Unit 7 Time-Based Media Zoetrope

http://zoetrope.org/zoetrope-history taken 10/03/2016

Zoetrope History

Zoetrope is an an animated vintage toy that was originally developed in 1830s. The Zoetrope has recently been a major feature in the film, “The Woman In Black” starring Daniel Radcliffe.

This is a modern replica of a traditional Zoetrope. A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures.

The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.

Just insert an animation strip, spin the drum and look through the slots. The pictures instantly spring to life! Eagles flap, Orcas dive, frogs jump and more! Change the 18 included picture strips at will. Then, try sketching on the six included Draw-Your-Own strips. Anyone can be an animator! Our Zoetrope’s compact elegance and smooth performance remains unmatched in the world of animation toys. Originally designed by Fred DaMert and Bill Hanlon in 1992 and sold by the DaMert Company, this timeless favorite has been off the market for years. Now, with Fred’s blessing, we’ve proudly brought it back. Not only did we use the original tooling to make this durable plastic toy, we’ve faithfully reproduced and included the original twelve picture strips designed by celebrated animator Ruth Hayes. And that’s not all. We’ve added six NEW picture strips and six “Draw-Your-Own strips!” The included instruction booklet provides a history of this classic invention, explains how it works, and tells you how to bring your own drawings to life.

To me i finds this interesting because back then people is already starting to looks into animation and trying to finds a way to create one, the way it looks was really interesting. Because this simple things catch my attention, i went to look up on the internet how would they build them

This is the simple one i can find and explain the whole thing within a draw and this image doesn't belong to me, found it from google images.

After doing my research, i went to make my own zoetrope.

• The first thing i would need is thinking what i wanting to draw and i decided to draw a cartoon cat because i really like cat.
• Using 10 paper cards with same size. 
• Draw on the paper card, however each card need to have slowly changed movement and it could be anything, i decided to let only the arm to move.

Unit 7 Time Based Media Research

Analysis of time-based Art Information taken from http://www.tate.org.uk/about/our-work/conservation/time-based-media on 3/10/2016:
‘Time-based media’ refers to works of art which depend on technology and have duration as a dimension.

Tate’s collection of time-based media art spans the early 1970s to the present day. It includes artworks that use video, film, audio, 35 mm slide and computer-based technologies and focuses mainly on artists’ installations rather than single-channel works. It is, however, a fast-growing collection with an increasingly broad global reach, reflecting the interests of new curators.

Artists make very specific decisions in their choice of media and the way in which their work is presented. Specific display equipment might be important because of a particular quality of sound or image it creates, or because the artist has made conceptual links between a particular item of equipment and the meaning of the work. Specific technology places a work at a particular point in history and may convey ideas about the spirit in which the work was made.

Time-based media works of art differ from other works in the collection because of their dependence on technology and the significance of the less tangible elements of these works.

Whereas the physical deterioration of materials is the primary factor to address with traditional objects, industry decisions to discontinue particular technologies (a projector or tape format, for example) also affect time-based media, and vigilance is required to ensure that encoded media can be played back.

As with other forms of installation, it is essential that correct installation details are documented and that this information is made accessible to future custodians of the work.

Information about Gestural Kinetic Drawing:
I'm start doing about Gestural Kinetic drawing and the website i founds with artist information looks really interesting. they using the emotion, energy and moment to create a simple piece yet feeling like there an energy coming out from it.

Artist by Heather Hansen

Contextual Research
The artist that i would like to look into is Bill Viola and Tony Oursler
This is Bill Viola's artwork and his Information
His art style is more into human life. How life is going born and die. I 'm not really sure how to explain it but it more like the cycles of the life and how everyone have to live and dead in their life.

This is Tony Oursler's artwork

I finds this interesting because the way it looks and how random it is. Taking the part of human bodies and turn it into art looks funny and the same time it's kind of creepy.

The colour and shape is also different from other artist because it was taking from part of people's face and put them together randomly.

Pollock Action Painting
http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/action-painters can be look up from the link
Their process, involved splashing, using gestural brushstrokes and dripping paint onto canvas rather than carefully applying it. The term ‘action painting’ was coined by Harold Rosenberg in his groundbreaking articleThe American Action Painters published in ARTnews in December 1952.

This blog post and activity are a fun and simple way to introduce action painters to kids, whether in the classroom or at home.

Who is Jackson Pollock?
This Tate Kids blog post explains all whilst stating some pretty impressive facts. Did you know some of his paintings still have footprints on them where he stepped in the paint?

Jazzy drips
Get kids inspired to make their own drip paintings with this fun activity.

Reportage drawing

Artist's blog Click Here and another Link if you wanting to click it out.

Reportage drawing is a rough sketch of something, someone or your surrounding. 

I finds this really interesting, even thought i didn't do any of the drawing but i can easily understand the meaning and what it mean of reportage drawing. I really like the art style because it isn't just sketchy style but it also make it eye-catch  depending on time you wanting to put or how much detail you wanting to add into the piece. 

Unit 7 time based media Glossary terms

Time-Based Art: contemporary art works include video, film, slide, audio or computer-based technologies as well as traditional processes of image making.

Kinetic Art: is art that depends on motion for its effects e.g. Alexander Calder ‘Antennae with Red and Blue Dots’ 1960.

Other Keywords:

Stop frame animation: is animation that is captured one frame at time, with physical objects that are moved between frames. When you play back the sequence of images rapidly, it creates the illusion of movement.

Stop motion: Onion skinning: Stop motion is a cinematographic technique whereby the camera is repeatedly stopped and started, for example to give animated figures the impression of movement.
Onion Skinning/skins are visual tools to help make animation easier. They allow the animator to view multiple frames at the same time.

Meditate and synthesis of an image: Image synthesis is the process of creating new images from some form of image description.

Silhouette: the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible in restricted light against a brighter background.

Zoetrope: a 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion.

Flick book animation: A flick book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change.

Time-lapse: the photographic technique of taking a sequence of frames at set intervals to record changes that take place slowly over time. When the frames are shown at normal speed the action seems much faster.

Unit 7 Time-Based Media Stop-motion Animation and Timeline history

What is Stop-motion animation? - Information taken from Here on 3/11/2019

Stop motion animation (also called stop frame animation) is animation that is captured one frame at time, with physical objects that are moved between frames. When you play back the sequence of images rapidly, it creates the illusion of movement. If you understand how 2D drawn animation (early Disney) works, stop motion is similar, except using physical objects instead of drawings.

The basic process of animation involves taking a photograph of your objects or characters, moving them slightly, and taking another photograph. When you play back the images consecutively, the objects or characters appear to move on their own.

This is the stop-motion animation timeline that i created today. I found out that all the animation film i been watching and loving it was actually the stop-motion animation, i didn't realise or bother by it until now. So this making me feel even more interesting and loving about stop-motion animation.

I finds the stop-motion animation has evolving with not just the colour but the quality of the art as well.

This is my video for stop-motive animation. I hope you enjoy it.

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.