Unit 7 Time-Based Media Gif

This is mind-map that i create from powerpoint. Because this project is base on digital, i wanting to make sure that my mind-map isn't made by paper.

Today i was learning how to do gift in photoshop and I decided I wanting to do a guide to show you how I did it. quiet simple and understandable in my opinion.

1 Step - Get a photo at least 5-10 photos and photoshop.

2 Step - Either work on them or choose one photo and edit it.

I decided to edit the colour of the photo, instead of edit everything, i wants it to be simple edit.

3 Step - In the red circle, click "Adjustments" > "Colour lookup"

After that you can mess with the colour. Whichever colour you like, you save it (cmd+shift+s) as jpg

Step 4 - This is when you starting to do your gif. First, open your photoshop and press cmd+n

Something will pop up. After that, make sure your resolution is 72 and colour mode is RGB color and  press enter or ok.

Step 5 - Go to File > (On the top of your screen) Scripts > Load Files into Stack

The images will pop up on the right hand side and make sure everything is in the order you wanted (To make it more easier to soft it things out.)

Step 6 - Go to window > Timeline > Create Video Timeline
The timeline will pop up under the images, after that make sure you bring it up so you can see it clearly.

Step 7 - You will see the purple box across the screen, on end of the purple box, when you move your mouse over it, you'll find a little arrow thing, just move them down with the time you wanted and make sure you put them after each other.

Step 8 - This is when you completed everything and you wanting to save your work.
First press shift+alt+cmd+s and something will pop up. First make sure on the 2nd box, it's gif. the box below, is selective and go all the way down, it'll said "Looping opinions" If you wanting the gif to be loop, click on it and change it to forever and click save. You're done!

This is my final outcome for the gif.
I'm personally enjoying this because I finds it quiet easily and understandable when I'm start doing it. There may seem to have a lots of steps to do but there actually isn't many things to remember. The reason why I wanting to keep my gif works simple, is because I didn't want it to be too messy and hard to understand so I think it would be the best to just change to colour range of my images and change it to gif. It didn't take me long and I was be able to do it in the short period of time.

If I have chance to do it again and improving this work, I would like to take more images and change it to make the gif more affect without the colour. Another that I also would be changing is use different subject, may make it more slower and easier to see without the bright colours.

However, this lesson show me how to do a gif and I finds it really enjoyable and easy to understand. The task wasn't hard and I was be able to complete it in time so next time if I ever wanting to do a gif on Photoshop, I can just easily do it without any problem.

On the afternoon, I was been giving an assignment brief 'Time-Based Media'
what I would need to be doing, time limited that I got on this project is short and I need to organising my time management.  how would I get a higher grade and doing visual mind map to start off this project because it would be a great start for me to understand what's the brief is about, what I would need to be doing and organising my times before the deadline of the project.

I create a simple mind map to start off this project but later on I will be using either word or PowerPoint to improve my mind map and make it more digital.

Unit 3 - Art Criticism

Most of information was taken during the class. 

Lesson Objective:
Gain knowledge of the requirements/contents of the project
Gain knowledge and understanding of history of art criticism.
Name the most influential historical art critics.

What is Art Criticism?
Art criticism is responding, interpreting meaning and making critical judgment about specific works of art. Which mean exploring that specific to help the viewers understanding more about work and be able to make their own judgment.

The critics is most likely would be focusing more on modern and contemporary art from cultures close to their own, this explaining that any cultures can be critics and it would be judging by each cultures with any feedback that needed to help the viewer understanding more of that art cultures style.

Defining Art criticism
A professional art critic may be:

• A newspaper reporter assigned to the art beat. People who mostly would be talking about their own opinion and explaining on the newspaper within the specif works of art

• A scholar writing for professional journals or texts. Judging and responding to the art journals, making a dairy about that piece of artwork and how it develop by each step. 

• An artist writing about other artists. Artist who look into other artist's work and critic their work to help the artist improve. 

Types of Criticism:
Journalistic criticism

• Written for the general public, includes reviews of art exhibitions in galleries and museums. 
• Suggestions that journalistic criticism deals with art mainly to the extent that it is newsworthy.

Scholarly art criticism:

• Written for a more specialized art audience and appears in art journals
• Scholar-critics may be college and university professors or museum curators, often with particular knowledge about a style period, medium ,or artist.

The History of Art Criticism

• It is likely critiques of art originated with the origins of art itself, evidence in texts found in the works of Plato or St Augustine that contain early forms of art criticism.
• Wealthy patrons from the Renaissance era onward have employed art-evaluators to assist them in buying or commissioning art works.

Here is the list of the art criticism in the history.

The origins of Art Criticism: Jonathan Richardson.
the earlist use of the term art criticism was by the English painter Jonathon Richardson in his 1719
publication An Essay on the whole Art of Criticism (17th-18th Century)

Art Criticism in the 19th Century - John Ruskin, Charles Baudelaire.

I'm personally agrees with his opinions because the art isn't about the colour of person's skin but it's about the painting style, the drawing. I didn't find anything wrong with it, however, back in 19th century racism was still a big things so many people would see such thing as disgreatful but if you going to ask people nowadays, they would just most likely would be explaining the piece of art and not the colour of person's skin.

Art Criticism in the early 20th Century - Fry and Bell (Roger Fry and Clive Bell)

Art Criticsim toward mid 20th Century:
Apollinaire, a French poet became the champion of Cubism.

• French writer Andre Malraux wrote extensively on art.

• There were few art galleries and few critics in 1940’s, and even fewer artists with a literary
• background. 

• Two artists, Robert Motherwell and Barnett Newman did also function as critics too. 

• By the late 1940’s in New York artists had established patron critics such as Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg championing them.

Art Criticism in the 20th Century Clement Greenberg.

Feminist Art Criticism: The 1970's

Feminist art criticism emerged in the 1970s from the wider feminist movement as the critical examination of both visual representation of continues to be a major field of art criticism. 

Art Criticism: Robert Hughes.

Nowadays everything moving forward and techniques come in to make the life more easier. For art criticism as well. Art critics today isn't not only in paint media and specialist art magazines as well as newspaper, museums and galleries. Since this is 21st Century, things changed and anything can be done through online, some people may use blog, twitter, facebook, tumblr, google etc. to spare their art out. 

Art Criticism Today: 

Matthew Collings

Jonathon Jones

Alastair Sooke

Official website taken on 2/16/2016

This is some information about Alastair Sooke at  BBC, his own show about art critics. 

Unit 3 - Marketing, Social Media and Blogging

As in the title, this will be able social media and how social media is effecting art today.

Most information will be taken off internet/from the class. 

Social Media. This is what social media are most likely to be using for:

• Things you can use is Facebook, twitter, Blogger, YouTube, Instagram.
• An online journal to log your through.
• Somewhere to share your inspiration with friends/family or even random person.
• Fun and creative project used to fill space time.
• Interactive.
• Live and current.

Art Blogging. The current best art blogs chronicle a life spent on the art circuit, combining several formats. This is an example:

• Journal-writing
• Art-criticism
• Gossip
• Market news
• News-oriented journalist
• Interviews
• Opinionated editorial
• Academic Theory
• Social analysis.

An interesting lady called "Lori Waxman" who spent her long days in markshift office at dOCUMENTA (13) performing 60 wrd/min art critic. which mean she'' be penned on the spot and it's every 1 per 20minutes or 1 person per minute but she would give you a quick feedback of what needed to do so the artist can get improve.

Another interesting person , called Pablo Leon de la Batta.
The successful 21th century art writer is self-publicized as a fully immersed jack-of-all-trade; dela Barra is considered to be:

• Blogger
• Exhibition marker
• Researcher
• Editor
• Independent curator
• Kunstworker
• Museum/arts fair/collections/adviser
• Snap-shot photographer
• Retired architect
• Aesthetic dilettante and more. 

After looking into those people and talk about what they did with their career that involving with social media, now we starting to talk about why is marketing important?

• The reason why they are important, is because art marketing is part of the business side of art industry. Even if you have amazing creative and designs but if the art doesn't getting sale then it would almost be worthless. It's also important as the creative side of making art. 

The Power of Instagram.

• For the past few years, Instagram has been influenced for artist to post their work and let the whole world to see what they did. It's an easy way to get everyone to see your work without costing anything to post as well. Many artists, galleries, action house and art collectors, who use it to promote art that they are selling or offering beside the scenes. 

• It started in 2010, an online mobile app that allows user to share square, polaroid-style images and 15 second videos, this is a really popular social media for photo and short clip  for the world to see and there are over 300 million users. 

The jobs related to Art Marketing.
Explaining what kind of jobs the art marketing can be relating to.

The thing i like about this, is how social media can be useful to art. Nowadays people got their life in social media, it's easier to share the work around the world without having to that place. It's easier to communicating with everyone as well, just share and if they like your work, they'll share and there may be the chance that you'll work can get the big hit. 

Unit 3 - The Art of Looking: Form, content, process and Mood

 Sculpture Seven, 1961. Image courtesy Barford Sculptures Limited Photo Mark Heathcote/Tate

I decided to do about this sculpture because i like the style and simple shape. The bold dark colour make the sculpture looks standing out from other and it isn't bright or random. The thing that make it join together like colour black and blue also making the green standing out without taking the spotlight from it. I used to draw it with pencil and colour pencil but i didn't have the image to show. I honestly finding the shape is effected and very simple to draw. 

Official Website that you can check about more sculpture that made by Caro. 

Unit 3 - Group Discussion

The group discussion about feminist arr, history and my opinion about it.

I am not the owner of this photo and it was taken from google image.

Question:

Was using a renowned painting to communicate with public effective?

I personally think the renowned painting to communicate can be effected depending on the person because some people may take it as copyright and not creative for just taking  other people painting and changed some colour, style and others. However some group may not think the same because it could've be very creative to them. 

Do youthink the Guerrilla Girls successfully got their message across? 

In my opinion, i think they does get their message across the public but others people, such as myself may think it kind of overreact to it. Yes they trying to said that female need more attention in art worlds but doesn't mean they have to go around wearing a mask saying girl doesn't get enough attention. They would've just show everyone how girls can get their art out. 

Has it made you question the objectification of women in traditional western painting? 

I finds this sexual harassment because i couldn't understand why people back in old time having to draw women naked? If women getting those treatment, why doesn't there any naked male in the art? women isn't just about naked body but they can be many things, can do many things and they aren't a dolls who won't feel any emotion. I am so glad that nowadays we are standing up for ourselves but some still need to be hear. 

Do you think there is still gender disparity in galleries and museums?

Because i barely go to any of galleries and museums, i wouldn't know much about it but i think there still more male artist's work than female.

Independent study:

Researching a feminist art critic or group: Feminist art movement  and Feminism & Feminist Art I finds this website very interesting and its got my point across about feminist.

This is about Feminist Art Criticism today that i took from the powerpoint during the class >

Unit 3 - Art Review Power 100 List

This is the top 10 of Art Review Power 100 List and I decided to pick Ai Weiwei to write about.
Found the list from http://artreview.com/power_100/ on 3/7/2016.

Ai Weiwei is an Chinese artist and social activist, prominent in reconnecting art with issues of social and cultural value. He is the 2nd top in Art Review Power 100. Ai's Blog

Ai Weiwei's history. Most of the Information i collect from http://www.artfund.org/news-pages/aiweiwei-biography/ on 3/7/2016

In 1958, He was bored in Beijing, the son of the celebrated poet Ai Qing. His father is denounced as a criminal following an anti-rightist campaign by Mao aimed at silencing intellectual who oppose his regime.

About 19 years later, in 1979 after studying at the Beijing Film Academy Ai Weiwei joins Stars group, an avant-garde art collective and pretty much working for the government until 4 years later, he moves to New York City.

The reason why i'm doing about him was because he seem to be in art world for quite awhile and he is doing about animation, filming etc. It kind of catch my attention and i wanting to know more what he doing for with his art style.

More information about Ai's sunflower seed "Click Here"
I found this interesting because it's just a small piece of arts that can turns into something interesting.  Making it realist must be hard and yet he challenging himself to create them and each one of the seed has been individually sculpted painted by specialists working in small scale workshops. the shape, size and colour is simple and can be easily point out it's a sunflower seeds and why i like about it was because i always into nature things and he create such a small piece with time and showing me that things can be great if you put your times into it.

Unit 3 - Art as Message

Art isn't just about copy the images from the books or learn it from other artist's work but it's also about putting our thought, opinion, feelings and generally express ourselves thought the artwork. 

Colour:

We as viewers decipher these messages to discover their hidden agendas using the clues displayed, bringing the pieces of the puzzle together to conclude what they mean.​

Signs present multiple meanings and to each person can be seen in various perspectives. Even the simplest thing such as colour can suggest multiple meanings.

Colour can turn into many meaning, depening on how people see them and they could also show the signs to help guide us. Every single day in our life, we see many different colours and some of them show the signs to help us go through daily life. 

The green sign is the showing safely 
Red sign is dangerous 

Yellow sign is careful/warming sign.

Everyday life, we using those colour to help us pick things easily without having to think the meaning of it because it's easy and clearly show within the colour itself. 

Illustration:

• Illustration comes in many forms, whether it is a drawing, painting, sculpture, typography, animation, it is visually communicated.​
• Illustration is widely used and can been seen everywhere, it used in books, magazines and papers.​
• It is also used for websites, advertisements and even album covers.​
• The messages displayed in illustrations are much more direct than other areas of Art and Design, as is graphic design and advertising.

Taken from the powerpoint in the class.

"Every 60 seconds a species dies out"

This is to show that every minute the species is dies out, animls that become less and less because the greed of human wanting to try something new without thinking of what can be the cause of this damage. 

Illustrator: Peppermill Berlin​

Graphic Designer: Sebastian Frese

The gun is the city we live in and we are pointing the gun at mother natural. Which mean we are killing the natural. I finds the art style really good because of how it looks and the way it been puts. I feel like this is s a great art piece because it showing that we are killing the nature buy cutting the tree so we can make something useless. We should be taking care of our world and not ruining them. 

this is to show that the ice melting because of global warming and those malting ice is turning into water, drowning our plant slowly. the colour was well used because they barely any bright colour and only pick an important colour like green and blue to point our nature. I finds this really simple and standing out because of the way it looks and how simple/effect it can turn. using the glass hour time to show that "We are running out of time, act now before it's too late" just like what it said in the art itself.

Unit 3 - Feminist Art Criticism

The Feminist art criticism was emerged in 1970s from the winder feminist movement as the critical examination of both visual representations of women in art and art produced by women. A ground breaking essay titled "Why have there been no great women artists?" by Linda Nochlin. She was one of the great artist in art world.

In my opinion, back in the old day, things that make the women challenge their visual representation was people didn't give enough attention to women art work, even there was many great female artist around the world in the time. But as the old day, women was still not count as equal to the men yet so they would giving less attention with their art work.

Women portrayed was mostly naked. As i looks in my research, women back in the day who were used as portrayed as likely not wearing any clothes and stay naked and to me, i finds this things kind of sexual harassment because of the way the treats the women in the art world was completely unfair and no right in there.

For my personal thought, i couldn't name any female artists that have equal status to make artists in the art world. I know there many female artists around the world but i barely know or do any research about them to actually finds out whos.

Judy Chicago is one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s. Her reason of why she wanting to do Feminist art was because she wanting people to be inspired by the women's movement and rebelling against the male-dominated art scene of the 1960s, which lionized the Minimalist work of artists like Donald Judd, Chicago embraced explicitly female content.

Along with fellow artist Miriam Schapiro, Chicago co-founded several pioneering ventures that sought to change the structure of women's artistic training, as well as broaden their access to, and visibility in, contemporary art. The women-only Feminist Art program, established at California Institute of Arts, centered on women's identity, experiences, and collaborative, discussion-based practices such as consciousness-raising. Womanhouse, co-founded by Chicago and Schapiro as an outgrowth of the Feminist Art program, was an installation and performance space dedicated to female creative expression. - Taken from http://www.theartstory.org/artist-chicago-judy Date: 3/7/2016

Her most important art was "The Dinner Party (1979)" It took her five years and cost around $250,000 to complete. Detail about the art: It's measures 48-feet by 43 feet by 36 feet, consisting of 39 place settings. Each place setting commemorates a historical or mythical female figure such as artists goddesses and others.

The next group that i would like to talk about is "The Guerrilla Girls"

In 1985, a bunch of female artists, incensed by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that included 165 artists but only 17 women, founded the Guerrilla Girls. Dubbing ourselves “The Conscience of the Artworld,” we started making posters that bluntly stated the facts of discrimination and used humor to convey information, provoke discussion and to show that feminists can be funny. We assumed the names of dead women artists, and began wearing gorilla masks when we appeared in public, concealing our true identities and focusing on the issues rather than on our personalities. - Taken from http://www.guerrillagirls.com/admin/moreherstory Date: 3/7/2016

This is the Guerrilla Girls's poster. this is to protect of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Gender imbalance brought this feminist critique out of the academy and into the public sphere. Nowadays the Guerrilla Girls still around the art world as well.

In my opinion about this group, i finds them asking too much for female right. They didn't really need to make such a big deal about it and should show people around the world what female can do.

With the public view, they would think it's great because there actually some people standing up for  female's right and equal and letting female artists get into art with their own talent out and not the female nudes.