ellieartandtechnology

For my video deconstruction I decided to take someone's normal every day life with technology and put a twist on it. I started by filming my friend doing typical tasks everyone does throughout their day, such as waking up, doing laundry, watching tv and using their laptop. In-between those scenes I put different clips of an animation I found online, that connected with what was happening at the moment. I was hoping to tie it into what the main character was imagining in his head at the moment, but without making it too obvious, to play on the deconstructed element. I decided to make the "real life" scenes black and white to portray them as dull and boring, and to have the animation clips stand out more! I put suspenseful music in the background of the "real life scenes" to put the audience on edge, wondering what the outcome of the typical day will be. The audience does not find out the outcome until the last few moments of the video. The main character goes t

Hello Everyone! Welcome back to my blog (: For my next class assignment I had to choose 5 different music "movements" from a list my professor created and add one group/musician/preformer to that category, especially related to the usage of technology. Why did I choose this artist? Why did I consider their work fits with technology and electronic music in their context? ......Here goes nothing!! GIRL POWER- An artist that deserves to be in this category is Demi Lovato. For starters, her 'Sorry Not Sorry' album was pronounced "The Ultimate Girl Power Anthem" in 2017. Her fiery, uptempo lyrics inspired women to stand up for themselves and ignore anyone who tries to bring them down. She has been in the spotlight since she started her acting career on Disney and slowly transitioned to becoming a musician later in her teenage years. During this time period, she battled with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and an eating disorder. After taking time off she

Choose your favorite three performance artists and study how they are related. What do they have in common? My favorite three performance artists are The Guerrilla Girls, Banksy and Ana Mendieta. The Guerrilla Girls started in 1985 to fight for the underrepresentation of women artists. They used unorthodox tactics to force progress within the realm of feminism, all while wearing guerrilla masks and I love it. They made feminism seem like a glamorous club you want to be a part of. Banksy is another one of my favorite performance artists. He combines political activism, dark humor and graffiti to create works of art. He displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. He does not sell any of his art or photographs. My final favorite performance artist is Ana Mendieta. Ana was a performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist during the feminist movement. My favorite pieces by her were her Silueta Series , where she created female s

I am a creature of routine. Every day I eat the same breakfast, go to the same job and interact with the same people. I do not put myself “out there” and am not interested in meeting new people at this point in my life. Therefore, when I got the performance art piece project I was terrified. I tend to be the soft spoken, passive person in the back of the  classroom, so when I had to put on a performance in front of total strangers, I thought to myself absolutely not. However, it needed to be done so I did it. The Art of Conversation. In an increasingly digital world, we walk across a college campus and see absolutely no faces. Instead we are use to seeing the tops of heads, looking down at their increasing large phone screens, where everyone is in their own little digital world. The art of conversation is being lost. For my project I sought out strangers walking around The University of Tampa campus and simply introduced myself, asked how their day was and observed their physical and