STUDENTWORKS''' ==
*[[/Ulas Yener|Ulas Yener]]
*[[/Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias|Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias]]
*[[/Lise Epinat|Lise Epinat]]
*[[/Holly Kempton|Holly Kempton]]
*[[Ruo-Jin Yen]]
*[[Eduardo Moreno]]
*[[Grace Quintero]]
*[[Sarah Pacheco Alvim]]
*[[Nicha Boonyawairote]]
*[[Marie Ebel]]
*[[Sarah Hermanutz]]

== '''12.04.2018''' ==
Introduction

== '''19.04.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''26.04.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''03.05.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''17.05.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
10:00 - 10:30 (Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias) 
10:30 - 11:00 (put your name here) 
11:00 - 11:30 Lise Epinat 
11:30 - 12:00 Forat Elalfy 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 Nicha Boonyawairote 
13:30 - 14:00 Marie Ebel 
14:00 - 14:30 Eduardo Moreno 
14:30 - 15:00 Grace Quintero 
– 
16:00 - 16:30 (put your name here) 
16:30 - 17:00 Sarah Alvim 
17:00 - 17:30 Arina Mozzherikova 
17:30 - 18:00 Sarah Hermanutz 
18:00 - 18:30 Rachel 
18:30 - 19:00 Fabian Krzich 

== '''24.05.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''31.05.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''07.06.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''14.06.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 Lise Epinat 
11:30 - 12:00 Holly Kempton 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 Sarah H 
13:30 - 14:00 
14:00 - 14:30 
14:30 - 15:00 Wisanu Phu-artdun(Q) 
15:30 - 16:00 Grace Quintero 
16:00 - 16:30 Eduardo Moreno 
16:30 - 17:00 Sarah P.

== '''21.06.2018''' ==
presentation of your concepts

== '''28.06.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''05.07.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''12.07.2018''' ==
Summaery Exhibition

== '''APPROPRIATION TOOLBOX''' ==

'''Software''' 
Audacity - free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing 
https://www.audacityteam.org 

OpenShot - free, open source, cross platform video Editor 
https://www.openshot.org 

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program 
https://www.gimp.org 

Open Broadcaster Software - free and open-source streaming and recording program 
https://obsproject.com 

JDownloader - free, open-source download management tool 
http://jdownloader.org 

HandBrake – The open source video transcoder 
https://handbrake.fr 

Infovox iVox: The most natural sounding Text to Speech voices yet for Mac OS X 
http://www.assistiveware.com/product/infovox-ivox 

 

'''sources''' 
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more 
https://archive.org 

UbuWeb – All avant-garde. All the time. 
http://ubuweb.com 

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers 
https://freesound.org 

Youtube – video-sharing website… 
https://www.youtube.com 

Know Your Meme: Internet Meme Database 
http://knowyourmeme.com

GMU:Appropriation within Digital Worlds

2018-06-09T14:25:48Z

HankFinestra: /* 14.06.2018 */

Lecturer: [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Jörg_Brinkmann Jörg Brinkmann] 
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS 
Date: Thursdays, 17:00 - 20:30 
Venue: Performance Platform, Digital Bauhaus Lab (Room 001) 
First meeting: Thursday, April 12th 2018, 17:00 

 

'''DESCRIPTION''' 
Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.
The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).
In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. A notable example are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp.

But when is appropriation a homage, when is it art and when is it just plain plagiarism? And what are the effects of technology on this ongoing appropriation? Now that boundaries of authenticity and originality are even more blurred, artists (indeed anyone) can recycle and re-upload images, text and audio material more quickly and easily than ever before. Sampling, remixing and mashups proliferate online, and allow people to even adopt a social media profile that appropriates or parodies a well-known persona.

In this course we will look at contemporary artistic strategies of appropriation. We will discuss artforms like Post-Internet art that embraces meme-culture, or music styles like Vapourwave that appropriates 1980s and 1990s styles of mood music.

We will investigate, question and challenge modern and historical concepts related to the topic and create artistic works that can be presented in the form of live performances, video works or installations. The course supports and excercises independent,
self-motivated work. Together, we will create an environment in which students can produce and discuss their own subjects related to the matter.

'''CRITERIA FOR PASSING''' 
In order to successfully participate you will have to develop and document your own project on the GMU Wiki. Also, regularly attend to the sessions and participation is mandatory.

'''LANGUAGE''' 
The course will be in English, unless all participants are speaking German.

== '''STUDENTWORKS''' ==
*[[/Ulas Yener|Ulas Yener]]
*[[/Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias|Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias]]
*[[/Lise Epinat|Lise Epinat]]
*[[/Holly Kempton|Holly Kempton]]
*[[Ruo-Jin Yen]]
*[[Eduardo Moreno]]
*[[Grace Quintero]]
*[[Sarah Pacheco Alvim]]
*[[Nicha Boonyawairote]]
*[[Marie Ebel]]
*[[Sarah Hermanutz]]

== '''12.04.2018''' ==
Introduction

== '''19.04.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''26.04.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''03.05.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''17.05.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
10:00 - 10:30 (Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias) 
10:30 - 11:00 (put your name here) 
11:00 - 11:30 Lise Epinat 
11:30 - 12:00 Forat Elalfy 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 Nicha Boonyawairote 
13:30 - 14:00 Marie Ebel 
14:00 - 14:30 Eduardo Moreno 
14:30 - 15:00 Grace Quintero 
– 
16:00 - 16:30 (put your name here) 
16:30 - 17:00 Sarah Alvim 
17:00 - 17:30 Arina Mozzherikova 
17:30 - 18:00 Sarah Hermanutz 
18:00 - 18:30 Rachel 
18:30 - 19:00 Fabian Krzich 

== '''24.05.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''31.05.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''07.06.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''14.06.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 Lise Epinat 
11:30 - 12:00 Holly Kempton 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 Sarah H 
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:00 Wisanu Phu-artdun(Q) 
15:30 - 16:00 Grace Quintero 
16:00 - 16:30 Eduardo Moreno 
16:30 - 17:00 Sarah P.

== '''21.06.2018''' ==
presentation of your concepts

== '''28.06.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''05.07.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''12.07.2018''' ==
Summaery Exhibition

== '''APPROPRIATION TOOLBOX''' ==

'''Software''' 
Audacity - free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing 
https://www.audacityteam.org 

OpenShot - free, open source, cross platform video Editor 
https://www.openshot.org 

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program 
https://www.gimp.org 

Open Broadcaster Software - free and open-source streaming and recording program 
https://obsproject.com 

JDownloader - free, open-source download management tool 
http://jdownloader.org 

HandBrake – The open source video transcoder 
https://handbrake.fr 

Infovox iVox: The most natural sounding Text to Speech voices yet for Mac OS X 
http://www.assistiveware.com/product/infovox-ivox 

 

'''sources''' 
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more 
https://archive.org 

UbuWeb – All avant-garde. All the time. 
http://ubuweb.com 

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers 
https://freesound.org 

Youtube – video-sharing website… 
https://www.youtube.com 

Know Your Meme: Internet Meme Database 
http://knowyourmeme.com

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-30T19:34:03Z

HankFinestra: /* 30.05.18 */

== 22.05.2018 ==

''A proximately 11:30 I arrived Late.''

Re-Appropriate Yourself

The participants enter in a white ending panel, where thee is a Projector, a Stand-Up Comedy Chair and a Photographic Camera
They’re asked about their favorite actual song.
The video is Searched in YouTube and projected against the Person which has to Start until three snapshots are taken, there transferred to a printer and given immediately back at the person suggesting to stick them on the wall, but giving to know that its optional if they want to or not, the reaction is recorded in video for phase Two, a Generated video composition with the reactions recorded previously.

''After Consultation, I'm not completely satisfied with how easy to handle this might be, the people, the camera, the projector, the reactions, may all of them be just an awkward face because of the light of the projector thrown into their eyes. Must have another look at it, when i'm feeling less ill.''

----

== 23.05.2018 ==

8:00 P.M.

''''After Listening to Depeche Mode's Song World in my Eyes,

...Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move
You just sit still...

that actually gave me an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZdL4JlnxI''''

It Really gave me the idea to simplify things a little, keeping the aesthetics and Technion I want, Yesterday after consultation I wondered about what I spoke with Prof.Brinkmann, as part of our conversation we ended up concluding people nowadays tend to refugee in the Internet, when they are happy, when they are sad, or upset, even when they're horny and there's no one around (or maybe yes), but basically always. And that my approach was to show what the Internet may bring, good and bad things.

I wanted to project the lightning directly from the projector on my poor volunteers for the installation, the images were a mix between weird mixes like chainsaws sounds linked with ideal landscape images, or porn sounds linked to sacred images, and that kind of montage between extremely different image/sound nature to make a point clear about dichotomy. Then Depeche's came out and, Blew my mind. I don't want to project anymore on peoples face, the reaction would be partially the same between all of the participants, a shrink of eyelids.... and then, project over, the printer issue comes out being too expensive and not very eco-friendly. And i do really want to modify the meaning and the intention of any image, word, video or anything that I came up using.

For the moment its my idea to project over a glass shaped world so anyone can feel The world in their eyes according to how they're feeling, keeping that kind of dichotomy about all what you can find online depending on your mood... but now as there will be no ''recorded reactions'' there will also be no phase two, and for what i would like this project to be esthetically, this is a Must. Think a long night of After Effects, images, plug ins, and Console will follow.

== 30.05.18 ==

After dealing with a monumental creative crisis and trying during hours to come up with something that might actually work as I had intended in mind, I opened After effects, and I felt like a clueless man in front of a white sheet of paper, I mean, I have been in touch with the software for years, and I knew I wanted to transform actual images into something more than the downloaded image, but at that point I didn’t know where to begin.

So there I was, trying to come up with something. Maybe some 3d Waves?

https://s15.postimg.cc/4wc48x7ob/image.png

Neh, too dense…
Then I started to realize I wanted to videomap it on an actual spinning globe, for all the “world in my eyes” thing, which until the moment I sustain. But how could I make something aesthetically nice, transforming the image with some kind of procedure, but still getting to know the viewer what I’m doing, and which is the original image? Or at least what does the original image represents?
I had to think quite more. I mean, the easiest way was to just project an image, on the spinning globe, but that was, I felt, a little mediocre for the idea I conceived with videocomposition and making it visually attractive for me. I think I’ve always pushed myself to my own limits. Then I was again surfing the net, finding about code (I haven’t touched code since high school). But then I though it was a little too much, so I went basics again.

https://s15.postimg.cc/t02vx9vaz/image.png

I started with a grid of particles moving as a wave, linked to an image which gave me an xyz dispersion as the hexadecimal pixels of the image were read one by one. That looked nice, but again the same problem, the intension was going to be so disperse, if I were to work with logos, the animation would be steady as the colors are flat, and still the image or the intension would be literally lost in translation during the process, ending up in a very interesting aesthetic but meaningless-to-the-audience wave of particles.
Then I was in the urge to think how to be aesthetic without distorting so much the image so it could still be readable to the audience while projected on an irregular spinning surface as this:

https://s15.postimg.cc/qviiw66iz/image.png

After several attempts, I was very frustrated, so I went out for a bike ride. One thought led to another, suddenly I was remembering Plato and his scheme of the universe, worlds within worlds… Then I decided I wanted to use the mapping to project different things into the globe, creating different worlds as different things could be projected in the spinning surface.
The next morning I woke up with the intention of at least discovering what or how I was going to distort the images, keeping them readable to the audience, but still making them look aesthetical as I wanted. So again I was thinking of universes… and I came up with the idea to create a 3D Particle Universe of the images, rendering them in 3D sphere particles.

I started working again, creating the model of the particle I was to use, rendering and importing it, into
After Effects.
https://s15.postimg.cc/836nsm4zv/image.png

Then about 5 hours of work, things finally started to look the way I wanted, with the aesthetics I wanted, but also easy to read and identify to the audience.
For example, here is Ronald McDonald in my 3d Particle Universe:

https://s15.postimg.cc/836nslpkb/Ronald_Mc_Donald_2_thumbs_up.jpg
Source File

https://s15.postimg.cc/k521mqr2z/image.png
Final Result

Also I did another experiment with Uncle Sam cartel from WWII, the results were also very impressive and nice from my point of view.

https://s15.postimg.cc/urvus4oxn/33984481_422591868210234_8104466565858066432_n.jpg
https://s15.postimg.cc/urvus5jsr/33995672_422591894876898_7320315596145426432_n_1.jpg

Now as a conclusion, I know how to develop a distortion method which adapt the aesthetics I want. The concept has variated through the process, when I started I wanted to show emotions, but now I think I find more interesting showing the world as a representation of iconic images, lastly the world as we know it is a representation and has developed a collective database of images and icons which given a moral value have defined us as a society. The project now is a little bit iconoclastic, but that is how it has evolved until now.

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-30T19:30:28Z

HankFinestra: /* 30.05.18 */

== 22.05.2018 ==

''A proximately 11:30 I arrived Late.''

Re-Appropriate Yourself

The participants enter in a white ending panel, where thee is a Projector, a Stand-Up Comedy Chair and a Photographic Camera
They’re asked about their favorite actual song.
The video is Searched in YouTube and projected against the Person which has to Start until three snapshots are taken, there transferred to a printer and given immediately back at the person suggesting to stick them on the wall, but giving to know that its optional if they want to or not, the reaction is recorded in video for phase Two, a Generated video composition with the reactions recorded previously.

''After Consultation, I'm not completely satisfied with how easy to handle this might be, the people, the camera, the projector, the reactions, may all of them be just an awkward face because of the light of the projector thrown into their eyes. Must have another look at it, when i'm feeling less ill.''

----

== 23.05.2018 ==

8:00 P.M.

''''After Listening to Depeche Mode's Song World in my Eyes,

...Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move
You just sit still...

that actually gave me an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZdL4JlnxI''''

It Really gave me the idea to simplify things a little, keeping the aesthetics and Technion I want, Yesterday after consultation I wondered about what I spoke with Prof.Brinkmann, as part of our conversation we ended up concluding people nowadays tend to refugee in the Internet, when they are happy, when they are sad, or upset, even when they're horny and there's no one around (or maybe yes), but basically always. And that my approach was to show what the Internet may bring, good and bad things.

I wanted to project the lightning directly from the projector on my poor volunteers for the installation, the images were a mix between weird mixes like chainsaws sounds linked with ideal landscape images, or porn sounds linked to sacred images, and that kind of montage between extremely different image/sound nature to make a point clear about dichotomy. Then Depeche's came out and, Blew my mind. I don't want to project anymore on peoples face, the reaction would be partially the same between all of the participants, a shrink of eyelids.... and then, project over, the printer issue comes out being too expensive and not very eco-friendly. And i do really want to modify the meaning and the intention of any image, word, video or anything that I came up using.

For the moment its my idea to project over a glass shaped world so anyone can feel The world in their eyes according to how they're feeling, keeping that kind of dichotomy about all what you can find online depending on your mood... but now as there will be no ''recorded reactions'' there will also be no phase two, and for what i would like this project to be esthetically, this is a Must. Think a long night of After Effects, images, plug ins, and Console will follow.

== 30.05.18 ==

After dealing with a monumental creative crisis and trying during hours to come up with something that might actually work as I had intended in mind, I opened After effects, and I felt like a clueless man in front of a white sheet of paper, I mean, I have been in touch with the software for years, and I knew I wanted to transform actual images into something more than the downloaded image, but at that point I didn’t know where to begin.

So there I was, trying to come up with something. Maybe some 3d Waves?

https://s15.postimg.cc/urvus5jsr/33995672_422591894876898_7320315596145426432_n_1.jpg

Neh, too dense…
Then I started to realize I wanted to videomap it on an actual spinning globe, for all the “world in my eyes” thing, which until the moment I sustain. But how could I make something aesthetically nice, transforming the image with some kind of procedure, but still getting to know the viewer what I’m doing, and which is the original image? Or at least what does the original image represents?
I had to think quite more. I mean, the easiest way was to just project an image, on the spinning globe, but that was, I felt, a little mediocre for the idea I conceived with videocomposition and making it visually attractive for me. I think I’ve always pushed myself to my own limits. Then I was again surfing the net, finding about code (I haven’t touched code since high school). But then I though it was a little too much, so I went basics again.

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/vu61apxh3/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/t02vx9vaz/image.png[/img][/url]

I started with a grid of particles moving as a wave, linked to an image which gave me an xyz dispersion as the hexadecimal pixels of the image were read one by one. That looked nice, but again the same problem, the intension was going to be so disperse, if I were to work with logos, the animation would be steady as the colors are flat, and still the image or the intension would be literally lost in translation during the process, ending up in a very interesting aesthetic but meaningless-to-the-audience wave of particles.
Then I was in the urge to think how to be aesthetic without distorting so much the image so it could still be readable to the audience while projected on an irregular spinning surface as this:

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/5ymari8hz/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/qviiw66iz/image.png[/img][/url]

After several attempts, I was very frustrated, so I went out for a bike ride. One thought led to another, suddenly I was remembering Plato and his scheme of the universe, worlds within worlds… Then I decided I wanted to use the mapping to project different things into the globe, creating different worlds as different things could be projected in the spinning surface.
The next morning I woke up with the intention of at least discovering what or how I was going to distort the images, keeping them readable to the audience, but still making them look aesthetical as I wanted. So again I was thinking of universes… and I came up with the idea to create a 3D Particle Universe of the images, rendering them in 3D sphere particles.

I started working again, creating the model of the particle I was to use, rendering and importing it, into
After Effects.
[url=https://postimg.cc/image/p3pk1ai13/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/836nsm4zv/image.png[/img][/url]

Then about 5 hours of work, things finally started to look the way I wanted, with the aesthetics I wanted, but also easy to read and identify to the audience.
For example, here is Ronald McDonald in my 3d Particle Universe:

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/tplo9mo4n/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/836nslpkb/Ronald_Mc_Donald_2_thumbs_up.jpg[/img][/url]
Source File

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/6bdoxoyhj/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/k521mqr2z/image.png[/img][/url]
Final Result

Also I did another experiment with Uncle Sam cartel from WWII, the results were also very impressive and nice from my point of view.

[url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/urvus4oxn/33984481_422591868210234_8104466565858066432_n.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/urvus5jsr/33995672_422591894876898_7320315596145426432_n_1.jpg[/img][/url]

Now as a conclusion, I know how to develop a distortion method which adapt the aesthetics I want. The concept has variated through the process, when I started I wanted to show emotions, but now I think I find more interesting showing the world as a representation of iconic images, lastly the world as we know it is a representation and has developed a collective database of images and icons which given a moral value have defined us as a society. The project now is a little bit iconoclastic, but that is how it has evolved until now.

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-30T19:29:50Z

HankFinestra: /* 30.05.18 */

== 22.05.2018 ==

''A proximately 11:30 I arrived Late.''

Re-Appropriate Yourself

The participants enter in a white ending panel, where thee is a Projector, a Stand-Up Comedy Chair and a Photographic Camera
They’re asked about their favorite actual song.
The video is Searched in YouTube and projected against the Person which has to Start until three snapshots are taken, there transferred to a printer and given immediately back at the person suggesting to stick them on the wall, but giving to know that its optional if they want to or not, the reaction is recorded in video for phase Two, a Generated video composition with the reactions recorded previously.

''After Consultation, I'm not completely satisfied with how easy to handle this might be, the people, the camera, the projector, the reactions, may all of them be just an awkward face because of the light of the projector thrown into their eyes. Must have another look at it, when i'm feeling less ill.''

----

== 23.05.2018 ==

8:00 P.M.

''''After Listening to Depeche Mode's Song World in my Eyes,

...Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move
You just sit still...

that actually gave me an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZdL4JlnxI''''

It Really gave me the idea to simplify things a little, keeping the aesthetics and Technion I want, Yesterday after consultation I wondered about what I spoke with Prof.Brinkmann, as part of our conversation we ended up concluding people nowadays tend to refugee in the Internet, when they are happy, when they are sad, or upset, even when they're horny and there's no one around (or maybe yes), but basically always. And that my approach was to show what the Internet may bring, good and bad things.

I wanted to project the lightning directly from the projector on my poor volunteers for the installation, the images were a mix between weird mixes like chainsaws sounds linked with ideal landscape images, or porn sounds linked to sacred images, and that kind of montage between extremely different image/sound nature to make a point clear about dichotomy. Then Depeche's came out and, Blew my mind. I don't want to project anymore on peoples face, the reaction would be partially the same between all of the participants, a shrink of eyelids.... and then, project over, the printer issue comes out being too expensive and not very eco-friendly. And i do really want to modify the meaning and the intention of any image, word, video or anything that I came up using.

For the moment its my idea to project over a glass shaped world so anyone can feel The world in their eyes according to how they're feeling, keeping that kind of dichotomy about all what you can find online depending on your mood... but now as there will be no ''recorded reactions'' there will also be no phase two, and for what i would like this project to be esthetically, this is a Must. Think a long night of After Effects, images, plug ins, and Console will follow.

== 30.05.18 ==

After dealing with a monumental creative crisis and trying during hours to come up with something that might actually work as I had intended in mind, I opened After effects, and I felt like a clueless man in front of a white sheet of paper, I mean, I have been in touch with the software for years, and I knew I wanted to transform actual images into something more than the downloaded image, but at that point I didn’t know where to begin.

So there I was, trying to come up with something. Maybe some 3d Waves?
[[File:https://s15.postimg.cc/4wc48x7ob/image.png]]
Neh, too dense…
Then I started to realize I wanted to videomap it on an actual spinning globe, for all the “world in my eyes” thing, which until the moment I sustain. But how could I make something aesthetically nice, transforming the image with some kind of procedure, but still getting to know the viewer what I’m doing, and which is the original image? Or at least what does the original image represents?
I had to think quite more. I mean, the easiest way was to just project an image, on the spinning globe, but that was, I felt, a little mediocre for the idea I conceived with videocomposition and making it visually attractive for me. I think I’ve always pushed myself to my own limits. Then I was again surfing the net, finding about code (I haven’t touched code since high school). But then I though it was a little too much, so I went basics again.

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/vu61apxh3/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/t02vx9vaz/image.png[/img][/url]

I started with a grid of particles moving as a wave, linked to an image which gave me an xyz dispersion as the hexadecimal pixels of the image were read one by one. That looked nice, but again the same problem, the intension was going to be so disperse, if I were to work with logos, the animation would be steady as the colors are flat, and still the image or the intension would be literally lost in translation during the process, ending up in a very interesting aesthetic but meaningless-to-the-audience wave of particles.
Then I was in the urge to think how to be aesthetic without distorting so much the image so it could still be readable to the audience while projected on an irregular spinning surface as this:

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/5ymari8hz/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/qviiw66iz/image.png[/img][/url]

After several attempts, I was very frustrated, so I went out for a bike ride. One thought led to another, suddenly I was remembering Plato and his scheme of the universe, worlds within worlds… Then I decided I wanted to use the mapping to project different things into the globe, creating different worlds as different things could be projected in the spinning surface.
The next morning I woke up with the intention of at least discovering what or how I was going to distort the images, keeping them readable to the audience, but still making them look aesthetical as I wanted. So again I was thinking of universes… and I came up with the idea to create a 3D Particle Universe of the images, rendering them in 3D sphere particles.

I started working again, creating the model of the particle I was to use, rendering and importing it, into
After Effects.
[url=https://postimg.cc/image/p3pk1ai13/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/836nsm4zv/image.png[/img][/url]

Then about 5 hours of work, things finally started to look the way I wanted, with the aesthetics I wanted, but also easy to read and identify to the audience.
For example, here is Ronald McDonald in my 3d Particle Universe:

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/tplo9mo4n/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/836nslpkb/Ronald_Mc_Donald_2_thumbs_up.jpg[/img][/url]
Source File

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/6bdoxoyhj/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/k521mqr2z/image.png[/img][/url]
Final Result

Also I did another experiment with Uncle Sam cartel from WWII, the results were also very impressive and nice from my point of view.

[url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/urvus4oxn/33984481_422591868210234_8104466565858066432_n.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/urvus5jsr/33995672_422591894876898_7320315596145426432_n_1.jpg[/img][/url]

Now as a conclusion, I know how to develop a distortion method which adapt the aesthetics I want. The concept has variated through the process, when I started I wanted to show emotions, but now I think I find more interesting showing the world as a representation of iconic images, lastly the world as we know it is a representation and has developed a collective database of images and icons which given a moral value have defined us as a society. The project now is a little bit iconoclastic, but that is how it has evolved until now.

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-30T19:27:42Z

HankFinestra: /* 30.05.18 */

== 22.05.2018 ==

''A proximately 11:30 I arrived Late.''

Re-Appropriate Yourself

The participants enter in a white ending panel, where thee is a Projector, a Stand-Up Comedy Chair and a Photographic Camera
They’re asked about their favorite actual song.
The video is Searched in YouTube and projected against the Person which has to Start until three snapshots are taken, there transferred to a printer and given immediately back at the person suggesting to stick them on the wall, but giving to know that its optional if they want to or not, the reaction is recorded in video for phase Two, a Generated video composition with the reactions recorded previously.

''After Consultation, I'm not completely satisfied with how easy to handle this might be, the people, the camera, the projector, the reactions, may all of them be just an awkward face because of the light of the projector thrown into their eyes. Must have another look at it, when i'm feeling less ill.''

----

== 23.05.2018 ==

8:00 P.M.

''''After Listening to Depeche Mode's Song World in my Eyes,

...Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move
You just sit still...

that actually gave me an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZdL4JlnxI''''

It Really gave me the idea to simplify things a little, keeping the aesthetics and Technion I want, Yesterday after consultation I wondered about what I spoke with Prof.Brinkmann, as part of our conversation we ended up concluding people nowadays tend to refugee in the Internet, when they are happy, when they are sad, or upset, even when they're horny and there's no one around (or maybe yes), but basically always. And that my approach was to show what the Internet may bring, good and bad things.

I wanted to project the lightning directly from the projector on my poor volunteers for the installation, the images were a mix between weird mixes like chainsaws sounds linked with ideal landscape images, or porn sounds linked to sacred images, and that kind of montage between extremely different image/sound nature to make a point clear about dichotomy. Then Depeche's came out and, Blew my mind. I don't want to project anymore on peoples face, the reaction would be partially the same between all of the participants, a shrink of eyelids.... and then, project over, the printer issue comes out being too expensive and not very eco-friendly. And i do really want to modify the meaning and the intention of any image, word, video or anything that I came up using.

For the moment its my idea to project over a glass shaped world so anyone can feel The world in their eyes according to how they're feeling, keeping that kind of dichotomy about all what you can find online depending on your mood... but now as there will be no ''recorded reactions'' there will also be no phase two, and for what i would like this project to be esthetically, this is a Must. Think a long night of After Effects, images, plug ins, and Console will follow.

== 30.05.18 ==

After dealing with a monumental creative crisis and trying during hours to come up with something that might actually work as I had intended in mind, I opened After effects, and I felt like a clueless man in front of a white sheet of paper, I mean, I have been in touch with the software for years, and I knew I wanted to transform actual images into something more than the downloaded image, but at that point I didn’t know where to begin.

So there I was, trying to come up with something. Maybe some 3d Waves?
[url=https://postimg.cc/image/jsangij2v/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/4wc48x7ob/image.png[/img][/url]
Neh, too dense…
Then I started to realize I wanted to videomap it on an actual spinning globe, for all the “world in my eyes” thing, which until the moment I sustain. But how could I make something aesthetically nice, transforming the image with some kind of procedure, but still getting to know the viewer what I’m doing, and which is the original image? Or at least what does the original image represents?
I had to think quite more. I mean, the easiest way was to just project an image, on the spinning globe, but that was, I felt, a little mediocre for the idea I conceived with videocomposition and making it visually attractive for me. I think I’ve always pushed myself to my own limits. Then I was again surfing the net, finding about code (I haven’t touched code since high school). But then I though it was a little too much, so I went basics again.

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/vu61apxh3/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/t02vx9vaz/image.png[/img][/url]

I started with a grid of particles moving as a wave, linked to an image which gave me an xyz dispersion as the hexadecimal pixels of the image were read one by one. That looked nice, but again the same problem, the intension was going to be so disperse, if I were to work with logos, the animation would be steady as the colors are flat, and still the image or the intension would be literally lost in translation during the process, ending up in a very interesting aesthetic but meaningless-to-the-audience wave of particles.
Then I was in the urge to think how to be aesthetic without distorting so much the image so it could still be readable to the audience while projected on an irregular spinning surface as this:

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/5ymari8hz/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/qviiw66iz/image.png[/img][/url]

After several attempts, I was very frustrated, so I went out for a bike ride. One thought led to another, suddenly I was remembering Plato and his scheme of the universe, worlds within worlds… Then I decided I wanted to use the mapping to project different things into the globe, creating different worlds as different things could be projected in the spinning surface.
The next morning I woke up with the intention of at least discovering what or how I was going to distort the images, keeping them readable to the audience, but still making them look aesthetical as I wanted. So again I was thinking of universes… and I came up with the idea to create a 3D Particle Universe of the images, rendering them in 3D sphere particles.

I started working again, creating the model of the particle I was to use, rendering and importing it, into
After Effects.
[url=https://postimg.cc/image/p3pk1ai13/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/836nsm4zv/image.png[/img][/url]

Then about 5 hours of work, things finally started to look the way I wanted, with the aesthetics I wanted, but also easy to read and identify to the audience.
For example, here is Ronald McDonald in my 3d Particle Universe:

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/tplo9mo4n/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/836nslpkb/Ronald_Mc_Donald_2_thumbs_up.jpg[/img][/url]
Source File

[url=https://postimg.cc/image/6bdoxoyhj/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/k521mqr2z/image.png[/img][/url]
Final Result

Also I did another experiment with Uncle Sam cartel from WWII, the results were also very impressive and nice from my point of view.

[url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/urvus4oxn/33984481_422591868210234_8104466565858066432_n.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://s15.postimg.cc/urvus5jsr/33995672_422591894876898_7320315596145426432_n_1.jpg[/img][/url]

Now as a conclusion, I know how to develop a distortion method which adapt the aesthetics I want. The concept has variated through the process, when I started I wanted to show emotions, but now I think I find more interesting showing the world as a representation of iconic images, lastly the world as we know it is a representation and has developed a collective database of images and icons which given a moral value have defined us as a society. The project now is a little bit iconoclastic, but that is how it has evolved until now.

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-30T19:08:40Z

HankFinestra: /* 30.05.18 */

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-30T19:07:59Z

HankFinestra:

GMU:Appropriation within Digital Worlds

2018-05-29T16:50:09Z

HankFinestra: /* 14.06.2018 */

Lecturer: [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Jörg_Brinkmann Jörg Brinkmann] 
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS 
Date: Thursdays, 17:00 - 20:30 
Venue: Performance Platform, Digital Bauhaus Lab (Room 001) 
First meeting: Thursday, April 12th 2018, 17:00 

 

'''DESCRIPTION''' 
Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.
The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).
In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. A notable example are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp.

But when is appropriation a homage, when is it art and when is it just plain plagiarism? And what are the effects of technology on this ongoing appropriation? Now that boundaries of authenticity and originality are even more blurred, artists (indeed anyone) can recycle and re-upload images, text and audio material more quickly and easily than ever before. Sampling, remixing and mashups proliferate online, and allow people to even adopt a social media profile that appropriates or parodies a well-known persona.

In this course we will look at contemporary artistic strategies of appropriation. We will discuss artforms like Post-Internet art that embraces meme-culture, or music styles like Vapourwave that appropriates 1980s and 1990s styles of mood music.

We will investigate, question and challenge modern and historical concepts related to the topic and create artistic works that can be presented in the form of live performances, video works or installations. The course supports and excercises independent,
self-motivated work. Together, we will create an environment in which students can produce and discuss their own subjects related to the matter.

'''CRITERIA FOR PASSING''' 
In order to successfully participate you will have to develop and document your own project on the GMU Wiki. Also, regularly attend to the sessions and participation is mandatory.

'''LANGUAGE''' 
The course will be in English, unless all participants are speaking German.

== '''STUDENTWORKS''' ==
*[[/Ulas Yener|Ulas Yener]]
*[[/Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias|Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias]]
*[[/Lise Epinat|Lise Epinat]]
*[[/Holly Kempton|Holly Kempton]]
*[[Ruo-Jin Yen]]
*[[Eduardo Moreno]]
*[[Grace Quintero]]
*[[Sarah Pacheco Alvim]]
*[[Nicha Boonyawairote]]
*[[Marie Ebel]]
*[[Sarah Hermanutz]]

== '''12.04.2018''' ==
Introduction

== '''19.04.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''26.04.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''03.05.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''17.05.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
10:00 - 10:30 (Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias) 
10:30 - 11:00 (put your name here) 
11:00 - 11:30 Lise Epinat 
11:30 - 12:00 Forat Elalfy 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 Nicha Boonyawairote 
13:30 - 14:00 Marie Ebel 
14:00 - 14:30 Eduardo Moreno 
14:30 - 15:00 Grace Quintero 
– 
16:00 - 16:30 (put your name here) 
16:30 - 17:00 Sarah Alvim 
17:00 - 17:30 Arina Mozzherikova 
17:30 - 18:00 Sarah Hermanutz 
18:00 - 18:30 Rachel 
18:30 - 19:00 Fabian Krzich 

== '''24.05.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''31.05.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''07.06.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''14.06.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 Lise Epinat 
11:30 - 12:00 Holly Kempton 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 Sarah H 
13:30 - 14:00 Eduardo Moreno 
14:00 - 14:30 Grace Quintero 
14:30 - 15:00 (put your name here)

== '''21.06.2018''' ==
presentation of your concepts

== '''28.06.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''05.07.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''12.07.2018''' ==
Summaery Exhibition

== '''APPROPRIATION TOOLBOX''' ==

'''Software''' 
Audacity - free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing 
https://www.audacityteam.org 

OpenShot - free, open source, cross platform video Editor 
https://www.openshot.org 

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program 
https://www.gimp.org 

Open Broadcaster Software - free and open-source streaming and recording program 
https://obsproject.com 

JDownloader - free, open-source download management tool 
http://jdownloader.org 

HandBrake – The open source video transcoder 
https://handbrake.fr 

Infovox iVox: The most natural sounding Text to Speech voices yet for Mac OS X 
http://www.assistiveware.com/product/infovox-ivox 

 

'''sources''' 
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more 
https://archive.org 

UbuWeb – All avant-garde. All the time. 
http://ubuweb.com 

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers 
https://freesound.org 

Youtube – video-sharing website… 
https://www.youtube.com 

Know Your Meme: Internet Meme Database 
http://knowyourmeme.com

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-24T07:18:31Z

HankFinestra:

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-24T07:17:59Z

HankFinestra:

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-23T21:14:15Z

HankFinestra:

22.05.2018
A proximately 11:30 I arrived Late.

Re-Appropriate Yourself

The participants enter in a white ending panel, where thee is a Projector, a Stand-Up Comedy Chair and a Photographic Camera
They’re asked about their favorite actual song.
The video is Searched in YouTube and projected against the Person which has to Start until three snapshots are taken, there transferred to a printer and given immediately back at the person suggesting to stick them on the wall, but giving to know that its optional if they want to or not, the reaction is recorded in video for phase Two, a Generated video composition with the reactions recorded previously.

''After Consultation, I'm not completely satisfied with how easy to handle this might be, the people, the camera, the projector, the reactions, may all of them be just an awkward face because of the light of the projector thrown into their eyes. Must have another look at it, when i'm feeling less ill.''

23.05.2018
8:00 P.M.

''After Listening to Depeche Mode's Song World in my Eyes,

...Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move
You just sit still...

that actually gave me an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZdL4JlnxI''

It Really gave me the idea to simplify things a little, keeping the aesthetics and Technion I want, Yesterday after consultation I wondered about what I spoke with Prof.Brinkmann, as part of our conversation we ended up concluding people nowadays tend to refugee in the Internet, when they are happy, when they are sad, or upset, even when they're horny and there's no one around (or maybe yes), but basically always. And that my approach was to show what the Internet may bring, good and bad things.

I wanted to project the lightning directly from the projector on my poor volunteers for the installation, the images were a mix between weird mixes like chainsaws sounds linked with ideal landscape images, or porn sounds linked to sacred images, and that kind of montage between extremely different image/sound nature to make a point clear about dichotomy. Then Depeche's came out and, Blew my mind. I don't want to project anymore on peoples face, the reaction would be partially the same between all of the participants, a shrink of eyelids.... and then, project over, the printer issue comes out being too expensive and not very eco-friendly. And i do really want to modify the meaning and the intention of any image, word, video or anything that I came up using.

For the moment its my idea to project over a glass shaped world so anyone can feel The world in their eyes according to how they're feeling, keeping that kind of dichotomy about all what you can find online depending on your mood... but now as there will be no ''recorded reactions'' there will also be no phase two, and for what i would like this project to be esthetically, this is a Must. Think a long night of After Effects, images, plug ins, and Console will follow.

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-23T21:09:57Z

HankFinestra:

22.05.2018
A proximately 11:30 I arrived Late.

Re-Appropriate Yourself

The participants enter in a white ending panel, where thee is a Projector, a Stand-Up Comedy Chair and a Photographic Camera
They’re asked about their favorite actual song.
The video is Searched in YouTube and projected against the Person which has to Start until three snapshots are taken, there transferred to a printer and given immediately back at the person suggesting to stick them on the wall, but giving to know that its optional if they want to or not, the reaction is recorded in video for phase Two, a Generated video composition with the reactions recorded previously.

''After Consultation, I'm not completely satisfied with how easy to handle this might be, the people, the camera, the projector, the reactions, may all of them be just an awkward face because of the light of the projector thrown into their eyes. Must have another look at it, when i'm feeling less ill.''

23.05.2018
8:00 P.M.

''After Listening to Depeche Mode's Song World in my Eyes,

...Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move
You just sit still...

that actually gave me an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZdL4JlnxI''

It Really gave me the idea to simplify things a little, keeping the aesthetics and Technion I want, Yesterday after consultation I wondered about what I spoke with Prof.Brinkmann, as part of our conversation we ended up concluding people nowadays tend to refugee in the Internet, when they are happy, when they are sad, or upset, even when they're horny and there's no one around (or maybe yes), but basically always. And that my approach was to show what the Internet may bring, good and bad things.

As I wanted to project on my poor volunteers for the installation, chainsaw sounds linked with ideal landscape images, or porn sounds linked to sacred images, and that kind of montage between extremely different image/sound nature to make a point clear about dichotomy. Then Depeche's came out and, Blew my mind. I don't want to project anymore on peoples face, the reaction would be partially the same between all of the participants, a shrink of eyelids.... and then, project over, the printer issue comes out being too expensive and not very eco-friendly. And i do really want to modify the meaning and the intention of any image, word, video or anything that I came up using.

For the moment its my idea to project over a glass shaped world so anyone can feel The world in their eyes according to how they're feeling, keeping that kind of dichotomy about all what you can find online depending on your mood... but now as there will be no ''recorded reactions'' there will also be no phase two, and for what i would like this project to be esthetically, this is a Must. Think a long night of After Effects, images, plug ins, and Console will follow.

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-23T19:46:38Z

HankFinestra:

22.05.2018
A proximately 11:30 I arrived Late.

Re-Appropriate Yourself

The participants enter in a white ending panel, where thee is a Projector, a Stand-Up Comedy Chair and a Photographic Camera
They’re asked about their favorite actual song.
The video is Searched in YouTube and projected against the Person which has to Start until three snapshots are taken, there transferred to a printer and given immediately back at the person suggesting to stick them on the wall, but giving to know that its optional if they want to or not, the reaction is recorded in video for phase Two, a Generated video composition with the reactions recorded previously.

''After Consultation, I'm not completely satisfied with how easy to handle this might be, the people, the camera, the projector, the reactions, may all of them be just an awkward face because of the light of the projector thrown into their eyes. Must have another look at it, when i'm feeling less ill.''

23.05.2018
8:00 P.M.

''After Listening to Depeche's Mode Song World in my Eyes,

...Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move
You just sit still...

that actually gave me an idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZdL4JlnxI''

It Really gave me the idea to simplify things a little, keeping the aesthetics and Technion I want, Yesterday after consultation I wondered about what I spoke with Prof.Brinkmann, as part of our conversation we ended up concluding people nowadays tend to refugee in the Internet, when they are happy, when they are sad, or upset, even when they're horny and there's no one around (or maybe yes), but basically always. And that my approach was to show what the Internet may bring, good and bad things.

As I wanted to project on my poor volunteers for the installation, chainsaw sounds linked with ideal landscape images, or porn sounds linked to sacred images, and that kind of montage between extremely different image/sound nature to make a point clear about dichotomy. Then Depeche's came out and, Blew my mind. I don't want to project anymore on peoples face, the reaction would be partially the same between all of the participants, a shrink of eyelids.... and then, project over, the printer issue comes out being too expensive and not very eco-friendly. And i do really want to modify the meaning and the intention of any image, word, video or anything that I came up using.

For the moment its my idea to project over a glass shaped world so anyone can feel The world in their eyes according to how they're feeling, keeping that kind of dichotomy about all what you can find online depending on your mood... but now as there will be no ''recorded reactions'' there will also be no phase two, and for what i would like this project to be esthetically, this is a Must. Think a long night of After Effects, images, plug ins, and Console will follow.

Eduardo Moreno

2018-05-23T19:20:32Z

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GMU:CRITICAL VR LAB

2018-05-22T08:30:45Z

HankFinestra: /* 22.05.2018 */

Lecturer: [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Jörg_Brinkmann Jörg Brinkmann] 
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS 
Date: Tuesdays, 17:00 - 20:30 
Venue: Performance Platform, Digital Bauhaus Lab (Room 001) 
First meeting: Tuesday, April 10th 2018, 17:00 

'''DESCRIPTION''' 
This course emphasises artistic and opposing ways of working with Virtual Reality. Its aim is to establish individual approaches to VR, an increasingly widespread medium which
offers artists new possibilities for expression and intercultural communication.

The practical part will be an Introduction to Unity 3D and Blender. We will look into contemporary and digital art related to recent sociopolitical and mediaphilosophical topics. We will create an artistic discourse on
the topic of VR which will be presented in the form of individual projects at the end of the semester.

'''CRITERIA FOR PASSING''' 
In order to successfully participate you will have to develop and document your own project on the GMU Wiki. Also, regularly attend to the sessions and participation is mandatory.

== '''STUDENTWORKS''' ==
*[[/Anton Kliuyeu|Anton Kliuyeu]]
*[[/Ulas Yener|Ulas Yener]]
*[[/Silvana Callegari|Silvana Callegari]]
*[[/Emilio Aguas|Emilio Aguas]]
*[[/Yasaman Mobasser|Yasaman Mobasser]]
*[[/Muhammad Qumail|Muhammad Qumail]]
*[[/Bogac Süyök|Bogac Süyök]]
*[[Lucia Schmidt]]
*[[/Homero Ruiz|Homero Ruiz]]
*[[/Paul Polze|Paul Polze]]
*[[/Maria Degand|Maria Degand]]
*[[/Jiannan Zhang|Jiannan Zhang]]
*[[Ruo-Jin Yen]]
*[[Viktoriia Bilash]]
*[[/Donato Spinelli|Donato Spinelli]]
*[[/Dominik Markert|Dominik Markert]]

== '''10.04.2018''' ==
Introduction

== '''17.04.2018''' ==
Presentation of artistic examples and methods 
 
'''HOMEWORK until 24.04.2018''' 
 
create a short (7 min.) presentation of a VR experience 
that you choose from www.radiancevr.co 
 
explain what the experience is about and how it uses VR as an artistic tool 
 
for example: 
how does it challenge the medium artistically?

== '''24.04.2018''' ==
Presentation of artistic examples and methods

== '''08.05.2018''' ==
'''Introduction to Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 104)''' 
by Jonas Jülch
 
 
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
13:00 - 13:30 (put your name here) 
13:30 - 14:00 (Ulas Yener) 
14:00 - 14:30 (put your name here) 
14:30 - 15:00 (Emilio Aguas)

== '''15.05.2018''' ==
'''Introduction to Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 104)''' 
by Jonas Jülch
 
 
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
10:00 - 10:30 (put your name here) 
10:30 - 11:00 (put your name here) 
11:00 - 11:30 (Florian Froger) 
11:30 - 12:00 (put your name here) 

== '''22.05.2018''' ==
'''Introduction to Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 104)''' 
by Jonas Jülch
 
 
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 (Eduardo Moreno) 
11:30 - 12:00 (Sarah Pacheco Alvim (appropriation)) 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 (Maria Degand) 
13:30 - 14:00 (Paul Polze) 
14:00 - 14:30 (Adam Streicher) 
14:30 - 15:00 (Emilio Aguas)

== '''29.05.2018''' ==
'''Introduction to Blender with Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 104)''' 
by Luis Henrique Mesquita
 
 
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 (put your name here) 
11:30 - 12:00 (put your name here) 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 Lucia Schmidt 
13:30 - 14:00 (put your name here) 
14:00 - 14:30 (put your name here) 
14:30 - 15:00 (put your name here)

== '''05.06.2018''' ==
'''Introduction to Blender with Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 104)''' 
by Luis Henrique Mesquita
 
 
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 (put your name here) 
11:30 - 12:00 (put your name here) 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 (put your name here) 
13:30 - 14:00 (put your name here) 
14:00 - 14:30 (put your name here) 
14:30 - 15:00 (put your name here)

== '''12.06.2018''' ==
'''Introduction to Blender with Unity 3D (Marienstr. 7b, Room 104)''' 
by Luis Henrique Mesquita
 
 
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 (put your name here) 
11:30 - 12:00 (put your name here) 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 (put your name here) 
13:30 - 14:00 (put your name here) 
14:00 - 14:30 (put your name here) 
14:30 - 15:00 (put your name here)

== '''19.06.2018''' ==
Presentation of your concepts

== '''26.06.2018''' ==
Lab Time: Working on your VR Experience

== '''03.07.2018''' ==
Lab Time: Working on your VR Experience

== '''10.07.2018''' ==
Lab Time: Working on your VR Experience

== '''VR TOOLBOX''' ==

'''Software''' 
Unity 3D - cross-platform game engine 
https://unity3d.com/de 

Blender - open-source 3D modeller with many features 
https://www.blender.org 

Meshmixer - "Swiss Army Knife" for 3D meshes 
http://www.meshmixer.com 

MeshLab - open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes 
http://www.meshlab.net 

MakeHuman - open source tool for making 3D characters 
http://www.makehuman.org 

Open Broadcaster Software - free and open-source streaming and recording program 
https://obsproject.com 
 

'''Online Tools''' 
Mixamo - Rapidly create, rig and animate unique characters 
https://www.mixamo.com 

NormalMap-Online - create a normalmaps directly inside your browser 
http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ 
 

'''3D Models (for download and use)''' 
http://www.myminifactory.com 
http://www.sketchfab.com 
http://www.thingiverse.com 
http://www.turbosquid.com 
http://www.lincoln3dscans.co.uk 
 

'''Unity 3D Tutorials''' 
Tutorials from the Unity 3D page 
https://unity3d.com/de/learn/tutorials 

'''Blender Tutorials''' 
Blender Beginner Tutorial Series by Blender Guru 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgHs8uzT3yqe4iHGfkCmMJ0P 
 

Interface and Navigation 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT2mtoDnSzM 
 

Modeling - Creating a kitchen (ignore part 2) 
https://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/create-a-realistic-kitchen-part-1-of-2 
 

Modeling - Modeling a simple character 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIoWrOlIRw 
 

Materials - Basic properties of materials 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AHxuoYyJJk 
 

Texturing - Applying textures to an object 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gRUUeFteQg 
 

Rigging - Rigging a character 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGvalWG8HBU&t= 
 

Animation - 12 Principles of Animation 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqjIdI4bF4 
 

Animation - Animating a bouncing ball 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUocrcIQfp4

GMU:Appropriation within Digital Worlds

2018-05-03T17:45:45Z

HankFinestra: /* 17.05.2018 */

Lecturer: [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Jörg_Brinkmann Jörg Brinkmann] 
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS 
Date: Thursdays, 17:00 - 20:30 
Venue: Performance Platform, Digital Bauhaus Lab (Room 001) 
First meeting: Thursday, April 12th 2018, 17:00 

 

'''DESCRIPTION''' 
Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.
The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).
In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. A notable example are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp.

But when is appropriation a homage, when is it art and when is it just plain plagiarism? And what are the effects of technology on this ongoing appropriation? Now that boundaries of authenticity and originality are even more blurred, artists (indeed anyone) can recycle and re-upload images, text and audio material more quickly and easily than ever before. Sampling, remixing and mashups proliferate online, and allow people to even adopt a social media profile that appropriates or parodies a well-known persona.

In this course we will look at contemporary artistic strategies of appropriation. We will discuss artforms like Post-Internet art that embraces meme-culture, or music styles like Vapourwave that appropriates 1980s and 1990s styles of mood music.

We will investigate, question and challenge modern and historical concepts related to the topic and create artistic works that can be presented in the form of live performances, video works or installations. The course supports and excercises independent,
self-motivated work. Together, we will create an environment in which students can produce and discuss their own subjects related to the matter.

'''CRITERIA FOR PASSING''' 
In order to successfully participate you will have to develop and document your own project on the GMU Wiki. Also, regularly attend to the sessions and participation is mandatory.

'''LANGUAGE''' 
The course will be in English, unless all participants are speaking German.

== '''STUDENTWORKS''' ==
*[[/Ulas Yener|Ulas Yener]]
*[[/Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias|Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias]]
*[[/Lise Epinat|Lise Epinat]]
*[[/Holly Kempton|Holly Kempton]]
*[[Ruo-Jin Yen]]
*[[Eduardo Moreno]]
*[[Grace Quintero]]
*[[Sarah Pacheco Alvim]]
*[[Nicha Boonyawairote]]

== '''12.04.2018''' ==
Introduction

== '''19.04.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''26.04.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''03.05.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''17.05.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
10:00 - 10:30 (put your name here) 
10:30 - 11:00 (put your name here) 
11:00 - 11:30 (put your name here) 
11:30 - 12:00 (put your name here) 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 (put your name here) 
13:30 - 14:00 (put your name here) 
14:00 - 14:30 Eduardo Moreno 
14:30 - 15:00 Grace Quintero 

== '''24.05.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''31.05.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''07.06.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''14.06.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 (put your name here) 
11:30 - 12:00 (put your name here) 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 (put your name here) 
13:30 - 14:00 (put your name here) 
14:00 - 14:30 (put your name here) 
14:30 - 15:00 (put your name here)

== '''21.06.2018''' ==
presentation of your concepts

== '''28.06.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''05.07.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''12.07.2018''' ==
Summaery Exhibition

== '''APPROPRIATION TOOLBOX''' ==

'''Software''' 
Audacity - free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing 
https://www.audacityteam.org 

OpenShot - free, open source, cross platform video Editor 
https://www.openshot.org 

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program 
https://www.gimp.org 

Open Broadcaster Software - free and open-source streaming and recording program 
https://obsproject.com 

JDownloader - free, open-source download management tool 
http://jdownloader.org 

HandBrake – The open source video transcoder 
https://handbrake.fr 

Infovox iVox: The most natural sounding Text to Speech voices yet for Mac OS X 
http://www.assistiveware.com/product/infovox-ivox 

 

'''sources''' 
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more 
https://archive.org 

UbuWeb – All avant-garde. All the time. 
http://ubuweb.com 

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers 
https://freesound.org 

Youtube – video-sharing website… 
https://www.youtube.com 

Know Your Meme: Internet Meme Database 
http://knowyourmeme.com

GMU:Appropriation within Digital Worlds

2018-04-19T15:52:16Z

HankFinestra: /* STUDENTWORKS */

Lecturer: [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Jörg_Brinkmann Jörg Brinkmann] 
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS 
Date: Thursdays, 17:00 - 20:30 
Venue: Performance Platform, Digital Bauhaus Lab (Room 001) 
First meeting: Thursday, April 12th 2018, 17:00 

 

'''DESCRIPTION''' 
Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.
The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).
In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. A notable example are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp.

But when is appropriation a homage, when is it art and when is it just plain plagiarism? And what are the effects of technology on this ongoing appropriation? Now that boundaries of authenticity and originality are even more blurred, artists (indeed anyone) can recycle and re-upload images, text and audio material more quickly and easily than ever before. Sampling, remixing and mashups proliferate online, and allow people to even adopt a social media profile that appropriates or parodies a well-known persona.

In this course we will look at contemporary artistic strategies of appropriation. We will discuss artforms like Post-Internet art that embraces meme-culture, or music styles like Vapourwave that appropriates 1980s and 1990s styles of mood music.

We will investigate, question and challenge modern and historical concepts related to the topic and create artistic works that can be presented in the form of live performances, video works or installations. The course supports and excercises independent,
self-motivated work. Together, we will create an environment in which students can produce and discuss their own subjects related to the matter.

'''CRITERIA FOR PASSING''' 
In order to successfully participate you will have to develop and document your own project on the GMU Wiki. Also, regularly attend to the sessions and participation is mandatory.

'''LANGUAGE''' 
The course will be in English, unless all participants are speaking German.

== '''STUDENTWORKS''' ==
*[[/Ulas Yener|Ulas Yener]]
*[[/Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias|Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias]]
*[[/Lise Epinat|Lise Epinat]]
*[[/Holly Kempton|Holly Kempton]]
*[[Ruo-Jin Yen]]
*[[Eduardo Moreno]]
*[[Grace Quintero]]

== '''12.04.2018''' ==
Introduction

== '''19.04.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''26.04.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''03.05.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''17.05.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 (put your name here) 
11:30 - 12:00 (put your name here) 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 (put your name here) 
13:30 - 14:00 (put your name here) 
14:00 - 14:30 (put your name here) 
14:30 - 15:00 (put your name here)

== '''24.05.2018''' ==
Lecture

== '''31.05.2018''' ==
Student presentation

== '''07.06.2018''' ==
Workshop

== '''14.06.2018''' ==
'''Consultations (Marienstr. 5, Room 208)''' 
11:00 - 11:30 (put your name here) 
11:30 - 12:00 (put your name here) 
– 
13:00 - 13:30 (put your name here) 
13:30 - 14:00 (put your name here) 
14:00 - 14:30 (put your name here) 
14:30 - 15:00 (put your name here)

== '''21.06.2018''' ==
presentation of your concepts

== '''28.06.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''05.07.2018''' ==
lab time: working on your projects

== '''12.07.2018''' ==
Summaery Exhibition

== '''APPROPRIATION TOOLBOX''' ==

'''Software''' 
Audacity - free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing 
https://www.audacityteam.org 

OpenShot - free, open source, cross platform video Editor 
https://www.openshot.org 

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program 
https://www.gimp.org 

Open Broadcaster Software - free and open-source streaming and recording program 
https://obsproject.com 

JDownloader - free, open-source download management tool 
http://jdownloader.org 

HandBrake – The open source video transcoder 
https://handbrake.fr 

 

'''sources''' 
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more 
https://archive.org 

UbuWeb – All avant-garde. All the time. 
http://ubuweb.com 

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers 
https://freesound.org 

Youtube – video-sharing website… 
https://www.youtube.com 

Know Your Meme: Internet Meme Database 
http://knowyourmeme.com